Thread: How to improve visualization abilities?

Originally Posted by Johnny87

So when you close your eyes and think of something, do you see all black?
And then whatever youre thinking of might flash somewhat in your head for a second or two?

But you still only see black? I know thats how i am, im assuming other people actually see what theyre trying to
visualize in the black.

Ok good that you pointed it out. You are not supposed to visualize in the darkness infront of you, that's the back of your eyelids. Well you can actually use afterimages, or the little points of stars that you see, but that is much harder. So I wouldn't recommend starting out with that. So try this instead.
Close your eyes and focus the way you would do if you were trying to go to sleep, but at the same time try to "see" an apple with your mindseye, pineal gland what ever you prefer to call it. Ok try this and see if it works:

Sit up in a chair then try to go to sleep for 15 seconds, hopefully you won't fall asleep that fast ^-^ Then you just start imagining and thinking that you eat an apple, or something easier, that you have a good memory of, imagine yourself using your cellphone. Try to feel it, see it and perhaps hear it. But remember that clearing your mind as I descriebd before, makes this image even clearer and more vivid.

Something cool but dangerous that I used to do when I was a kid, when I was bored, was to close my eyes and pretend that I am blind. Then I would walk around the house carefully and imagine how things looked like instead of seeing it with my physical eyes. I even managed to walk down the stairs until my mom saw me and wondered what I was doing

This might sound weird, but you can actually visualize with your mindseye even when your physical eyes are open, you do that my directing your awareness to your mindseye rather than the physical eyes, so now I don't have to close my eyes in order to visualize if I want to do that exercise. In fact we do it all the time you are just not aware of it as much, I mean if you for example lost your keys you will try to remember were you put them last, and by then I promise you that you are visualizing each place you have visited. Or even if you think about a good movie to tell the friends about, you still visualize the memories you got from it.
Everyone knows how to visualize!

But I suggest you start out with what I mentioned above first if you doubt that you can do it consciously ^-^

Tell me how it goes!