> I have aphantasia, although to a lesser degree to the author. Like you I can visualise 3d models in my head, but if I try to recall an image of someone it lac

> I have aphantasia, although to a lesser degree to the author. Like you I can visualise 3d models in my head, but if I try to recall an image of someone it lacks detail. I can "fill in" detail by recalling facts about that person (hair/eye colour, wrinkles etc) but the image is blurry and details fade quickly. > I don't dream very much, though a few times a year I will have a very vivid dream (basically like a video in my head with lots of detail). This makes it very apparent that my normal imagination is lacking detail. It feels a bit like it's a different area of the brain that I don't typically use, and makes me wonder if I could use it more with practice. Interesting! I relate quite heavily to first part; I also can visualize abstract things but have a lot of trouble with faces. I'm sometimes not able to recognize whether two photos are of the same person or different people, and I always seem to think that other people don't look similar when others do think they do, and think people look similar that no one else seems to. However, I dream _very_ vividly almost every night, and I find it so engrossing that it interferes with my ability to get up in the morning sometimes because in my half-awake state I'm convinced that the "story" in my dream is interesting enough that I need to see where it goes. By the time I'm fully awake, it generally turns out that the dream didn't make much sense, but often it contained enough absurdity that telling my friends or family about it is entertaining for them.