![]() ![]() After a few months of daily practice, this technique affected me in two ways: Mr Neill invited a member of the audience to go up to the stage and started to explain and demonstrate a technique he called ‘ Image Streaming‘. ![]() Many hands when up-I wasn’t unusual after all! Image Streaming Several days in to the course one of the Lead Tutors, a man named Michael Neill, asked whether there was anyone in the audience who couldn’t see images in their mind’s eye. I had no comprehension of what it would be like. One of them, trying to be helpful said, with a hypnotic tone in his voice, “Imagine what it would be like … if you could see images in your mind.” After a few minutes, he gave up. When I insisted, I was told that everyone sees pictures in their heads. I mentioned to several of the assistant tutors that I couldn’t see images when I closed my eyes. Some of the techniques we were taught required us to close our eyes and make the images that we saw grow bigger or smaller, brighter or dimmer, and bring them closer to us or take them further away. The course was part of my regular personal development regimen. I didn’t go because I thought I had aphantasia (the term hadn’t even been invented then). Ten to fifteen years after leaving college I happened to attend an eight day training course in London, England. Now, since practicing this technique, I regularly experience and recall strong, vivid dreams. It’s also interesting that I was never able to recall dreams. Now, after practicing the technique that I’m about to share with you, I can. I have no idea whether I would have been diagnosed with aphantasia, or whether what I went on to be taught is a cure.Īll I know is that I was never able to see images in my mind’s eye. I’ve only recently heard the term ‘aphantasia.’ It is a neurological condition in which a person is unable to recall memories as pictures or create images in their imagination. What I definitely could not see was any sort of shape, color or image. That’s as much as I can tell you about what I could see unless I had my eyes open and was actually looking at something real. If I turned away, the inside of my eyelids would become darker. If I stood in front of a bright light with my eyes closed, I could see that the inside of my eyelids were a lighter brown/red. If I closed my eyes and tried to visualize, say, an elephant, this is my best shot at showing you what it looked like:Ĭan you see the elephant? No, nor could I.Īll I could see was the back of my eyelids, with the reddy/brown color coming from what little light passed through them. When I closed my eyes, all I could see was a reddy/brown, fuzzy nothingness. I could not imagine what that would be like. They could preplan their photo-shoots and improve their compositions just by closing their eyes and imagining what the photo might look like. That, or I would fetch a sketchbook & pencils and begin drawing my ideas on paper.įrustratingly, many people at college told me they could see and manipulate bright, clear images in their “Mind’s Eye”. I had to physically stand in front of my subject and actually move things. Due to random luck, that changed.īefore I learned the technique that I’m about to share with you, experimenting with photographic composition was a manual task. When I closed my eyes, all I’d see was black nothingness. Until I was about 30, I could not see images in my head.
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