Ive explained this, likening it to telling a person with no arms to try to pick up a penny off of the table. 2. I am trying to focus on keeping those flashes more than 2s. Before you practice, at the very least, do an instant body scan. Now its a brownish-black color with little floaters of light. First Relax, after relax, visualise, and my visualisation seems to be little better, well see later. If, And there can be even worse situation, in some hashimoto cases are antibodies directed into You can also download all these shapes to your computer here (packed into a rar-file). All the exercises here are simply a means to an end to gain more control and clarity over the images you fashion purposefully though willpower. 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. Anyway in these 40 days i missed some days, even 2-4 in a row where i didnt practice ( for lazyness or because in some days i had too many thoughts to focus on visualization). 1) Learn to use your senses more consciously. It all happens in your head and you dont need to focus on projecting the image to a location. I know, in the beginning it vanishes almost instantly but with constant practice youll be able to keep it for much longer (or you can recreate it). Because if I close my eyes all I see is blackness and the focus shift to seeing through the eye instead of recalling image from the mind so is this normal ? I see people, objects all random, nothing controllable. Hello Marko, thanks for sharing these exercises that i started practicing since 3 days. Critical to open your minds eye is deep relaxation. Repeat the process, collecting more details and close your eyes again. Hi Marko. I went out to drive for 30 minutes around my city. Hi Alex, #5. Its a more complex task, and many people have problems when the transformation doesnt go as it should. For some people it appears to be easier. If you do this every night, for a few days, just before you go to sleep, youll get some astonishing results: Dont be fooled by the simplicity of this exercise. Walk around like everythings perfectly normally and like nothing even happened. Mine is more of a question then a comment. But, one Also, now is a habit to use afterimages everywhere. Check drawer and cupboard depths for adequate storage to put things away, as well as strength and support for heavy books and files. For example with me when I am driving I do much better with less stimuli then more. The only time I can visualize is while sleeping. 6) Attend a Museum for Free. Thanks for the feedback. Just focus on capturing the color. Always been able to dream now and then. Maybe it happens more often or more forcefully to those that struggle with visualising. Now, my results: About after image evolution: I can recall them up to 6 times. We need locate that muscle and strengthen it voluntarily. You can improve the practice by making the phases longer, just observe 1:4:2 the proportions. Then create a vision board (either a real one, or online) and give it a prominent 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. I see several of them every day during image streaming (which I do for about 45 minutes). Work it through the above mentioned algorithm: first study it visually, then close your eyes and visualize it in front of you. This one completely suprised me and I wasnt focusing on the color. Heres what I recommend to you as an exercise: Listen to these videos over and over again. Go ahead and apply gentle but persistent effort. Please let us know if make any progress with these (or other) exercises. And as someone who is trying to be an artist, this was extremely discouraging. I was doing this about 20 minutes a day. Im happy to know Im doing it correctly and Im not full on mentally blind. There are so many amazing things to do in Oahu. Same with the quadrants. 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. What can you do with it? Practice with your eyes closed. AMAZING! Do you see anything at all yet? Definitely, its possible. As with colors, youll also get better over time. So the question is do I try to take in the details of all these moving parts for two static positions of the mug, one upright and the other upside down or one turned one way and then turned the other, memorize those two positions and try to train my brain to do mental rotation or again do you think that once images can be seen in the minds eye that the brain will be able to start rotating those images. In the beginning, I mostly stuck visualisation exercises that focus on creating a visual afterimage. Today during image streaming I was able to see a few vague images of cartoon cars. Think of carefully retracing its contours with a pencil.Then choose a single small detail of this shape. Also try looking at something intentlyto the left/in front of you and try to physically draw it on paper next to the item but with your eyes closed. Its really curious. But yes, in my experience, the more you practice the faster you get better. Sit or lie down, deeply relax (use your preferred method), close your eyes. my memories are in blurry images that comes to my mind and changes to other images very fast, and i cant hold them for more than a fraction of a second. What I described above I see on the backs of my eyelids. I want to thank you so much. Im super confused , please help me . Please dont give up! 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. Close your eyes. Persistence is everything, everywhere. For example my visualization is not like the afterimage effect . When this happens, dont get annoyed and dont start the exercise from the beginning. Thanks for putting up this post. :) Id suggest you pick 2-3 exercises you feel comfortable with. Hi marko and everyone here!, here is Tomasz and i am still struggle with visualisation. Yes, I can confirm you that it worked for me and other people who started from scratch like you too. But Im still discouraged. I used to think that if I want it bad enough, it will happen. Thanks again for your website. 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. I began to feel it too, when I struggled hopelessly for days trying to get the faintest hint of a visualization, only to be met with disappointment. But honestly? Before sleep: Candle again + 30min meditation (added this week) 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. Today its a circle, tomorrow a square, then a triangle, and so on. Id say, sensing is part of visualization. I could swear is real. After 3-5 seconds, the image appears. I hope you understand what i m trying to explain. First of all: Im spechless. I mean, neurofeedback is about fine-tuning your brain through electric stimulation and changing unwanted behaviour/thinking, so I dont think it was unreasonable to except SOMETHING. Im unable to visualize the picture as a whole, but as i said i can see only parts of it. After youve overcome the initial phase of seeing nothing, try focusing more on details when you observe an object (before visualizing it). I am clearly seeing words (I wrote on a piece of paper), but only when I am practising. It was discovered accidentally when a man in his 60s underwent a cardiac procedure and afterward complained about no longer being able to visualize. Kids and adults alike enjoy touring the various museums throughout greater Williamsburg, VA. I havent used this skill on a daily basis. I know I keep repeating this but, what you focus on, you strengthen. I wonder if I do it right at all. Ive tried for years, but as you said, I havent try hard enough. No fluke. And when I discovered that others did have this so called ability to view things in their minds eye, I was in disbelief that there could exist such a world that I was oblivious to. I have a few concerns though. Ive made similar progress with Exercise #2, particularly the first video. The afterimage effect is closer to seeing than my visualization. Dont blame yourself if the image is vague and unstable, any result will do. There are retreats where you can go and live in complete darkness for 2 weeks (safely at a super nice spa, doing meditation) but needless to say, its insanely expensive. He wants to paint it for you but relies on your observations alone. Thank you for your comment. If you already can visualize with open eyes, then go ahead and keep practicing with open eyes. Firstly there is the dull, lifeless visualizations that are vague and distorted. Youre doing, if I remember correctly, what Nicola Tesla did to solve the majority of his creative problems. F.e. Some can control these images, others cant. Marko, I dont know how to thank you. I have a question Are you actually trying to see images behind your closed eye lids?? The feeling of intense euphoria after seeing cute things is not an isolated incidence. I just read your article about visualization and I find it very interesting. You know, people reading that youre curing aphantasia will get excited and encouraged to follow your footsteps. Try to imagine what happens when it receives an incoming call from your home line. Thank you for pointing out this simple truth and for taking steps to help others develop this amazing ability! Yesterday I listened to the guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey you recommended (in the comments on 7/13/2016). It was originally only 5-10 seconds. You could think about the shapes, the colors, the proportion, and you could also imagine holding the object, feeling its contours. And I think the process is somehow comparable to dreaming and the ability to recall dreams. 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. dark colors appear light, light colors appear dark). I can do it while asleep, so I know my brain can do it. I have been very frustrated about this for years, and have seen many doctors. Its black. It turns out, theres this hypnotherapist called Mark Tyrell and hes recorded this professional hypnosis session specifically designed to improve visualization. Im determined to get back to my normal self, and I will keep you all updated. For example, Ive found that I (first consciously, later automatically) began to use it when reading a book. Its crucial, if you want to get better, you keep working on it. And, I guess, youve already heard people saying, your mental blindness is called aphantasia. All I got was afterimages. As I mentioned in one of my posts above, I had been seeing images in my minds eye for weeks now, but often the colors were inverted. The funny thing is that I had more lucid dreams. you see a meadow now, how does a piece of grass look like? Hey marko, i just wanted to say that, another exercise i found out, is describing a memory out loud, because your brain has the images stored, even if you dont see them, so you can also start describing a memory, Another exercise i found out is describing something (a character, a scene, an image, etc) That contains movement and sound, because your brain visualizes better something with movement and sound, But there are many ways of improving visualizizatiom, mine is, along with image streaming, i focus on an image, that contains movement, i describe that image with eyes open, describe it with eyes closed, as fast as i can, sometimes i will get a memory of the image (not the exact image), but i then focus on the memory of the image, like i said, your brain wotks better with the memory of something, its more connected with the pre frontal cortex, You can also Try watching a short video, and then close your eyes and try to describe it. Ill give other images a try. Funny I never noticed what exactly visualization/imagination means for people. In addition I also tried to visualize and memorize hiragana. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Youve got a fanstastic foundation already! I never realized there were people who couldn't. Using Image Streaming to Learn Visualization, Best Exercises to Improve Focus and Concentration. Do you have any questions at all? The more you hone visualization the more you become the active director of your internal movies. 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). Hopefully these exercises will work. Please dont give up man, I will not stop, i want get better so so much, but its may be impossible. 1 more reply. Im working on the dreams right now, but your comments about goals is interesting. Others can only see grey shades. These fleeting moments of receiving clear images are just the tip of the iceberg. Try some real objects, something with a high contrast, like a spoon, a ballpen, etc. Even if I imagine painting on a canvas well, I see the canvas, but I dont visually place it in front of me. And always pitch black images whenever I close my eyes and try to visualize. Do I start at the candle flame? ~3 total hours of training. I feel that this is going somewhere, no doubt in my mind. Also, 3-5 minutes of breathing practice greatly improve visualization results energizing your body and calming your mind. It points upwards. Much of the confusion goes from the fact is that when you visualize something, you dont actually SEE it. 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. 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? In terms of conjuring up images I want to that has not come to me. Observe your chosen color carefully and then try to imagine it in your mind. 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. However, after all these years, I am still here, incapable of see anything whatsoever. Working from memory helps indeed. Try to think about nothing for as long as you can until something pops up then bring your attention back to nothing. 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.. I have the other senses, they suck but I have them. 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) ? You can certainly imagine a canvas or a screen (monitor, cinema, phone, ) in front of you and even painting on a canvas works well. I still listen to Improve Visualization from Hypnosis Download when I commute but I guess I need to try and put more overall effort into this whole thing. Did this happened to you ? ;), 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? Now, Im glad you want to find out for yourself if you can turn your inner light on again. Finally, Id like to note some of my experiences are quite similar to Dorins. How would one know if they had a strength or weakness in mental rotation before a mental image could be conjured up., Thanks for your reply though on my last question as I am a troubleshooter by nature and I always am interested in information that could better help with these things. Im beginning to see burning white flashes that slowly come and disappear shortly after, did you ever experience these type of visions or could this just be visual hallucinations? When youve had a conversation, retreat and try recalling it. Not too much improvement compared to the last night for the first 30 minutes but boy, next 60 minutes was huge. Please make sure you consciously relax prior to the exercises and keep testing. I cant recall how long it took me but I can say that it was pretty real, since I actually felt the emotion of the day and it was very powerful. A lot of coloured bubbles rotating in cylindrical shape. Not very clear but was unexpected. So far, I havent heard of one yet.. THIS. please sir, when you visualize with your eyes closed, do your eye balls move as if to scan the mental images? Hello Marko i used to try those exercises for like a month but uncostantly and then i stopped because of boredom.. With your eyes locked intently on the scene, click your brains camera shutter by blinking your eyes once at half speed. Do this over and over, and then progress to a wider landscape: everything you can see through your eyes, for example. Also, use your finger to. Next, I could hold onto these afterimages and make small adjustments (like changing colors, size, and shape). I like to use, for example, a simple memory (match) game from Googleplay. Grab a piece of paper and draw a basic geometric shape on it. It might just be a learned association, in which case it could be reversed in time. I can resize them a little bit and I can rotate them. Im getting just enough out of it to keep me from giving up. 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. Now close your eyes. This is a great foundation training to perceive afterimages in your minds eye. 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. They are still not where I want them to be but Ive found progress (e.g observing keys, shampoo bottles and whatnot and..actually getting the outlines). Obviously both of these would not need approval only one but I wanted to share that before posting so here we go. Im so glad you persisted and proved to yourself that everyone can learn this. :) For example: 1. is their a car coming out of a side street Not occasional practice. Maybe, after youve used it for some time, you can report back to us again. I practice twice a day, once during the day and again in bed before going to sleep (and if I wake in the middle of the night before going back to sleep). All youve got to do is training your minds eye. 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. Now using that same example lets say it is a mug and you observe it with the handle to the right as you are looking straight on the mug. This is what I mean by not controlling images as a child. 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. Visualizations hold a lot of power because you are tricking your mind into a different reality. If you visualize things uncontrolled, these will li I used a candle today. Justa dream. When you reached a state of calmness and relaxation, focus on your mental imagery. :)) I, too believe in the power of positive thinking and belief in the ability to shape and improve the mind. I feel youre on the right track! At second exercise i noticed that when i close my eyes i see blackness for 2 seconds, then if i try to recall the color the afterimage of the square (with inverted colour) comes in the back of my eyelids and it lasts like 5-6 seconds and then it vanishes. Is pretty much like a greenish fog. or just think about the colour? This is called eidetic and non-eidetic visualization. You do see an after image when doing the candle exercise? Just do some rhythmic breathing, or still better, 1:4:2 breathing exercise. I personally dont think subliminal stuff works, but the music is pleasant, and so is the still image on the screen (a garden with two hedges along a path). Dear Kimberley, Im an artist and have been creating for quite some time. People that cant picture things in your mind clearly, do you also suffer from poor memory. Your personal continuous experience will tell you what works best for you. 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. Forget about seeing images once in a while. With plenty of scenarios BUT most often without details, influence or anything. What can you get out of it? Obviously, its not my article, that was supposed to be many. I was so excited to discover I was visualizing correctly I didnt bother to proofread before posting. Hello, yes, I agree there is a confusion about what Aphantasia is and is not. Accept Read More. 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). 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. Later, youll walk without thinking about it consciously anymore. You can use them rather as a stencil for actual mental image to fade into. Yep, thats right, a dog. 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. 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. 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. Thats it for this week. My training remains the same: Ive probably tested hundreds of guided meditations and found that these two guys on YouTube stand head and shoulders above the rest: The Honest Guys. I will try the conversations exercise and i will continue to train visualiation and i will let you know my progress. Perhaps throw in some variation. Keep doing this for 2-3 weeks with focused mental effort each morning you wake up, and youll get a rich amount of dream-memories to write down. So thank you for being one of the few beacons of optimism in this sea of self-defeatism. And my dreams have been more intense. From my personal experience (and from others who emailed me) aphantasia merely means that the specific mental muscle responsible to fashion visual imagery lacks practice. 2. I always was stupid, and EVEN i cant change that, where here is god ? The stop light that just turned red Keep your eyes open as if youre daydreaming and let your mind wander over its entire surface for a minute. But I know from many women in my manifesting community that they have a problem with this. This has not worked for me, either. #4 is also good. I should stop doing this while Im driving. Hi Marko. [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. 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? Its generally very simple, but if you cant do it for whatever reason, you may try to move a shape in any direction until it is no longer in the field of view. Ive been working on this for about 5 months now, and am committed to doing this for a year. I have heard that afterimage retention is the key to unlocking the ability to visualize in the waking state. Ive still got one more month of practice to go and if anybody has any ideas for me, Im listening. Ive managed to complete the whole track only once. So, I got that for me in terms of progress. On a scale of 1-10 (with 11 meaning conjuring HD images) I have always been at 1. I was able to (re-)visit familiar scenes or recall familiar objects but these images were missing the small details. What did your friends wear? Some can do it with eyes open, others with eyes their closed. 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! 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!) Cool experience. I have Hypothyroidism hashimoto, so that means i have antibodies which are destroying my thyrosis. How do you want to apply it? Thanks. I think i got a little better, even if im not sure or if maybe its just placebo. # nice advices, thank you. Thats a fantastic side effect; when you train your imagination, your dream gains in clarity too. In the beginning I also thought that I was somehow defective and could not visualize :) But persistent work and discipline paid off eventually :). I find it easier to focus in the dark with my eyes closed. Dear Phoenix, How did you improve? Im also doing the geometric shape exercise a few times each week. Its kind of like the aurora borealis, sometimes swirling or cascading. Learn how to visualize. Please test working with emotional, meaningful photos, and landscape photos. I can only visualize in my dreams. Really frustrating.. Youll get better by repetition. Make sure you keep your eyelids calm and relaxed. If you want to improve the auditory channel, the same principle applies. # Take a blank sheet of paper and draw a simple geometric shape on it, such as a circle. Especially effective with remembering vivid dreams with lots of action. In a deep relaxation, I have many flashes are not static images, always short clips/movies (0.5 2 seconds). What about the street sign you are watching for to turn at I havent felt anything special to say that visualisation works BUT it gets a solid score because I get deeply relaxed every single time. This took me more time to see something but was the most important part for today. Ihav been doing this for two years still no images in my mind, Sorry to hear Ed. 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. I do not remember for how long. Remember how it looks like. I would kindly like to know from anyone that this method worked on, to get them able to create mental images this question. Will this help me imagine the fiction I am reading? Some people can only see specific colors. Only In Jan 2023 - Rewards and a Lucky Dip @ Science Centre Singapore. 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. Yes, Ive been through all this. Etc. I really enjoyed the tune and tried to youtube the song while dreaming but to no avail. Jon, did you try the exercises? I also kind of fly over imaginary cities. Especially: Persist and dont allow yourself to get discouraged. I want to start again, and this time i want to to do it seriously. After ~1 hour I could see the triangle. Maybe you could use the videos images as after-images. Many people strain their eyes when trying to visualize. i cant say i see stuff in my mind , but im really sure that when i visualize i dont see my eyelids or blackness . I must find a way to focus on visualizing in a conscious way. 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