Its just all black. Keen Observation For privacy reasons, I wont be able to post anything from any emails here on my blog. This isnt frequent or maybe it was but I just wasnt being atuned to the possibility. I tried the Middle Earth Meditation. Even if you initially see nothing, internally describe details. Or, when I think about traveling a certain route with a goal in mind, I do this subconsciously. And even when its gone I feel like I have a better idea of its shape/size/orientation, as if I can look into the darkness but still remember where the image was (a bit hard to explain). Most of the time I could see dark and continously movement like a very translucent fog/smoke/clouds (cant tell). Marko. Good luck ;), And it helped not only me and brandon, i am sure that there are more persons ;), Sorry for English) Thanks, You probably save my life, why you ? When visualizing you actually dont use your eyes at all so you dont receive information from the receptors in your eyes. The afterimage effect is closer to seeing than my visualization. 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). You can focus on the afterimage while thinking about the color. 2. Feels like the image is in your head, but you actually see through your hands. I also practice a lot on stationary objects. You could think about the shapes, the colors, the proportion, and you could also imagine holding the object, feeling its contours. 1) because of my summer job and the lack of energy etc. # At no time would anyone have described the negotiations as between me and the department head's boss. For me, its a big improvement already. I have a routine that I followed (and still do). Sit or lie down, deeply relax (use your preferred method), close your eyes. Yes, thats right. I appreciate your efforts here and believe it will help some who are mildly different. I also see short video clips (.5 to 2 seconds), especially just before going to sleep. I still only see black and Ive read up about a thing called aphantasia which could explain it. The stop light that just turned red Yesterday I listened to the guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey you recommended (in the comments on 7/13/2016). By practicing again, again and again or are there any special methods on internalization ? I am really close to solution why whole life my brain just didnt work and develope. 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. How often has this thought frustrated you to the point of wanting to throw away your art supplies? Persistence and discipline are your best friends. Personally, I started rehearsing my future goals with their associated actions finally in vivid detail and clarity. Dont give up on it and keep at it. 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. I see people, objects all random, nothing controllable. When you stare at a color for a length of time, you will see the opposite color when you close your eyes. 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. Ill cure that, its just undeveloped brain function. Again take a blank sheet of paper and paint a color spot. But, why not see for yourself? Today Ill start doing everything I can. First, thank you for this write up. Time to develop my brain to its full potential! What a rewarding experience! Its NOT really a VISION, but a mental construct. I feel like the image is there behind a door in another room. Week #2 From time to time, color spots appeared: purple (many times), yellow and pink once. View of the brain from behind. In a month (or so) I will also start image streaming technique. Its like we see the exact colours and stuff after closing the eyelid the same we see through our eyes open ? Kudos to you and your determined efforts! 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. Observe these objects, their details and texture in real life and bring them into your routine. That could be an indication that the belief is that its likely to be Payton leading Denver, and it might come together quickly. This is the 3rd day and was terrible (~8 hours of training). Keep on using your minds eye every single day. If I just imagine having a tin in my hand, I cant see or feel anything. So, if youre listening to these, try to feel the grass under your feet, the touch of the walls, etc. :) I will report back in a few weeks again. The deeper you can let go and relax during your exercise sessions the easier the access to your realm of imagination. :) 2. Everyone Ive ever met with aphantasia has had a greatly above average ability to learn and memorize information. 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. I usually see green, yellow or purple, less often red or blue. I hope youll like it too: If you dont have an adblocker, I highly recommend you install uBlock Origin to your browser. Dear Kimberley, Gradually add more and more detail. DO NOT STOP! Check drawer and cupboard depths for adequate storage to put things away, as well as strength and support for heavy books and files. Key is to stay with it for at least 14 days to see somewhat of an improvement.This, unfortunately, takes long to develop but daily practice will pay off. When I came back home, imediately Ive tested myself looking at the triangle on paper for ~5 seconds and I closed my eyes. And again, stay relaxed at all times. I struggle because I want to be a writer, and have natural talent, but I do not enjoy reading because I do not imagine it, and describing things visually is difficult. After 2 months and 3 days i still have visualisation skill like at the begin. Just friendly note of warning before investing too much. Sorry for the grammar errors above. Not too much improvement compared to the last night for the first 30 minutes but boy, next 60 minutes was huge. :(, Sorry for English. Jon, yes, I started from zero and, as far as I understood, Brandon did so too. Stronger mental impressions lead to more explicit mental representations. 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. This made me think that I have the ability to memorize and create images in my mind, but I dont know how to see them clearly while I am awake. This is totally normal. Ive had six lucid dreams, very clear, detailed and colorful. If you can while youre dreaming, maybe theres some change in consciousness happening, even if it isnt sleep. Like a nameplate or some decoration? When I listen to some artists, the lyrics they sing form images in my mind. Its not right to advise people to keep spending time when there is no evidence that you can go from off to on, again, not vague to crisp. 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. How frequently do people report doing these things? says Hettie Roebuck, a postdoctoral researcher in Lupyans lab and Are there any small details on it? AND my problem was not only stress which damage hippocampus(neurogenesis,neuroplasticity) not only depession! Candle on night When the after-image is gone, a greenish spot remains (again, vague). I feel that this is going somewhere, no doubt in my mind. F.e. I feel by writing this down Im able to hold myself accountable. This one is tough. Its in black and white, almost always reversed from the way its supposed to be. Try to note as much detail as possible: places, scenery, atmosphere, objects, people and the words they are saying, and so on. 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. When I asked my friends about it, told me they can see whatever they want to imagine. 10/2/19 Im starting to get discouraged. Are the after images contained in a small rectangle in the center of your vision when you close your eyes for anybody else? There is a point where he has you visualize numbers and I was able to see fuzzy images of them. Do you have any tips for this? Now light it for real. During the day I practice after image wherever I can on different objects. Hello Marko, thanks for sharing these exercises that i started practicing since 3 days. Slowly follow its contours once. Please check out the article as Ive added an extra exercise. Its kind of like the aurora borealis, sometimes swirling or cascading. Even if its fading instantly, fact is, you will be able to see something. I needed rest but I wanted to make up my sleep at night and not take a cat nap in the middle of the afternoon. Jon, did you try the exercises? Ive made similar progress with Exercise #2, particularly the first video. And I think the process is somehow comparable to dreaming and the ability to recall dreams. Persistence is everything, everywhere. This one stays for a lot longer and I can focus on it. Perhaps I am jumping the gun here speaking on these things before I even am able to conjur up a static image but I just wanted to hear from you or anyone else to find out how mental rotation may have worked once you started seeing the static images in your minds eye. Try to think about nothing for as long as you can until something pops up then bring your attention back to nothing. Im getting just enough out of it to keep me from giving up. Youll know youre improving if you can perceive the smallest improvements in: After ~60 minutes I start seeing the sceen in some more detail, including the image on my iMac screen (youtube was open, no fullscreen). Just take a step or two back and practice with easier things first until youve got full control over motion, color, clarity, etc. 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. For some people black and white images seems to be easy to replicate. You know, people reading that youre curing aphantasia will get excited and encouraged to follow your footsteps. But I stupidly took too much and had a bit trip, so Id say I saw this for <30 minutes before things became too muchI didn't see much colour, only geometrical figures but I could definitely see something when I closed my eyes. 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. Sorry if my comment was unclear or came off as spam, since It appears to have been deleted. Last question: Do i have to practise all five exercises everyday? Sometimes i think ill never get stronger basic visualisation skill. 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.. With this scenario I might find myself having to drop the road I was looking for in favor of paying attention to safety issues and then once I miss the road perhaps some of those other things I had to pay attention to right before my turn came will not be an issue and so now I can backtrack and make that turn without the stop light, and lane change for example eliminating the amount of things needing to be manually processed at the same time. Ill try to stick with one repeatedly and see if I can start filling in detail. One practices to get better at something, for example, if your mental imagery is weak. DAY #2 (1,5 hours): Used my window, just to satisfy my curiosity (window curtain was in place). Say 1-2x/week. In other words, the Mind's Eye utilizes the same neuronal machinery employed for normal seeing. Practice! Practice! Practice! Visualization is a skill. Give yourself a project choose one thing you wish to manifest and visualize it everyday! I have been struggling for years with this disability or weakness or whatever you want to call it, but I know I must overcome it. Best you practice two times daily. 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. Stop touching your eyes and begin describing what you see (out loud). If you make this a strong habit, this will help you to create a phenomenal memory for anything you read this way. I used a candle today. The simple phrase of awh cant help but escape your lips when you see big brown eyes and a delicate button nose. My training was aggressive this week too. See the Church of Santa Maria Della Spina. Its hard to start from ground zero. Youre at work taking a sip of coffee? You need to sit quietly and think about what you want. My problem is much deeper than i thought. Go ahead and apply gentle but persistent effort. 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 dont have total aphantasia but my visualization skills have always been very, very poor to the point that they might as well not exist. But everyone is different. like you I could only ever see black when I closed my eyes. Eyes Opened & Eyes Closed When we fix our physical eyes perfectly on one tiny detail, surroundings fade from our view. Employ all your senses in writing. Once you received an impression through your eyes, you basically recall or recreate the initial impression. And then secondly there are the perfect clarity, full color, detail-better-than-real-life visualizations. The colors were pretty clear (sometimes moving, sometimes static, very persistent). 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. Imagine youd need to describe (from memory) the flame to an artist. 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. Do you ever dream? Aphantasia is a spectrum, like autism is a spectrum. 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. And, I was kinda taken aback because I couldnt see a thing in my mind. My favorite form of image streaming is to lie in bed and stare at the texture in the ceiling, and describe what the patterns look like. Denver Broncos: Sean Payton. 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 Ask yourself a few questions about it:Which colors do I see? Often times it shakes, flickers and transforms, it is frustrating difficult to keep it steady. Its heartwarming for me to read that you and others prove it to themselves that, in fact, yes, you can cure aphantasia. I have the other senses, they suck but I have them. Hi Brandon, Every says when they imagine things, they can "see" them in If you want to improve the auditory channel, the same principle applies. There are no set rules when it comes to meditating. Im unable to visualize the picture as a whole, but as i said i can see only parts of it. I recommended longer sessions than 5 min, at least 10 min. Throughout the show, the teachers and staff at Abbott Elementary work together to create the best experience they can for the students. 3. First one Ive had in a few months. Especially if you start from scratch, images will be hard to tame and you have to gently fight for stability and control. Sure, you could! Aphantasia allows you to view (process?) Practice periodically during your day. Close your eyes. (Try it now.). 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. Make the experience vivid and full of details. I tried with part 2 and 3 but na. Would you recommend to keep training on the bigger picture and add smells and feelings to it or just focus on these goals only? 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 Andit works! 2. Most people would have given up already. Thanks again Marko or anyone else who might have tips here. Does it move, or does it make a sound?Answer these questions internally and in silence. If, Sometimes I have a strange and strong feeling that I see something on a dark room, when I close my eyes. Youll be able to automatically capture more details with a single look. I could swear is real. If you get very bright afterimages, please try reducing the time you spend observing the object (or photo). It was discovered accidentally when a man in his 60s underwent a cardiac procedure and afterward complained about no longer being able to visualize. There is a question bothers me a lot . I used to be able to visualize very bright, vivid images, but one day after having a panic attack (a result of a stressful 12-year career in corporate America, a breakup, etc), I suddenly started see black whenever I closed my eyes. You know, i was also stuck in that question, i was feeling lost too, but here's the information i got, after studying about it 1: calm your mind an Your posts and you keeping up with coming back to update us, clearly working so hard is honestly inspiring and I really feel in my gut that you will overcome this. I started the exercise with the candle today, but I had no succcess. Be very specific. This, I think, helped me most. Ill be posting later when my brain finally will release from that hashimoto chains, Youre on the right track. I always was stupid, and EVEN i cant change that, where here is god ? There seems to be talk of the afterimage eventually transitioning into a mental image. I also see whatever else is in my field of vision. Tomorrow Ill start doing it so if I get something interesting, Ill let you know. Practice with your eyes closed. Anyway, yeah, I just wanted to know if doing the afterimage exercises led to being able to create mental images at will? Or is it all mental imagination imagery? The more you hone visualization the more you become the active director of your internal movies. I saw light gray dot-patterns and several forms of ring water (thin). See the story unfold in your minds-eye exactly the way you would want it to in the most perfect situation and This is the music I like to listen but I get the same results without music. Thank you for your response. You could do this anytime during your day. Dont be fooled by the simplicity of this exercise. So yeah definitely its possible, and I know I have more work to do. Try to not laugh! This is great and I think with your enthusiasm youll be able to develop this skill much further rather quickly and eventually you wont spend another day without applying this skill consciously to your benefit. To get better at something, for example, if your mental is. I understood, Brandon did so too phenomenal memory for anything you read this way be easy replicate! 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