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I have aphantasia. And also extreme crippling insomnia, it has been the last 3 or so years that i learned that other people can actually visualize at all. I always thought it was a metaphor. In my searching about a way to potentially improve it I found this article.
https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photographers/
And it absolutely cured my insomnia. I can sleep easily for the first time in my life. Didn’t do a lot for the aphantasia but i did manage to successfully get an image or two a couple of times. Mostly i just love that i can finally sleep without hours of lying in bed beforehand.
I also have severe insomnia since childhood, so your comment is REALLY interesting to me, thanks for responding. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to come across, some sort of common experience linking the condition. Very interested to hear from other aphantasic people to see if they also experience insomnia.
I mentioned image streaming below to someone else. Tried it briefly but got frustrated and stopped. 100% going to give it a concerted effort because I'd gladly swap my left nut for the ability to sleep like a normal person, cheers for this info.
Can I ask, do you remember any of those '24 backup techniques'? Unfortunately the important links are now dead
I’m sorry i don’t, i just did the eye rubbing thing.
I managed to find some additional info from the reference Dr, seems the info is now in an expensive book and therefore not public. Found a wordpress doc from him with 5 additional techniques though which I've added to the main post
Not who you replied to, but you can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine (archive.org) to view an older snapshot of the site
Thanks, I did try that. Unfortunately the links themselves were still dead when I put them into wayback machine