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.

edit informative comment from @Gwaer@lemm.ee about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn’t giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

  • AdaAEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yep, exactly.

    I kind of have an inner voice, in so far as I can choose to think of words in a sentence, or I can “translate” the concepts in my mind in to words in real time, but those words have no auditory components. I can’t “hear” them anymore than you can “see” an apple in your mind. I just know that it’s there

    • Loki@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      (not OP) I’m curious, are you not able to “play back” songs in your head then, for example? This is such a foreign idea to me - sometimes there are melodies playing in my head without me even initiating it, in a way. I’m wondering if there are people this doesn’t happen to.

      • AdaA
        1·
        1 year ago

        Sort of? I can imagine the timing, and stick my mental word ideas in the appropriate place, but I can’t hear them. There is no audio quality to them.

        And I know the don’t behind it. I know how it goes. I just can’t access it.

        But I often hum or don’t out loud, and that’s where tunes get “stuck”

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t the brain an incredible organ. It creates a rich inner world despite the difficulties we may have with the way our senses connect to it.