Ive heard of a lot of people getting very relaxed or sleepy when they do visualisation exercises. The thing is that the volume knob was in 10-20 cm lower than in reality. I feel by writing this down Im able to hold myself accountable. Im continuing to do image streaming daily, and I get the occasional glimpse of a face, a building, or a landscape, but they are fleeting and I cant seem to hang on to them for more than two or three seconds. What kind of conversations did you have? I tried for many hours in these three days because I am truly desperate. In some of them, I see only people/objects without a background like are cropped out. Hi, i am with almost zero visualisation. Try changing the number or font on the phone screen, color of the flame, lighter design, etc. But I have question What about the street sign you are watching for to turn at I am in the same boat as Sam H. I began my visualization regime 11 days ago, prompted by your sentence about how most self-help books already assume that you can visualize. I know how our brain is changeing over time (neuroplasticity), so I also refuse to think that there is any barrier. I often find myself resorting to poetic similes to describe what I see. At some point I asked myself: is this imagination or am I halucinating? Visualizations hold a lot of power because you are tricking your mind into a different reality. If you visualize things uncontrolled, these will li Im curious, when you recall your dreams in the morning (lucid or not) do you recall them in images? Then, this also reminds me of the white flashes you see when you apply pressure to your eyes. They spend a great deal of time visualizing every day routinely, automatically honing this asset. You can improve the practice by making the phases longer, just observe 1:4:2 the proportions. Using the technique, I was able to change the after-image of a flashlight into a purple fog in my minds eye. # Eyes Opened & Eyes Closed I can picture few simple things: simple geometric shapes (circle, triangle, square) and Apple logo (I tried this a lot last 2 weeks). Afterimages are not the same thing as mental images. Wait. Hopefully these exercises will work. So I was stunned when Ive found out on google what visualization actually is for people. I can resize them a little bit and I can rotate them. By the way, you dont need to watch these videos on YouTube. In addition I also tried to visualize and memorize hiragana. Aphantasia is a spectrum, like autism is a spectrum. I tried to train visualization for like 1 month but without constancy. Sometimes i think ill never get stronger basic visualisation skill. I was able to (re-)visit familiar scenes or recall familiar objects but these images were missing the small details. I dont use any social media but, if you want to follow the discussion here, youll be fine checking every 4-5 days for new content. Your goal is to learn to hold those mental pictures for at least two minutes without losing them or getting tired. With the guided meditations, do you mean listen to the sound whilst you do the above exercises? When you practice, try moving your mental focus around. Some black and white images seem to work for me, though not the whole image. Dear Kimberley, I knew were the knob should be, I could visualize how the know was moved (like pulled off and mounted in the correct position), but then everything was deleted and I had the original image. Thank you for sharing your experience and progress such a level of detail! Ive been working on this for about 5 months now, and am committed to doing this for a year. I did the candle, colors and shapes exercises for 15 minutes a day. Two days ago I was working on a project that allowed me to only get like 2 hours of sleep. Imagine youd need to describe (from memory) the flame to an artist. But, why not see for yourself? What do you think? clarity of shape and color, vividness Didnt experience visulization yet so dont know how does it feels though. First of all, Im a very optimistic person and still hold out hope of learning to visualize. Dead Sea Mud. But the candle and solid color exercises sound interesting, Ive never tried them before. The more your practice the easier you can transition from an after-image to a controlled mental image. I hope it works. I started practising yesterday AND I SAW A RED DOT AND I SAW PUPRLE. Take the room you are in. My images are still dark and blurry, but sometimes I can see full color and sometimes there are images that come up unsolicited. Hi Marko. Very frustrating. If you have aphantasia, then it is not possible to learn how to visualize. Its true, I gave up easily, I thought it will come naturally one day. I think my short term memory improved indeed. 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. thank you so much! 6/22/19 Progress report: Progress has been mixed. I plan on starting the exercises today and staying consistent for at least 30 days. Tonight I was able to see traffic driving on roads (vaguely), it was amazing, the first image I had seen in my mind in years. I read through the the whole process and from what I know about the brain and the mind you make sense. Watch Mike Cammalleri, Ice-Hockey pro, visualizing with open eyes here. Thanks for your response. Work it through the above mentioned algorithm: first study it visually, then close your eyes and visualize it in front of you. Or focus on your your breathing and only that for as long as possible. Top 3 Books on Sports Visualization and Mental 7 Benefits of Visualization Ignored by Unimaginative People, Minds Eye Training Exercise Bedtime Routine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7mOqHpBkM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du3MQPwoUkw, http://www.worqx.com/color/after_image.htm. I have been intensely visualizing for a few weeks now every single night, when Im in bed, just before falling asleep. 2. This is about the sixth month after the original occurrence, and unfortunately my short term memory has been slightly affected as well. For some people it appears to be easier. I appreciate what youre trying to do here, but it is very ignorant of the condition of aphantasia. Close your eyes again and bring your mental image closer to the original one. Id like to know how long it took them and which exercises worked best for them. AND my problem was not only stress which damage hippocampus(neurogenesis,neuroplasticity) not only depession! Continuing with 45 minutes of image streaming every day, and once a week doing the guided meditation/hypnosis I mentioned previously. Ive been practicing visualization for a little over 3 months. Dates: 6 Vital key is you keep practicing on a frequent basis. 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. For me it took maybe three weeks of trial and error to get some vague mental images. So thank you for being one of the few beacons of optimism in this sea of self-defeatism. So when I try and visualise, for example walking through my front door, my brain wont let me do it, its like there is an invisible force stopping me or sometimes when I try to imagine myself in a scenery, in my minds eye, the scenery keeps spinning round and round and its like Im fighting with my brain to visualise what I want? 5 Powerful Visualization Exercises and Techniques - Magneti # Especially if you start from scratch, images will be hard to tame and you have to gently fight for stability and control. When I learned of the term Aphantasia, I also learned that what came along with it was often hopelessness and defeatism. Furthermore, Ive found that if you stare for too long at a very bright object (especially on the computer screen or a light source like a candle) the chances are youll see negative colors. All I got was afterimages. Now open your eyes and call yourself from the other phone. If youre having trouble to imagine the right colors then you may want try working with solid colors only. Even though Ive been practicing for only a few days, I have a feeling Im able to hold onto the after image for a fraction of a second longer sometimes. I was shocked and amazed at the same time. I want to thank you so much. How to visualize exercise 1. Take a small object, such as a glass, a spoon or a fruit, and look at it for a few moments. Now, close your eyes, and try to visualize the object as clearly as you can, without opening your eyes, for as long as you can, even if it is only for a few seconds at first. Are you telling me you were initially seeing afterimages and then one day you were also able to construct mental images? So, if youre listening to these, try to feel the grass under your feet, the touch of the walls, etc. 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? Ihav been doing this for two years still no images in my mind, Sorry to hear Ed. Do you ever dream? Youre an amazing person. I know, this can be a frustrating process but, because this is such an intangible matter, only persistant experimentation will show you the ideal way to practice. # The more info and detail you stored away the more you can recollect. I could not even picture something as simple as a circle. but i also can not do it with smell sound and taste either. People that cant picture things in your mind clearly, do you also suffer from poor memory. After ~60 minutes I start seeing the sceen in some more detail, including the image on my iMac screen (youtube was open, no fullscreen). Even with the candle, the light source is visible as a white on dark for a second, maybe two, but the candle it was attached to is gone the instant my eyes close. Ill give other images a try. I can now guess that persistence and determination is probably the (only) key. Because of that I stopped doing it. Ill be back in few days. It points upwards. Not too much improvement compared to the last night for the first 30 minutes but boy, next 60 minutes was huge. 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). There seems to be talk of the afterimage eventually transitioning into a mental image. How about its texture, etc. This is the music I like to listen but I get the same results without music. Good. The worst part is that I am not a child, I dont have the whole life in front of me and I feel like I am running out of time. But Im also a fan of memorizing long texts, so I cant say clearly if my memory improvement enhanced in particular through training my minds eye. I tried with each color and I dont see the actual color itself. Hi Marko! So visualization/imagination, was always a set of toughts for me. Here i will report my progress. Things came to a head for Catherine and Clare in a devastating, 11-minute two-hander. Do you think I should just give up? Its most effective in the moments you wake and the moments just before you go to sleep. Usually it takes a while to make a whole lap, but it is doable. There is a point where he has you visualize numbers and I was able to see fuzzy images of them. In your case (and this applies to probably thousands of other successful, happy people, too) writing is a perfectly effective substitute to get clarity, direction and drive in life. As in, can I go from only ever seeing afterimages to being able to conjure up images at will? I think it purely takes part in your mind only and, if you focus on the backs of your eyelids, you might prevent yourself from getting the best results. https://comanifesting.com/how-to-visualize-images-in-your-mind Well, in my experience, learning to visualization (from scratch) is not impossible. So fuc***g unfair matter with my stone brain, visualisation is the best skill that you can have, this skill by image streaming technique can absolutely change your IQ and life. In other words were black boxes in your mind rotating,. No fluke. My question is, how long did it take you to go from seeing afterimages to a mental image? Good luck ;), And it helped not only me and brandon, i am sure that there are more persons ;), Sorry for English) Thanks, You probably save my life, why you ? Seeing their face does trigger memories of previous encounters, but the memories are usually more about what was said, or descriptions of things that happened instead of pictures. Ive made similar progress with Exercise #2, particularly the first video. Youve got a fanstastic foundation already! While practicing during the day, I have seen a few images, but again, only for a second or so. Only, I can imagine things I have a tendency to create whole storylines when Im bored and theyve never felt lacking, I just cant SEE them. Perhaps throw in some variation. It could be a glimpse of the after images. I use guided visualization a lot since I find that it helps me the most compared to visualizing all by myself. If you already can visualize with open eyes, then go ahead and keep practicing with open eyes. I think my brain degeneration would become aphantasic if id live without awareness of my disease. Marko, thank you for writing this. It all happens in your head and you dont need to focus on projecting the image to a location. Still blurry, quickly fading. 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 ). Observe the spot for 10-15 seconds, then close your eyes and try to hold the mental image of it for about 2-3 seconds, then open your eyes and repeat. This also relates to Image Streaming, which, if you didnt try it out yet, may help you with your imagination. Alhough I never pay attention to the candle itself, only to the flame, in the after image I often see the solid outline of candle and only a tiny glowing yellow part of the flame, which is never the same size or shape as the actual flame. 1. Maybe because I was very focused all the time, paying attention. In any case, this inability to visualize has recently been dubbed aphantasia by scientists, and has been receiving a lot of press recently. Unfortunately it didnt help (not for visualization or anything, even though it carries some science behind it). This I do, when I have trouble getting a clear image of, for example, of a blue rectangle. After ~40 minutes, the screen was still blurry but was there for ~3 seconds. Again, thank you so much! 5. Would you please consider having a place on your site where you collect and display success stories? I couldnt do that at all in the beginning which was why I dropped it in favour of other exercises. It seems to be a rare case to lose your ability to visualize completely. I simply said: Enought is enough, I never knew how the hell I suppose to imagine that light growing light from my head. Sometimes it seemed I made a major breakthrough to a new level just to find out, the next day, all progress was gone again! Ive interviewed a couple of friends and people who have been using visualization as an integral part of their lives. I tried to picture more complicated shapes but are too blurry and faded to distinguish them. 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. Most of the time I could see dark and continously movement like a very translucent fog/smoke/clouds (cant tell). But, I must ask you, please dont make this your prerequirement to your lifes success. 2. It seems like its 2 separate screens almost, maybe using different parts of the brain. This is great stuff!!! Note the differences. So Marko any suggestions on how to practice mental rotation. Perhaps, every night, when you go to bed, rehearse your daily wins by reviving them in your mind adding the successfeeling to it. Sit comfortably, take you cellphone and observe carefully it for about 1 minute. I have practiced it every day and seen little improvement. That has never happened for me. To only issue: I have to be deeply relaxed (thats why I meditate 1h in the evening first 30 minutes I use to get that relaxed state and the other 30 minutes to have as many flashes as I can more than 10, on average). This is awesome! Support from other teachers and school staff makes a world of difference. Whats your greatest challenge with visualization? If you cant take avail of it right now, just grab another one for the same purpose. The more the better. I look at the flame (actually its a youtube video of a candle lol) for a while and when I close my eyes it seems theres an after image that fades almost instantly. Walk around like everythings perfectly normally and like nothing even happened. Hi Brandon, I know I keep repeating this but, what you focus on, you strengthen. 1) often i have troubles talking about my experiences, stories i have lived, things i have seen, because i have problems at recalling them. Its gotten to the point where I often close my eyes and see what I was just looking at. I think there is a way to overcome this, and likely other internal senses will fall into place after the visual element is working. What exactly happened to your imagination? For the best results, whenever you attempt to cure aphantasia or access mental imagery in general, adhere to the following principles. I could only see like a fire colour and it seems to me that its the imprint of the image on my retina, and not my mind doing it. Thats the major problem Im facing now. For example, think of a walking through a room filled with red rose petals. Ideally, keep playing with different exercises every single day. Hello Marko, You should do this at least 30 times during one practice session. 5 minutes. Im unable to visualize the picture as a whole, but as i said i can see only parts of it. Wrong with me obviously, and few months ago i realised i have depression and only by thaat our brain ability to change(neurogenesis(memory(senses(imagination))neuroplasticity), is weaker than in normal people soo it takes longer to develop brain. Now after 1 month and 6 days i see little better pictures and when i hear song my mind alone visualise moments from music video, i did not have that before. So Ill keep doing everyday, no matter what! Observe the candles flame calmly, with mild eyes for 5-10 seconds. Its all about, like you already do, coming from your mind. 3) Learn to use symbols more consciously. So, I got that for me in terms of progress. After ~90 minutes, I could do it in my room (semi-dark, light from my iMac only) We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. I did it for 30 minutes a day for weeks. When you stare at a color for a length of time, you will see the opposite color when you close your eyes. Ive had six lucid dreams, very clear, detailed and colorful. Maybe, after youve used it for some time, you can report back to us again. Again thanks alot :), Arana, Im happy to hear! [1] X Trustworthy Source American Psychological Association Leading scientific and professional organization of licensed psychologists Go to source Close your eyes and picture a goal that you have in mind. Especially in the beginning, you may find it easier to keep your eyes opened. This one stays for a lot longer and I can focus on it. Or is this maybe a bit more advanced? Nonetheless, I think youre making a great suggestion and Ill update this article asking people to leave specific feedback on their progress so that Ill be able to compound it to a dedicated post. So, because I didnt want to accept my fate, I did a lot of research on Google. Ive heard some people say that they dont have complete control of their visualization. So the last 2 days I was a reasearch machine. For this exercise youll need your dearest cellphone and some other phone, such as you home landline. What does the environment look like? Im going to start doing the geometric shape exercise next. Feels like the image is in your head, but you actually see through your hands. Thanks for these great exercises, Marko! Anyway, have a pleasant evening. It doesnt really matter how you look at the candle (or whatever item). Compare the look, feel and sound of the real call with your mental image. Sorry if my comment was unclear or came off as spam, since It appears to have been deleted. In fact, the easiest way to practice with these videos is to download the audios and listen to them on your phone or MP3 player. Is it normal ? This is how people see in their head? Do this over and over, and then progress to a wider landscape: everything you can see through your eyes, for example. -> I want to learn it because I want to create stories. 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. May I ask, how have you been practicing? Jon, did you try the exercises? Hello Marko, thanks for sharing these exercises that i started practicing since 3 days. We want to emulate that by frequently stimulating that muscle, titillating it to grow. So good luck to everyone (including me). It turns out, theres this hypnotherapist called Mark Tyrell and hes recorded this professional hypnosis session specifically designed to improve visualization. Yes, Ive been through all this. Never. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. Also, how the colors can be made more vivid ? It helps keep me motivated. Ive been blindly trying to improve my ability to visualize as a whole, rather than viewing each of its facets as an entirely separate skill. 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