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Bleeping Lobster Sep 18, 2023

Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition?

https://lemmy.world/post/5269608

Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition? - Lemmy.world

10 years ago, I’d have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I’m interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn’t feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

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nullptr Sep 19, 2023

So not exactly the subject, but: when I am about to fall asleep/ extremely tired / just woke up, my «phantasia» ability gets multiplied like by an order of magnitude. I can literally picture any object in perfect details from any angle. It only lasts for about a minute tho, then it fades away, and it all becomes kinda boring and not that exceptionally good.

It’s like I have access to a new hardware acceleration for a minute

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n00b001 Sep 19, 2023

I have this!

And sometimes when I am in that mode, I can close my eyes and still see the room perfectly (including correct rotation/translation as I’m sat up in bed with my eyes closed and moving me head around like an idiot)

It’s great fun, I wish it could always be like this

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nednobbins

I used to do a lot of visualizing meditation. I can get myself to the point where I could imagine a different room all together (for meditation it was always the same fantasy “place” so that made it easier). When I was really into it I could change the perceived orientation of gravity. That is, when I was lying in bed I could sometimes compete the hallucination that I was standing in that “room”. That typically lasted only a few seconds but it was pretty wild.