For those of you who are having trouble with this exercise, I think some people are looking to produce images that sit on the inside of your eyelids like a movie screen.. I can do that but can't sustain it just yet.. only flickers that disappear when I try to look at it.. but visualization via imagination is different and easy... it's just like day dreaming.. there is no actual image on your eyeball but you can "see" quite clearly in your mind.. it's like accessing an old memory.. when you think of a moment in time as a child, maybe at a park or at school or whatever, any moment in time you remember clearly.. when you think of that moment and replay the moment, what you're experiencing or "seeing" is your image... so remember a time in which you ate an apple... do you remember how it looked? how it felt? how it tasted? where were you? what were you wearing? remember eating that apple as if you were eating it now... remember what it looked like as you picked it up, wherever you were... maybe you were at the breakfast table, or on a school bus, or in the grocery store stealing.. remember the moment you held that apple up, just before you took a bite.. remember how the smell rose up to your nose as you opened your mouth to bite it.. slow that moment down and freeze it... just remember it like a screenshot from a movie you took with your cell phone... zoom in on the apple in your memory... you already remember what it looks like.. just remember it's surface, the light bouncing off it's skin, the size and heft of it.. now focus on the apple so that the rest of the memory fades away... no worries about what you were wearing or who was nearby.. all you remember is that apple from that particular day... do you still remember it? do you REMEMBER what it looked like?? if you do, congratulations.. you just visualized yourself an apple! the key to visualization is to not worry about what you think you're SUPPOSED to be seeing with your eyes and just IMAGINE using real life experiences, places, objects and people... imagination incorporates any technique the brain can find to communicate with itself.. whether that way is by actual images being seen on the backs of your eyelids, or by a memory or a daydream, it doesn't really matter at all... just let your mind speak to you the way it feels most comfortable.. if all you do is close your eyes and see black but you can remember what an apple looks like, that's your visualization... don't compare your way to the ways of others cuz you'll never be satisfied with the outcome, always doubting it's authenticity.. just accept that your brain will show you what it needs to in the ways that it needs to.. nothing is "wrong" with you, you are perfection! 😍😘💕
A tip I read was to practice with your eyes open, looking outward without moving your eyes and just paying attention to the scene what's on the left of your periphery, the right, but to specifically not focus on anything in particular, just a blank stare. This is beneficial to those who can conjure images ,but those images disappear as instantly as they appeared, a possible explanation is that you literally moved your eyeballs to look at it and focus on it, and there is sufficient enough sensory detail on the inside of your eyelids to pull you out of your imagination and back to the external imagery of the inside of your eye lid. If you instead make sure to not move your eyes and focus on conjured imagery you may be able to sustain that imagery for longer duration.
Christopher Wanha Thank you SO MUCH! That's exactly how I did it when I was a very young child, I used to visualise and "daydream" a LOT and I remember it so so vividly! And nowadays I can't do it at all, after I turned like 13 it just "went away." My aunt told me it was because I was growing up and my third eye was closing.... 😕 (I might add, I'm on the autism spectrum and I was going through trauma and depression at that time and I was developing dissociative disorder, so that COULD be why!) Thank you SO much for reminding me of this simple but genius technique!!! Maybe I can get back into it with some practise! 😃👍 *Thanks for sharing your knowledge!*
I tried all of this. I'm laying beside my partner right now, and without looking at him, I don't know how he looks like. It's called aphantasia. Do you have any other ways that I can maybe practice? It would really help, and thank you 🤗
So.... This isn't how to visualize if you can't visualize. This is "If you can't visualize things, I'm going to request you to visualize things." It seems like this is a little like asking someone with no left arm to just go ahead and raise your left hand in the air anyway.
No man, don't give up so easily..do accept the challenge. Any thing you get is much better than nothing. I can't visualize, that why I came to this page. To be encouraged somehow, ok?
Hmm, I didn't think so, not when he's distinguished between visualizing in the sense of literally seeing the apply in imagination, and seeing it in concepts. When I tried it, I wasn't seeing it in imagination, but easily enough conceived it, and this had the "feel" of seeing in imagination - had I seen it in imagination, I'd have given the same answers, and felt the same; close enough for me. Similarly, when trying to "see" in imagination various "images" for us in the art of memory, I find that there, too, it works just fine to *intend* to see it, even if in imagination I"m drawing a blank. Anyway, that's how it works and seems to me.
This worked well for me. red stem no room crisp on table tart. But no sight. Just thought. Its the verbs we need to learn and use. Working on details helps the most. Thanks!
Rubbish, your title of the video is "if you can't visualise" and you are asking the color and taste of the apple listen, everything is just black that's why I watched your video
Hi, i recommend you take an a test for Aphantasia. It might clear up any questions you have about not being ale to visualize or in general just see black.
This video was very helpful to me. I’m the same way I only see black but I was able to imagine the image of an apple. The goal was not to “see” the apple but imagine it. Maybe you need more practice and change your attitude towards it.
I have aphantasia & none of my senses work while trying to imagine something. I just KNOW. I dont know if since i was born this way or had brain damage from overdosing on flouride pills when i was a young child if i can gain the ability to imagine with my senses internally. The only thing i noticed is u telling me to think about an apple made my mouth water.
Thank you for this video! I'd like to add... If everyone could just take a step outside themselves for a moment…When we were children, we had no inhibitions. We just did stuff. Experienced things. Wanted something, so we found a way to get it or do it… As adults we create in our heads all sorts of walls, blocks and things that would prevent us from getting what we want. Stop doing that! Stop being mean and nasty to yourself and go get what you want… Feel good no matter what! You will being is all that matters… You have that you get everything else. Why beat yourself up?! Literally ask yourself why am I beating myself up? There's enough people out there to do that for you knock it off! There's enough people out there trying to prevent you from getting what you want there's enough people out there beating you up there's enough people out there trying to tear you down and take you off your path… Don't allow that! Go get what you want; simply do it without harming anybody or anything in nature. This planet provides everything you came here for and more! Think about it, feel it in your gut try to imagine what it would feel like to have what you want and allow it to come. You need to allow yourself to receive! When you get up in the morning nothing negative has happened yet… Don't allow things to filter in and ruin your day your hour your moment. You're in charge, you're in control and you decide if you feel good or not… Not anybody else. They don't get to do that for you. You're not theirs, you are yours! Don't have the attitude I will never, I can't, I won't, or anything like that. Everything is right there for you. The fact that you say well I can't have that, is the initial problem with you not having… You all know what it would feel like to be $1 million in debt don't you you know what it feels like to be $1000 and that you know what feels like to owe somebody 10 bucks and you don't have it… well if you know what it feels like to be in debt or to want that car that you don't have or that house, flip those thoughts around… Try to see yourself in that house...why not? ..you feel miserable. Why don't you feel good instead?! Teach yourself to feel good all the time-screw it! Look misery in its eyes and smile and say I'm gonna turn you into everything that I want and everything that I came here for. Get up in the morning or the afternoon or the evening and do everything and anything you could possibly do to bring happiness into your life if it's playing cards with yourself play cards with yourself, if it's going for a bike ride or a walk or dropping to the floor and doing some sit ups if you think about it, Do it… Keeping in mind to not harm anything in nature. We don't need to be harmful creatures to get what we want… Train your brain don't allow your brain to train you! We used to be told that as human beings we have the most powerful computer in our heads, the human brain. We need to start using our brains again. We were given the ability to create. We are as human beings wondrous creators...look at what we've done with this planet… It was a ball of trees dirt rocks minerals- we didn't get here as humans and have buildings and roads and cars and schools, And we certainly didn't have theme parks with roller coasters and waterslides… We even created things like birthdays and such for kids to enjoy. We domesticated animals so we could have a friend when we can't find another human being to partner with. We've invented and develop things like the camera and the motion picture camera & the digital camera in your phone ..I didn't grow up with that. Everything we think about all day brings us what that is. You may as well think about everything you crave, desire, need! You came here because you have desires… And it certainly wasn't to be miserable. OK done have a great day thanks for reading… Just before I go, my dad used to tell me I was gonna wish my life away… So I stopped wishing and now I wish I hadn't. Don't stop dreaming don't stop wishing wanting and imagining! Love to all peace to all happiness to all
Most people can't visualize well because they never actually see objects in exact detail in the first place. So they get a fuzzy object when they look into their memory. Practice by looking at an actual object intently for a couple minutes, noting every detail, then close your eyes and try to recreate it in your mind's eye. Do this multiple times. Practice this every day, and your visualization/memory recall will dramatically improve.
it was a pink lady apple with a stem with no leaves. It was room temperature, sitting on a blue plate on a purple table with the the light of a cloudy day shining through the window onto it. Thanks for walking us through this. I don't so much see nothing.. I just can't usually make up my mind which image to commit to. I tend to often feel bombarded with possibilities and start feeling anxious.
I have no voluntary sensory recall, the new term for it is Aphantasia. It was affirming that I was able to create an apple in my mind and answer these questions. I do still wish I could experience visualization, but being able to recognize that my imagination is still real is very helpful.
aphantasia is new to me,I never really knew about it,I would be so confused when people say "close your eyes and imagine a rainbow" or something and all I see are white circles,but the thing is I can still see things when I dream,like I can actually see a rainbow if I'm dreaming,it's really confusing and weird but oh well
Green, so stem, no leaves, on the kitchen counter. Very helpful, no picture, but appreciate noticing the detail, my mouth even watered at the thought of the taste.
I used to be very good in visualisation, very vivid, but do to a few traumatic experiences in my youth, I, unconsciously shut it down, probably a defense mechanism, I can feel, but see nothing. I really want to regain that ability. I hope this will work..
Good lord. You are the first person I have found to actually address the HOW TO of visualization. Thanks so much (I only see black too, so this is such a great find).
It was a beautiful red apple with a stem and no leaves. As I reached out to pick it up, it was chilly to my touch, crispy on a bite and sweet as I tasted it. This is beautiful
I feel like I can have very vivid dreams and daydreams. But when told to visualize on command I cant do it. And I don’t know what visualizing something is supposed to look like, so I can’t tell if I’m doing it right..
i have aphantasia so, no visual apple for me, but anyway: the invisible apple is blue. it is shaped like a red delicious apple. it has a stem, and one leaf like the apple logo. it is ice cold to the touch (i mean duh, it's blue) and has a mealy texture (it's a red delicious, after all) I can even taste it. bland. it is floating in space. well, it could be on a table, but alas it is not; it's just floating in an infinite field of black.
Thanks for that exercise. My apple was green, no stem, cold, in my hand, it was smooth, and tasted crisp; yum. Could not see it at all; just black screen. My Reiki instructor says it is very important to visualize so this will help. The instructor said I can see - just is blocked.
Thank you, when you said don't visualize. I started to see the shape, it was red no leaves, a stem red, room temperature, on a table and it started to roll off and it fell off the table, it make the crunching sound, when it fell off. That felt so real.
watery dew drops on a bright red apple, with a brown stem and single flag like green leaf at the top. It was floating in space. imma train my visuals to become more vivid thank you
it was red , had a stem 1 leaf, room temp.crisp, on a wooden table, i paused the video and tried it again . everything was the same ,but this time it was more of a feeling instead of an image. cool technique thanks .
It worked for me. I saw an apple floating in space dark red with a stem, no leaves crisp and tart and room temperature, I could smell it too. I think people get confused because they think visualization uses the eyes. It doesn’t. It uses the vision center in the back of the head. If they close their eyes it is dark and they are seeing the back of their eye lids. When we see, the light that enters our eyes and turns into electrical signals that travel down our optic nerve to the vision center of our brain, which is in total darkness, and yet we see. So if people try to visualize using the back of their head it’s sometimes easier and you can learn to do it with your eyes closed or open. It just takes practice
I first saw 3 apples, green yellow and red. Then I chose to focus my attention on the red apple, with a stem and one green leaf. It was on a white porcelain saucer. My apple had a hard texture. It was room temperature winter cold. It tasted sweet and juicy. Its smell was subtly sweet. I enjoyed your guidance. Thanks.
It was strange, actually. I couldn't visualize the apple while my eyes were closed. But I could do it quickly with my eyes open. I could see that it's red, with one leaf on its stem, and I could feel its crispness like I was biting it. It was not very clear to me though if it's cold or not. But definitely not hot or warm.
Red stem with one leaf on the right ,it was outside air temp. It was not completely hard and crisp but it wasnt to mealy. It was on the ground near a tree.
My apple was green and sitting in space. I imagined it would taste crisp and had no leaves...room temp and actually had a little bruise on it. It was sitting in space...just darkness surrounding it. Thank you for the exercise. Growing up in Detroit makes it difficult for me to imagine a forest or even a river bank. I joined the Marines at 18 years old and traveled the world but I still can't imagine the outdoors well because I'm not an outdoor person. Wishing I could imagine a better place while my ex husband continues to stalk me, breaking into my home, stealing and destroying my property including security cameras. He's even purchased a WIFI jammer so that I haven't been able to catch him on camera and take it to court in order to prove he's violated the terms of the protection order. I really need to feel better and I awaken each day positive and listening to law of attraction videos but he has something else that he's stolen or destroyed to distract me from the good feeling I work to achieve. If you have any ideas please share them. Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions that may help me to visualize a better place while I'm being stalked and made to feel unsafe.
Red apple with stem without leaves. Room temperature, sweet taste but not too much. Was neither too hard nor too soft. I was sitting on it and we were floating in the space
Apparently most people can. I'm definitely not one of them and that's because I live with a condition called "aphantasia". You might want to look it up you don't know about it ^_-
Apple: green, cut in half sitting on a vinyl record label. You can see a stem, the seeds and it's spinning on a turntable. I hear . . .Baby you can drive my car . . . Beatles! Then I imagined a real green apple, it had no stem, but there were little white spots leading down the little funnel where the stem used to be, and some brown too. I reach out my hand and feel the hardness, I take a bite and my salivary glands start working. It snaps, it is crisp and a little cold :) It's delicious! Thanks, that was great.
He's using conceptual ideas to build on a simple concept. Anything you can describe verbally can be substituted for visualization. He keeps adding more concepts verbally. I have aphantasia so I rely on conceptual and aural thought processes for my imagination. Look up Temple Grandin, an author who has Aspergers, who categorizes thought processes into visual, conceptual, and aural.
thank you! as someone with aphantasia this was wonderful. i have been watching "visualization for people who can't visualize" videos all morning but they're all full of shit lol. I thought you were too when you described your ability to visualize as "poor" rather than "nonexistant", but this "technique" of side-stepping visualization is pretty brilliant.
