short term: 1. focus on the particulars at first (short term memory is limited) 2. think in 3D (expand, distort images/shift POVs) 3. work with physical objects - *vocalise the visualised* long term: 4. gradual TRANSITION from physical to mental imagery 5. LOOK DEEP: explore, recognise, edit, expand 6. PRACTICE SPEED- time constraints, recall
Also tips on memory retention/space hack for limited short term memory: Make it simple. Do chunking, chunk things with patterns, declutter, pattern, and familiarize the stuff you're trying to visualize. Reading books but having it visualized also helps with visualization/mental image. Just visualize daily, and make it simple and fun!
I've been trying to pick up blindfold Chess for 3 months now and been going about it differently, using Pokemon images representing each square. Most of files a and e are water pokemon, b and f are mostly grass, c and g fire, d and h are pokemon that start with same letter, so there is a logic behind it to aid retrieval. Cutting the board into 4 quarters, Gen 1 pokemon on bottom left quarter (Q1), Gen 2 for Q2, Gen 3 for Q3, and Gen 4 for Q4. Bottom row of each Q are legendary Pokemon, and above it are the 3 starter Pokemon and their evolutions. Then I came up with 20 something stories linking all the pokemon for each diagonal. So far I can tell you if a square is black or white, what squares are diagonally connected, and of course what pokemon belongs to each square. I can memorize a sequence of moves in exact order but can't actively keep track of possible attacks or defending pieces, basically keeping track of where all the pieces are. So my method has it's limitations. Thanks for this video going to solve the final problems I'm having to making blindfold Chess a reality for me.
Pokemon VGC players do this all the time, you visualize what your opponent will do etc. Anything that has patterns attached you can visualize, even if is a closed system like chess,pokemon or music composition or an open one like mathematics,some arts etc.
One of the good exercises that I personally use is writing in my brain I just visualise words I hear and write down things that are important and I also wrote down math problems that are to solved mentally down in my head, this method of writing can help you with remembering things and learning new things like new languages, programming languages etc
Studied maths, started programming professionally, have aphantasia. I wish I could experience just a glimpse of what someone with a logical mind with great visualisation skills experiences. I tend to do a lot of work in my head, even compared to people who can visualise well, but when it comes to keeping track of things like chess pieces or shapes of graphs I'm hopeless :(
@@mayankgupt7237 I have aphantasia too! If I tell you to close your eyes and imagine an apple, an image of an apple will pop in your head, but people with aphantasia can't do that, or can only see an outline of the apple
I can't get enough of this. I read a book with a similar topic, and I couldn't get enough of it. "Unlocking the Brain's Full Potential" by Alexander Sterling
Another tip is to visualise as many of your senses into the image as you can. How does the object feel when your mental fingers touch it? Is it hot or cold? Is there a notable texture? What kind of sound does it make when you drop it on the mental floor? Does it have a distinct smell? Start small at first, 1 extra sense along side sight, then after some time try and incorporate more senses at once. You could also visualise yourself becoming the object and look at the emotions you feel as the object. What he said about talking about the visualisation is very important. That is pretty much the same as the technique known as image streaming. In image streaming, you record yourself talking about every single detail you see visually and how it changes, it can pretty much cure aphantasia if you rub your eyes to see the weird geometry we all see, or if you look at a candle light or a window and it stays in your vision after you close your eyes. Image streaming is known to rapidly improve visualisation.
friend do you have hyperphantasia or what? I literally can't imagine visuals in my head as I do have aphantasia, which is something I've already assumed (kind of), but I never thought you could imagine other senses as vividly as you're describing them 😭
I can very vividly imagine all senses excluding sight. During a day, I almost cannot imagine anything visual. I can see something before falling asleep, but it is very weak.
@@sure6981 i have hyperfantasia and honestly I think it's all a matter of practice, i was great visualizing smells and tastes but i didn't visualize it for a while and now i don't feel it as vividly as I used to lol
Years ago I red a book called "the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Janes, a psychologist who had worked with schizophrenics extensively, and had come to the conclusion that ancient humans were unable to consciously solve a problem, so their subconscious solved it for them, then hallucinated voices to tell them the solution (the voices of the gods). He used Odysseus and Abraham as his primary examples, noting that their lives were quite similar to schizophrenics--hearing voices telling them what to do. So when you suggest the visualization allows the subconscious access to your thought process and that it's very powerful, you're right--the subconscious has been solving problems much longer than the conscious mind.
Watching the whole video thinking that I would finally visualize things, and then I realized that I might have aphantasia. : aight bro: I recently wanted to multiply faster, and I can not see it in my head, so I have to "feel" that the numbers are there. The reason why I think I might have aphantasia is that when I close my eyes it is just black, maybe a glow or fractal like images here and there, but, just black. I read a comment that less visual stimulus in the environment would increase mental vision, but, even when my room is pitch black, I still can not see anything. Maybe I have it all wrong, and I do not have aphantasia, and honestly that would be great that if I can change those glows or fractals into images like chess boards and long mathematical problems. Have a good day, NotRealJohnny
When I close my eyes, it's all black as well. But I can kind of bring up familiar images "at the back of my head", sort of tucked away in my mind. This only seems to work for things I am familiar like faces, places, paintings, objects, etc. Unfortunately, these images are very unstable and not vivid, and I can't really organize these images well enough to create mental pictures from book descriptions, because they keep changing and flickering quickly.
I had a problem with my visualization but after the video i tried and it worked 😂❤️thanks and the way u said how the Brain can see in 3d really helped 😂 actually coz my brain already knows it exists appreciate u alot
*My imagination was top notch till i was 16, early 17* ... now im almost 19 and idk what has happed through these past months that i feel like i have sort of lost the power, the immense power i had over my visualisation and imagination.... now maybe i have stopped practicing it or maybe somehing physically differed that now i have to do it again...
hii ! I have hyperfantasia and i used to be great with smells and tastes, some time ago I stopped visualizing often and lost some of that skill too, i think it's just a matter of practice. i think you could practice easy exercises for each sense as you improve and be mindful of your senses. If you want to improve your sense of smell in visualization, pay attention to when you smell soap or food, for example. or maybe the smell of something very specific that will stick in your mind. associating an emotion with that sense is also great, i've never forgot the awful taste of some antibiotic i took as a kid because i was coughing like a smoker lmao. it's a terrible memory but i can still visualize it perfectly. this was a little big but i hope it helps, good luck!
About the short memory part.. Lets say you want to visualize a dodecahendron .What will your immediate natural way to visualize it? If you stick to a certain part of the shape you can construct the rest by association. The thing is very strong visual thinkers construct it almost immediately. I dunno i guess its like the rest of the shape just flows naturally without forcing it? I am a fairly good visual thinker but i need that flow.
Wt.f man this is such a great video, fyi what I learned is I can start with a 3 by 3 square and expand, rotate and play with it in my head. All these gurus can kiss my buns man. Please keep these gems coming- sincerely. Hopefully you have some knowledge on lucid dreaming? Would love to utilize the 7-8 hours too. I see that a lot of successful people do that too.
What is your advice for someone who cannot do this? Like when you say visualize the 9 dots - I've tried to do things like this my entire life and cannot, all I see is black no matter how long I close my eyes and try to visualize anything.
Do you close your eyes when visualizing? Also, my experience with funny fungi is that I am able to visualize at a heightened level with almost no effort. I’ve been able to draw abstract subjects like fluids and textures accurately from memory. Wild stuff since my visualizing techniques are nothing special. Maybe it creates access to memory and experiences that were always there but not easily recalled
Dude same man. I used psylocibin to quit weed and discovered I was able to mentally see birds eye view directions and could see things i had passed by again in front of me by recalling. So insane.
Is it just me or this guys voice is mesmerizing... Short term memory -focus on details - expand and think 3D - say what you think (don't try this in public) Long term visualization - think quickly "If your brain is slow it defeats the point , and the faster you can reason the faster you can reason"
This is unparalleled. I had the privilege of reading something similar, and it was truly unparalleled. "Unlocking the Brain's Full Potential" by Alexander Sterling
its hard to explain how i visualize things,it is as if i see nothing but at the same time the most vivid picture at the same time and i can only do that i if either move my point of view in 3d space or the picture moves in frames like an animation.If i do both at the same time,it gets more vivid but this makes it hard for me to visualize still images.I hope that this works for me as i already got the hard parts down, i just need to scale down the complexity!
So i can feel the thing, but i definitely cant see it. I can draw squares on the 3x3 dots but i don't really see it. Is this how it works? Or is it at least a start?
7:57. About wrong mental images. I've always had problem with drawing round objects like pool balls mentally. I've always imagined them having some king of a blade right at the center of it 🤣
If you are talking about video memory, where you see a video play out in your head, I can do that. Apparently other people can't for some reason, I just figured that anyone could do it. For example I can imagine a missile launcher launching a few missiles into a warship in space.
Yes, video memory or dynamic visualization is what I think I have, i can visualize mechanisms, processes, machines, manipulating designs like CAD, scenes from a movie, graphs, equations etc, my right frontal lobe is always hot.
It's funny that I sketched the map of a game I'd want to make and suddenly I got this great idea of visualizing the map of that 2D game in 3D and it was like 🤯 a no-brainer.
Actually 3 dimensions is arguably optimal for visualizing exactly 1 million dots, since 1M = 100^3. But that's a debate about whether you want to statically visualize 100 points along an edge or just 10 points and then integrate cyclically across a t-axis 10 units deep.
For short term, I have always tried to explain this but you did amazing. Perfect. I use the methods / developed them by unconsciusly figuring it out. My growing up led to that way of thinking being optimal. It is Fast. Best example is math. 4 * 4 Ez 16, no thinking. 12 * 17 is not as fast. I can solve it faster by imagining it than someone typing it in their calculator. I tend to say out loud. 10 170 20 14 34 204. which is (10*17)+( (2*10)+(2*7) ). the small numbers like that I know the answers without thinking so I see. 170 + ( 20+17) 20+17 is quickly turned to 34 but it is seen. leaving me 170 30 200 4 204. happens in seconds. hard to explain for me. but I have tried and I REALLY want my friends to train themselves to be able to do the short-term memory learning. It is extremely useful. The next thing is intuition. I can think 13*26 | 260 60 18 320 30 338 but sometimes I will skip a small step and forget something. It does not look right. I believe this is my sub-conscience knowing I have done this before and knowing the procedure and knowing I skipped a step. I tend to know if I miscount and when I don't check it tends to be right because I did not get that feeling. I know I can't consciously learn everything so I try to remember things vaguely under a sort of key like in python with dictionaries. these keys are concepts and not a literal value. when I think of these concepts I vaguely remember what I need for it and I can usually figure it out with that feeling. actively storing information in the sub-conscience. 7:36 I tend to explain things I learn to my friends/family, most of them it will go in one ear and out the other but explaining it to someone or just out loud to the void like a whack-o and imagining the topic in many ways while explaining it will most certainly help retain the information. Of course, explaining it a couple days later again and again is repetitive and will help you memorize it for long-term but I tend to not do that. I am not sure why. It may be because I don't see the benefit of doing it when I remember it anyway. Yea, the picture will be vague when I recall it from my sub-conscience when a topic reminds of it and I need that memory but with the clues and triggers identified I will piece together what it was and if not I can figure it out with the internet. The interwebs doesn't give me the answer on a silver platter but will give me a couple more reminding keys/clues which will "jog my memory" this last less than a minute of when I identify a topic and either remember it or look up a little to remember it and then I am already onto using that information I learned years ago into something currently being in need of a solution. Also, pardon my bad grammar/punctuation; I am not writing a formal letter XD TL;DR - I can do the short-term memory well and HIGHLY Recommend training your brain. Genuinely it makes tough things a LOT easier to learn and faster to do many thoughts.
I don't know about others but my imagination is so powerful that I can make a whole 3d realastic movie and watch it without really giving commands for them to something something specific I want (other than main character which is me lol). and I slip in state where Ifeel like I was for hours in story but only few minutes are passed and yes not only story while typing I also see thing letters and youtube website from my minds eye in 3d.
Acupuncturist of 30 years who can’t visualise for shit but excels at haptics. I palpate a problem area like a sonar scan to build up a 3D map showing its shape, resistance, attachments and most importantly - the way in that will allow you to pick it like a lock. All done while talking to clarify my own perceptions and/or explain to the patient. Similar?
i havent studied in high school much and now trying to learn how to code in a boot camp my brain keeps getting ideas and than it just goes blank before i can act and i dont know what i was thinking about i came across ur channel and i think you might have the answer and maybe you could help me (i wanna say fix but not fix u know?) with this
i was in total chess rage 5 mins before had a good game 41moves with +9 stockfish and then just all gone due to blunder before clicking this video i hope this video help(elo 1200)
Brother, I have a serious question. How is it possible that you see all the women have long hair, all the men have short hair, and all the cool guys that have a girlfriend have short hair, When you watch movies, you see that only the less popular and boring nerds have your type of haircut, and after analyzing what females find attractive on a man, you decide to wear a hairstyle similar to your 50-year-old mother. How is that possible? I am seriously curious because I have been addicted to the good feeling of having a fresh haircut and people telling me that my hair looks good since I was a kid. I don't understand why you don't care about your appearance. Can you please explain?
Interesting concern. The better you get at this imaginative visualization game, the more you can improve your creative performance in your field. Through this kind of cerebral preoccupation, you should be a model for young people without a compass and a map who will have a severe accident on life's journey.
Hey I want ur help, I, my mind sudenly transitioned to mental imagery/imagination even while someone is talking, I cant understand them without imagining what they are saying, this makes it ,ex: a if someone says "pen", i start imagining a pen.this makes it soooo slow...wtf what shud I do Colin??How can I revert back to text based understanding, its miserable for me.....shud i even revert back or try to improve my imagery....I dont know Im confused af!!!
Not sure if it would work but try imagining the word 'pen' rather than the image of a pen. Like if someone is speaking, try imagining subtitles of what he is speaking hovering over his head. Maybe then reverting back to text based understanding would be easier.
Good video, but it's too generic. I trained my ability to hold more things in my imaginary at once for about month (multiple times), but it doesn't do anything. You might think "train more", but then try yourself, you will understand what I mean. I think almost everyone have capability to imagine things in high details, but the problem is limit of our brain. This limit isn't physical, rather mental. Sometimes I can use my phone with closed eyes easily (I see through my eyelids), but It's only when I relaxed and my thoughts somewhere else. So, I doubt training mean anything, unless you have very bad imagination. The key is relaxation, you kinda switch to this vivid imagination state.
I wonder about visual thinkers; verbal/logic thinkers; and musical/mathematical thinkers. First you need to figure out what type are you. Obviously we are able to do all, but we are good at one.:D We can get better
There isn’t a lot of figuring out to do tbh … how did you do on tests in the past? Did you do better at math or reading comprehension subjects?. Arguably SAT is too easy but it’s a good place to start.
@@ABC-jq7ve Well, some people I know didn't even know there are visual thinkers. They see images and can remember maps well. Knowing some things helps a lot.
never cut your hair dude. I think theres where your power comes from, you have the ability to teach & have a dope brain . a lot of deities from different religion never cut their hairs. that's cool
