Usually I just download the mp3 and listen to it on my phone while lying on the bed. Some black and white images seem to work for me, though not the whole image. Here again, what you focus on you will strengthen. I am usualy patient and positive (Im 37 years old). I think progress is a matter of persistence practise. Practically, before you practice visualizing, say, a glass, carefully observe all its aspects. Ive done guided meditations for years but never have seen the scenes. clarity of shape and color, vividness Alternatively, you could book some adventure activities such as a helicopter tour or glass-bottom boat trip. Ive had the image for several seconds blurred, but sharp enough to see small details. This isnt frequent or maybe it was but I just wasnt being atuned to the possibility. Is this supposed to be like this? It looks just like the candle and Im aware its there, but it fades too quickly to hold onto, sometimes I can barely see it. This is the particular after-image you should try to hold on to. I will keep at this, hopefully something will click. 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. This one is tough. I tried the Middle Earth Meditation. I do feel Im heading the right way. Ill be back with my results and my steps (Ill start with the steps you described). Wow this REALLY WORKS! like you I could only ever see black when I closed my eyes. So I decided to read up on the topic and found this forum. I plan on starting the exercises today and staying consistent for at least 30 days. Today Ill start doing everything I can. But Im just making sure Cause I can imagine scenarios in my head without closing my eyes. Looks like my brain is able to visualize. How long should I do the exercises every day? Great effort youre putting into it. Black dot on white paper. 2. 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. Are you telling me you were initially seeing afterimages and then one day you were also able to construct mental images? Not occasional practice. I dont want to believe that my dreams are based on visualisation. Time to develop my brain to its full potential! 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. Meditation 2 hours (not planned that much, but was good to stay there, doing nothing). I am going to give these exercises a go. If I keep looking into the darkness, after a few seconds another after image will appear, though this one has the colors inverted (only light/dark at this point) . I also see whatever else is in my field of vision. Even if you can get the slightest improvement within that time period, then Jackpot keep going. Suffice to say I was disappointed when I woke up :(. Despite the difficulty of practicing this elusive and intangible ability youre driven by a burning desire to make this happen! Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. So lets say the mug had some words on it like aphantasia. You can do this with closed eyes and with open eyes. The image seems actually visible, and not imaginable, as I always had before. Perhaps, every night, when you go to bed, rehearse your daily wins by reviving them in your mind adding the successfeeling to it. In this 6 days my visualisation was so weak again. Persist and dont allow yourself to get discouraged. In fact, my mind seems to have an easier time with colorful, vivid images. It seems I am trying to reconstruct the image and paint it in the black space when I closed my eyes. I want to write movies and possibly books as well. This is the 3rd day and was terrible (~8 hours of training). I also see short video clips (.5 to 2 seconds), especially just before going to sleep. You can improve the practice by making the phases longer, just observe 1:4:2 the proportions. 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. Adding a track of isocronic tones or binaural beats helps too. 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. With the candle exercise, I can typically see the candle and flame (but it doesnt look like the flame, and the color is totally off). Stay at it and keep us posted please! I usually spend 10-30 minutes per day. Also, now is a habit to use afterimages everywhere. Ive actually been doing these types of techniques for years now. Thank you very much. Thanks again for your website. What to do in this type of situation? But now I seem to be slipping backwards and Ive lost all of the tiny amount of progress I made in the first 5 days. But before start i have to make you two questions: You could spend your days at leisure, relaxing on the beach, snorkelling, surfing or hiking. And it happened twice during the same night (one with, one off pressure mat)! Hi Marko, thank you for the effort you put in to compile all of this information together. Perhaps, you are as different as two people with different colored skin. Please let us know if make any progress with these (or other) exercises. I can see some of them with my eyes open, including recalling them back. Your personal continuous experience will tell you what works best for you. Dont give up. View of the brain from behind. [2] X R 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. Yeah, the swirling/cascading stuff is strange try image streaming on them (record with your phone) and listen later. But yeah, going into a dark cave for a period of time was, like, a rite of passage in some cultures and it totally makes sense. Thought I was missing something and was suppose to see stuff behind closed eyelids like a projection screen haha. There are fun water features, plenty of 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. Thanks so much for this info! Just take a step or two back and practice with easier things first until youve got full control over motion, color, clarity, etc. Or, think, How would it look and smell like if I poured a steaming cup of coffee over a stack of white paper? That is my goal. Never have I referenced an image seen in my minds eye. That way, your sessions wont get interrupted by annoying ads. Another thing I picked up again is memorization (quotes, content of books, vocabulary, ) So much more enjoyable with good visualization skills. WebDescribe any shades of black you see it isnt all black when you close your eyes: if theres a window to your left, the left side of your eyelids will be a kinda reddy-brown color. What do you think? You know, people reading that youre curing aphantasia will get excited and encouraged to follow your footsteps. And, if you allow me so, Id like to garner your reports and put them together into a dedicated success post. I started the visualization with the candle exercise and I can sustain the image, color, shape of the candle for a few seconds then it fades away. Maybe you could use the videos images as after-images. I tried another Image Streaming exercise that I found on the web the other day and I had a lucid dream that evening, so Im hoping that means that there is hope for me with consistent practice. Please help, Id really like to be able to visualise. 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. According to certified life coach Sydney Axelrod, it's important to get clear on what you want from your goals. Thank you for your review! Persistence is everything, everywhere. Stay relaxed. I have done progress with visualisation. Its crucial, if you want to get better, you keep working on it. I started the exercise with the candle today, but I had no succcess. Just started the visualization technique. Likely, you wont get results right away. So Ill keep doing everyday, no matter what! For some people it appears to be easier. I tried to train visualization for like 1 month but without constancy. Or I might think of a soda tin, and while I cant see it, I can sort of feel the shape of it, and even turn it or spin it or whatever without seeing anything. Observe, close your eyes and try to keep the object or scene in your minds eye. In some of them, I see only people/objects without a background like are cropped out. 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). If you constantly dig for details, then you get the point. 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). If you can only see small parts of the image, and that only for a very short time, thats totally normal. Should I only worry about the initial brief image? :) They spend a great deal of time visualizing every day routinely, automatically honing this asset. To train your whelp in a given mode, follow these instructions: Haste buff: Stand within the healing target dummies in Valdrakken and cast on yourself; Crit buff: Biggest success this month was seeing a red brick building for a second, seeing it start to fade away and willing it to come back which it did for another second or so. I think of it as a gift; it keeps me more down to earth and realistic, and better at solving problems. Can you "see"/visualize things in your head? Just make sure to relax your eyes and your eyelids when closing them. Youre forced to observe and find details and your vision will grow in clarity. 1. So I quit using it and everything is back to normal. 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. 6/22/19 Progress report: Progress has been mixed. So, if you find you get better results using a different approach, please keep at it. I think it may be a dissociative symptom of clinical depression and depersonalization. Its all about, like you already do, coming from your mind. Hi, Marko! See what works best for you. Now, before we get into the how-to part Lets quickly talk about why you would want to visualize. #2 occasionally but I feel #3 have been the best. Sometimes i think ill never get stronger basic visualisation skill. In the near future I might be seeing a psychiatrist and getting some lithium supplement to see if that will help. I have always had dreams, often in color, but very rarely lucid dreams. Very strong feeling, not pleasant at all. I thought that I am hallucinating but I have no idea how an hallucination looks like :) Do you find that starting from scratch gives you complete control? Critical to open your minds eye is deep relaxation. Think about it as taking a snapshot. I would kindly like to know from anyone that this method worked on, to get them able to create mental images this question. You can push this really far and spend a lot of time on this. 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). Read some more, then repeat visualization. Youre right not to give up with learning to visualize. Like imagining an orange or a dice? I have been intensely visualizing for a few weeks now every single night, when Im in bed, just before falling asleep. What is the difference between an afterimage and a mental image? 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. Keep on practicing It helped me and it certainly will work for you. Working from memory helps indeed. So apparently I cant see any mental images like I thought. Im an artist and have been creating for quite some time. In a nutshell, as someone who starts from scratch, I think we have to invest a good amount of time to bring this muscle to life, strengthen it and then apply it frequently and routinely in our daily life. I went out to drive for 30 minutes around my city. Please try practicing with some real but simple objects (spoon, dice, perfume bottle, ). The first step of visualization is thinking of an image in your mind's eye. I also was able visualize a teacup on command recently (it even had a floral pattern!) Only In Jan 2023 - Rewards and a Lucky Dip @ Science Centre Singapore. And I look like a fool I guess visualising with open eyes in the day time. My problem is much deeper than i thought. 5. 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. I just want to thank you for the encouraging words of motivation. The only exercise that Im confused about is visualizing colors. And I can only attribute these moments to the visualisation practices. But, one of the best things to do in Pisa, Italy, is a trip to a relatively small church on the banks of the Arno River. But, one So after you have reached a primitive stage of conjuring pictures in your mind, what are the steps/exercises to improve clarity of the pictures ? At no time would anyone have described the negotiations as between me and the department head's boss. Also, use your finger to. Before you practice, at the very least, do an instant body scan. Like with the other imagination exercises, this is about patience and details. May I ask, how have you been practicing? Focus on holding a certain image in your mind, youll get better at stabilizing fickle images. So, yes, if youd need to practice rotation if your skills is still weak. So, if youre listening to these, try to feel the grass under your feet, the touch of the walls, etc. There seems to be talk of the afterimage eventually transitioning into a mental image. It was discovered accidentally when a man in his 60s underwent a cardiac procedure and afterward complained about no longer being able to visualize. Learning to walk seems like an apt analogy. You can also download all these shapes to your computer here (packed into a rar-file). 4. I am doing the same but I visualise better with my eyes open than closed eyes. Maybe you can do some skull practice when waiting, sitting in a bus, lunch break, etc. In the very beginning, when I couldnt see anything at all, I mostly did the candle exercise because of the strong after image you get from looking at the flame. I will try again. So I hope I will have more of these experiences :) 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. 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. 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). Visualise at night with open eyes after turning off the light ? What did your friends wear? Your goal is to learn to hold those mental pictures for at least two minutes without losing them or getting tired. 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. Marko just discovered something and thought I would share it with you. I would stick to what youve already got and level it up by deepening your sessions. 1. Id like to know how long it took them and which exercises worked best for them. In other words were black boxes in your mind rotating,. From now on, I will keep posting my progress at the end of each month. I think my short term memory improved indeed. What were looking at is a propensity. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Hello Marko i used to try those exercises for like a month but uncostantly and then i stopped because of boredom.. For a better visualization experience, try to involve sight, smell, sound, and feel. At all times, if you can do so, maintain a playful attitude. Firstly there is the dull, lifeless visualizations that are vague and distorted. # Every time you close your eyes make sure they are absolutely relaxed. Could you give us some feedback about this product? Kittens trigger serotonin and dopamine in peoples brains, making them more loveable to people. It points upwards. Then create a vision board (either a real one, or online) and give it a prominent It was just some random image that would get me off guard. Its a whole other story if your mental imagery is simply off. How you persisted to get rid of this situation and for how much long ? Imagining lemon halves and its smell etcWhatever really, but not anything difficult (I havent tried an actual photo and I dont want to). I would love to hear about people who went from zero visualization ability to being able to create and hold images in their mind. Its like only one technique is to be practiced in a day or we can do other mentioned ones too ? To train your whelp in a given mode, follow these instructions: Haste buff: Stand within the healing target dummies in Valdrakken and cast on yourself; Crit buff: Stand in the middle of nowhere and target yourself; Single target damage: Find an isolated mob and target it; AoE damage: target the cleave target dummies in Valdrakken; Single target heal: Target Marko, let me just say that I am happy to have found this site! Afterimages are an optical illusion and are caused by the eyes continuing to send signals to the brain after staring at an image for too long, and are not created by the mind itself. 6. This has not worked for me, either. trying to visualize something and only see full blackness is not calming. However, the colours are all wrong. Additionally, I am one of the blind who is devoid of other mind sensories, such as smell and taste experienced in the mind. When you are comfortable with holding and disappearing the mental images, lets try morphing. Marko, I dont know how to thank you. There is a point where he has you visualize numbers and I was able to see fuzzy images of them. I appreciate what youre trying to do here, but it is very ignorant of the condition of aphantasia. Also, how the colors can be made more vivid ? So, thank you and God Bless. OK, after 2 months 15 days, i added into main training relax. 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. I will try this again but I do not know when and I will definitely be more cautious. Thank you for all your help and kind words. :). I am able to see some simple geometric figures, but only for a few seconds. I like to imagine a canvas (white, back, blue, ..) because somehow it helps to have the canvas texture to paint on. My words are almost all written in red (and green) because I cant seem to see this colour in my mind. Recording Ability Storing away visual information in great detail requires training of analyzation, focus, careful observation and perception. This is happening on two places only: my room and my bathroom (heh). In the past Ive seen things and heard things in lucid dreams, but this is the first time I was aware of feeling the texture of something in a dream. Theres this thing that happens after a while, where you switch your conscious attention from your actual eyeballs to your minds eye. This should be easy to differentiate because the afterimage you see the image of what you were just starting at (with the colors in negative like explained on wikipedia) while an actual mental image is an image of something that you havent just been staring at. Note the differences. I will continue that maybe for 9 months, But i cant remind how powerful my visualisation was at the begin, maybe it slightly helped becouse i have not moments with near zero visualisation which i had at begin, but visualisation is still weak. For example, if I want to visualize a blue color I see red instead and vice versa. With your eyes closed, repeat the process of using your imaginary pen to recreate the object. Any tips for solidifying progress and preventing reversion? Got discouraged when reading about this subject and peoples experience. The more your practice the easier you can transition from an after-image to a controlled mental image. Im the same. Another example is when I do the candle exercise, I can see the black rubber band on my wrist, but it shows up as a fluorescent white color. Ive tried for years, but as you said, I havent try hard enough. Thank you for sharing your experience, Caroline! 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. Unfortunately, I havent heard back from Brandon yet. Evening: meditation (1h) + image streaming (added this week) when I close my eyes for more than ~10 minutes, I see a lot of movement, like moving fog (a lot of nonsense so my Image Streaming is a lot of fun without many words to describe what I see) Im no doctor but it appears to me that lots of people -like you- hit their inner light switch due to some stress or trauma. Please keep us updated! It has the same effect. 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.. Its comparable to a muscle, that when strained, needs some time to recover and grow. Yeah, I will keep the candle but I quit using simple geometric shapes drawn by my hand on paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du3MQPwoUkw Sorry for the grammar errors above. Like a red spoon on a white napkin, or keysor shampoo bottle with contrasting colours. So visualization/imagination, was always a set of toughts for me. Shorten, experiment with the time you spend observing the object/image. Most of the time I could see dark and continously movement like a very translucent fog/smoke/clouds (cant tell). To me, this experience was entirely profound. These ones appear randomly and only for a split second. This is all without even closing my eyes. Marko, thank you for writing this. Its heartwarming for me to read that you and others prove it to themselves that, in fact, yes, you can cure aphantasia. Perhaps throw in some variation. Because i have issues at recalling the colour. Observe with great care for some time and later recall as much as possible on paper. (though they were opposite blue is red, red is blue etc). I need to make this work, for the love of my family. In other words once I conscioulsy made a decision to think about that image it didnt exist in my minds eye anymore. Dont blame yourself if the image is vague and unstable, any result will do. Im curious, when you recall your dreams in the morning (lucid or not) do you recall them in images? And once again, thank you to Dorin for your progress reports. Think of redrawing the shape with that imaginary pencil.Try holding out your finger and slowly draw the shape into the air in front of you (with eyes closed).This is critical now; If you dont see anything, explain to yourself in your mind like, I see the top edge of the triangle. What are they wearing? See my earlier comment below. I wonder if I do it right at all. Personally, I didnt have those skills before seeing any images. Hello this is more of a comment then a question today. Brandon, Or is it all mental imagination imagery? I only mostly get impressions of extremely dim pictures that only lasts like 2 seconds, but I can still use these to do the problem solving technique I am able to do. All of them are flat/2D nothing 3D so far. Since then, I have stumbled on a single YouTube video that recommends a technique similar to your Copy a Candle exercise. Personally, I would affirm to myself the positive outcome of being able to confront the situation and gaining control over ittaking a deep breath, deepening relaxation and trying again. Yesterday I listened to the guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey you recommended (in the comments on 7/13/2016). No fluke. You should do this at least 30 times during one practice session. I was doing this about 20 minutes a day. Slowly follow its contours once. Sense, Touch, and Feel Thank you a lot for your support, I really apreciate it. 5 minutes. These steps will teach you how to visualize quite easily. To not quit yet. Or are both valid for practicing? I tell you after i get more progress, but for me very important is that this exercises to see any changes can take more than just 1 month, before when i stop train imagination after 1 month, i dont saw any progres and stop with thinking i will never done that. This one stays for a lot longer and I can focus on it. This Urbandale park is unique because it is a natural playscape. For example with me when I am driving I do much better with less stimuli then more. 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. After reading the article I thought about my guitar, where the knobs are, the color, the length of the neck. I will try the conversations exercise and i will continue to train visualiation and i will let you know my progress. You can certainly imagine a canvas or a screen (monitor, cinema, phone, ) in front of you and even painting on a canvas works well. 2. Its almost a habit. At some point I asked myself: is this imagination or am I halucinating? Yes, it may take you several months to get better, but then, this is extraordinarily valuable skill youll be able to benefit from all your life. Its in black and white, almost always reversed from the way its supposed to be. Same with the quadrants. Ive tried tons of different exerices, read a lot of articles and books. How frequently do people report doing these things? says Hettie Roebuck, a postdoctoral researcher in Lupyans lab and Hi Marko, thanks for the exercises. That explains why I can imagine objects in the correct color, but could never see objects I was looking at on my screen to appear in the correct color. This is amazing! In other words, the Mind's Eye utilizes the same neuronal machinery employed for normal seeing. It might just be a learned association, in which case it could be reversed in time. Please comment below. Im a little over a month into my daily practice and have made some progress. Because of that I stopped doing it. Im interested since I would like to try to see images myself. Leading with Mental Ideas I cant bend it. What can you do with it? Im trying to work out whether I actually have this or if Im just overreacting (like normal!). Yes, Ive been through all this. But, nothing in these exercises addresses the concurrent situation of nonexistent sensories. Was unexpected to see something on first try because I just came from outside (very bright). Whatever it is you want to visualize, make an effort to involve your mental hands, your imaginary feet, and all body parts. Very gently press, with the tips of your fingers, your eyes, until you perceive some kind of light sensations. Recall and internally describe the colors, and the shape etc.The more details you can recall the better. 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