Loki--Laufeyson

I have prosopagnosia. I can't recognize people in my dreams. I always tell my parents "I had a dream about cousin or best friend last night" because they have a similar body shape and height.

I also have aphantasia. I know people can have one or the other, but I feel like mine are connected.

Interesting. I became ill about 8~ years ago. Multiple lung infections, then needed 2 sternum surgeries (the first of which was pretty traumatizing) and now a whole host of complications. Which is funny, because I grew up abnormally healthy.

I feel like I had a minds eye before, as a kid. Or at least it was stronger than what I currently have. I've definitely always been face blind, but it wasn't a hindrance until I became an adult, and I didn't notice it until around 18ish anyway (since you adapt so well to other features). I think at 19 I took an anatomy class and learned about it and chose it for a class project, because I immediately realized I had it lol.

The way people adapt is pretty wild. Getting to an age and not realizing you weren't living the same as everyone else.

I've commented about this before but when someone has aphantasia you can still get like flashes of minds eye (that isn't controllable). When I do, everyone is headless. Like in Powerpuff girls how there's that one lady who it never showed above her neck? That's how it is in my head on the rare chance I get a visual. But in my dreams I see faces like normal, I just can't recognize them by their faces.