DO NOT STOP! Tomorrow Ill start doing it so if I get something interesting, Ill let you know. I, too believe in the power of positive thinking and belief in the ability to shape and improve the mind. Hi Marko. That is my goal. Its nice to read your conversation with Brandon as well, and I would love to get an update on where the two of you are in your progress. # Im trying to work out whether I actually have this or if Im just overreacting (like normal!). Focus on holding a certain image in your mind, youll get better at stabilizing fickle images. Are the after images contained in a small rectangle in the center of your vision when you close your eyes for anybody else? Then, whenever youve a free moment, observe a nearby object. Thanks, Bo, -. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du3MQPwoUkw Id suggest you pick 2-3 exercises you feel comfortable with. This is very true. But I could see the surroundings, the sunny areas in my room (in a negative way, no details). Keep practicing :). 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. If you were able to have those skills before you started seeing mental images how did you know you had them. Thank you for sharing your experience, Caroline! We want to emulate that by frequently stimulating that muscle, titillating it to grow. While the purpose (and money that went along with it) was for something else, I had hoped to get something out of it that would boost my visualization. 5. And I can only attribute these moments to the visualisation practices. This time, definetly my brain remembered the last night training because the image faded in ~2 seconds (first try), not milliseconds like in the beggining. Here, I'm rambling about life, reading, self-improvement, digital nomadism and anything else that I'm passionate about. See yourself as a confident, successful person in as much Im happy to know Im doing it correctly and Im not full on mentally blind. For me it took about 6 months of daily practice go from where you are to right now to being able to see clear images. Whats the color of your door? Marko this question is redundant to the reply I asked based on the answer you gave me to anothe question but just in case my reply gets lost in all the new comments and questions I figured I would post it again. The more you hone visualization the more you become the active director of your internal movies. Calmly observe this area. I have never been able to picture the books I read, and have always wanted to. Its like as though youd need to draw an object from memory. Will you be the first person? Try to note as much detail as possible: places, scenery, atmosphere, objects, people and the words they are saying, and so on. The video clips are back. Please test working with emotional, meaningful photos, and landscape photos. I thought if I command my mind to see things, she will listen. Okay, open your eyes and repeat the process a few times. 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. Does it move, or does it make a sound?Answer these questions internally and in silence. Redesign Ability Take the images you already got and merge, rearrange, redesign them to your liking. How many mins a day you have to practice ? Hi marko and everyone here!, here is Tomasz and i am still struggle with visualisation. Accept Read More. Marko. Eyes Opened & Eyes Closed Marko, after one week practice with candle and shapes I finally started seeing after image. My visualisation improving skill is so bad. 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. You could exercise with some simple objects or, what I love to do, go to Flickr and experiment with some of the many breathtakingly beautiful photos there. But at least 15min. Three days ago I started to follow the steps above. Commit more details to memory.Do this for max. Youre forced to observe and find details and your vision will grow in clarity. I think my brain degeneration would become aphantasic if id live without awareness of my disease. Thanks again Marko or anyone else who might have tips here. Today during image streaming I was able to see a few vague images of cartoon cars. Yes, I already write my dreams on paper, but something is definitely blocking me into realising them. No one understands. I understand that when you are able to create images you can play around with memory-palace etc but what about the above? Read a line and internally replay it on your mental screen. Finally, and this took me several months, I occasionally got moments of great visual clarity. This took me more time to see something but was the most important part for today. I wanted to follow all these life-changing exercises from the books Ive read. That seems to be completely normal. Its crucial, if you want to get better, you keep working on it. Web4,169 views Jan 21, 2020 Do you have questions or a specific challenge you want to work on? It might help to move closer to the candle, but for me when I do see anything after I close my eyes its just a light and very, very brief. Very, very strange feeling like you actually see through your hands. Ive done the exercises for a week, and I was able to see the afterimages. Having to visualize everything to learn and solve problems just slows you down anyway. 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). So I think that our hard work is to bring them in our daily alert state, so we can access them counsciously. Families can also look forward to the East Villas, double-storey villas facing the Bedok Reservoir and great for your next family gathering, staycation and getaway! Practice with your eyes closed. That greenish spot is little bit more visible and I can reshape it: circle/disk or a disk with a hole in the center. Hello, I am on my fourth day of this. They just assumed Id know how to do this. P.S. # Throughout the show, the teachers and staff at Abbott Elementary work together to create the best experience they can for the students. 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 havent seen many video clips recently, and Ive only had two lucid dreams in the last two months. Also, my head hurts (dont know why, might be a coincidence). Again take a blank sheet of paper and paint a color spot. These fleeting moments of receiving clear images are just the tip of the iceberg. He wants to paint it for you but relies on your observations alone. You can start practicing this right away but youll have to slow down a lot (in the beginning). Kathy. I can visualize things in my head like they are real, so Im definitely an eidetic person. Its never worked once. How long should I do the exercises every day? Sit comfortably, take you cellphone and observe carefully it for about 1 minute. Begin with the very first thing you did when you woke up and go through your whole day in sequence. At any rate I was constantly going into lala land as it were while trying to stay awake and I noticed that once I saw a mental image of the picture I was working on manipulating on the computer. Arka, Im sorry about misspelling your name (fixed now). Sure, you could! I also kind of fly over imaginary cities. In addition I also tried to visualize and memorize hiragana. One interesting thing is that after I got drunk 2-3 years ago, I falled asleep when I got home and I had my first lucid dream. Week #2 2. What did you miss, what are the differences? Ive been doing this for a week or so and Im finding all my after images to be all negative colour. Color doesnt really matter, because youll have to repeat the exercise with all primary colors anyway. Persistence is the key. Some can do it with eyes open, others with eyes their closed. So ive always been able to visualize a problem and basically run it and see how it would work and make changes to it to try and solve something rather than trial and error, but my visualization skill is extremely weak and faint. I will try this again but I do not know when and I will definitely be more cautious. This is what I mean by not controlling images as a child. 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. Sense, Touch, and Feel ~3 total hours of training. Unfortunately Im still struggling. Marko this question is redundant to the reply to the second question I asked you but just wanted to make sure you didnt miss it so here it goes again: It motivated me to spend more time practicing visualization. At #3 and #4 excercises i have troubles too: I can see single parts of the images when i close my eyes, but they are blurry and i cant hold them more than a fraction of seconds. You can push this really far and spend a lot of time on this. 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. It should be quite big, at least 5x5cm. Wish me luck. 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. I was shocked and amazed at the same time. The deeper you can let go and relax during your exercise sessions the easier the access to your realm of imagination. Please comment below. 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? What does it mean that I could do this on the first day??? For example, when you try to morph a square into a circle, it turns into a hexagon instead. Yeah, I will keep the candle but I quit using simple geometric shapes drawn by my hand on paper. What did you do after you left the house? I wasnt trying to see it but I know I did and so I got excited and tried to mentally hone in on that image but when I did it disappeared very quickly and I couldnt conjur it up. For example, if I want to visualize a blue color I see red instead and vice versa. I have yet to hear from anyone whose mental imagery turned on all of a sudden after doing exercises like this, other than Marko apparently. But anyway no matter how much hard work and effort I put in, I get no results.and Im very sad about it. Adding a track of isocronic tones or binaural beats helps too. One time I could keep the afterimage going for almost a minute. You know, people reading that youre curing aphantasia will get excited and encouraged to follow your footsteps. # It makes me very happy :) Im going to keep practicing, until I can visualize everything. Denver Broncos: Sean Payton. 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. What were looking at is a propensity. How often has this thought frustrated you to the point of wanting to throw away your art supplies? I thought that I am hallucinating but I have no idea how an hallucination looks like :) 6. 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. While practicing during the day, I have seen a few images, but again, only for a second or so. If you get very bright afterimages, please try reducing the time you spend observing the object (or photo). I want to start again, and this time i want to to do it seriously. 5. # In one of your examples for observation you referred to taking a glass, touching it, feeling at and then trying to mentally sense it. When I close my eyes and do not actively visualize anything, I see something similar to this: When I visualize, though which I can do perfectly Unfortunately it didnt help (not for visualization or anything, even though it carries some science behind it). And I look like a fool I guess visualising with open eyes in the day time. All I got was afterimages. 1) Okay, youre already able to produce images. Unwrinkle your brow. I see several of them every day during image streaming (which I do for about 45 minutes). My images are still dark and blurry, but sometimes I can see full color and sometimes there are images that come up unsolicited. 2 days ago, I was bothered because of a guided meditation. That said, listening to guided meditations of walking through a forest or putting my hand in a cool stream I cant seem to visualize either. Especially in the beginning its every easy to give up. Start with a tiny part of it. 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. 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). Aphantasia is a spectrum, like autism is a spectrum. You imagine making the picture in your mind as if youre actually making it with a camera. I have a question Are you actually trying to see images behind your closed eye lids?? 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. Dont give up on it and keep at it. First, thank you for this write up. Anyways, Ill keep plugging away and hopefully make some real progress. I really enjoyed the tune and tried to youtube the song while dreaming but to no avail. That means, for example, inhale in 4 heart beats, then hold your breath for 16 heart beats, and slowly exhale in 8 beats. But honestly? Im sure, youre here because you cant visualize. Repeat the same in other situations, like when youre in the elevator: Take a glimpse at the digital display, close your eyes, and hold on to that image. By now, I just think about it and it appears. 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. I hope you find a way that eventually works for you. Its also fun to practice while, say, stuck in traffic. I would love to hear about your progress. Ive been focused on improving what I see on the back of the eyelids, but am starting to suspect thats not really what people mean by visualization. For example with me when I am driving I do much better with less stimuli then more. 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. Progress continues to be mixed. Did part of the re-wiring process involve describing in detail what everything looked like to improve how vivid the image is? Whats your greatest challenge with visualization? Repeat the process, collecting more details and close your eyes again. 10/2/19 Im starting to get discouraged. Because i have issues at recalling the colour. In your experience once you were able to see static images could you then rotate them at will on auto pilot without having to porcess the manual rotations.. Anyway, have a pleasant evening. Last question: Do i have to practise all five exercises everyday? I should also start exercise #2 (solid colors). The more your practice the easier you can transition from an after-image to a controlled mental image. Sorry for this long comment, I know youre not my confessor. Im an artist and have been creating for quite some time. Which each session attempt to access your imagination seeing the visuals described in the audio. Like walking or breathing. 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. I did the exercises for a while and nothing. It doesnt really matter how you look at the candle (or whatever item). Now open your eyes and call yourself from the other phone. Also use images that are meaningful to you and evoke emotions (breathtaking landscapes, images of your goals, family photos, ). Hi Marko! Ive tried the online videos a few times, but a microsecond after my eyes close I have no idea what the thing I was just looking at looks like. Just do what youre already doing and: Lengthen the max. I noticed that when i visualize my past day, i remember a lot of things i have seen, even if with very fast and quality-missing images, maybe because i always had a great visual memory. stability of images (shape, color, movement, ) That was my mistake, for years I shut off all mental imagery because I didnt want to see the bad images and ended up not seeing any images at all. Please dont give up! If you really try your hardest to hide the bruises or the swelling from the guards, youre gonna get much respect in that block and it tells everybody that you are not a snitch or a rat. I wish there would be an easy hack to improve very quickly but so far I havent found one. You could spend your days at leisure, relaxing on the beach, snorkelling, surfing or hiking. So, with persistent training you will be able to keep the images firmly in your mind and even recall and recreate then from scratch. I understand your frustration. That has never happened for me. In terms of memory, I love this one exercise. 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. It will take you into a very deep relaxation and youll be guided through an exercise to enhance your visual perception and your visual memory. No luck yet. Since then, I have stumbled on a single YouTube video that recommends a technique similar to your Copy a Candle exercise. So visualization/imagination, was always a set of toughts for me. (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. I always was stupid, and EVEN i cant change that, where here is god ? ->Staying disciplined. If you make this a strong habit, this will help you to create a phenomenal memory for anything you read this way. I must admit, the routine is very, very annoying and time consuming. This is my new toy! Calm Eyes That way, your sessions wont get interrupted by annoying ads. Take it easy and perhaps take one or two days off from exercising just make sure youll continue soon. Thanks. 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. The questions are rhetorical. As you have succeeded in visualizing, among these which exercises were most beneficial for you (surely some of them should be more beneficial than the other) ? 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. Take a blank sheet of paper and draw a simple geometric shape on it, such as a circle. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Yes, I think so. But, one The terrible part: in the last 30 minutes of this meditation, I felt an acute pain in my head, like somebody was pulling back my brain. Even though you may not actively see with your minds eye, your brain is still forced imagine what it is you write about. I just want to thank you for the encouraging words of motivation. Im not able to consciously visualize/create anything but I will keep going for the rest of the year (6 months more). For semi-advanced practice, I like to lay down and listen to audio books and imagine as many details as possible. I cannot control them. Ive tried the candle exercise for the first time tonight (Im leery of looking at a candle as it can burn your retina if you do it too long). I never realized there were people who couldn't. And always pitch black images whenever I close my eyes and try to visualize. Definitely seems worth the strange feeling of trying to describe something you can no longer see and (in my case) cant remember well if it leads to being able to visualise. Did you know that you can get better at visualising with self-hypnosis? Your goal is to learn to hold those mental pictures for at least two minutes without losing them or getting tired. Best you practice two times daily. Is there anyway I could contact you to ask you a few questions? All youve got to do is training your minds eye. You dont want the police to see nothing. But interestingly: after closing my eyes, first 3-5 seconds were dark. Before you open your eyes again: Try to recall the image by thinking of all its details. #2 occasionally but I feel #3 have been the best. Observe with great care for some time and later recall as much as possible on paper. So, yes, if youd need to practice rotation if your skills is still weak. 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