10 years ago, I’d have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I’m interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn’t feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @[email protected] about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn’t giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

  • Bleeping LobsterOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    From asking family members it seems like it runs in the family, so I don’t have much hope it will improve.

    I think it’s very genetic, my dad and sisters both have it too

    I am able to maintain 1-3 simple objects (so cuboids, spheres etc), though I find the euclideanity of this space to be quite fluid (ie impossible shapes, such as Klein’s bottle come naturally), though I can “feel” a few more objects, which can be more complex if I don’t focus to much on them.

    You could be a very promising candidate for image streaming, I know many people get frustrated and don’t maintain the practice (guilty here) but I’ve heard from enough people having transformative effects that I’m going to give it another go.

    • MinekPo1 [She/Her]
      2•1 year ago

      I mean from the few minutes I tried, I doubt it will work as I use spacial imagination as a substitute for visual imagination. Ie when a scene is described, I “feel” the things being described being there, but don’t see them.