peculiar difficulty in visualisation

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I can imagine the things you describe, yes.

At first I wasn't sure I could; but thankfully, yes I can!

I'm the same. Objects either vanish or completely change in my visualization. They float away. Dance or hover, but never stay put.

I have this problem sometimes.

I don't know what causes it. One thing I've done for descriptive writing is visualizing a scene in 3D. I can rotate the scene, zoom in on specific parts, zoom out for a larger overview, pause it, play it, rewind, fast forward, etc.

And then with the next thing I try to visualize I can't hold everything in its place. I don't know why I can do it sometimes and not others.

Same here.

Whoa, wait a minute here. What's this stuff going on about 4D? I want four D's too.

i get very irritated with fiction for that reason. i can't imagine the scenes.

interesting you would mention meditation - my shrink helps me to use visualisation in therapy sessions. she gets me to call images to mind that describe how different ideas and situations make me feel. it's a great hybrid for me. i can't imagine objects clearly, and i don't havea good vocabulary for emotions, but this method gives me a whole new way to express my feelings. i don't force the images.... they just arrive.


i think i DO know what you mean, just sort of allowing the image to exist peripherally or vaguely without staring at it in your minds'-eye. i shall have to try it.


i tend to also think i am also an auditory/verbal person. many of my strongest memories are of sounds/songs/voices/conversations. i don't know if i know anything about geometry, which probably means that... i don't know it lol.

i find places by address, not by landmarks (on the bus or foot - i don't drive). it's a big joke in my family that i find the most boring, commonly traveled stretch of road completely fascinating because i never remember i've already seen it 50 times.




lucky. JWS and doppercb, can you imagine elaborate scenes, even?

doppercb, your avatar always makes me feel like i have a bug on my screen. LOL


hallelujah! i like the phrasing that they dance or hover.

Yes, I can. I have a very visual mind in that the majority of my thoughts are solely visual. I can see full, complex scenes in my head.

that is an interesting question. i definitely have more trouble at some times than others, but i do not know the pattern.


you're not special enough. maybe it can be cultivated?

that would be awesome.

I've always thought that it's impossible to imagine a 4D shape. We're confined to 3D space, any sort of fourth dimension blows my mind.

I am imagining a magazine on a table and then the wind comes and its pages start turning so I imagine a heavy object on top of it to keep it in place and all of a sudden I feel like the magazine feels squished in b/w the table and the heavy object.

I am imagining a person on a chair and the person is restless or doesn't want to stay so they run away.

No. When I think of a person in a chair, I visualize neither the person nor the chair. I don't think in pictures.

yeah that is something like me. like the objects and people have volition.


how do you imagine? smells? sounds? mixture?

Same here. I don't really visualize things. I can *think of* a person in a chair, but no picture comes to mind, and if I *really* try, it is very lacking in detail but I can verbally describe how it *would* look. I'm a *very* verbal/auditory person, bad with directions, shapes, geometry, maps, and spatial relations.

~Kate

Wow, I've never thought about anything like this one. Yes, I can visualize them, but it seems like they want to move around, do their own thing.. so the scene won't stay like it is for long.. they do seem to have a tendency to want to float around.. maybe because they aren't in a room or any sort of 'grounded space'.. but if the items were all contained in some sort of timeless bubble then yeah, they would do nothing forever (timelessly)

That is quite a good question.

As far as specifics, what they all look like, not immediately, but I could come up with something.. I've always been good at coming up with 'reasons' for things.. stories, history, logic, whatever you want to call it.. it could even be a compulsion