Hi all. I’m interested to know how many of us have a serious sleep issue. So far I haven’t found much of a unifying thread between aphantasics, other than that we’re very familiar with what the back of our eyelids look like! But one common thing I have heard over the years is a sleep issue.
I have chronic insomnia. Interested to hear back from others.
i don’t have sleep issues, but i’m very sensitive to sound and am a very light sleeper. i’m considering building a sound proof room to sleep in.
Same. For most of my life I needed absolute silence and darkness (got an excellent velcto blackout curtain now). But what I’ve found helpful the last few years is to have some sort of ‘droning’ sound in the room, it really helps my brain to have something continuous and boring to focus on instead of whatever intrusive sounds are going on outside.
I work with audio, and made my own custom rain track… no thunder / lightning, no other noises, just a continuous rain-on-roof loop for 1.5 hrs. Can upload to dropbox if you want to give it a go.
that’s great that you were able to find workarounds. i always have my sound machine on too, but it’s not enough. at one point i used anc headphones, but they gave me tinnitus and now i can’t wear earplugs. i wish i could turn off the sound of the world lol
i wish i could turn off the sound of the world lol
When I found out about how noise cancellation works (a soundwave with an exact-inverse copy played against itself cancels to nothing), it made me think… COULD we turn off the sound of the world? Would it ever be possible to have devices on the outside of a room, sending info at lightspeed, with a device inside the room beaming inverse sound waves to what it expects will reach your ears?
Just coming back to share something new I’ve discovered… brown noise!
White noise makes my tinnitus go nuts. Brown noise is so much calmer, relaxing, I almost start hearing other sounds in it. I generated 1.5 hrs, saved it as an mp3, and I play it from my phone speaker at night. I used a free program called Audacity to do it.
I can sleep just fine, but my dreams are strange. Visual impressions are always blurry and unstable and lack detail. It seems that even my sub concsious can not create realistic pictures in my mind.
Damn, finding out there’s rungs to this ladder. I can’t visualise for shit but my dreams are very, very vivid and realistic. When running away from something I have those classic dreamlegs that don’t seem to work properly; but when I have to fight in a dream it’s all systems go, and had a few dreams where striking was very effective and almost Matrix-like.
Would love to learn how to lucid dream, I’ve had a couple of clear lucid moments of “hey, this is MY dream, I do what I want”. But one of the keys to lucid dreaming is remembering it in the first place… and with that comes remembering all the horrible, traumatic dreams that our subconscious keeps from us for good reason.
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Hello,
I’m a 40y with full aphantasia, and I don’t have any issues falling asleep. I have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and use a CPAP, but I’ve never had any trouble falling asleep.
