Stef Smith
@stef-smith.bsky.social
Bogan quiet sorrow
Director/Writer
NARRATIVE United Agents
COMMERCIAL Photoplay Films
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stef-smith.com
Director/Writer
NARRATIVE United Agents
COMMERCIAL Photoplay Films
IT’S FINE I’M FINE on SBS
JONES FAMILY CHRISTMAS on STAN
stef-smith.com
That blows my mind!
January 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
That blows my mind!
Brains - what a crazy place to be!
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Brains - what a crazy place to be!
Can you ‘see’ the images that are baked into your brain? Or do you just ‘know’ what they are? I know certain strong memories and feel their emotional impact, but can’t see them, but I could describe them. So bizarre!
January 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Can you ‘see’ the images that are baked into your brain? Or do you just ‘know’ what they are? I know certain strong memories and feel their emotional impact, but can’t see them, but I could describe them. So bizarre!
That’s such an interesting perspective!!
January 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
That’s such an interesting perspective!!
Yes totally. So while awake I see nothing - total black. While asleep - WHEN/IF I dream (I don’t always) it’s incredibly vivid visuals/images. Often it can be so strong that if I’ve seen a loved one in my dream I’ll wake up and have been crying. You? How do you dream?
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Yes totally. So while awake I see nothing - total black. While asleep - WHEN/IF I dream (I don’t always) it’s incredibly vivid visuals/images. Often it can be so strong that if I’ve seen a loved one in my dream I’ll wake up and have been crying. You? How do you dream?
Am getting the newsletters already, agree they’re great!
January 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Am getting the newsletters already, agree they’re great!
The gift that keeps on giving!
January 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The gift that keeps on giving!
Can someone turbo-charge carrots to replace a part of our brains that doesn’t function? Yes please!
January 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Can someone turbo-charge carrots to replace a part of our brains that doesn’t function? Yes please!
And over, and over, and over…
January 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
And over, and over, and over…
Hahaha how did your mum react when you told her? Any small comfort in the fact that apparently only 2-4% of the population DON’T see things? I think it must be higher because there are still so many people that don’t know they don’t. Like me. Only last year.
January 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hahaha how did your mum react when you told her? Any small comfort in the fact that apparently only 2-4% of the population DON’T see things? I think it must be higher because there are still so many people that don’t know they don’t. Like me. Only last year.
I’ve not done drugs so can’t comment on that but I was hospitalised with post op complications and injected with hydromorphone multiple times a day for 10 days - I started to see horrible visions/hallucinations. It was really scary!
January 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I’ve not done drugs so can’t comment on that but I was hospitalised with post op complications and injected with hydromorphone multiple times a day for 10 days - I started to see horrible visions/hallucinations. It was really scary!
It did make me sad when I discovered it and could name it as a deficit - something I was missing out on. Like a party I wasn’t invited to all these years! I’ve always had a fear of losing sight and not being able to remember/picture the faces of my loved ones anymore.
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It did make me sad when I discovered it and could name it as a deficit - something I was missing out on. Like a party I wasn’t invited to all these years! I’ve always had a fear of losing sight and not being able to remember/picture the faces of my loved ones anymore.
This sounds like the exact opposite experience of my brain. Isn’t that incredible! That brains can function in such vastly different fashions.
January 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This sounds like the exact opposite experience of my brain. Isn’t that incredible! That brains can function in such vastly different fashions.
How did you discover it? And how did it make you feel? I felt sad.
January 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How did you discover it? And how did it make you feel? I felt sad.
Meditation gives me the shits!!! I think aphantasia might be why. You? Can you persist and meditate?
January 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Meditation gives me the shits!!! I think aphantasia might be why. You? Can you persist and meditate?
Similar experience for me. Nada on being awake - just black. On dreaming - (IF I dream) very visual.
January 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Similar experience for me. Nada on being awake - just black. On dreaming - (IF I dream) very visual.
I’ve wondered what this might be like! Do you find it incredibly invasive?
January 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’ve wondered what this might be like! Do you find it incredibly invasive?
I was the same! Isn’t it funny how words and their interpretations can leave so much room for personal experience and/or error! All this time I thought it was just some creative imaginative exercise.
January 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I was the same! Isn’t it funny how words and their interpretations can leave so much room for personal experience and/or error! All this time I thought it was just some creative imaginative exercise.
I was 37. I could always dream very visually, and would often wake up with dried tears on my face. It was the Christmas my Grandma died (last year), I was talking to my kids and somehow internal imagery came up - and they can see. I just couldn’t understand it at all. So I turned to Dr Google!
January 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I was 37. I could always dream very visually, and would often wake up with dried tears on my face. It was the Christmas my Grandma died (last year), I was talking to my kids and somehow internal imagery came up - and they can see. I just couldn’t understand it at all. So I turned to Dr Google!
Can you recall if you can see images when you dream?
January 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Can you recall if you can see images when you dream?
Similar for me! I’m a writer/director and have to take a similar approach - hope like f**k that it works out. How often does what you’re envisioning come out the same way?
January 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Similar for me! I’m a writer/director and have to take a similar approach - hope like f**k that it works out. How often does what you’re envisioning come out the same way?
This sounds like a really good way to keep a wandering brain (like mine) on track. Thank you for the tip! I’m sorry for the TMI. I hope you’ve recovered. Did it feel sad to lose the images?
January 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This sounds like a really good way to keep a wandering brain (like mine) on track. Thank you for the tip! I’m sorry for the TMI. I hope you’ve recovered. Did it feel sad to lose the images?
I wonder about that too.
January 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I wonder about that too.