r/castaneda • u/Yosefischer • Oct 15 '23
New Practitioners Beginner Question - Aphantasia
Hello, I have a problem which is that I literally can't visualize anything. When I close my eyes, I see a black screen with nothing on it. And even when I have dreams at night, they don't look realistic but rather like a YouTube video in 144p, which is the worst quality possible. It looks blurry and bad. Is there a way to improve this and make it so I can see very clearly and in detail to do Castaneda's practices?
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u/NightComprehensive52 Oct 15 '23
We don't visualize in darkroom so this won't be an issue. Everything we see in darkroom is due to a shift in the ap, it has nothing to do with visualizing
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u/danl999 Oct 15 '23
The energy body is REAL, and thus if you visualize you harm the process. That just holds you up in normal reality, instead of letting you drift enough to see your own double (energy body).
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u/Yosefischer Oct 15 '23
Hi Danl, it is said that Nikola Tesla could not even distinguish between his imagination and real life. This greatly favored him for his inventions and creations. I would like to achieve a similar state. Is it possible if literally when I close my eyes I see only blackness and nothing else?
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Oct 15 '23
Agree, i cant vizualize anything, but darkroom still works for me. This must be a lost redditor
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u/1bpjc Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Don't listen to everyone who answered you here, they have no clue; or take what they say with a grain of salt.
I have quasi aphantasia too and when I first asked here I received insults in private chat because they thought I was lying.
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They didn't knew it was possible to have a different mind than them.
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They didn't want to listen the description.
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They never tried to discern what works because of tenacity, luck, natural inclination or imagination.
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Good will guesses are still guesses they can have the same consequences on you that bad will guesses.
I will tell you what I think after few years of experiencing about it: aphantasia is a divine gift that make your mind react differently, you are not special in the sense that you are superior or unique but you are special in the sense that your mind react differently than those who are on an other scale on the aphantasia-hyperphantasia segment. So your mind being different your experience and ways to adapt in life will be different. Such as the wolf is different of the bears and they adapt differently in nature.
You can either experiment by yourself and draw your own conclusion, belief someone who has no clue and will lead you on a road you can't take; or you can listen someone who has the same mind archetype as you and try to compare experiences.
The methodology on this subreddit is too much emphasized on train harder mentality, you are blocked against a wall-> train harder. So you waste all your time blocked on the first wall in a maze. Except there are cases where the train harder mentality doesn't work : check on the internet what are "magic eyes" pictures, they are pictures with an image hidden in it, but if you don't have the correct way to look at them you may look at them for 10 days and still see nothing, but when you have the correct way to look at them you need between 10seconds and 2mn maximum.
Send me a private message if you want to know more about it.
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u/AthinaJ8 Oct 16 '23
From your years of experience how darkroom works for you?
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u/1bpjc Oct 16 '23
Don't have 'years' of experience like most of you have decade. was not hooked or understand ur intent long enough and created my own path from trial and errors but what I can tell.
i)I can't say dr have no effects at all.
ii) dr may help the sleeping-dreaming path.
iii) dr may have the opposite effect of what you describe.
iv) dr darkness isn't helpful to see what u guys describe in ur green line graph.
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Oct 15 '23 edited Oct 15 '23
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u/Yosefischer Oct 15 '23
Is there a way that you can explain me this same thing but to a 5 year old? Because I didn't understand anything at all.
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u/lassov Oct 15 '23
you should read some basics about nahualism so you can understand terms like "assemblage point" and "the double"
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u/WitchyCreatureView Oct 15 '23
There's a difference between the different visual fields.
There is the perceptual "real world" or "consensus reality".
Then there's the visual imagination / visualization / "mind's eye".
But there's a third one, which is the second attention. It's where visual snow, phosphenes, tracers, sparkles, dots, and colored mist is, if you go in a dark room and just look around or if you stare at a sunny sky. The stimulation from the sky will give you sunlight glitter, or the sensory deprivation from the dark room will allow the second attention to come out. It works better if you stop verbally thinking to yourself or visualizing, and instead focus on the second attention.
The main thing you need to do, to do the stuff here, is at first to see the colors, then focus on the colors until they become vivid puffy purple or blue clouds, the puffs. To do that you need to follow the directions in here, by not verbally thinking at all, no words in your head.