The first I think was imagining a ball being pushed on a table (I think this one’s stickied on this subreddit). Sure! I mostly tried various experiments I found suggested in reddit comments. I thought I was an Aphant until yesterday, and now I’m just confused. Any ideas? I can’t even imagine (sorry) what situations people normally visualize in. I’d like to improve my visualization faculties, and actually incorporate this into how I live my life, as I feel it stands to help my incredibly shoddy memory, among other things. This was all very dim and required effort to sustain, but nevertheless I’m ecstatic! It’s blowing my mind again and again the situations in which (I assume) most people visualize throughout their daily lives. I feel like I finally understand the meaning of “Kopfkino”. I put on some music, and little animations came unbidden into my head.
Later that evening, I meditated for 15 minutes then lay in bed, and tried again to visualize various imagery, and to my astonishment I was successful! I was able to virtually tour my bedroom and house, recall the face of the girl at the coffee shop who was almost as awkward as I was. On the second day I was vaguely and intermittently able to see a star shape. Under the influence of these substances I was actually able to visualize imagery in my head, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.įast forward to the day before yesterday: I rediscovered this subreddit and started practicing the various Aphantasia tests. In the meantime I also gained a little bit of weight to the extent that I am no longer medically underweight, reduced suicidal thoughts from daily to maybe twice a week, and also experimented a little bit with weed and psychedelics (LSD), hoping that would help me understand my mind. In the meantime I’d heard of Aphantasia and assumed that my grandmother and I “suffered” from this condition. This depression has only started to lift this year, around my 21st birthday. I didn’t have a very healthy family life, and at the age of 12 or 13 I became very depressed. I also never understood how people got so into guided meditations, or were able to seemingly transmit a picture from the ethers directly onto a canvas. Again, I just saw black, with some special awareness of where my bed, desk, etc should be. The island I saw in my head was just the inside of my eyelids accompanied by a mental ticker tape reading “There is a sandy spot of land with palm trees on and water surrounding it.” Later, my mom asked me if I could visualize my room in detail in my head, remarking that her mother couldn’t do it to any extent. My mom would naturally have lucid dreams every night, and when as a child I asked her how I too could have them, she’d respond “Imagine yourself on an island, and as you fall asleep, you’ll wake up on the island you see in your head”.
#Visualize an apple free#
How can I get to the point where I visualize stuff in the situations where most people do?įeel free to skip the 1st two paragraphs. TL DR: Had no visualization skills until a few days ago, suddenly can do it albeit mildly.
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