I have a excellent memory system in which I can memorize things very well. Never knew that people actually see things in their head like I do in my dreams. This is my new toy! @Thomas, I cant visualise at all when Im conscious but I can in my dreams. And, I guess, youve already heard people saying, your mental blindness is called aphantasia. It really depends on the type of visualization and your level of waking consciousness. I did the same for ~1.5 hours. Thank you for writing all of this up! People who are unable to create a mental picture in their mind suffer from a problem called aphantasia. Please let us know if make any progress with these (or other) exercises. Maybe because I was very focused all the time, paying attention. Ill keep it up! Anyway, yeah, I just wanted to know if doing the afterimage exercises led to being able to create mental images at will? Omg i wrote that long comment inside message, this is the proof of my brain degeneration by hashimoto xddddd One week later (first 7 days of training): What did you do after you left the house? Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sit comfortably, take you cellphone and observe carefully it for about 1 minute. I want to learn to visualize but there are memories I just dont want to see. THis I believe is the goal that we all want (but with control of course). The more you dig for details, the ore you magnify the little things, the more clarity youll get as a result. In the Remembering Your Dreams course, Dr. Metivier talks about writing your goals/desires down in a journal every day so Ive started that. But Im just making sure Cause I can imagine scenarios in my head without closing my eyes. While awake I can think only in words and concepts. Make sure to keep the muscles that control your eyes, your eyelids, and all surrounding facial muscles entirely relaxed at all times. From time to time, color spots appeared: purple (many times), yellow and pink once. So Ill keep doing everyday, no matter what! I think, if you plan to benefit from visualization for the rest of your life, it sure is worth practicing a few minutes every day. The problem was that most images disappeared after a very short time and others I couldnt control. The key is deep relaxation when you see that movement (swirlings/cascading) so thats why 15-25 minutes is what I need using meditation to enter in that state of deep relaxing. I use guided visualization a lot since I find that it helps me the most compared to visualizing all by myself. 2. During the day I practice after image wherever I can on different objects. Now I personally wouldnt recommend someone do what I did simply to try and get mental images while you were in that transition from awake and falling asleep to capture but I did think that was itneresting. Heres a short list what you can do with the power of visualization: In a nutshell, you can apply visualization all areas of your life. David, thank you for your efforts in leaving your progress report here! Ive actually been doing these types of techniques for years now. :) Do I try to take in the entire peripheral vision all at once (like Id do if Im playing sports), or just casually look at various elements of the candle/flame a bit like a pinball? I find Ive made progress, but I do wish the images were longer than 30 sec. Thank you for sharing your experience, Caroline! And as someone who is trying to be an artist, this was extremely discouraging. Maybe you could use the videos images as after-images. I tried the Middle Earth Meditation. The thing is that the volume knob was in 10-20 cm lower than in reality. So, if youve tried everything else and you dont know where else to look for a solution, go to their website and read the full description. Ive been doing this for a week or so and Im finding all my after images to be all negative colour. It seems to be a rare case to lose your ability to visualize completely. 5. This afterimage stays only for a few moments and then dissolves. I tried to train visualization for like 1 month but without constancy. When ready, close your eyes and visualize the scenery in the photograph. As in the previous exercise, when the image gets blurred, or you forget it, open your eyes, look at the photograph for a few seconds, and then close your eyes and continue visualizing it. Try focus on the mental image, for at least one complete minute. Your goal is to learn to hold those mental pictures for at least two minutes without losing them or getting tired. Observe, close your eyes and try to keep the object or scene in your minds eye. What kind of people are there? I like to imagine a canvas (white, back, blue, ..) because somehow it helps to have the canvas texture to paint on. We want to emulate that by frequently stimulating that muscle, titillating it to grow. Very, very strange feeling like you actually see through your hands. Im still doing image streaming every day for about 45 minutes. I have been struggling for years with this disability or weakness or whatever you want to call it, but I know I must overcome it. Keep retracing the shape with your mental pencil. Walk around like everythings perfectly normally and like nothing even happened. 1. While you may not be able to see things straight away, you may find you can sense, touch, and feel them. However without seeing mental images, this dream of mine will likely remain a dream. Guided visulizations are fantastic to get into deep relaxation and to access your imagination. Maybe incorporate more high contrast things to focus on in person that dont need a screen (lights in the screen might be worth seeing if they have an effect or not.) :)) Frequency After 3-5 seconds, the image appears. Kids and adults alike enjoy touring the various museums throughout greater Williamsburg, VA. Arka, Im sorry about misspelling your name (fixed now). dark colors appear light, light colors appear dark). Kathy. If you do this every night, for a few days, just before you go to sleep, youll get some astonishing results: Breath life into your goals by adding all the details youd want to see. I tried with each color and I dont see the actual color itself. # Just focus on capturing the color. If I just imagine having a tin in my hand, I cant see or feel anything. Especially in the beginning, you may find it easier to keep your eyes opened. Yes, it may take you several months to get better, but then, this is extraordinarily valuable skill youll be able to benefit from all your life. Say, for example, a triangle or a circle.No need to make it perfect. Dear Kathy, When you listen to Marks hypnosis audio (its 30:50 min. Imagining lemon halves and its smell etcWhatever really, but not anything difficult (I havent tried an actual photo and I dont want to). My 31 days are up and unfortunately I have not improved. The most vivid memory in that short period of time was music blaring and a colorful dancing stereo. You can improve the practice by making the phases longer, just observe 1:4:2 the proportions. Three days ago I started to follow the steps above. Not even when I was a child. I used a candle today. Even if I imagine painting on a canvas well, I see the canvas, but I dont visually place it in front of me. (Please see my answer above) I encourage you to experiment with it. Also, hats off for your endurance with your practice. Thats the major problem Im facing now. Focus on holding a certain image in your mind, youll get better at stabilizing fickle images. Blink your eyes slowly. Do you see anything at all yet? See the Church of Santa Maria Della Spina. Master five astral senses - visual, auditory, sensory, olfactory, gustatory - that means you are able to imagine a picture, sound, or sensation with great accuracy, and your imagination is very clear. In this post, Im giving you the right exercises to enable you to see mental images. Its in black and white, almost always reversed from the way its supposed to be. DO NOT STOP! 6. Never. Youve got a fanstastic foundation already! I used to be able to visualize very bright, vivid images, but one day after having a panic attack (a result of a stressful 12-year career in corporate America, a breakup, etc), I suddenly started see black whenever I closed my eyes. If this man who had been exercising this muscle for 60 years cant do it, how do you expect people who havent been able to do it their entire lives to do it? Hi Leo, I think you can compare the visualization process to something like this: 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. Repeat this with different colors and different shades. Now I think that you can, with some training, train your observational skills too. Some people can only see specific colors. I plan on starting the exercises today and staying consistent for at least 30 days. I wonder if anyone else is experiencing severe distractions while trying to visualize I try to picture myself a certain way, and within a few seconds I find myself thinking about something completely different. Commit more details to memory.Do this for max. There seems to be talk of the afterimage eventually transitioning into a mental image. If you want to improve the auditory channel, the same principle applies. 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) Practice. Perhaps, you are as different as two people with different colored skin. ;), Hi David happy to see all of your efforts, like you I have practicing image streaming for around 6 months even if I did only 20 min, I saw some results,I started dreaming once again, something that didnt happened to me for years, the result are small, but they are real, I should probably try to mix with others exercises as well, by the way, many believe that image streaming also improves iq, I cant see any difference, but do you feel any improvement on your cognitive abilities? Mark, thanks a ton for your article! Museums that participate in this promotion include the Waterman's Museum, Historic Jamestowne, and the York County Historical Museum. It turns out its something more scientific. I still only see black and Ive read up about a thing called aphantasia which could explain it. Now, thanks to this guide, I realize that there are different facets of visualization that need to be improved separately; this simple truth changes everything. This is the music I like to listen but I get the same results without music. 3. https://comanifesting.com/how-to-visualize-images-in-your-mind Perhaps if recognize that some image is in my minds eye though I didnt try to develop it I should observe whatever it is for how long I could but again at least at this point when I consciously think about the image that appeared that is the end of the image just as quickly as the random image showed up when consciouly trying to keep it on the mental paper it vanishes. Out of curiosity, do you know of any cases of people who used to be able to visualize clearly and lost the ability, and subsequently regain the ability through a practice such as this one? Marko. It was just some random image that would get me off guard. This demands a high level of concentration and control and youll quickly register progress. Even though you might not see your entrance like a mental photograph yet, you form an idea-construct of it. After ~90 minutes, I could do it in my room (semi-dark, light from my iMac only) But this is more strange: if I move my head around my room, that greenish spot is changeing/shapeing according to the objects I know: room corners, room window, my desk, etc. Then close your eyes and repeat the visualization attempt. As it is with learning anything else, trying too hard and keeping it too serious can stunt your progress. This is awesome! Yes I have the same. Things came to a head for Catherine and Clare in a devastating, 11-minute two-hander. So apparently I cant see any mental images like I thought. While practicing during the day, I have seen a few images, but again, only for a second or so. But, one Thought I was missing something and was suppose to see stuff behind closed eyelids like a projection screen haha. But yeah, going into a dark cave for a period of time was, like, a rite of passage in some cultures and it totally makes sense. Thank you very much Marko for your response! That if you had this disability, you were stuck with it for good. You do see an after image when doing the candle exercise? There is a point where he has you visualize numbers and I was able to see fuzzy images of them. someone posted this on the aphantasia facebook page and I thought i will give it a try I have been trying to learn for 40 plus years to visualize used about every strategy going and nothing and I find the same with this it has made no difference to me at all I have no minds eye to visualise. I can visualize things in my head like they are real, so Im definitely an eidetic person. View of the brain from behind. Get what you need, as well as want, so what you have has a function in your home, and isnt an obstacle. Meditation for people with Aphantasia. I was laying in bed, trying to imagine/see something with my eyes closed while listening to a rainy sound. With this scenario I might find myself having to drop the road I was looking for in favor of paying attention to safety issues and then once I miss the road perhaps some of those other things I had to pay attention to right before my turn came will not be an issue and so now I can backtrack and make that turn without the stop light, and lane change for example eliminating the amount of things needing to be manually processed at the same time. Its NOT really a VISION, but a mental construct. Or is this maybe a bit more advanced? DAY #1 (1,5 hours): First 10-15 minutes I had no results. Cool experience. I have also noticed sometimes when I closed my eyes after thinking about something that an image would pop up briefly but it had nothing to do with what I was thinking about. Is there any sort of trick of how I look at the items Im supposed to imagine? I simply said: Enought is enough, I never knew how the hell I suppose to imagine that light growing light from my head. It was discovered accidentally when a man in his 60s underwent a cardiac procedure and afterward complained about no longer being able to visualize. 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. Yes, I can confirm you that it worked for me and other people who started from scratch like you too. Did you have to talk yourself through those things before you begin imaging in your mind or is mental rotationa nd mental imaging a different skill and not something where you have to have the mental image before mental rotation, etc Thanks. Keep it easy. I really enjoyed the tune and tried to youtube the song while dreaming but to no avail. Yes, thats right. Once again, visualize, correcting the difference. Good. Now shut your eyes and take the object with you so you still have the image in your head, almost in front of your eyes, even though they are closed. In a morning, when I woke up, a new image was very vivid: something like fingerprints lightning (only with my eyes closed this time). Please make sure to get into a state of total relaxation before doing these exercises. :) I can often see things this way, but its in milliseconds I know the image was there, but I cant hold it long enough to tell you anything about it. This will help engage the subconscious in your focused effort toward your desired outcome. Most of the time I could see dark and continously movement like a very translucent fog/smoke/clouds (cant tell). The funny thing is that I had more lucid dreams. Try to think about nothing for as long as you can until something pops up then bring your attention back to nothing. Unfortunately, I havent heard back from Brandon yet. Observe these objects, their details and texture in real life and bring them into your routine. Or maybe i need to try only the basic ones and when i get better (if i get, i hope to) i need to try also the last exercise? I said: holly cr**, this is working, my brain is definetly doing something! Ill cure that, its just undeveloped brain function. Any tips for solidifying progress and preventing reversion? If you currently cant visualize your goals with your minds eye, express your goals, your visions in writing. Describe it all as if youd have it right in front of you. 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