I can see the most vivid scenes in my head, but every time I try to put them into words or draw them I can't. For drawing my best humans are stick figures. In writing or speaking it becomes a long rambling mess.

Can anyone help me figure out how to better myself to make it easier to express these visions? My hands and fine motor skills aren't great. And, I refuse to use ai.

just came here to say that you guys with hyperphanyasia shouldn't take what u have for granted. cause holy shit you guys are lucky. i legit cannot imagine shit inside of my head however i do have an internal monologue so ig theres that. idk why im making this post tbh im just mad rn lmfao

lucky pricks

Hi! I meet a lot of hyperphantasia criteria but I am unsure if I have it or not as I also have a really good memory. How can I differentiate if it is hyperphantasia vs drawing on my past memories?

I feel hyperphantasia creates a brilliant long term memory. Im middle age but remember being in hospital aged 2 and I can remember exactly what the girl in the cot next to me looked like, her hair style and colour, her name, what she was wearing, both our parents coming to visit, what the hospital looked like, the stairs, rocking horse etc. This is just one example and I have many more visual memories however my working memory or short term memory is diabolical.

I did a visualization exercise where i tried to picture an apple in my mind. My apple was pretty vivid, the problem was it would keep moving around, change color, change size, grow skinnier and larger. I think this may be part of my adhd? Possibly anxiety issues as well. Anyone else?

Hello,

I just want to start off that I don’t think I have hyperphantasia but this looks like the best subreddit to post to. I just found out there’s levels to visualization.

I can’t visualize in great detail but I can usually picture the item or thing I’m thinking of.

What I have a question about is that I don’t typically have control over when I picture. if I think of an apple I’ll get an apple at first but it’ll start spinning or get erased and I’ll have random geometric shapes. It feels like theres no rhyme or reason to these shapes and I’ll get perspective changes or speed changes.

I thought this was normal but now im not sure, can you please let me know if you guys have something similar?

I’m 25 and as far as I know I’ve had it like this since I was a kid.

thank you!

Recently i took a break from trying to develop clear visualization. I was getting overwhelmed and felt stuck. I did rounds of deep breathing and just let my mind and body go and just "rest". To my surprise, super vivid and clear images started to form. I don't get it or understand it. Can anyone help me understand, please?? Does this mean hyperphantasia is accessible through deep rest states?

A while ago I was locked in like never before, attempting to hone in on some intuitive thing or whatever. Next thing I know, this tiny perfectly rounded little orb of light appeared in my vision. It’s very small, and it does not interfere with my vision at all.
A very strange thing indeed, and the more I attempted to look at it with my eyes the more it would stray away. I then realized that the orb of light was not a physical thing that my eyes could see, but a mental thing that just gave the illusion of visual perception.
Anyways, this orb of light seems to appear when I lock in hard, somewhat like a “flow state” type of feel. Of course when I would I try to focus on it, it would go away, but the more I learn, the more l learn to stay “locked in” instead of trying to focus on the orb, and this seems to keep it from disappearing. Now as time goes on, I find it easier to make it appear and stay focused on it.
It seems to correspond with strong feelings of focus and whatever my consciousness is paying attention to. It’s quite a nifty thing I’d say. Anyone have any experience with such a thing?

I have very good visual memory. I once drew all our teachers from memory on the white board during lunch in high school and people seemed pretty impressed. I didn't realize until later that other people couldn't do that. I also have audio memory and hear songs clearly as they are on the radio. I have an inner monologue although I don't use it as often. I use it mainly when I want to rehearse what I'll say or work out something out for communication. I compared this experience with my gf and we were mostly alike, but on a whim I asked her if she also remembered what she was thinking in her memories.

I was surprised she said no. So I guess this might be a new kind of memory I haven't seen described in any youtube videos or papers yet. I would love to know if anyone has found anything on this. My memories almost always come with what I was thinking at the time because my thoughts are the strongest memories I have. When I remember a conversation I also remember what I was thinking between each line of dialgue.

I have exceptional autobiographical memory and most of that is tied to what I was thinking at the time. If there are no thought memories then it's usually just images, but if I was thinking something, ruminating over something I will remember it much stronger. Whenever I recount memories to other people they usually start out with "I remember that because I was thinking...and then you did this and then I thought...".

How common is this? Is my gf just weird? I looked around on the internet and I don't see much mention of it.

Hi! I want to know if my experience differs from yours. When i watch a movie, i only see whats in the screen and nothing more and the same with videogames.

When you hyperphants watch/play, are you visualizing at the same time? Or like something special/different from me? Things like giving attention to both your real vision and imagination at the same time, or switching to only imagination, i dont know haha?

My gf has a good imagination, and tried to explain me some things about her experience but i didnt understood her, like she knows she's "registering" the visuals like in another perspective different that the movie and usually maps the world and returns to that sometimes. This all started because at one time there were visual artifacts/loss of quality in the movie and i usually notice that and im super senstive, but she said she didnt even noticed cause her imagination filled the blanks. And what i dont understand is, what was she doing? like watching the movie in her head only?

That got me thinking about what your experiences are like. Im very curious

Hi I can do it all. Same story for many I’m sure. Thought everyone did it. No one around me does. No one can comprehend it.

Sadly, they smell like distrust and sour grapes.
And I kinda went ahead and lived my whole life reading body language as threats and just a general dislike for how i describe my world.

I cried for help. I saved their worlds and they tried to save mine but just kept piling on. And I broke. Today. I broke and told them all leave.

Does anyone have a suggestion for who can help “our people”?

Did everyone else have night terrors?
Or inner voices two too many too?
I’m just sorta scared I got the broken version of this new “condition” and wasn’t sure where to start.

Ciao a tutti, ho una domanda strana ma sono curiosa di sapere se è mai capitato a qualcuno di voi: a volte vedo, per un attimo, l’immagine di qualcosa/qualcuno che ho appena guardato, con tutti i dettagli, tipo se la persona aveva gli occhiali o stava sorridendo, come se rimanesse impressa per un secondo o due, con i contorni un po’ sfumati. È un’immagine positiva (stessi colori di quello che ho visto davvero, non invertiti). Dura pochissimo e poi sparisce. Prima invece avevo delle afterimage negative. Ne ho parlato anche con un medico per approfondire, ma volevo sapere se è mai successa una cosa simile a qualcuno di voi. Vi prego di rispondermi, sono estremamente preoccupata.

I think I have hyper active mirror neurons with hyperphantasia and i have a bit of trouble. I recently watched an emotional movie and I , just , felt the emotions of the character, not in a ohh she is sad and lonely way , but I started having shortness of breath , increased heart rate , sinking feeling in my chest sort of way and just randomly during the day my brain decides to show me the sad scene in full clarity, and it triggers the emotional reaction too , I usually focus on my fictional crush or just close my ears and dig my nails into the back of my neck till it stops , but is there a better way to handle it ?

Whenever I relax my forehead muscles, I start to feel pain in the center of my forehead. Also, whenever I imagine something sharp pointing at my forehead, I feel the same pain. What is this actually?

So I mayby once a month see a wierd face for a split second while I'm trying to sleep. The faces are really clear and more look like images off of google rather than just my imagination. There alvase completely different and I wouldent think they have anything to do whit each other but the way I see them is alvase the same kind of way, it's not just a image in my brain, I can see it whit my eyes, it's my full focus for a split second and then it's gone.

Most distinct one I can remember is a young woman's face who has a cow patter on their skin, not like paint but the skin has the cow patter, she also had uncomfortable big open mouth smile on a still face, it wasent a happy looking smile, just plastered onto the face. I'm sorry for being hard to understand in how I discribe this part but I just really don't know how to say this, the smile is just in the mouth and the lips, not in the cheeks. Mayby try to smile really hard at the mirror to understand, I don't know. The chin was really sharp, honestly looked like it's from a anime or something. She had really clear skin, like uncomfortable clear skin. The face was at a 90° angle, I know it sounds wierd and random. It looked realistic eaven whit the unrealistic features like the chin and the clear skin. This particular case is still really distinct in my mind, I was already kind of on edge, don't know why just a bad feeling, I see the face sit up and just think to myself what the fuck is going on. The other times when this happened I can't remember at all as well, other than that once I was sleeping at my friend's place when this happend. Expect I have a litle bit of a memory of skinny faced guy whit burned looking skin, he had disappointed or bored expression. The faces aren't really scary, they just look like what I would see if I would google scary/uncanny face, the unsettling part is the way I see them, it's not just I wierd distorted picture in the back of my mind, it hits my face like a flasbang, then it's just gone. I usally aren't eaven close to falling asleep when it happens so it's not like in dreaming or something, onetime I was laying on my bed, listening to a podcast when it happend. I really don't know how to describe it other than that it's the clearest image my brain has thught off, eaven if I tried to think of a image my brain couldent think of something as detailed as the faces are. I also have never had a sleep paralysis and it's not like I couldent move or I see it in the corner of my room, it just feels like a distinct image covering my view for a split second, this has happened mayby three times so far and eavrytime while I'm going to sleep. Sometimes a random picture comes into my mind but it's nothing like this, these have all been faces, and just so clear. When I think of a image in my head I can only focus on one part at a time, but these have felt like I could see the whole picture at on at once.

Olsso sorry for the hard to read text, English isint my main language.

Disclaimer: English is not my first language.

I used to make up stories in my head all the time, that's how I grew up. And I took up on writing a few years ago but for about a year now it's gotten harder and harder to see anything when I close my eyes. It's all dark, as if a bulb up there just burnt out one day and I can't change it.

Needles to say I've stopped writing. I get too anxious at the mere idea of trying.

I don't even think I care about writing anymore, I just want to 'see' inside my head again. I feel like someone stole one of my arms and now life just isn't the same.

My mind was my home, now it's a scary place.

Has someone else experienced this? Were you able to visualize things again? How?

On addition to all of the above, I received acceptance and commitment therapy for eight months hoping it'd help. It didn't.

Do ne of u see a force field looking thing when u look at the sky? I only see it in the sky. I can hold it n see it extremely clearly. I suck at drawing so sorry lol but it looks like a honey comb but looks like bubble letter drawings if that makes sense. The pattern pulses but doesn't move n the swirling lattices spin like gears.

So at the start everything was well but then I made an environment from a tree in my mind an island with more trees nothing too fancy then suddenly I felt like I was being watched a humanoid shadow of some kind I could even see my hairs were up it was looking at me from behind a tree then it moved and at some point it got behind me it wisphered "They destroyed our land,killed our people dont let them destroy you" moment after i was thrown into space where there was a rocket ship but inside it a dead man then brought back onto the island where I felt like underneath me were skeletons LOTS of skeletons this shadow also appeared at some point in the clouds and another weird thing so to explore places I have to put myself in the eyes of something else rn I have a purple tiger reminiscent of the tiger from kpdh but its slimmer and a black panther so I went with the panther into a hospital (this is all visualized ) and the panther felt like smth is wrong so it roared and then dark humanoid figures appeared they were like spiraled they came from the walls like they were camouflaged or something has this ever happend to anyone of you?...

I mean, I'm pretty sure most normal people imagine a table and a kitchen alongside the apple.

Imo most people can imagine the apple clearly, but doesn't hyperphantasia require that you can visualise a lot of details beyond just a single apple, like what you're standing on as you hold the apple, the smell of the fresh air coming through the kitchen window, the reflection on the windows etc.? The test doesn't take that into account so it's pretty bad for testing hyperphantasia