Do you have any questions at all? Thanks for these great exercises, Marko! Thank you a lot for your support, I really apreciate it. Close your eyes and once again imagine the call, the corrected version this time. I think it may be a dissociative symptom of clinical depression and depersonalization. I tried to picture more complicated shapes but are too blurry and faded to distinguish them. Week #3 And that enabled me to create my own images without requiring any afterimages to trigger my imagination. Utilize all your senses read the caption on the screen, hear the ringtone and feel the vibration. I dont have total aphantasia but my visualization skills have always been very, very poor to the point that they might as well not exist. Its true, I gave up easily, I thought it will come naturally one day. Slowly follow its contours once. Or image should be somewhere in your head and you should avoid concentration on your kinda eye area? This is extremely rare but it idd occur to days ago. Its a mixture of some of the exercises. I dont want to believe that my dreams are based on visualisation. At all times, if you can do so, maintain a playful attitude. 5. This exercise will help you to picture colors. The score is lowered because of the price (unless you buy in bundle which I did for some other tracks). Hi Marko. I greatly appreciate you leaving such an honest comment. Took me 3 days for a total of 2 hours but I finally got my first after image for a split second of a bluish-blackish square, so thats what visualizing is, I had it all wrong, it is in fact image-y! I can picture few simple things: simple geometric shapes (circle, triangle, square) and Apple logo (I tried this a lot last 2 weeks). The more the better. When youve had a conversation, retreat and try recalling it. How do I This Urbandale park is unique because it is a natural playscape. Funny I never noticed what exactly visualization/imagination means for people. 2. Brandon, But everyone is different. Yet I doubt that youll be able to control your mental images 100% at all times which is probably a natural mechanism of our subconscious minds. One night, I woke up to go to the bathroom. In a nutshell: Your memory expands on the area you focus on. Now its a brownish-black color with little floaters of light. Try to think about nothing for as long as you can until something pops up then bring your attention back to nothing. So visualization/imagination, was always a set of toughts for me. 6. I thought that I am hallucinating but I have no idea how an hallucination looks like :) Why do you want to learn it? Never knew that people actually see things in their head like I do in my dreams. Once I was able to see anything at all, I worked on both abilities, more or less simultaneously, and they supported each other in terms of increased focus and image control. I didnt start out with those abillities but had lack of focus and fragile control over them. Im determined to get back to my normal self, and I will keep you all updated. Jon, did you try the exercises? Dear Kathy, If the image is completely gone, try to recall details mentally even if you cant see them. I think my short term memory improved indeed. For this exercise youll need your dearest cellphone and some other phone, such as you home landline. Thank you for the link Ive also experienced the inverted color effect after staring for 10-20 seconds on a bright image on the screen. All I got was afterimages. When you are able to start seeing an image can your mind automatically rotate that image or is their some exercises out their to practice mental rotation. Combine your previously mastered astral senses. (Please see my answer above) I encourage you to experiment with it. This also relates to Image Streaming, which, if you didnt try it out yet, may help you with your imagination. Win Wenger called this Image Streaming and this exercise helps you to kick start your visualization. Thank you very much Marko for your response! Youre on the right track. # How many mins a day you have to practice ? I struggle with it and end up having to open my eyes to get control back of my own mind. Now, seeing blackness for a person with aphantasia, may not seem like a triumph, but I normally when I close my eyes, I dont see blackness, I see a beige, sandy/gravel texture about a foot in front of me. Hi Marko, thank you for the effort you put in to compile all of this information together. But at least 15min. I have a request for you. Before you practice, at the very least, do an instant body scan. Just make sure to relax your eyes and your eyelids when closing them. Is pretty much like a greenish fog. If everythings ok, then for the next session you increase the time of retention of the image. the brain too, and this causes brain degeneration. # Of course, is all black but feels like there are some slightly darker shadows in my mind (shadows of objects in the room). Maybe you can do some skull practice when waiting, sitting in a bus, lunch break, etc. The only way to be sure you have aphantasia would be to see a neurologist and potentially get fMRI brain imaging done, to look at whats happening in your brain when you try to visualize, Swart explains. When I asked my friends about it, told me they can see whatever they want to imagine. Remember how it looks like. Which each session attempt to access your imagination seeing the visuals described in the audio. No luck yet. Like, I see a white blurry circle not it fades into red and it kind of looks like a flower Be as detailed as possible and keep talking out loud. 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. THis I believe is the goal that we all want (but with control of course). Another exercise, I did for quite some time, is to imagine toy blocks, turning them, stacking them on top of each other, and so on. 1) Okay, youre already able to produce images. Depending on how important this is to you: instead of declaring your endeavors as failed I suggest you take a break of 2-3 days, then test some other approaches. If I could manage somehow to create a link between the verbal part of my brain and the visual, I think I would be a great writer. Ive already begun using my minds eye every single night, I listen to a couple songs and imagine the lip movements and dancing of the band-members. @Thomas, I cant visualise at all when Im conscious but I can in my dreams. Things came to a head for Catherine and Clare in a devastating, 11-minute two-hander. Marko, let me just say that I am happy to have found this site! He was known for having extraordinary visualization powers. (Dont forget you are not trying to see it with your eyes, it feels to be residing somewhere else, at least in the beginning of practice) As soon as the image begins to fade, open your eyes and look at the real drawing. Try it foor at least a week, 10-20 min a day. It has been great regaining some of my visualisation skills, now I have to find a way to control it better. I just wanted to know if you guys started from absolute zero in terms of mental imagery. :) 3 days ago I had a huge experience: I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Thank you so much for your valuable input here! Now, my results: If you want to take the principle of picturing what you read to the next level (for clarity, speed, and comprehension) then Id suggest check out the content preview of the book Reading with the Right Brain by David Butler, on Amazon. Today Ive noticed something interesting: most of the clips are quicky dissapearing when I am fully aware of them but some of them are slowly fading away if I try to keep them more (the trick is when you become aware of them are usually instantly dissapearing and I think you too feel like youre sucked up from there this was my sensation in the beggining). So lets say the mug had some words on it like aphantasia. Then close your eyes and repeat the visualization attempt. I started practising yesterday AND I SAW A RED DOT AND I SAW PUPRLE. This, I think, helped me most. Please test working with emotional, meaningful photos, and landscape photos. # Was there few seconds with my eyes closed and/or open. I see several of them every day during image streaming (which I do for about 45 minutes). I dont see much outside through my window (only shades). # Grab your favourite novel or story and begin reading. Its actually difficult with flame of the candle. So Marko any suggestions on how to practice mental rotation. Hi William! Simply imagine yourself acting the way you would act if your goals had already been achieved. Basically is takeing the shape of any object I know in the room but I have to turn my head in that direction (keeping my eyes closed + my hand to be sure I do not see anything). Butler gives you lots of examples and exercises on how to imagine what you read. :) If its easy for you to hold the image, increase the time by 2-3 seconds, if not, just one second will do. And Yes, my memory and inteligence make me stupid. Now that youre receiving an after-image (even though its unstable) you can get a feel for visualization. Observe your chosen color carefully and then try to imagine it in your mind. On a related subject, last night I had lucid dream with a tactile component. Using the technique, I was able to change the after-image of a flashlight into a purple fog in my minds eye. Your advice is interesting.Thank you. If you currently cant visualize your goals with your minds eye, express your goals, your visions in writing. I do two things, I either stare at the whole image, then close my eyes and try to hold the afterimage as long as possible, or I stare at the hedges until I start seeing shapes (usually faces) and try to hold onto them as long as I can. 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. Work it through the above mentioned algorithm: first study it visually, then close your eyes and visualize it in front of you. Today during image streaming I was able to see a few vague images of cartoon cars. Marko, I have done these exercises in the past. I think there is a way to overcome this, and likely other internal senses will fall into place after the visual element is working. In other words once I conscioulsy made a decision to think about that image it didnt exist in my minds eye anymore. Its gotten to the point where I often close my eyes and see what I was just looking at. So far, thereve been a couple of guys emailing me and leaving comments about breakthroughs (small & big) from receiving anything visual at all to for the first time to making steady progress in forming images at free will. I tried with each color and I dont see the actual color itself. Also, use your finger to. 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. I have to see it in my mind, there is no other way. See what works best for you. My words are almost all written in red (and green) because I cant seem to see this colour in my mind. It helps keep me motivated. You should dedicate some weeks or even months to regular practice before complaining that it doesnt work ;). In order to call up a mental image, we first need to know how it looks like. WebHow to visualise best? Learn how to visualize. That if you had this disability, you were stuck with it for good. Definitely, its possible. 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. long), youll be transported into a state of deep relaxation. That way, your sessions wont get interrupted by annoying ads. Try changing the number or font on the phone screen, color of the flame, lighter design, etc. Meditation 2 hours (not planned that much, but was good to stay there, doing nothing). It was even the wrong colour (meant to be purple) and only 1-2 cm in diameter but still a pleasant surprise because prior to that it has always (and still) been very dark colours. 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. # (You can also use the shapes I uploaded for you below.). Maybe the extra push to encourage your brain to recall details will help exercise it a little differently (even if the drawing turns out horrible!) Its never worked once. Also, 3-5 minutes of breathing practice greatly improve visualization results energizing your body and calming your mind. In a month (or so) I will also start image streaming technique. 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. Persistence is the key. How do you want to apply it? Likely, you wont get results right away. I try to make tiny ones at the corners. Justa dream. What did you do after you left the house? Im trying to work out whether I actually have this or if Im just overreacting (like normal!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage. Imagine youd need to describe (from memory) the flame to an artist. Stare at an object. Or, just last week, before drawing some images (for a video presentation) I switched into mind-mode and visualized how Id draw a heart or a glass of sparkling wine. I can do it while asleep, so I know my brain can do it. Definitely, my brain is doing something. The more effort you put into it the better youll get. In the past, whenever I would close my eyes I could still see the shadows of people passing by and my minds eye was very bright. The same can happen with our mental eyes. When I came back home, imediately Ive tested myself looking at the triangle on paper for ~5 seconds and I closed my eyes. Color doesnt really matter, because youll have to repeat the exercise with all primary colors anyway. I, too believe in the power of positive thinking and belief in the ability to shape and improve the mind. Try visualizing something. Practice. #1. Thats it for this week. If you start keeping a dream journal you will begin to remember more dreams (up to 5-7 per night) every single morning. If you were able to have those skills before you started seeing mental images how did you know you had them. From my own experience there seem to be two modes of visualization. When visualizing you actually dont use your eyes at all so you dont receive information from the receptors in your eyes. The only time I can visualize is while sleeping. I dont worry even if after 6 months or more i couldnt get pictures becouse i know there should be something wrong! Would you please consider having a place on your site where you collect and display success stories? Do you find that starting from scratch gives you complete control? What kind of conversations did you have? The more often you listen to one, the more color you can fill in over time. Is there any sort of trick of how I look at the items Im supposed to imagine? Jon, yes, I started from zero and, as far as I understood, Brandon did so too. 4. Thinking of using a crayon or a paintbrush to paint makes it more tangible. I understand your frustration. I am truly desperate to learn how to visualise. 90 % days i think i made 0 progress BUT 6 days ago i had one very strong visualisation day and next day was good too but worse. It seems that 50Hz (60Hz) powerline flickering overloads visual processing core in the brain, somehow locking them into their objective mind and preventing the subconscious from opening. The head didn't set my salary, his boss did, but the negotiations were still with the head of the department, they just had some wait time in between when my request was run up the line, and the response was run back down to me. If thats the case, one may practice in daylight, or use fluorescent or LED lighting, or even go really old-school and use candles or oil/kerosene lamps (which also add to the atmosphere if youre doing something occult). Some can do it with eyes open, others with eyes their closed. What do you think? Take a blank sheet of paper and draw a simple geometric shape on it, such as a circle. Thanks, Bo, -. From now on, I will keep posting my progress at the end of each month. Very frustrating. Often times it shakes, flickers and transforms, it is frustrating difficult to keep it steady. I use guided visualization a lot since I find that it helps me the most compared to visualizing all by myself. Some people can only see specific colors. #3. First of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all these clear steps and the hope you gave me. And as can remember, i had this hashimoto my whole life, so i may think this is really the cause of my nondeveloping brain. Thank you for your comment. If you seriously want to improve this ability, write it down. Also, how the colors can be made more vivid ? You need to sit quietly and think about what you want. I know how our brain is changeing over time (neuroplasticity), so I also refuse to think that there is any barrier. For some people it appears to be easier. People who visualize naturally, exercise their imagination-muscle routinely during all kinds of activities. Again, thank you so much! Everyone Ive ever met with aphantasia has had a greatly above average ability to learn and memorize information. Barrett Boesen Natural Playscape for any child who loves to get dirty and make mud pies. Perhaps you want to alter your exercise a bit to prevent boredom through repetition. 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? He wants to paint it for you but relies on your observations alone. In the beginning I also thought that I was somehow defective and could not visualize :) But persistent work and discipline paid off eventually :). Thank you for your tips! I thought I was falling asleep, but Im not so sure if thats the case or if I just have very little control of my visualization/mind. Thank you for sharing your experience, Caroline! So I think that our hard work is to bring them in our daily alert state, so we can access them counsciously. While awake I can think only in words and concepts. Practice this daily and your visualization skill will improve bit by bit. I could not even picture something as simple as a circle. At the beginning, when you couldnt visualize almost nothing, how you did the exercises then ? Etc. You could do this anytime during your day. Hello Marko, thank you for making this forum. To my mind, there are three depths or levels of visualization: Level One - The Mind's Eye. 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. Employ all your senses in writing. Breath life into your goals by adding all the details youd want to see. 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. 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. Start with a tiny part of it. Perhaps, now, attempt taking mental snapshots of things you see during your regular day. After some lines and paragraphs close your eyes and try to picture whatever you have just read. Throughout the show, the teachers and staff at Abbott Elementary work together to create the best experience they can for the students. I can feel a bit but I need to properly work on these goals. I have Hypothyroidism hashimoto, so that means i have antibodies which are destroying my thyrosis. Use an imaginary pen and retrace details (outlines, sub-shapes, light reflections, colors, ) while observing. Then, whenever youve a free moment, observe a nearby object. Theyll know, if you can do it, they can do it too. But, please take some time to experiment. Do you have any tips for this? Two days ago I was working on a project that allowed me to only get like 2 hours of sleep. Yet, I dont give my images a location. 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. So Ive decided to dedicate a bit of my time every day to form this ability despite having absolutely no disposition for it, as only the most tenacious plant will grow even when planted in concrete. #2. Sometimes it seemed I made a major breakthrough to a new level just to find out, the next day, all progress was gone again! Thanks for the reply. The more you dig for details, the ore you magnify the little things, the more clarity youll get as a result. I feel by writing this down Im able to hold myself accountable. Awesome! 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. To not quit yet. Its really curious. Ill admit, nearly everything in Pisa is a monumental visual and aesthetic pleasure emphasis on monumental. I will try the conversations exercise and i will continue to train visualiation and i will let you know my progress. Often they are of things I dont want to see, like corpses or faces of people I dont like. Your posts and you keeping up with coming back to update us, clearly working so hard is honestly inspiring and I really feel in my gut that you will overcome this. Its crucial, if you want to get better, you keep working on it. Dont look at a reference image but think of something that youd associate with a color. I never realized there were people who couldn't. In a morning, when I woke up, a new image was very vivid: something like fingerprints lightning (only with my eyes closed this time). Here are my results so far. Thank you! 5. It makes me very happy :) Im going to keep practicing, until I can visualize everything. I just want to thank you for the encouraging words of motivation. Its just all black. For me it helps if I suggest to myself the color I want to see. This is perfect as a catnap to recharge your batteries. 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. Today its a circle, tomorrow a square, then a triangle, and so on. Get yourself a few colored surfaces. Thank you very much for sharing your experiences and your progress with everyone here! I also kind of fly over imaginary cities. Web1: calm your mind and don't worry about making it perfect. Next, I could hold onto these afterimages and make small adjustments (like changing colors, size, and shape). Closed my eyes quickly and the iMac screen faded in few milliseconds (Ive noticed this effect for years, I knew is the photon effect on my eye so I never been interested in it). Not too much improvement compared to the last night for the first 30 minutes but boy, next 60 minutes was huge. If you really get bored with any of these exercises, try to get some variation. So, please send me an email or leave me a comment on this post. Im still committed to daily practice for another 3 months. Go ahead and apply gentle but persistent effort. I think my brain degeneration would become aphantasic if id live without awareness of my disease. How about its texture, etc. A lot of coloured bubbles rotating in cylindrical shape. When you first try recalling dreams in the morning you wont remember anything or you recall only a fraction of a dream. What is frustrating is not only that I am not seeing mostly anything, but after trying hardly (moderately hard), I only can see extremely blurry images which stays almost 1~2 seconds . 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. This is awesome! 5. In my experience the two things seem to be linked in my brain and its like I cant have one without the other. I was able to (re-)visit familiar scenes or recall familiar objects but these images were missing the small details. Even if you can get the slightest improvement within that time period, then Jackpot keep going. I can resize them a little bit and I can rotate them. What you do is you consciously relax through with preferred method. These are the answers i was looking for, thank you! How do you meditate with aphantasia? Try adding new images to avoid boredom. So, thank you and God Bless. Thank you for writing all of this up! Try to not laugh! Recalling Ability Recalling information from your file cabinet built in step 1. Great effort youre putting into it. I found it more difficult. Not occasional practice. For about a week now I been watching this subliminal visualization video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7mOqHpBkM Thanks for the article :-). After you get well accustomed to this idea, everything tends to go on just fine. As a result of insuffficient hormones i have weaker cognitive functions and my brain cells and whole body need hormones to develop. Or are both valid for practicing? And the best part is that I was lucid at one point, I knew that the instant Ill move my back from the pressure mat Ill wake up. For example, I am unable to see the shapes Ive drawn on piece of paper (ironwheals first exercise) because the white piece of paper appears black to me so I cant see anything Ive drawn. 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