I really havent touched it much in past years except for a few times. Anyhow, I managed to bring up two of my words in my mind randomly, which is an amazing improvement. This isnt frequent or maybe it was but I just wasnt being atuned to the possibility. (though they were opposite blue is red, red is blue etc). I notice that if I even notice the outside world at all, I am often at a loss of words to describe it. However, when I turned away this once and opened my eyes and stared at a white wall in my room, I felt like I saw a shadow resembling the flame of the candle, but with no colours. Thats excellent (even though not yet clear or stable). Kudos to you and your determined efforts! Furthermore, they say, you cant do anything about it. 3. Ihav been doing this for two years still no images in my mind, Sorry to hear Ed. However, i can recall the image a few times after it fades with closed and open eyes as well. (Try it now.). nice advices, thank you. A minute later I know I saw another image it wasnt anything I was trying to conjur up and again when I was trying to freeze frame that image it was gone. # I have tried to visualize with open eyes as well, but without much luck. How long have you been dong this and how much time did you invest per day? I usually spend 10-30 minutes per day. Surprisingly, I could see half the triangle (the area where I was focused on). I can only hold them for a second, but even in the past few days I have grown more aware of the mental images that flicker away as I wake from sleep. My current state is extremely accurately described by this quotation: You close your eyes, and all you see is blackness or, at best, you see some blurry shapes.. Recalling Ability Recalling information from your file cabinet built in step 1. Can you "see"/visualize things in your head? (You can also use the shapes I uploaded for you below.). Some can control these images, others cant. Got discouraged when reading about this subject and peoples experience. Web1: calm your mind and don't worry about making it perfect. PS. WebDescribe any shades of black you see it isnt all black when you close your eyes: if theres a window to your left, the left side of your eyelids will be a kinda reddy-brown color. Try to think about nothing for as long as you can until something pops up then bring your attention back to nothing. Some can do it with eyes open, others with eyes their closed. I try to chop up the top of the triangles with a very slow and steady laserbeam (excuse my poor wording). Thanks again. The Mind's eye most likely utilizes the Visual cortex and adjacent predominantly visual cortical areas of the Parietal lobe and Temporal lobe ( Seeing and Imagining: Clues to the Workings Of the Mind's Eye ). Now later that same day that I had gotten 2 hours of sleep that night I was able to look at some of the pictures in the project and I wasnt functioning at full capacity to say the least. Close your eyes again and bring your mental image closer to the original one. I feel youre on the right track! So Marko any suggestions on how to practice mental rotation. Dear Phoenix, Just the other night I was semi-sleeping (after using a pressure mat) and my mind felt like a sketchbook in high-speed (similar to the MARVEL movies intros). Or just when i visualize consciously? And my dreams have been more intense. But is there really a way to see it behind closed eyelids? 5. Repeat the process, collecting more details and close your eyes again. One time I could keep the afterimage going for almost a minute. I dont worry even if after 6 months or more i couldnt get pictures becouse i know there should be something wrong! (Please see my answer above) I encourage you to experiment with it. If you can imagine, control, manipulate things in your way, then thatd might be perfect for you to put it to practice and apply it in a useful way. I kept listening over and over again to one audio that resonated with me most (the Sanctuary and actually one of Middle Earth Meditations) and suddenly I could see parts of the guided environment very clearly. Theyve been practicing and nurturing this skill naturally. When I asked my friends about it, told me they can see whatever they want to imagine. It just didnt sit right with me how seemingly SO much of the population had this massive incurable deficit and that people didnt start really talking about it until a year ago. I understand your frustration and, let me assure you, this is normal. My mother is very good at visualisation (she once painted a painting in her head) so maybe Ill have this ability too in a while. 2) On a few occasions I have had an image of a black sky with stars come to me for a second or two. Have you every heard of anything like that before? I will continue that maybe for 9 months, But i cant remind how powerful my visualisation was at the begin, maybe it slightly helped becouse i have not moments with near zero visualisation which i had at begin, but visualisation is still weak. I want to thank you so much. Also use images that are meaningful to you and evoke emotions (breathtaking landscapes, images of your goals, family photos, ). I will report all progress, now its 2 months 25 days, well see later. Like you, Im be delighted to hear from him, whether he made some more progress. Color doesnt really matter, because youll have to repeat the exercise with all primary colors anyway. That after-image may be very fickle and hard to keep, which is normal in the beginning. You can do this with closed eyes and with open eyes. when you visualise something, does it show up in the same place as those weird swirly patterns do when you rub your eyes too hard? Hi Marko this is just a follow up to my last comment that I forgot to add and that is would I need to memorize an object at several static directions before my mind would start mentally rotating those objects naturally since rotation in the physical realm factors in many angles so I would assume people without Aphantasia can conjur up an image automatically and rotate it in whatever angle they choose. Visualize for about a minute, then get back to the book. Ive done guided meditations for years but never have seen the scenes. Suffice to say I was disappointed when I woke up :(. The deeper you can let go and relax during your exercise sessions the easier the access to your realm of imagination. I have no other problems suffered no trauma it is just who i am and I am one of those who will never be able to visualise. Gradually add more and more detail. Having to visualize everything to learn and solve problems just slows you down anyway. Just focus on capturing the color. Evening: meditation (1h) + image streaming (added this week) when I close my eyes for more than ~10 minutes, I see a lot of movement, like moving fog (a lot of nonsense so my Image Streaming is a lot of fun without many words to describe what I see) Are you telling me you were initially seeing afterimages and then one day you were also able to construct mental images? Walk around like everythings perfectly normally and like nothing even happened. Again, think of retracing this particular part a few times. I will done comment here after several months and i will write why you save my life, thanks.. :), Oh my i was too greedy here, after 1 month and 20 days i still have much moments when i almost have not visualisation skill, so annoying. Youre on the right track. Ill admit, nearly everything in Pisa is a monumental visual and aesthetic pleasure emphasis on monumental. There are so many amazing things to do in Oahu. Ill be back in few days. Is this supposed to be like this? I am practicing from the past one month, (I started from almost zero), and I can conjure mental pictures in my head, but they lacks clarity to a very great extend. I simply said: Enought is enough, I never knew how the hell I suppose to imagine that light growing light from my head. Its just all black. 2. 2. Now open your eyes and call yourself from the other phone. I have a question, did you have to build a visual library from scratch, or were you able to recall images you have seen in the past? Practice! Practice! Practice! Visualization is a skill. Give yourself a project choose one thing you wish to manifest and visualize it everyday! It is very strange. With The Honest Guys, did you just listen to the audio or watch the accompanying video as well? If I keep looking into the darkness, after a few seconds another after image will appear, though this one has the colors inverted (only light/dark at this point) . I should stop doing this while Im driving. Playfulness This is great and I think with your enthusiasm youll be able to develop this skill much further rather quickly and eventually you wont spend another day without applying this skill consciously to your benefit. The more the better. https://unchainmybrain.com/training-minds-eye-bed-time-routine/, http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-lucidity/24607-inducing-trance-wild-part-1-a.html, http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-lucidity/29491-inducing-trance-wild-part-2-a.html. For semi-advanced practice, I like to lay down and listen to audio books and imagine as many details as possible. It makes me very happy :) Im going to keep practicing, until I can visualize everything. In any case, this inability to visualize has recently been dubbed aphantasia by scientists, and has been receiving a lot of press recently. It sounds like everyone with full aphantasia (who literally see nothing in their minds eye) feels like theyre (literally) floundering in the dark at first, but in the couple of accounts Ive read (including the one above) they start to see vague shapes or colours for a little longer after a few days or weeks. Observe, close your eyes and try to keep the object or scene in your minds eye. Andit works! The colors were pretty clear (sometimes moving, sometimes static, very persistent). #1. Youll get better by repetition. Hopefully these exercises will work. I did the candle, colors and shapes exercises for 15 minutes a day. Id say, manipulating images by will takes more control and focus than just seeing static things. This is happening on two places only: my room and my bathroom (heh). The more effort you put into describing the DETAILS of your dreams, the more details you will be able to extract out of future dreams and, whats more even more important, the more vivid, colorful, and real you dreams will become. Thank you for your comment. Not a photographic memory of course but more of a database memory system however if too many things are going on at the same time at a faster speed I dont have the time to memorize everything so something has to drop out where as if everything wasnt pivoting on memory I woudl suppose that the memory would just enrich the mental imaging and roation most people take for granted. Ive tried Oxiracetam this week (purchased from nootropicsdepot) many people says that it is a good nootropic for the brain but in my case I couldnt concentrate on meditation (my mind was a complete mess on meditation, A LOT of thoughts), I had less flashes than before. What do you thimk about it? On a related subject, last night I had lucid dream with a tactile component. The Three Levels of Visualization. It points upwards. Whatever works best for you Rajan. For example if I am driving in the country where their are not lots of information to process I feel more at ease then in the city because I must manually process all the different scenarios that are possible. Hello Marko, thank you for making this forum. Later: staring at my iMac (thinking at my entire life, little `depressed` because of this aphantasia), from time to time I closed my eyes I could see few times something like stones, including the texture. The iMac was on my right side and was most vizible, including some shapes on the screen (my iMac was on, of course). So, I got that for me in terms of progress. For me it took maybe three weeks of trial and error to get some vague mental images. Jon, did you try the exercises? Omg i wrote that long comment inside message, this is the proof of my brain degeneration by hashimoto xddddd It all happens in your head and you dont need to focus on projecting the image to a location. What is its shape like? A car in front of you This is so important to me. Definitely, its possible. Also, I go 5 days a week to the gym so I know how slowly muscles are built. Thanks for your response. I do not remember for how long. Is still blurry and I have no idea what exactly is. I think my short term memory improved indeed. Do I start at the candle flame? Start with a tiny part of it. For example, you enter a restaurant and you make it your goal to perceive as much as possible. I have never been able to picture the books I read, and have always wanted to. Wish me luck. My wife says real visualization is not there, but out in your mind. Id like you to try this guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey. :) Fantasy and science fiction stories work well because the author has to describe a lot of the scenes as they see them in their own minds. I just figured it was all in the mind. Jamie Redknapp has admitted that he never expected to see Wout Weghorst in a Manchester United shirt during his career.. At this point, the image was visible in detail (~60% detail) for: 3 seconds + 2 seconds slowly disolving (5 total seconds, after that nothing to see, all dark). Repeat this with different colors and different shades. It just takes practice. Find a quiet place to sit and clear your mind for a few minutes. Then just picture what it is you want to see. Keep it ther As youre likely in the same position as I was at that time, you know how confusing it is to hear that you lack an ability that everybody else takes for granted. Other people, who dont even have this sensation of sensing things, might rely more on visually seeing seeing scenes like dream scapes, movie scenes, or photos in their mind. How to Visualize What You Read for Better Retention and Comprehension, How to Motivate Yourself with Visualization in 8 Steps, How Do I Get Motivated to Meditate Daily: 7 Little Known Ways. My question is, how long did it take you to go from seeing afterimages to a mental image? :) Do you think I should just give up? Could you sense that without having to tell your self that I was going North driving straight now I am going west, in order to get back going north I must make a right., Did you have to talk yourself through those things before you begin imaging in your mind or is mental rotation nd mental imaging a different skill and not something where you have to have the mental image before mental rotation. But interestingly: after closing my eyes, first 3-5 seconds were dark. 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