I hadn’t followed this when apparently it became a topic of interest on Reddit.

Apparently people sit on a spectrum, where they can envision less color and detail, where people with aphantasia cannot envision anything.

Also, interestingly-enough, this is apparently not tied to the ability to envision things in dreams.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/g69hc0/dreams_in_color/

I dream very vividly, in full colour, but am a total aphant.

That’s fascinating. I can envision things voluntarily, if perhaps not as vividly as in real life—it’s not on par with looking at a fully-detailed scene, but I can certainly do color. On the other hand, my dreams have always been on the border with being unable to visualize at all. Maybe there’s a hint of color, but everything is normally desaturated, and things are transient and vague.

Huh.