Aphantasia - Solved?? 

Here's the video that described image streaming and inspired this new journey: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3F2qjtwcMhA.html

ive got Aphantasia and its frustrating now that i know ive been missing out on something my whole life, i always thought the term visualize wasnt literal

I can't see anything when I close my eyes. When I'm told to visualize, I get frustrated. My husband can see anything you ask him when his eyes are closed or open for that matter. I mean, I know what a puppy looks like, I know what my kids look like, but when I close my eyes? Nothing! Black, blank space

I have aphantasia I think in words I instead of pictures Which is odd since I'm an artist

Wow! I’m 21 and figured this out as well recently. “Counting sheep” I never knew people actually saw sheep. When i think of sheep, like how I’m typing about it I can HEAR the sheep. When I think of beaches I HEAR waves, or sea gulls. I would love to be able to actually see mental images. I’m a very spiritual person, and something tells me that I may just have a mental block on it. I’m going to try your techniques thank you so much for posting!

I've thought this entire time everyone was just exaggerating what they experiences when they visualize things. I made stories about people who I give super powers but I now realize is all I gave them was the power of basic human imagination.

I saw a video on Aphantasia a couple of days ago, and now I feel like I am in a Twilight Zone episode. I have been on this planet for 40+ years, and never knew people could actually picture things in their mind. The video was talking about how some people can't see colors in their mind's eye, and I was like, wtf? Colors? I assumed people were like me, picture the concept of an object, but concepts don't come in color/black and white. Colors are visual. That is when it hit me like a crashing wave. People can actually fucking picture things in their head. Now I keep remembering references to people saying things like 'picture yourself on a beach' or whatever, and now realize that is actually a thing. It changes my frame of reference for so many things. It explains why when I read books I always considered scenery descriptions to be filler words getting in the way of the plot. But if people can actually picture things? I feel like someone just walked up to me and was like 'dude, what do you mean you can't move things with your mind'

Um hello, I have aphantasia apparently and it’s all black it’s just my eyelids, my mind gives me ideas of what’s happening based off my mood, it’s just WORDS, nothing else, I know it’s there, but it’s not. It gives me ideas and colors like, “ The table was white with red and black tiles, this pot is a pastel pink on top of it. “ like that, I know what it could look like but it’s not there, it’s black..

I'm a professional artist with aphantasia and it's terrible sometimes, not impossible but hard and time consuming. It's like solving those puzzles that turn into a painting. You know what the result is supposed to look like but you can't actually see it until you finish it. Most of the time it doesn't look like the original idea because I couldn't see it in the first place, I had to improvise. Sometimes it looks even better than I "imagined" but sometimes I'm not satisfied at all because I can't see what I want to see and it's frustrating. It's a never ending experiment for me. It's also another reason why I despise reading books no matter how good the story is. I can enjoy it but I can't picture it at all so I prefer comics over books.

I’ve had aphantasia all my life

I have Aphantasia and my husband has what some call Hyperphantasia (he can project images from his mind into reality). I'm an artist and would LOVE to be able to actually visualize!

Hello, i am 26 years old and just now realizing that I have aphantasia. I actually cried when I figured it out because I feel like I’m missing out on such an amazing part of life. I mentioned this to my friend and she said, “no way, theres no way you’re as intuitive as you are but unable to visualize”. I am an extremely intuitive person, I can read a person the second I meet them, I can feel how certain situations are going to go, I know when I’m being lied to, I can feel my future, but can’t see it. And that made me realize, when you have not so great eyes, you tend to have amazing hearing, maybe it works that way for intuition and visualization. It’s just a theory, I have done no research as today is literally my first day realizing, but now I am so interested in getting to the bottom of this.

I just found out about this like 5 minutes ago. I never knew people actually saw their visualizations.

Does anyone else have trouble with hearing and visualizing? It kinda just feels as if it's just my own voice in my own head (How incredibly dull and boring and absolutely self absorbed it feels lemme tell you) and if I could have one thing in the world it would be to be able to see what I'm reading and replay a song back in my head without just weird mindless singing that happens from me personally that freaks me out.

I get stressed when i try idk i kinda can see somthing or i remember what something looks like.. But how tf do people even do this????

I've never had an image in my head, or been able to smell or taste something without it being there. It's been extremely aggravating that everyone I know can.

When I try to imagine things it’s like looking through a telescope and being able to point out some lines but as soon as I try to visualize another object everything else disappears

its not that i can't imagine it, i can \ Imagine \ what the object would look like, but i cant actually see it or look at it like a photograph or video footage when i close my eyes, it's like i think of a memory of the image as a *thought* rather than a photograph. When i close my eyes it's just, black, nothing, a dark room or the back of my eyelids haha.

It's inspiring knowing that you actually help someone who has aphantasia seeking image with the mind eye. I also tried doing image streaming for sometime but seems it is not working for me. Really hope u would share more detail on how you do that. Appreciated.

I’M SO HAPPY I FOUND THIS! Recently I found out I have aphantasia - guided meditations were failing for me and I wanted to know why. I talked to my mom about it and as it turns out, she has it too! It makes me sad how much I’ve missed out on, especially since I’m an artist myself. But I just so happened to find your channel, and it seems there is a way out of this! The most I’ve been able to see in my “mind’s eye” has been blotches of blue, so I guess that’s something? I’ll definitely try image streaming!

I'm so heartbroken. I literally JUST found out about this... I see black, always, period. Nothing... ever. And it's like in the movies where everything comes into realization. Flashbacks of all the times I've been told to imagine something, see something, picture something, etc... And people ACTUALLY can...

Finding out that I have aphantasia was really upsetting for me, because it explained why I haven't been able to picture the faces of deceased loved ones, and why I can't retain images no matter how much I want to.

Wow, I am so excited to have found this channel. As someone with aphantasia, a musician, lover of mediation and vivid dreamer I’ve always felt like not being able to visualize has held me back. I think exclusively in works and vague ideas, no images and no emotions (I have emotions, I just don’t think with them). I’d love to be able to read a book like other people, visualize during meditation or see music more clearly.

I had no idea this was a thing! I love RU-vid!!! I’ve never been able to visualize and friends and family get frustrated/angry when they say picture such and such or imagine such and such and I say... I can’t. Maybe they thought I was blowing them off or something. I remember trying one of those apps that would calm you. They’d say close your eyes and imagine water floating to your feet then your knees and so on... not only wouldn’t it calm me but I’d be super frustrated by the end and I didn’t know why. Now I do!!! Can’t wait to read more into this.

Oh my God! There's hope! Thanks sooo much!

It kind of sounds like left-brain, executive function types that aren’t aware of certain processes. They act vs slowing down the “tape” to analyze.

I would be incredibly interested in fixing whatever is wrong or different about my brain. I just realized I had aphantasia about a month ago and as a 35-year-old, that is extremely creative and imaginative, I was horrified that I had somehow been born without this ability. I have been reading everything I can about it, watching videos, and speaking to a lot of "typical mind's eye" people just trying to find out anything I can about what I'm missing or even if there are any advantages to being this way. One thing I have noticed is that since I only think in concepts or generally words, my vocabulary and use of the English language seem to be better than most. And my attention to detail is very good since I have to use my memory for things instead of relying on mental images. But those are the only pros I have been able to find. The cons list is lengthy. I also cannot hear songs in my head, or smell things, or taste, like people say they can. It sounds like wizardry to me. Like something out of a sci-fi movie and I don't know how you people go around all day "seeing" things in your head, and tasting, and smelling. It makes me wonder what else might be different about me that I'll never learn about. They say ignorance is bliss and I kinda wish I never knew this existed... but so much makes sense now that I never understood. Now I understand how my daughter can draw so well by accessing images of what she wants to draw and why my drawings all look like a lopsided balloon animal... I now understand why I have no sense of direction and why it's so easy for me to get over someone. If I can't remember things we did, or recall their face, it's easier to move on. I have no memories of anything. I can't recall that fun time I had with my daughter, or my mom, or my deceased grandma, and I wish I could remember her beautiful face, but I can't, no matter how hard I try. I finally understand that daydreaming isn't just a term for zoning out... And that people actually were counting sheep. The only thing in my head when I close my eyes is blackness and the only thing I ever hear is more of a thought, with no actual sound, and it's a dull monotone version of my voice, and that's it. There's nothing else in there. My whole life has been a blank, empty, imagination-less lie... At least I still have my dreams. They are all I have....

Counting sheep was soooo hard as a kid. Now I know why.

Your voice is so calming to listen to.

I believe I have Aphantasia, I found out this a couple of years ago, I’m in my late 50’s. The weird thing is a lot of folk I’ve talked to about it actually don’t believe me. What you did to help your family member is fantastic.

I feel like I’m bragging but I’d like to ad that mine it very hyper and realistic like blueprints and 3D rotation

do you have problems reading like i do? when i read a book, its the same thing as any other thought, a stream of words. thus making reading just staring at words on a page. it is extremely hard to memorize anything in a book, but my auditory memory is fairly ridiculous. i can almost see something at times, but its almost like i need glasses over my minds eye.

hi, I just stumbled across this video… I noticed it’s five years old. I was wondering how your studies in this area developed? Very much interested in seeing if you had any further breakthroughs as I also have aphantasia. thx

I just discovered I think I have full on aphantasia. I never even knew this sort mental sensing (since it's more than just visual) was possible. It was actually fairly distressing for a few days because i can't imagine family or friends faces, or how they sound, etc... I know all this information, I just can't make it a part of my inner mind. Even leaving a room I was just in, I can't recall an image. But on top of that, sounds, smells, texture.... What?! My mind was blown. I've begun to accept it, and am trying techniques like this. It's only been a couple days, so sadly I'm not seeing anything. But hopefully I will be able to at least once!

I just realized I am on the road to recovery from Aphantasia after my family linked me your channel. I hope to be able to conjure images in my mind’s eye soon.

When you were talking about her dreaming and then recalling what happened, does that mean she could see i.ages in the dreams but when thinking about the dream she couldn't? After waking up from a dream, could she draw on a piece of paper a moment from it? Because I do see in my dreams but can't see the exact thing when i close my eyes. i do know where everything was so i could draw how it looked like. is that the same thing?

I have just recently realized that I have Aphantasia, but I do have a question. Were you able to help her increase the non-visual aspect of memories such as smell and sound? I am a musician but I cannot hear elements of chords that I should be able to. If I do not say it in my head with my own voice then I cannot hear it. I am extremely interested in improving my mind's eye as well as my mind's ear's abilities and would love to know more! Thank you.

I was born with a learning disability. My visualization is 3/10. I can see, but it kinda blurry and Imperfect.

i use my emotions towards an object to think them up. when someone says think of the ocean, i think of happy and warmth and that usually send the signal of its good. when i hear murder, i feel sad and hurt and i know that its bad.. if that makes sense???

I have aphantasia but I'm a really visual person. I can describe what stuff looks like in a lot of detail, and I memorize what stuff looks like verbally/with internal dialogue.

Thank you for making this. I truly didn't know people could actually see pictures in their heads. I would usually do a motion with my hand when trying to remember a hard memory because I don't get pictures so a hand movement helps me with the visuals.

Okay so i've been doing that already many years and i hate it. I hate myself for that bcz i imagine bad things to others with my mind eye. I can't control it. So who doesn"t have that, is the most luckiest... How can i get rid of that? Otherwise i"m going to do something with me

Few minutes ago i didnt know you can see something in your head. Then i randomly klick on one video on RU-vid and it was about aphantasia and axcualy realized i have aphentesia. I have got Very emotional, beacuse i realized that i am not normal. That video really helped, so i want to tank you. You was my safe from depressions.

I've had this weird relationship with Aphantasia as I've only learned of the term recently. I sort of knew that I couldn't see things in my mind really at all, I wanted to and I'm stoked to know that there is an option to maybe achieve some form of clear mental visuals. Thank you for your knowledge, I appreciate and I wish you the best.

I know this is 2 years ago but can you plz get to me about doing this i need help to picture images

hey man I just wanna say thanks!! I don't have a question but rather I appreciate that u try to reply on every comment even though some comments are just repeats and some are irrelevant (btw sorry for my english)

I just found out today that I'm pretty sure I have this. I can't recall faces or dreams or picture anything when I close my eyes. I was trying to do a meditation where you are supposed to picture an apple and recall if it had imperfections and spin it with your mind. I tried and tried but the most that I got was that my black "screen" turned almost red. More like red/black swirl and I could kind of maybe get it into a red blob if I really tried but it was nothing like an apple. I can't draw to save my life. I don't remember faces and when I dream I have a feeling of who was in it with me but I can never actually see their faces. It is more like a blob in the shape of a body. Sometimes I don't see anything at all, I just intuitively know what was happening without any pictures.

Im almost 13 and I just realized that I have Aphantasia. I saw a video when a woman explained what it was. Then I asked a friend if he could see a apple in his mind, he said yes. Then I tried to but I couldn’t.

I have Aphantasia as well and being able to see when you close your eyes sounds like a wild concept. There was one time though i was just resting, eyes closed, and i really saw a little boat. It was so vivid and only lasted about 2 seconds so i know the possibility to visualize is within me but its been pitch black since, no matter how many videos i watch.

I can’t image anything in my mind does that mean I have it or is that normL

I'm a psychic medium and I'm Clairaudient, Clairsentient, Claircognizant, but not Clairvoyant because I have Aphantasia. If I can resolve my Aphantasia, I'll be Clairvoyant. I can't see my kids faces, husband's face or my mom's face in my mind. When I told my husband, he said, that's very sad. I didn't realize what I was missing until he said that. I can describe things vividly but have not been able to see it. I didn't know others can actually see things in their mind, now I feel broken. Help!

I feel like I am missing out on so much, I didn't even know this existed until recently! Do you think it has something to do with blocking of the third eye chakra? I really wish to understand more about Aphantasia and what worked for your family member? Hypnosis?

I'm not sure if I have aphantasia. I can still conceptualize. I heard some people describe it as your mind being a computer but the screen is black. For me it's more like the screen is very dim. I'm not sure if I can see colors (if I do its very washed out) and for some reason it's harder to try to visualize with my eyes closed. When my eyes are open its like I can kind of draw the shapes. I'm so confused

You're truly awesome! Thank you!

I want to try to develop this part of my mind, more than anything!

Just discovering I had this. Shit when I used to play basketball and they said visualize the shot I had no clue what they were talking about😂😂 glad to know I am not alone

I can’t see visuals but i can hear an inner monologue. I am very attracted to art and pretty / bright colors for some reason. When i draw something i do it by feeling i don’t see anything in my mind while im sketching something out. It’s weird and idk to explain it lol.

I have this! Would love to know how to develop my “mind’s eye”!

I'd say that I have part aphantasia. I'm pretty good at music production, and I can hear music in my head, but I can't visualize, no matter how hard my efforts have been for the last couple months. Maybe I just have a strength in one, and therefore a deficit in the other. Thanks for the video! :)

I admit that I am only four minutes in to the video and have paused it to write this comment but I shall watch the rest of it. However I want to pick up on a point that has been mentioned already that has an implication that is just plain wrong, or at least in my experience. I am a complete aphantasiac and I wish I was not. It is something that in the past couple of years I have become very interested in having identified that it was 'a thing'. The point I have issue with at the beginning of this video is that it is implied that not having a visual recall of anything somehow means that the person does not have an imagination and that is simply untrue. The speaker says that when the architect came round after heart surgery he no longer had an imagination because he could not see things in his minds eye. The notion is also repeated soon after in different words. I have a very active imagination and always have but I have always had 100% complete blank minds eye. I can conceptualise things and still imagine what they are without the need or ability to see them in my head. So imagination is not an issue at all what is a problem for me personally is that I wish when I close my eyes I could see my Dad again or picture my kids when they are not around etc. OK so now back to the film !!!

I just realized I have this, I thought everyone was like this. I wonder if this is why I can’t get hypnosis to work for me. Very interesting I’m going to dig some more on this. Really happy your relative had a breakthrough that is awesome. 2 days ago I had an actual scary image appear when I closed my eyes for. Moment and then it was gone but it was 1st image I’ve ever seen. Thanks for info

All I see when I close my eyes is darkness. I try so hard to visualize something but nothing ever appears. When I was younger and they told us to “imagine” to be something and close our eyes I couldn’t see a thing and that’s what I thought everyone saw. But a few days ago when I was half asleep I could see and hear things in my mind, it was like a half dream; Or lucid dreaming. I could see and hear things going on in the “dream” very strange but when I try to do it now and focus nothing appears... The most I’ve remember I ever saw was purple blobs and colors when listening to music.

when i read some of these comments i thought that being amphantasic meant that in irl you couldn't smell, taste, hear etc in irl i thought amphantasics were really suffering bad but now i realize that all that stuff was in the head not irl

Just wondering, have you found any link between aphantasia and extroversion or introversion, or between MBTI cognitive functions or Big 5 personality traits? I wonder if there is a correlation between any of these. If so, it might explain the processes going on and could be used to help someone who would like to start "visualizing" in a more specific way. For example: if you know their MBTI cognitive functions you might be able to develop specific techniques and processes tailored to that individual and their cognitive functions which could help them to learn to visualize better.

For anyone who’s reading this, you found my comment by luck. A tip you could use to cancel out and train yourself to see things when your eyes closed is by using a technique I use which is closing my eyes and shinning the phone flash light into my eyes while my eyes is closed for 2-3 minutes, remove the flashlight as your eyes remain closed I want you to focus on the colors you will see and red is one of them, it’ll turn into a image depending on how hard you focus, relax and focus

I recently discovered I have Aphantasia and had a long talk with my mom about it. It made so much sense why it was hard for me to learn in school. And why I thought having a photographic memory was a myth. (My dad, uncles, aunts and a few cousins have it). Also was hard to read book series like Harry Potter or the lord of the rings because I couldn’t imagine it, like it just didn’t make sense until I watched the movies.another reason why I’m terrified of going blind like my grandpa because up until I found out about Aphantasia I literally thought all he saw was black.

So I need your help, I have this condition and I feel like people only succeed from using their visions, I feel like I won’t get anywhere in life bc I can’t visualize, I looked it up on google and it says “you need to have a vision to succeed” “you need a vision to make ur dream become reality” “feel emotion in ur vision, take action from your vision” I’m in just here like 😟 what? So does that mean I won’t accomplish my dreams? If I go for it will it take a bit longer for me to achieve it then ppl who can vision? Will I even be something?

im not sure if i have aphantasia or not, with my eyes open i can visualize anything but obv im not seeing it im just visualizing it through thought if that makes sense. but when i close my eyes it is just black and i cant actually see what im thinking about but i can know what it looks like and everything about it

I've had success with candle meditation. It was very far away at first, once I noticed that I started "looking" farther away and it brought the candle to real size.

I have aphantasia but also have lucid dreams and can control a lot of my dream environment at will. Since it seems my brain will only allow one or the other but not both, I don't know what I would rather have...the ability to visualize at will or the ability to lucid dream? It seems like so many self-help strategies with promising results require visualization, which is so frustrating. However, lucid dreaming makes sleeping a great adventure! I wish I had the ability to do both. Is that too much to ask? Image streaming??? I'm in. Thanks for sharing!

I just realize that when I look at something bright and then I close my eyes I can see the image for a few seconds before it fades away.

Yah it bugs me too! It’s a miserable discovery that most people actually can. I feel like I’m missing out 100%

How long are the sessions 10min. 20m, 1 hr ? How many sessions a day? Each day or there are break days? 7 days, every nigh... how long are sessions?

So interesting! I’ve generally been aware that I didn’t have the visualisation skills others had but I have just learned about the term. Do you know about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? It evaluates how people perceive and judge the world. I think the two are connected. As in people with the same type according to the test are more likely to have aphantasia. Also, I do not think aphantasia limits the abilities of imagination. Maladaptive daydreaming is a condition that causes intense daydreaming that distracts a person from their real life. It is also an unknown term and has recently began to be taken seriously. The two people I know to have this condition also have aphantasia. Of course, this is just an idea and is not reliable (especially considering I am one of those 2 people) but I have indirectly put a lot of thought on the matter and wanted to share it nevertheless.

I am so confused as to what is meant by "not seeing black" do people actually see things when their eyes are closed? like vivid color? not just outlines and shapes?

I have the most vivid daydreams but can't visualize anything when i close my eyes

I don't have aphantasia, but am very low on the visual threshold... something someone once called Imagination Deficit Disorder. I completely rejected this, of course, and just focus on the tools I do have and they are powerful. I feel like this need to name every condition is giving a lot of people a crutch for a broken leg they don't even have or license to pine about something that probably wasn't a problem until the name made it go viral. What you're doing is great to help combat that effect.

So I’m confused is it imagining what something looks like or do you literally see it when you close your eyes?!?!?

Well, since I'm little I've never seen a picture without being in my dreams. I discovered this year that this was not normal, I had never questioned it. But only yesterday a friend of mine said that he also had the same condition, and commented on this tencinca image streaming, I hope I can try. I feel that a lot of what I lived could be better if I could imagine things if I could remember memories with pictures. Seriously, I'm astonished that this is possible. Well, thanks for the video. See you.

I'm able to visualize in my head, but idk if it's a normal way or not. I definitely do not have aphantasia, but my images when I close my eyes or have them open seem like they're in the middle of my brain or back of my head and they're not vividly colored but there is color. Ever since I was little when listening to music I visualized myself on stage playing the music, I can see skateboarding, wars etc. But it's not right up in my eyes. I'm confused on this cause some people are commenting on here and other videos that the images are right behind their eyelids and neon colored etc. Do I have like half aphantasia? Lol

This is amazing I just found out about this and I'm 36 I've never been able to visualize anything I thought my whole life that imagination was just an expression not real thank you for your insights into Aphantasia Also I would be willing to talk about my experience of life with no imagination

When I close my eyes it's blank but I see some vague colors. I don't know if it's just phosphene or closed eye hallucinations

I’ve been trying to work on this myself! I’d love to know how you “activated her minds vision” as I’ve been calling it!

I’m 13 and me and my friends were talking about lucid dreaming and how cool it is to imagine things and I was like when u guys close yours eyes and think of something do u see it and they were like yeah duh and I was like I see only black I can picture things a little bit it’s black and then we searched it up and now I’m sad because I am a person who loves to imagine things but in the real world

Hello. I have developed aphantasia a few months ago. It happened after a more or less insignificant injury. I got hit in the head, but it wasn't too strong, but now I cannot see anything. I had hyperphantasia before, but now I don't, but quite the opposite.

i only found out about this a year ago, never been able to visualise anything other than verbal descriptions, also never had a dream ive had the sensation of having a dream i know stuff happened i dont know what, plus side though ive never had a nightmare in my life at the age of 30.

I always knew something was off with my imagery but realized it just today i have this.

What were the exercises you used? Was it just the general technique of Image Streaming?

I still can't believe people CAN do that... I want to see things in my head I want to picture colors and shapes

I could visualise very well but 5 years ago after very close death of my partner (who had a heart attack in bed and couldn't be revived). The surrounding toxicity with his siblings created a massive divide between me and his daughters, and one of them died 9 months later aged 20. I did something to my brain and can no longer visualise. I cannot meditate and miss visualisation so much. I do dream but don't remember most of them 😢. This video is amazing and gives me so much hope 😊

In the video you mentioned you would link to the original video - can you post the link?

So, when i close my eyes i can only see black. But in the back of my mind I can “see” what i’m imagining. It depends on what I’m imagining though. I don’t know if this is aphantasia but i would like to know if it is or not... Thank you!

Hello thanks for that video Bro. The first time I realised I’ve aphantasia was in my childhood when I was told to imagine something. I was 5 and now I’m 27. I did a lot of practice to learn imagination for example I tried self-hypnosis, meditation or to imagine numbers and letters but nothing worked. I lost my hope since I even read that scientists estimate that if you’re born with aphantasia it’s not possible to change it. But I’ll definitely try your exercises out.

Did you help AmyRightMeow? She recently did a video on this and it sounds a lot like her

I am sure I have Aphantasia, I can never remember seeing a picture in my Minds Eye, I also never dream, many people have told me to write down what I remember when I wake up (bathroon break in the middle of the night) but I can never remember anything, just wondering if the 2 things are linked.

A while ago I thought nobody could visualise anything when they closed their eyes, but well I guess I was kind of alone about that

Over the years I've noticed while driving new sections of road in countryside. That I would listen to recordings of lectures, podcasts, or music although the images not really visible in my mind at the time. But later could be many years travel down some of those same roads and I hear that story or podcast again in my head. Sometimes it'll be so specific that I know exactly what portion of a song was playing while I drove that section of road.

I cannot see anything. I discovered this recently as I begin to try and meditate. I tried many different types of guided meditations but could never do it. Eventually, after many days/weeks/months of practice, I was able to quiet my mind, but never able to conjure up any images. The best I get is some swirling colors! I recently went to a healing hypnosis session that was a failure because it requires the use of mental imagery. I've been very frustrated because I could not do this. My 21 year old son says he can see entire movies when he closes his eyes! I think the reason I can't do this is because I had to grow up really fast. I had to be the adult in my house as a child. I had responsibilities no child should ever have had. I was not able to play pretend and be childlike from about second grade on. I wonder if this has any correlation? Thank you for sharing this video! I will be checking out the link and would love to hear any of your other tips or exercises you have found helpful! Thank you so much!

Thanks for the tips. Can't see anything visually when I am awake and close my eyes, but when dreaming I do. Weird.

This is me. Gah! I hope this image streaming technique can help!