So when i try to think about these experiences i miss a lot of important details, and i have trouble to translate them in words. Another thing: the exercize of focusing to remember the details of the day passed will increase the ability to recall memories of the past or will it work only for the present/future? Now I think that you can, with some training, train your observational skills too. Of course you can choose some relaxing meditation music to boost your level of relaxation while doing the other exercises. It has the same effect. An additional tip when you listen to their videos is to zoom in into the details. 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. I have one question Marko, have your short-term memory improved? If you make this a strong habit, this will help you to create a phenomenal memory for anything you read this way. Its kind of like the aurora borealis, sometimes swirling or cascading. Your personal continuous experience will tell you what works best for you. So Marko any suggestions on how to practice mental rotation. Its NOT really a VISION, but a mental construct. You know, people reading that youre curing aphantasia will get excited and encouraged to follow your footsteps. When you listen to Marks hypnosis audio (its 30:50 min. 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. Yesterday I listened to the guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey you recommended (in the comments on 7/13/2016). There are so many amazing things to do in Oahu. I am going to give these exercises a go. With all related senses and all emotions. Now open your eyes and call yourself from the other phone. Hi Brandon, I have struggled to visualize for a long time. :) 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. My question is, how long did it take you to go from seeing afterimages to a mental image? Light a candle and take a seat in a comfortable chair about 3 feet in front of it. Hello Marko, thanks for sharing these exercises that i started practicing since 3 days. I am practicing from the past one month, (I started from almost zero), and I can conjure mental pictures in my head, but they lacks clarity to a very great extend. Any other tips? Thank you again MArko. :), Work on concentration. Youre already get some images that means youre on the right way. Youre an amazing person. Ill be back with my results and my steps (Ill start with the steps you described). 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. # Grab a piece of paper and draw a basic geometric shape on it. Can you describe it? Any tips? Yes, I can confirm you that it worked for me and other people who started from scratch like you too. Your advice is interesting.Thank you. In one of your examples for observation you referred to taking a glass, touching it, feeling at and then trying to mentally sense it. What is the difference between an afterimage and a mental image? I dont worry even if after 6 months or more i couldnt get pictures becouse i know there should be something wrong! Recording Ability Storing away visual information in great detail requires training of analyzation, focus, careful observation and perception. I mean, you imagine the canvas in front of your closed eyes? See yourself as a confident, successful person in as much And it happened twice during the same night (one with, one off pressure mat)! This is very brief. Maybe you could use the videos images as after-images. 5. In fact, engage all your senses. If you do this every night, for a few days, just before you go to sleep, youll get some astonishing results: Observe the candles flame calmly, with mild eyes for 5-10 seconds. you can use and listen to their full hypnosis for 90 days, and then just refund it to get your cash back they wont even ask you for any reasons. I recently decided to meditate in order to be less stressed and found that not being able to mentally see images transforms the process into a nightmare. Practice! Practice! Practice! Visualization is a skill. Give yourself a project choose one thing you wish to manifest and visualize it everyday! 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. Then, while you visualize, can you try focusing on the center of your head? Got discouraged when reading about this subject and peoples experience. Persistence is the key. When you first try recalling dreams in the morning you wont remember anything or you recall only a fraction of a dream. So the last 2 days I was a reasearch machine. Some can do it with eyes open, others with eyes their closed. Today Ill start doing everything I can. Thats the major problem Im facing now. Maybe, after youve used it for some time, you can report back to us again. I can now guess that persistence and determination is probably the (only) key. Sorry if I sound confusing.. You also cant do any pushups if you havent used your arms for 10 years. In retrospect, I feel that my practices up until now have been severely lacking. I can visualize things in my head like they are real, so Im definitely an eidetic person. You could do this anytime during your day. So I was stunned when Ive found out on google what visualization actually is for people. Movement Most of them are vivid (like in my dreams) and very few of them has music/sound. Please help, Id really like to be able to visualise. I also kind of fly over imaginary cities. The colors were pretty clear (sometimes moving, sometimes static, very persistent). 2. Well, in my experience, learning to visualization (from scratch) is not impossible. Keep on practicing It helped me and it certainly will work for you. I was laying in bed, trying to imagine/see something with my eyes closed while listening to a rainy sound. @Thomas, I cant visualise at all when Im conscious but I can in my dreams. Far from me the idea of being pretentious, I just want to share my story with people and I hope I can be helpful to even one person. PS. Im so glad you persisted and proved to yourself that everyone can learn this. Redesign Ability Take the images you already got and merge, rearrange, redesign them to your liking. Yes, you can enhance your reading experience dramatically when you consciously envision a story. If you wont get anything at all, try this: Eyes Opened & Eyes Closed Scan your eyes and make sure you release any tension.Now, do you see an after-image? I was shocked and amazed at the same time. Using Image Streaming to Learn Visualization, Best Exercises to Improve Focus and Concentration. We are mostly concerned here with the self-manufactured visualization that you can shape, create, control through mental effort thus enabling you to harness its power to improve your life through, for example, braking bad habits, inciting passion, memorizing, envisioning your ideal future, etc. My question is, which of these two after images am I supposed to try and hold onto? That after-image may be very fickle and hard to keep, which is normal in the beginning. THIS. Read some more, then repeat visualization. Marko, after one week practice with candle and shapes I finally started seeing after image. Research into the subject was tricky, as every time I included the term visualization in my searches, I would find countless videos teaching people who already possess the ability to create mental images how to use their ability to achieve personal success. After 15 minutes of doing your exercises last night I could see all 5 squares and their COLORS! 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. What is Aphantasia and How to Know if You Have it? Whatever works best for you Rajan. 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. Anyway, yeah, I just wanted to know if doing the afterimage exercises led to being able to create mental images at will? But if I imagine grabbing it, or the act of touching it, I can get some rudimentary touch visualization. Visualization is just a tool. 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. And, I was kinda taken aback because I couldnt see a thing in my mind. Now, when you have mastered thi Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. What did you do after you left the house? 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. 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. Never knew that people actually see things in their head like I do in my dreams. This is all without even closing my eyes. Yo I wanted to suggest working with an eye mask. 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. Heres a short list what you can do with the power of visualization: In a nutshell, you can apply visualization all areas of your life. I am able to see more and more short video clips when I am very relaxed (after 15-25 minutes of meditation). Could you give us some feedback about this product? The color of these shapes is a little bit greenish but mostly white/light. Begin with the very first thing you did when you woke up and go through your whole day in sequence. Be on the lookout for new details, rediscover old details. And while my enthusiasm may have dropped Ill keep going. [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. What you describe as random, better-than-real-life-images, I havent experienced yet, but I heard of others who indeed have. Maybe your subconscious mind keeps you from advancing in these particular scenes. The iMac was on my right side and was most vizible, including some shapes on the screen (my iMac was on, of course). Here again, what you focus on you will strengthen. It was originally only 5-10 seconds. Work it through the above mentioned algorithm: first study it visually, then close your eyes and visualize it in front of you. Some black and white images seem to work for me, though not the whole image. With your eyes locked intently on the scene, click your brains camera shutter by blinking your eyes once at half speed. Then close your eyes and repeat the visualization attempt. In other words were black boxes in your mind rotating, in regards to maps before you saw images in your minds eye could you some how sense direction when you turned another way and instead of North being one way North was another. How the little things are internalized ? Here again, the more details the better. See the story unfold in your minds-eye exactly the way you would want it to in the most perfect situation and Now, Im glad you want to find out for yourself if you can turn your inner light on again. Definitely, its possible. This will help engage the subconscious in your focused effort toward your desired outcome. 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. It was just some random image that would get me off guard. Thank you again Marko for this article. Suffice to say I was disappointed when I woke up :(. Keep it light and easy. . The best news of all, however, is I am seeing the objects very clearly and I have you to thank for it! Im unable to visualize the picture as a whole, but as i said i can see only parts of it. There are no set rules when it comes to meditating. What can you do with it? Sure, you could! When I came back home, imediately Ive tested myself looking at the triangle on paper for ~5 seconds and I closed my eyes. You can do this with closed eyes and with open eyes. Like I can visualise the image with my eyes open but its all black when I close the eyes. 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. Anyone who follows this guide and learns to visualize things does not have aphantasia; they simply havent been using their ability to visualize. 1. So practising visualisation durning brain degeneration and without hormones may be impossible form my experience ;) 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. Never. Close your eyes and once again imagine the call, the corrected version this time. 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. Do i have aphantasia or not ? I read through the the whole process and from what I know about the brain and the mind you make sense. Blink your eyes slowly. 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). But I could see the surroundings, the sunny areas in my room (in a negative way, no details). How do you feel about the improve visualization program? Youre making progress, thats good. The next thing I want to achieve is being able to smell and taste things. What kind of people are there? # Thank you for your response. Stare at an object. So, yes, if youd need to practice rotation if your skills is still weak. Anyhow, I managed to bring up two of my words in my mind randomly, which is an amazing improvement. The Dead Sea is one of the most famous places in Jordan.Its mud and mineral-rich waters are well known for skin healing properties and it is popular to cover your body in mud and allow it to dry on your body before washing it off in the Dead Sea.If you are looking for made in Jordan products, the mud from the dead sea and other dead sea products 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. Critical to open your minds eye is deep relaxation. Dear Phoenix, Meditation 2 hours (not planned that much, but was good to stay there, doing nothing). There's this book, 'The Cube' where you're asked to visuslize things that together create a picture that when interpreted says things about you as a person. How long should I do the exercises every day? And I can only attribute these moments to the visualisation practices. Furthermore, Ive found that if you stare for too long at a very bright object (especially on the computer screen or a light source like a candle) the chances are youll see negative colors. Barrett Boesen Park. However one of them was a few nights ago, so Im encouraged a bit. I need to make this work, for the love of my family. 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. I hope youll get better, im really curious to know your improvements. But, one Okay, open your eyes and repeat the process a few times. Thank you for sharing your experience, Caroline! It has been great regaining some of my visualisation skills, now I have to find a way to control it better. I thought I was alone in my struggle. A part of me made the recent mistake of seeking advices from all over the place. Slowly follow its contours once. (better 30min) every single day. 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 . So, if youve tried everything else and you dont know where else to look for a solution, go to their website and read the full description. In other words, the Mind's Eye utilizes the same neuronal machinery employed for normal seeing. Im certain, if you stay with it, youll find you can recreate images in their true colors. Alhough I never pay attention to the candle itself, only to the flame, in the after image I often see the solid outline of candle and only a tiny glowing yellow part of the flame, which is never the same size or shape as the actual flame. Hope its improved since you commented. You just IMAGINE it with high enough level of detail. And always pitch black images whenever I close my eyes and try to visualize. You can reach into all directions. 3) Just before going to sleep two nights ago, a clear image came to me and I was able to hold it for three seconds, which may not sound like much, but is about twice as long as Ive done before. Imagining lemon halves and its smell etcWhatever really, but not anything difficult (I havent tried an actual photo and I dont want to). Im curious, when you recall your dreams in the morning (lucid or not) do you recall them in images? I aim for 30-40 sec, and then close my eyes while looking slightly upwards. Like most things I can think of, its like a muscle. In order to get stronger muscles you need to repeatedly work them. Reading novels or poetry li About two weeks ago, I realized for the first time in my life that people arent just speaking figuratively when they say, Picture this. After a little bit of research and a lot of reading about aphantasia, I was convinced that there was no way for me to develop this skill. Same with the quadrants. 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. Keep it easy. 10. Visualize for about a minute, then get back to the book. you see a meadow now, how does a piece of grass look like? Consciously sit down and drastically enhance the tool youve already developed: 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. 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. It makes me very happy :) Im going to keep practicing, until I can visualize everything. One has more melonan than another. Breath life into your goals by adding all the details youd want to see. With the guided meditations, do you mean listen to the sound whilst you do the above exercises? Im super confused , please help me . I try to make tiny ones at the corners. 2) I believe when youve invested the time to hone your visualization skill, youll begin to employ it more or less automatically. 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. But yes, in my experience, the more you practice the faster you get better. The bottom line: First you have to push yourself all the time and whittle away at the resistance and blurriness. Hi Marko! Would love to know more about how your visualization is going too. thank you so much! Keep retracing the shape with your mental pencil. Hi Marco. After youve overcome the initial phase of seeing nothing, try focusing more on details when you observe an object (before visualizing it). I want to share my experience here. Or, think, How would it look and smell like if I poured a steaming cup of coffee over a stack of white paper? dark colors appear light, light colors appear dark). I see occasional fuzzy images of people, buildings and vehicles. Thats great feedback Paul! Last question: Do i have to practise all five exercises everyday? Thanks again. Awesome. It just takes practice. Find a quiet place to sit and clear your mind for a few minutes. Then just picture what it is you want to see. Keep it ther That if you had this disability, you were stuck with it for good. No fluke. If this exercise works, it would be a major breakthrough. I am trying to focus on keeping those flashes more than 2s. :) But the candle and solid color exercises sound interesting, Ive never tried them before. At some point I asked myself: is this imagination or am I halucinating? 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 believe most people use mental rotation to help in driving and eliminate some of the intentional processing that goes on if you dont see the image and rotate it in your head. Take a deep breath and release any muscular tension. It may work better for you to focus on a specific location. Im also doing the geometric shape exercise a few times each week. Thank you very much. I would now say that my visualization is 22.5/10. # You have no idea the hope you just gave me! 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. And, if you allow me so, Id like to garner your reports and put them together into a dedicated success post. Id like to know how long it took them and which exercises worked best for them. Compare the look, feel and sound of the real call with your mental image. I struggle with it and end up having to open my eyes to get control back of my own mind. You imagine making the picture in your mind as if youre actually making it with a camera. I would love to connect with you and share my results. Obviously, its not my article, that was supposed to be many. 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