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06-10-2005, 12:42 AM
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Visualizing Images In Your Head
Always been curious about this. People say "close your eyes and imagine" etc. But when I close my eyes I can imagine stuff, but I don't see anything. Like my friend today is telling me he can visualize in his head clear images, like peole's faces. When I close my eyes I just see blackness though, and even when I try to see something I can't. What about you guys? Thoughts on this subject?
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06-10-2005, 12:47 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
I don't have any profound insights, but I think you may find this book fascinating and/or pertinent:
Dreaming by the Book by Elaine Scarry I think her arguments about boundaries and reflective surfaces are pretty compelling. I haven't read the whole book though. There's some strange stuff about flowers later on, apparently.
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06-10-2005, 12:48 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
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Always been curious about this. People say "close your eyes and imagine" etc. But when I close my eyes I can imagine stuff, but I don't see anything. Like my friend today is telling me he can visualize in his head clear images, like peole's faces. When I close my eyes I just see blackness though, and even when I try to see something I can't. What about you guys? Thoughts on this subject? [/ QUOTE ] I think you are trying to "draw" the pictures or something as if they were in front of you. You should be able to "visualize" something as if it were in the location of your brain, and be able to do this with your eyes open. I am sure you already do this, but just don't realize it. (Does this make any sense? I'm kind of tired.)
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06-10-2005, 12:48 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
everyone has the own way of memorizing things. some people cant visualize too well. for me, i cant visualize well at all. i cant remember faces, but i can playback entire songs in my head and hear it exactly as its played on the radio.
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06-10-2005, 12:49 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
kind of, but not really. would be interested if you clarified it...
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06-10-2005, 12:57 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
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kind of, but not really. would be interested if you clarified it... [/ QUOTE ] I think your friend is unknowingly misleading you. You say when you "imagine" something you can't "see" it. This "imagining" is what your friend is talking about (I think). If I were to say the "ace of spades", you would immediately know what it looks like. But I think by trying to "visualize" it, you immediately lose focus by trying to see it with your eyes. (there is a 90% chance that I am completely wrong [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])
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06-10-2005, 01:01 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
Try focusing your imagination on the texture of the surface of the object that you're trying to visualize. Also, imagine the object against a background rather than in free space. That is a start anyway.
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06-10-2005, 01:01 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
yes you are wrong. again, many people can visualize things on different levels. everyone can visualize things but some are much better at it than others. some people can take an object and rotate it in any direction while constraining its proporitions and maintaining its colors and all detail of the object. i cant come close to that.
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06-10-2005, 01:37 AM
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Re: Visualizing Images In Your Head
thanks for the responses all, surprised more haven't psoted. this is an interesting topic IMO, just sucks i am so bad at it
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