![]() ![]() You lose awareness of your sleeping environment and become fully submerged into a lucid dream. To an outside observer, say, your partner, or a scientist with an EEG, you now appear fast asleep.īut mentally, you are fully aware of an internal dreamworld evolving in high definition. This is the point where, still mentally conscious and aware, your body falls asleep. Interestingly, though they can't visualize, aphantasiacs can see hypnagogia when close to the dreamstate. This is a safe sound technology used in meditation which will silence your inner monologue and get you to a dreamy, hypnagogic state faster. If you have trouble finding your hypnagogia, I recommend listening to brainwave entrainment. Or maybe I'm seeing my brain's natural urge to continue developing imagery that is no longer present in the darkness.) Eventually, if I stay conscious for long enough while my body falls asleep, the images fall into order and create a dream scene - see stage three below. (It may be due to the continuous blood flow of my closed eyelids. There is something very fluid and continuous about images visualized using my natural hypnagogia. As I attend to more details (eg, the symmetrical patterns emanating from his nose) they too become something I literally see, with definitive shapes and outlines made from fluorescence.Īs I play with the image, or allow the image to evolve on its own, it can turn and move, or morph into something else completely. With focus, the tiger face becomes a vague fluorescent shape behind my closed eyelids. In this state I can make my visualization much more real. Other imagined sensations can also arise, including sounds and subtle movement. This triggers the hypnagogic state typically swirling lights and geometric patterns. When you relax your body and close your eyes, your brain takes the opportunity to lull you to sleep - especially if you are already very tired or REM deprived. People who have aphantasia have normal dreams - and are able to lucid dream - but not through the use of visualization techniques described here. What's fascinating to me is that around 1 in 50 people suffer from a complete absence of a mind's eye since birth. The more familiar you are with a target, the easier it is to recall.īy the way, this works with all the senses: sound (getting a song stuck in your head), aroma (what gravy smells like), taste (tomato soup) or feeling (touching Velcro). This type of visualization is simply the recollection of an imaginary stimulus while you're wide awake. Other examples include the flash visualization of your front door or the face of a loved one. Perhaps my eyeballs are moving as if I'm seeing the word. I'm not seeing the word written down - but it's the next best thing. Ask me to spell "deciduous" and I'll either look up or close my eyes to visualize the letters in order. I'm aware of what the tiger's face looks like, sometimes in exquisite detail, while technically seeing darkness. I don't literally see anything the image I'm trying to conjure (let's say, the face of a tiger) exists only in conceptual form. The first step of visualization is thinking of an image in your mind's eye. To my mind, there are three depths or levels of visualization: It really depends on the type of visualization and your level of waking consciousness. ![]() The answer to this question - can you really see it - is, yes, sometimes. The answer is probably going to create more confusion than the question, because it is very hard to explain what I see in my mind's eye, just as its hard to accurately convey the intensity of a dream.īecause it's such a subjective and internally generated experience, our language doesn't really have the descriptive power to effectively label these different levels of perceived reality. The most common question I hear is this: can you really see your front door in your mind's eye? Is it like looking at a photograph or TV screen? Is it real and solid? Does it move? Does it have color? Does it disappear when you stop thinking about it? RELATED: Cant Visualize? You May Have Aphantasia Visualization - Can You Really SEE It? It's the detail that makes visualization so powerful to lucid dreamers because the stronger the imagery, the more self aware you become within your internally generated environments. ![]() The longer you spend working on a visualization, the clearer it becomes. Either way, you've just accessed your mind's eye. Perhaps you didn't even need to close your eyes. You didn't literally see it but you got a strong visual sense of the shape and color and memorable details. Close your eyes and visually recall what the front door of your house looks like.Īll done? An image of your front door should have popped into your head. ![]()
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