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Some people don’t have the ability to create mental images, a condition called aphantasia, but can still experience visual imagery in their dreams. (Shutterstock)

We’re just starting to learn more about aphantasia, the inability to picture things with the mind’s eye

People with aphantasia are unable to deliberately bring to mind mental images. Understanding the mechanisms of aphantasia reveals that different types of cognition exist.
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Why do we dream?

During times of stress and anxiety we either dream more or remember our dreams more often, as a way of coping with challenging circumstances and new information.
Scientists have a few ideas about where dreams come from – but nobody knows for sure. Flickr/Patrick

Curious Kids: Where do dreams come from?

When we are asleep our brain does not switch off. It keeps working, but not as hard.
Rosie Tasman Napurrurla, Warlpiri 2002, Ngurlu Jukurrpa (‘Grass Seed; Bush Grain Dreaming’), line etching on Hahnemuhle paper. Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu, and Aboriginal Art Prints Network, Sydney

Jukurrpa-kurlu Yapa-kurlangu-kurlu

The theme of this year’s NAIDOC week is “Our Languages Matter”. Aboriginal languages under threat across Australia. Read a Warlpiri introduction to Dreamtime and The Dreaming.

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