Take it easy and perhaps take one or two days off from exercising just make sure youll continue soon. As a note, for some reason it seems easier for me to to work with happiness-teasing photos like beautiful beaches, lush landscapes than with anything else. Read some more, then repeat visualization. What exactly happened to your imagination? :). My wife says real visualization is not there, but out in your mind. And the best part is that I was lucid at one point, I knew that the instant Ill move my back from the pressure mat Ill wake up. I think it purely takes part in your mind only and, if you focus on the backs of your eyelids, you might prevent yourself from getting the best results. Stay at it and keep us posted please! In the near future I might be seeing a psychiatrist and getting some lithium supplement to see if that will help. But I could see the surroundings, the sunny areas in my room (in a negative way, no details). Experiment, Experiment, Experiment Im trying to work out whether I actually have this or if Im just overreacting (like normal!). Grab one and squeeze it with your fingers. 1,5 hours a day sounds too much but I noticed that if you trully want it, you dont even think about it. I dont use any social media but, if you want to follow the discussion here, youll be fine checking every 4-5 days for new content. Repeat the same in other situations, like when youre in the elevator: Take a glimpse at the digital display, close your eyes, and hold on to that image. This is extremely rare but it idd occur to days ago. 2 days ago, I was bothered because of a guided meditation. Hi Marko. My images are still dark and blurry, but sometimes I can see full color and sometimes there are images that come up unsolicited. So when I try and visualise, for example walking through my front door, my brain wont let me do it, its like there is an invisible force stopping me or sometimes when I try to imagine myself in a scenery, in my minds eye, the scenery keeps spinning round and round and its like Im fighting with my brain to visualise what I want? Some of then in near photographic quality. # Which will, at some point, give you contradicting answers. So Ill keep doing everyday, no matter what! I hope youll get better, im really curious to know your improvements. 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). When I asked my friends about it, told me they can see whatever they want to imagine. Just want to say that I was one of those who had absolutely ZERO ability to visualize. I could not even picture something as simple as a circle. Or is this maybe a bit more advanced? I think my brain degeneration would become aphantasic if id live without awareness of my disease. My question is, which of these two after images am I supposed to try and hold onto? No luck yet. If you can while youre dreaming, maybe theres some change in consciousness happening, even if it isnt sleep. That way, your sessions wont get interrupted by annoying ads. 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. Do I start at the candle flame? 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. Hi Marko, thanks for the exercises. 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. 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. Its true. Ive had six lucid dreams, very clear, detailed and colorful. 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). For example: 1. is their a car coming out of a side street There are no set rules when it comes to meditating. Later, youll walk without thinking about it consciously anymore. 2. Ive done the exercises for a week, and I was able to see the afterimages. Stronger mental impressions lead to more explicit mental representations. 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. If you wont get anything at all, try this: Arka, Im sorry about misspelling your name (fixed now). It was like I had a small TV (1/4th in size) in the corner of my mind. 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. I cant visualize and I cant recall memories. Hi Marko. As, of course, this is a rather intangible subject, I cant promise your anything. 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. The more the better. Since I published this article I continued practicing almost every single day. I am going to give these exercises a go. 10/2/19 Im starting to get discouraged. Now, before we get into the how-to part Lets quickly talk about why you would want to visualize. Personally, I didnt have those skills before seeing any images. 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. First of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all these clear steps and the hope you gave me. Keep it light and easy. My general challenge is colors. Thanks for responding, I plan to dedicate some time to each exercise and will be sure to report back if I have any progress. 5. Keep on using your minds eye every single day. Maybe your subconscious mind keeps you from advancing in these particular scenes. I also kind of fly over imaginary cities. So, with persistent training you will be able to keep the images firmly in your mind and even recall and recreate then from scratch. From my own experience there seem to be two modes of visualization. Well, in my experience, learning to visualization (from scratch) is not impossible. Today Ill start doing everything I can. dark colors appear light, light colors appear dark). Do you see anything at all yet? This demands a high level of concentration and control and youll quickly register progress. Wait. After 3-5 seconds, the image appears. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Thank you. The reflections of light, shapes, angles, colors, textures, spacial relationship to objects in proximity, and so on. So yeah definitely its possible, and I know I have more work to do. Best you practice two times daily. 2. Now that you made it that far; how are you going to apply this new mental-power? See yourself as a confident, successful person in as much 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. I will done comment here after several months and i will write why you save my life, thanks.. :), Oh my i was too greedy here, after 1 month and 20 days i still have much moments when i almost have not visualisation skill, so annoying. Begin with the very first thing you did when you woke up and go through your whole day in sequence. THIS. Id like you to try this guided mediation/hypnosis from Michael Sealey. Im still committed to daily practice for another 3 months. 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 ? What were looking at is a propensity. Sometimes I try to go for 30-40 sec and make a blinking motion (like snapshot) every 3 sec. Id appreciate it if you could give me those details because I honestly now feel like I may have just wasted a lot of time on this. You could spend your days at leisure, relaxing on the beach, snorkelling, surfing or hiking. I can only see blue and violet and not when I should see them. How do you want to apply it? Ive made similar progress with Exercise #2, particularly the first video. Do u think i could recall my experiences and memories easier and with more details? Ill be posting later when my brain finally will release from that hashimoto chains, When I came back home, imediately Ive tested myself looking at the triangle on paper for ~5 seconds and I closed my eyes. Be on the lookout for new details, rediscover old details. 2. Usually it takes a while to make a whole lap, but it is doable. Pick one guided visualization video and listen to it at least 3 times a week. Ill be back with my results and my steps (Ill start with the steps you described). When I close my eyes am I suppose to be able to see it behind closed eyelids with my eyes? Keep practicing and youll gain both clarity and stability. 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. Get yourself a few colored surfaces. Ive been focused on improving what I see on the back of the eyelids, but am starting to suspect thats not really what people mean by visualization. Please comment below. However, the colours are all wrong. This one is tough. 1) Learn to use your senses more consciously. 3. But, if you stick to daily practice sessions, dedicate a few minutes each day, youll be greatly rewarded with new and beautiful skill. Just for reference: I never did #1, didnt suit me. Like, This shape is filled with a deep blue, like the blue of phone case., I have recently started to do that, (for around three to four days), with absolutely zero gains. The only way you can get better (both in clarity and stability) is to practice a lot. Try to imagine what happens when it receives an incoming call from your home line. I cant bend it. . I will try again. Candle on night When the after-image is gone, a greenish spot remains (again, vague). Please let us know if make any progress with these (or other) exercises. Its a mixture of some of the exercises. 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. Unfortunately Im still struggling. Continuing with 45 minutes of image streaming every day, and once a week doing the guided meditation/hypnosis I mentioned previously. I have Hypothyroidism hashimoto, so that means i have antibodies which are destroying my thyrosis. 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