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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
So I just found out today that I may have aphantasia. When I did this exercise I could not see anything and could only think about these attributes. The question I have is when non-aphantasia people see the apple, are they learning information from the image? Do they determine whether the apple has a stem from the image and not from deciding it has one? I honestly didn't know if the apple had a stem or not and felt like I was just assigning attributes randomly to create the profile of this apple, but I never saw a manifestation of the apple.
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
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..
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..
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
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.
Is it possible that visualisation skills improve very slowly ? Becouse i have been practising 3 months and my progres was a litte bit or nonthing so i stopped. I started again and i am afraid that i have something like biological barrier.
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.
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.
dark red almost like wine colours, crisp and juice it was floating in black space but when u mentioned table it was right o top of a table. but it was hard to keep an still "image" of the same apple in focus
It was a crisp red apple with one green leaf coming out of the top next to the stem. It was cold to the touch. It was on the table of my old house in Pennsylvania.
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 .
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.
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 can't visualize but I can imagine. I do believe it depends on how eyes located and on what part of the brain u concentrate. People who can't visually see something do still have dreams and can comprehend world around. Some just stare at the closed eye lids or forehead and concentrate on eyes instead of the empty space in the mind that's why they can't actually see the image. And when we get older it's harder to teach urself or believe urself. I didn't know people can actually see when they say I imagine and thought it's a figure of speech. Now I'm learning. It's not easy.
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.
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).
Red apple Had a stem with no leaves Couldn't touch it but it looked crunchy and juicy It was on a white plate on a white table in a green garden I am impressed I thought I had aphantasia
Apple was red. On a table in the kitchen. Had a stem. Sometimes had a leaf, but mostly didn't. Firm and room-temperature cool. Deliciously sweet and crisp, though the mushy sensation/image keeps slipping in. Hmm, visualizing the sensations other than/along with vision... Good technique... I'll try this.
It was a red apple, sitting with other apples on display at the grocery store. It had no leaf, with a stem, I reckon it was crunchy soft at room temperature.
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
My apple was a nice bright green, it had stem and, get this, 10 leaves attached! It was room temperature but quite firm and crisp, and when I let it go it just floated in front of my face. That was some wild shit, thanks!
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.
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.
could not see anything, I just picked traits at random out of the options given - red, no stem, no leaves, room temperature, crisp, floating with nothing around it. Sadly, I don't feel this exercise helped me.
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.
My mind is, pitch black, pitch black, pitch black. There, that's my apple
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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! 😍😘💕
Mallorie Erin i can vizualize correctly but i have some focus trouble
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.
Hey Mallorie Erin
Thanks a lot for the advice and putting in your effort to help others
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.
Exactly. Frustrating.
Lloyd Metcalf
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?
I interpreted it different, like if you could see an apple, which colour would you LIKE the apple to be.
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!
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Red, stem, leaf, room temperature, crisp, and in black space.
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So simple but so effective. Well done, Josh.
I find it very hard to imagine even you called “imagine an apple”
Me too
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
This is good. Thank you.
This comment might as well change my life. Thank you for taking your time to write this.
Wow. ❤
Fell asleep while watching this video and woke up 5 hours later in the morning :s
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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.
My Apple is green crisp tart sour juicy
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.
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.
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.
Red, stem, one leaf, room temp, crisp, and on a kitchen counter! This helped! Thank you!
How can I imagine any of this without seeing it? Its just picking random answers. I could do this ten times and pick a different scenario every time.
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.
Very helpful video! Thank you! I was able to imagine and see an image for the first time.
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
Green apple, crisp& juicy, stem, no leaf, sitting on a table.....Thanks Josh....this was helpful
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.
So I just found out today that I may have aphantasia. When I did this exercise I could not see anything and could only think about these attributes. The question I have is when non-aphantasia people see the apple, are they learning information from the image? Do they determine whether the apple has a stem from the image and not from deciding it has one? I honestly didn't know if the apple had a stem or not and felt like I was just assigning attributes randomly to create the profile of this apple, but I never saw a manifestation of the apple.
Red/Yellow (Honey Crisp), No Stem, No Leaves, Cold, Straight out of Fridge. Crisp taste.. Great video that helped
I used to be able to visualize so good when i was younger..but now i can't as good
My apple was red, with a stem, no leaves, cold, hard, crisp, sitting on a table. Thank you.
red and green, stem, one lead, on a table, cold, crisp and tart .
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
Exact same thing for me
Greate exercise..nice suit
green with stem crisp and crunchy sitting in dark space but vivid becoz of colour.Thanks imagining helped a lot. cheers
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..
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..
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i am a feeling person. how do i use this to follow along with visual meditation or NLP?
I only see it blurry (not blurry) but not clear and it is dull, this has helped me thanks!
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
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.
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Is it possible that visualisation skills improve very slowly ? Becouse i have been practising 3 months and my progres was a litte bit or nonthing so i stopped. I started again and i am afraid that i have something like biological barrier.
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.
Red apple wot a hit of brown on it, a stem with one leaf on it, crisp and juicy, floating in black space! Thank you, this was really helpful!!
Green apple with no leave, just static in space, crispy and juicy. Thanks Josh
When I visualized stuff i realize that I’m just imagining it and it goes away help
Red, stem, no leaves, on a table, crisp, cool but not cold. Thanks Tellman!
I do have Aphantasia and for me the title sounds like "How do i cook if i cant cook"
Floating in space, red streaks, crisp, room temperature, stem, no leaves, sweet.
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.
dark red almost like wine colours, crisp and juice it was floating in black space but when u mentioned table it was right o top of a table. but it was hard to keep an still "image" of the same apple in focus
It was a crisp red apple with one green leaf coming out of the top next to the stem. It was cold to the touch. It was on the table of my old house in Pennsylvania.
Amazing. That's work to visualize my mind
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 .
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.
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
How does this apply to past life regression? Can you still have a successful past life regression if you can't see anything?
Thank You. ❤️🍀
in a basket with all other red apples. this has a stem with a leaf, fresh from the farm, very crispy and tasty
Nice, simple yet informative.. merci.
red, stem, no leaves, cold/nothing/ bland and crispy/ hard/ in a black void floating.
Green, no stem, no leaves, floating, crisp, cool, juicy, and thanks for giving me an insight
My apple is also green with a stem no leaves. It's floating and its hard a cold with a crisp wet tasted
Red color apple and stem with single leaf on a table and it was chill and I feel cool in a bit
I had a red apple, it had a stem with no leaf. It was room temperature, hard, crunchy and juicy. It was on a plate on a table
Thank you so so much!♥️
Red, stem, cold, crisp, floating in space.
I can't visualize but I can imagine. I do believe it depends on how eyes located and on what part of the brain u concentrate. People who can't visually see something do still have dreams and can comprehend world around. Some just stare at the closed eye lids or forehead and concentrate on eyes instead of the empty space in the mind that's why they can't actually see the image. And when we get older it's harder to teach urself or believe urself. I didn't know people can actually see when they say I imagine and thought it's a figure of speech. Now I'm learning. It's not easy.
Me: **trying to imagine something**
Also me: tf why do I just see a long red bar
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red and green shades, no stem or leaves, its room temp. lovely juicy, crisp and succulent.
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.
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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).
Red apple
Had a stem with no leaves
Couldn't touch it but it looked crunchy and juicy
It was on a white plate on a white table in a green garden
I am impressed I thought I had aphantasia
red, stem, no leaf, cold, Crisp and Juicy, hard, floating.
Apple was red. On a table in the kitchen. Had a stem. Sometimes had a leaf, but mostly didn't. Firm and room-temperature cool. Deliciously sweet and crisp, though the mushy sensation/image keeps slipping in. Hmm, visualizing the sensations other than/along with vision... Good technique... I'll try this.
Was red, with stem, no leaf and was room temperature very juicy and was on the counter. This the first time. Thank you 🙏
Red. One leaf. Hard and crispy. Floating around
Apple was a cold, crisp red delicous with no stem but bumps on thr bottom and it was stacked up other apples at the grocery storr.
That was very helpful, I saw a green apple it was room temperature, and very crisp
Green apple, no stem, no leaves, cold and crispy, floating in space
Red, stem, no leaves, table, cold, crisp… then the color lightened a bit & it was a delicious Pink Lady!
It was a red apple, sitting with other apples on display at the grocery store. It had no leaf, with a stem, I reckon it was crunchy soft at room temperature.
green apple; stem with no leaf; room temp; crisp and juicy; sitting on kitchen counter
Thank you for this video.
Thank you!!!
green apple, cold and crisp. no stem on a table and floating in space
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
Red
Has a stem
No leaves
Room temperature
In a white background
Is it possible to manifest anything by visualising with your open eyes? because I can visualise everything with open eyes only.
My apple was a nice bright green, it had stem and, get this, 10 leaves attached! It was room temperature but quite firm and crisp, and when I let it go it just floated in front of my face. That was some wild shit, thanks!
Red, stem, 1 leaf, hard, cold, crisp and juicy, and just existing in space.
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, no leave, 1 stem, cold, crunchy and moist, on a checkered table cloth midday
Thank You.
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.
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Velvet red, dried stem, no leaves, chill as metal, crispy, on table plank.
I was asked to "see" this apple, no one said anything about leaves haha! THNX!
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.
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Red crisp juicy cold apple floating in black space while rotating counter clockwise, a stem with no leaves
The Apple was in a space with stem without leaves red in colour. To taste it was juicy and crispy.
could not see anything, I just picked traits at random out of the options given - red, no stem, no leaves, room temperature, crisp, floating with nothing around it.
Sadly, I don't feel this exercise helped me.
thank you . great
a yellow Apple with a stem and no leave. Which is room temperature and is also crisp when bit
So I saw black mostly but I found myself going back to a subtle visual memory of me eating a green apple from the fridge
Green stem white backround crisp
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.
Green, no stem, crisp, cold