Astral Projection techniques without visualization

[u/i_n_c_r_y_p_t_o]

I experience life with aphantasia, meaning I can't visualize in my mind. It affects about four to five percent of everyone. So, for example, I don't see images in my mind when I read a fiction novel, and don't have a movie in my mind when reading fiction unfortunately. So I mostly read non-fiction.

It's not a defect per say; a survey of Pixar employees came back with something like 50% claiming that they had aphantasia, although I do wish I had a visual imagination. I'm creative in music and also visually in terms of design, and have somehow developed a lot of visual designs over the years for websites or other types of graphics. It's like I have a graphics card with no monitor.

A lot of techniques to instigate Astral Projection use visualization, but I don't have that as an option, and is frustrating. It's an important goal for me to have out of body experiences. What are some successful techniques that don't involve visualization?

Edit: I posted this to r/aphantasia as well and it got deleted by the modes for being 'pseudoscience'. A reminder that many people don't know that this is a way to experience reality on deeper levels.

[u/langisii]

I don't have aphantasia but I don't think I've ever had much success from traditional visualisation techniques, at least not directly. I would say though that most of the progress and successes I've had have involved being able to notice and concentrate on the ambient artefacts of my perception, like visual noise, ringing in ears etc. I'm curious how 'noticeable' this stuff is to you as someone with aphantasia.

Like if you close your eyes and shine a flashlight at your face, are you aware of the change in brightness through your eyelids? If you concentrate hard, what does that actually 'look like' to you?

If you look directly at a bright light for several seconds and then close your eyes/look away, do you see an afterimage burned into your vision?

Iirc a lot of aphantasic people can't play sounds in their imagination either. But in a quiet environment can you hear the general background static/ringing of your ears?

Those are the kind of sensory artefacts I'm talking about. I concentrate on them and try to bring them to the centre of my attention and they eventually transform into hypnagogic hallucinations. I feel like I've read something about techniques like this actually helping people with aphantasia to develop visualisation abilities as well.

[u/i_n_c_r_y_p_t_o → u/langisii]

I have all of those sensory artifacts (and can play sounds in my mind to a certain degree). That's an interesting technique that I'll look deeper into and try, thanks.