How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
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How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
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Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#2Great post, I wish we had more of these types of pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga. I've heard of this one as both a way to induce lucid dreaming and as just a yoga meditation but this post does not seem to mention that some people say the best results are often had right before falling asleep.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#3Great post, I wish we had more of these types of pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga. I've heard of this one as both a way to induce lucid dreaming and as just a yoga meditation but this post does not seem to mention that some people say the best results are often had right before falling asleep.
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Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#4So, wait, are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there?
I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of the visual system at all - it's somewhere else in my head.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#5Great post, I wish we had more of these types of pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga. I've heard of this one as both a way to induce lucid dreaming and as just a yoga meditation but this post does not seem to mention that some people say the best results are often had right before falling asleep.
The images you see just before falling asleep are called hypnagogic images or hypnagogic hallucinations.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#6So, wait, are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there? I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of t…
I think it's normal to distinguish imagined pictures from real ones.
If you can't, that's schizophrenia.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#7Great post, I wish we had more of these types of pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga. I've heard of this one as both a way to induce lucid dreaming and as just a yoga meditation but this post does not seem to mention that some people say the best results are often had right before falling asleep.
Hypnagogic state is the only time I can see anything at all so can confirm I guess.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#8So, wait, are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there? I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of t…
Yes. I am like you in that I cannot actually see anything visual in my minds eye but I can still 'visualise' it. For example, I can rotate a die in my minds eye without actually seeing it. It's hard to explain.
It was a revelation when I found out that most people can actually see things visually in their minds eye.
A friend of mine can actually place imagined objects into their field of view, like AR.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#9So, wait, are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there? I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of t…
> are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there?
No.
>I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of the visual system at all - it's somewhere else in my head.
Yes. That's all it is. Although it does seem to be indirectly related to the visual system, likely whatever part of it lets people "see" things when they dream, despite not actually processing visual stimuli through the eyes. It's just dreaming while awake.
Re: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
#10So, wait, are people normally actually seeing images, with their eyes, when they imagine what something looks like? Like, the brown-blackness of the back of your eyelids gets replaced with something you actually see, like it's projected there? I can imagine what something looks like, and I guess I sort of 'see' it, but closing my eyes doesn't make it any more real. It doesn't seem to involve the eyes or any part of t…
I don’t even need to close my eyes and the images are fairly vivid. AR before AR.
I thought for a long time that’s how it was for everyone.
Anyone else have that?