Episode 02: Exploring Aphantasia and Prophetic Dreaming
Join me on an intriguing journey as we delve into the enigmatic world of Aphantasia, a condition that affects one's ability to visualize mental images. In this podcast, we'll uncover the mysteries surrounding Aphantasia, a fascinating and relatively uncharted territory in the realm of the mind. We'll explore what recent research reveals about Aphantasia and discuss its prevalence, highlighting how it impacts individuals in their daily lives.
But that's not all – we'll also take a deep dive into the realm of dreams and their implications. What's the connection between Aphantasia and dream experiences? Can dreams have a prophetic or psychic dimension? We'll explore these questions and more to provide you with a broader perspective on the intricate workings of the human mind.
Tune in to expand your understanding of Aphantasia and gain new insights into the captivating world of dreams. You'll walk away with a deeper appreciation for the complexities of human consciousness.
Transcript:
Hello. Thank you so much for joining me. This is my second podcast. I'm hoping the sound isn't terrible. I am planning on getting a microphone very soon. my kids are on the next level playing Minecraft, so I'm hoping that doesn't come through on this. I apologize. I promise it'll get better.
Just stick with me if you can. okay. So today I wanted to talk about dreams, and this fall up so it's not gonna only be about advantageous. just dreams in general. So I've been asked, by several people, how I dream if I can't, if I don't have a visual memory. And that's an interesting question. I've heard a bunch of people who have appendages say that they don't dream at all or they don't dream in images, and I don't think that's true for myself. I think that, when I dream, it's like I'm living something.
So I I dream as, like, like a first the per first person dreaming. Right? It's like I'm experiencing something. So whenever I wake up from a dream, it just feels like I lived a moment in my mind. I guess that's, but because I can't recall my dreams. Like, if I had a dream, I wouldn't be able to replay it in my mind. That's not happening, but that's just, like, how I wouldn't be able to replay a memory in my mind. So I remember parts of the dream. I remember details about the dream, but I can't pull up the dream and see it again.
if that makes sense. yeah, I find dreams so fascinating. I I try to write down my dreams whenever I have them. I don't have them all the time, but, I try to write them down in my, like, notes app on my phone. and I'm not gonna sit here and talk about all my dreams because apparently people don't like hearing about dreams. Like, it's not something that you wanna just listen to someone else's dream. Like, it can be pretty boring, but I I do find it interesting, if you, like, really look at, what's going on in your dreams and, how often it's like you're trying to your brain is trying to solve a them in your regular life through through their dream. and I recently learned from someone that, when you're looking at your dream and you're trying to, like, analyze it, like, say you have a dream dictionary, you shouldn't be, like, looking up the mundane stuff, like, the everyday stuff that doesn't seem so out of the ordinary.
It's like those weird ass moments in your dream that you should remember and and look up So, like, if you're in your dream, you're out with your sister at the mall and then an ostrich comes out of nowhere and attacks you, like, look up ostrich attack or ostrich. or if there's a lie and, like, it probably means something about, like, facing your fears or finding strength in something. It's the weird stuff that is supposed to shock you and supposed to stick with you. So that's the stuff that you need to look into and figure out what that means. yeah, I started being more interested in in dreams and stuff. when I realized I had a prophetic one. so when I was in grade 10, so I was like 15, I think. I went to Scotland and England with my family, and we stayed in this, like, really old, like, chateau cabin cottage thing it was like Cobble stone everywhere and brick it was like a brick cottage with like plants on the side.
Like, it was I don't know. It was so old and so unique and so the energy inside of this place was just, like, nowhere I've ever been before. And I felt it so strongly, and my brother and sister were not at all, like, spiritual or woo woo, and I wasn't even, like, tapped into it back then, but I felt it. I felt it so strongly, and I had the most intense dreams there. and I wanted to play, spirit the glass with my sister and brother, and they wouldn't. My my sister just hates that stuff. I wanted so desperately to do it because I just felt like there was something was trying to get through. yeah.
Anyways, Spiritly last, by the way, is basically Ouija board, but you take, pieces of, like, scrabble, or you can just rip pieces of paper and write alphabet in a circle and then use a glass to to have the speaker to communicate with you. I don't recommend just going and doing that. on your own. As a kid, I did it all the time. I didn't understand that you should like, close yourself off to stuff too, not just, like, be open to whatever. So I'm not, like, telling people to go do this. anyways, Back to my story about the dream. So, when I was there, I had this crazy dream.
It wasn't even crazy. It was like, And this is, again, going into, like, remember the craziest part of your dream because the whole dream was so normal. I was at my friend's house somewhere I went all the time in the summer. and I had I was in her pool and we were just, like, chatting. Don't remember anything. I just remember it was my friend and I. at her friend at her parents house in the pool, and I had a kid on my hip. And then I woke up and I was like, why did I have a kid on my hip? Who has a kid? I don't have a kid.
I'm 15 or 14 or whatever I was. Like, there was no kid in the future. I wasn't even thinking about having a family. it was just weird. and then, yeah, in a few years later, I had a kid. I had a kid at 17. and I was back at my friend's pool with him on my hip. And the crazy thing about, this is I didn't even think about the dream until that exact moment.
Like, it's not like when I got pregnant, I was like, oh, yeah. There was the dream, and I'll probably end up in my friend's pool. Like, there was no point in time that I, like, remembered that dream. until I was standing there in the pool with him on my hip. And I was like, this has happened to me before. I've lived this moment before. And I wonder I know so many people get like deja moments. I wonder if that's just what's happening is that we've had that dream before.
Maybe we all have prophetic dreams, and it feels like that. It comes whooshing back that moment. So, yeah, like, it but I remembered all of it as soon as I was there in that moment, I was like, holy crap. That's wild. Like, that for sure was exactly my dream. and then also every time I'm pregnant, so I've had 4 pregnancies every time I'm pregnant. it's the first thing I notice. I mean, my first pregnancy, I didn't know that that would be something, but then every pregnancy since I have the most intense dreams.
Like, they're, like, my hormones do something to my brain where I have like really crazy dreams. I'm curious if other people have that, so let me know. I would love to hear about your wild hormonal dreams. at the end of my one pregnancy, I had a dream about, like, a family of coyotes, and then I looked it up. And I'm pretty sure coyotes met, like, impending birth or something, and I had my daughter the next day. And I woke up just knowing that that's what it meant. Like sometimes you have a dream and you like wake up and you're like, oh, okay. Well, that makes sense.
I get that. I don't understand how coyotes would mean that I was giving birth but I woke up, like, having that knowing that that day, I was gonna have a baby kind of thing. It's weird. I know. Another weird thing is like waking up and having a song immediately in your head. I don't know how many other people have that, but most days, I actually feel like I wake up more with a song in my head than than with a dream memory. And I don't know if that's just maybe I dream less because I have a fantasia or maybe I don't know, but I do think that the dreams usually mean something. It's not always like I have I hear something on the radio the night before.
Sometimes that happens. You hear something on the radio and then you wake up with it in your head. often it's like a song that I haven't heard in like 15 years or I like it's so weird and random and I have to like look up what the lyrics mean And I think that I wonder about why that's being planted in my brain while I'm sleeping. I I I do often think that the songs in your head mean more than just what, like, just having songs in your head. Like, I think there's a bigger, I'll have a whole podcast on that because I find music really fascinating. the kind that just ends up in your headaches. It's something something. It means something.
Kinda like your dreams mean something. What else? I had another I've had a few other prophetic dreams, nothing like major. but one dream I had in 2020. I had a bunch of dreams about someone I know passing away. and each dream was, like, different. but then the last dream I had was just completely different, and it it it kind of reminded me of that dream I had with Hunter it was just so like Hunter's my son, by the way. it was so it just felt so real an emotional and, I don't know how to, I how to explain it except for some dreams feel different to me. They feel like they have more meaning and they feel like some dreams just feel like the real life I'm living it like in a different timeline.
I don't know. Or, like, my soul is with someone else. during the dream, if that makes sense. Again, I'm pretty woo booed. So anyways, this dream I had was about someone I know passing away, and it I felt like I was with that person. and then the next day, I I was I thought, okay. I should reach out. and I was getting my kids to school, and then I went to work, and I was on my computer, and then I found out that he died.
So And, honestly, it's really messed up because it was essentially exactly how it happened in my dream. anyway, still processing that. That was a bit of a doozy. but dreams Dream as a general just, I find them really interesting, and I would love to hear from other people if they've ever had, like, a shared shared dream experience or shared death experience because after having that experience, I've I've learned a lot more about that sort of thing. and it's like it exists. I'm not just crazy. Like other people have had dreams where they feel like they've experienced something with someone else or, like, been somewhere when someone dies or or have had dreams that have come true, as well. So I would love, love, love, love, love, love, to hear more from other people.
and if you I've had this happen, I'd love it if you reached out. My email is rofo. That's rofo. It's my nickname atgmail.com. Oh, sorry. That's not right. It's rofo creative. So rofellcreative@gmail.com.
I might end up making a podcast email, but for now, you can just use that. Yeah. I I work in in publishing, and I do I I think about publishing stories about shared death experiences or shared dream experience is or what it's like to have a fantasia or hyperfantasia. I'm kinda like compiling stories right now. So in my mind, but if you have a short story that you'd like to share with me, I would love I would love that because then maybe that would inspire me to compile them all together and, and make and publish something. Yeah. So, yeah, if you wanna reach out to me, my name's Robin. You can email me.
I would love to hear from you. And stay tuned. Hopefully, I will keep doing this and get a better microphone. Thank you so much for listening, and have a wonderful, wonderful day.