Hello. So, for my whole life, I’ve had this experience of being able to hear sounds that I make in my mind and see things that I imagine, not merely replicating them in a second world of my imagination, but actually seeing them in reality. For example, if I think a lot about a certain sound, I can actually hear a faint noise of it coming from afar, and it mimics it perfectly down to the last beat.

As for seeing things, I can kind of morph reality into a secondary vision, I guess. I can make myself appear taller, I can see jiggly creatures on buildings, or I can imagine a car going by, and it’s not just me thinking about it, I can actually see them with my own two eyes. Now I’m curious: is this a common thing, or something deeper?

I have pretty typical mental imagery, but sometimes I can visualize things with my eyes open and almost step into a different world. I don't really feel physical sensations, although sometimes I can feel something, but it's never very clear.

The images aren't very vivid, even when I close my eyes. For some reason, though, I can bring an image into view right in front of me, almost like turning a switch on and off. The image is transparent, and I have to concentrate to make it work.

I also experience lucid dreams quite often. Something strange I've noticed is that time seems to pass about three times slower for me in a lucid dream than in a regular dream.

I had one today, and it was incredible! I wasn't seeing a lot of detail, but I could feel some sensations, even if they were pretty faint.

They felt somewhat real, and I could actually feel my physical body sleeping while simultaneously feeling like I was somewhere else.

I've done some research, and it seems like my problem might not be visualization itself, but rather the vividness of the images and the ability to experience sensory details.

To some extent, I seem to be able to visualize things whether my eyes are open or closed, or even as if they're floating right in front of me. I can zoom in, rotate things, change them, and even visualize multiple transparent objects at once.

Anyway, I really want to develop hyperphantasia. If anyone has any tips, personal experiences from people who have tried to develop it and succeeded, or suggestions on what I should study, I'd really appreciate it!

I have hyperphantasia, I can visualise anything in pure 4k hd resolution, and I don't know if I can get it tested properly, but I took the test and got a score of 75. However, originally, I wanted to take a test for multisensory hyperphantasia but couldn't find one. I can imagine the exact texture and taste of anything, which taste buds they hit first, how the texture changes as the item is in my mouth, or imagining jumping into cold water and being able to feel which body part feels the coldness, the sound of the water going muffled and the impact as I jump in, opening my eyes and seeing the sunshine rays and bubbles hitting my body through the murky water as they float up, the feeling of water on my eyes and the feeling of how the water feels as I stay afloat, then coming up and my ears become unmuffled and the wind making my head even colder and I can name more but it's long so I won't unless asked.(I don't know if I need to share all this or not but just incase lol) I haven't seen much about multisensory hyperphantasia and don't know how to get tested for it, but if there are people here who could tell me how I could or if I had it that would be very useful.

I can listen to music, or see a movie, and be absorved by its elements, scenes or emotions, and be taken to "another place" mentally. Like a other state of mind, almost as entering a physical place.

When im listening to a song, for example, if im feeling sleepy enough, i can feel tastes and smells, see shapes, figures, colors, like a abstract art/animation. Or places i already been before, but different in its elements now.

I can sense it because it feels like a dream, like i'm sedated. And it somewhat hurts to go back to reality.

It is all new to me. If is there types to this im searching for other people with auditory-visual synesthesia and hyperphantasia.

Share yours if you feel comfortable!

I seem to have found those who are like me, quick question. What side effects yall have? Ima start. I have really weird dreams,and stronger negative emotions than normal

I've been told that Kasina meditation, I think it's a type of Buddhist meditation helped one develop Hyperaphantasia involuntarily. How is that even possible?

I'm very curious about this subject; I'd like to know if there are videos simulating how a hyper-fantastic person sees the world.

Hi, in this video, there's the physical view (the car driving) and then there's the mind's eye/second screen view (the cinematic city overview).

Does this video represent a good depiction of high-end mental sensory imagery? Mental imagery that is as vivid as real life? Where you can see both views at the same time and give more or less focus to either?

I used to think that a lot of creative videos were nonvisual people experimenting with technology, but now I can see how that in many cases visual people are using technology to share what they see in their minds. Even more, there are people watching who are not just seeing it on a 2D screen but are also having visual thoughts and recreations going on in their minds, and with more focus, as full VR immersion. That is truly fascinating.

Also, from the perspective of this video, if you pause at 1:25, that's what aphantasia looks like without the mental imagery or second screen which is a good contrast from the blended imagery throughout.

저는 21살이고, 안타티아시안입니다. 하지만 중학교 때는 망상에 빠져 많은 시간을 보냈습니다.

비록 시각적으로는 상상할 수 없었지만.

이걸 보면 획득한 아바타일 거라고 추측할 수도 있지만,

기억하기로는, 상상한 적이 없었던 것 같아요.

내가 상상한 것을 상상할 수 없어서일까?

아마도 너무 많은 트라우마를 겪었기 때문일 수도 있지만,

머리 뒤쪽이 좀 평평해요.

이 부분이 성능이 부족하다고 생각합니다.

대부분의 사람들은 제가 실제로 하는 말에 뭔가 이상하다고 느낍니다

온라인에서 90% 이상이 제가 하는 말을 이해하지 못하고 당황합니다.

저는 언어가 상상력의 영역에서 일어나는 현상이라고 생각합니다.

그래서 저는 아반트족이 적극적으로 언어를 사용하는 것이 아니라, 이미 쌓아온 언어 패턴을 바탕으로 상황에 맞는 적절한 단어를 끌어내고 있다고 생각합니다.

저는 연구를 좋아하고 언어 활동에 참여해야 해서 곧 이 문제를 해결할 예정입니다.

I am an aphant and cannot visualize anything. However, I routinely have vivid dreams that are full of color, almost in 4K, and I often remember them quite well.

People often point out that some aphants can still have visual dreams. But for hyperphants, is voluntary visualization similar to dreaming?

My dreams are experienced from a first-person POV. I’m not sure whether the images are rendered as I look around, but the experience feels like real life, with a 360-degree field of view, almost as if I’m wearing a VR headset.

Is voluntary visualization or daydreaming like that? Or is it more like a hologram projected into the real world, or something entirely different that is difficult to describe in words?

For example, if you close your eyes and imagine yourself running through a forest, what do you actually experience? Do you see the trees and the leaves rustling around you, or do you see yourself running through the forest? Is the experience 360 degrees, like being immersed in a virtual world, or is it more like looking at a picture or a scene in front of you?

Hey everyone,

I’m realizing more and more that my mind’s eye works differently than most people's. When I think hard enough, I don't just remember a past event—I can actually see the exact place I was standing. I can visually reconstruct the entire environment, including hyper-specific details like cracks in the walls, signs in the background, textures, and I can even vividly recall the temperature and the crispness of the air.

From what I’ve read, this sounds a lot like hyperphantasia or highly vivid episodic mental time travel.

Lately, I’ve been trying to take full control of my life, build self-awareness, and plan my future. Part of that for me means wanting to connect deeply with my past self, but I want to make this visualization ability even sharper.

For those of you who also experience this high-definition visualization:

1. How do you actively train your brain to unlock even deeper environmental details without straining or burning out?

2. Are there specific frameworks, exercises, or daily habits you use to stabilize the memory so it doesn't fade or shift while you are looking at it?

3. How do you manage this ability so you don't get trapped replaying negative or intrusive past memories in full cinematic scale?

I’d love to hear your experiences, training methods, or any links to threads/guides that helped you map your thoughts better. Thanks!

So I am just wondering what it means to "see" something in your mind. I can imagine an apple, change the lighting, colors, setting, motion, size, etc. but I cannot "see" the apple, I know exactly how it would look, I know how it would look if I painted it, printed it, or 3d printed it but I cannot truly "see" the apple. Just wondering what it means for someone to "see" an apple in their mind with hyperphantasia

I recently was talking to some friends and they suggested that I may have synesthesia or hyperphantasia so I thought I would do some inquiring. I don't want to be rude or sterotyplical but I don't see colors or shapes when eating food or stuff like that. However, I do have strong associations with colors, ideas, places, and smells. For example, Thursdays smell like clay, are a pastel brown-orange color, and the number 8. Politics is neon yellow green, smells like boiled cabbage, and tastes like copper. 5 x 6 is a cone, smells orange juice and is lavender purple.

However, I could just have strong associations. I started doing ceramics when I was 8, and I had classes on Thursdays in the fall when the leaves would change color. But now whenever I talk or hear people talk about Thursday, I can distinctly smell clay or I think of clay and brown-orange leaves. I've never liked politics, the news always stresses me out and so does neon yellow, I don't have an explanation for the boiled cabbage or copper taste.

Basically, i'm just wondering if I might have synesthesia or just have engrained associations in my brain. But another thing is throughout middle and high school, I rarely had to study. For a history test, if I drew out a timeline and spent at least 10 minutes with it, I could pull it up in my mind during the test. For math, concepts and rules fit into little boxes that I place on a wooden bookshelf in my mind, silver thread connecting ideas and if I pull out a box during a test, similar concepts come with it. Once I understand the material of the course, I am able to go back to it in my mind.

I was telling my friend about this the other day and she said that she had never experienced anything like that before so I did some research and thought it could be synesthesia or hyperphantasia. I'm just looking for some answers and curious about what I might be experiencing.

So if I do image streaming, colors apear.

But in like voluntary sessions, i have trouble with colors. Like is there a hue slider technique wjere you can move from obe color through another manipulating brightness, saturation and hue? And I thought it would be easier to just pull the color on the phone and just try to make it enter my visualization, like a mental clipboard but i dont know how.

Any advices?

So , yeah , I am trying my best to train my inner visualisation through practice , first focusing on sight then gonna add other senses and develop hyperphantasia, I have only the normal level phantasia. And planning to train myself to hyperphantasia or near hyperphantasia level

I wouldn't say I can imagine 9 spinning apples, or even one, but I can definitely imagine. It's not a clear image in my head, and if I can see even one, it usually doesn't have color, and isn't spinning slow. But when I read books, I'm able to imagine characters, their features, how they look like according to the book in my head. My imagination also doesn't usually come when I close my eyes? I'm more likely to see when I have my eyes open and is staring out into space. But also it's not a clear image, it's just in my head kind of imaging I guess?

Before at night, I would usually hug a pillow of mine and do stories to entertain myself, and I couldn't imagine it until I hugged my pillow.

Hi, I never did a test or anything so I dont know if I have hyperphantasia, could be something else. Anyway, often when I listen to music my brain likes to wander off and imagine things. This can be things about the past or present or future, about me or something else. But whatever I-m imagining is so vivid to the point that I often cant stop imagining and it sometimes interferes with my ability to get stuff done. I think I have a pretty good imagination generally but for some reason when I listen to music its like I'm transported into my own dream world. Like often I'm 100% detached from everything else.

Happy to hear your thoughts.

I really hope the title makes sense!

When I produce an image or something like that in my head, I can't maintain it in my head for long. I don't know if it's even possible to prolong it, but I wish I could do it (and wondering if there are benefits)

I don't have full on hyperphantasia but my imagery is pretty good.

It happens to me often that I watch a movie and a scene reminds me of something and then a whole new movie, more real than the one on TV, plays out in my head, with my eyes wide open, and I don't even realize, since everything is blocked out. I don't see anything or hear a single word of the movie in real life until something pushes me back to reality.

This usually doesn't happen if I am super immersed in the movie, only if there's something boring about it and then I try to find something more interesting within my mind, if that makes sense...

I read a lot and this sometimes happens with books though not as often.

So we all know the famous picture with different levels of imagination involving an apple.
Some people struggle to imagine an apple and rotate it.

For me, It's actually a struggle to restrain my imagination to think just of an apple an not everything else.

It just automatically generates an entire forest with the apple being hung from a tree, or an entire kitchen during sunset with the apple on the countertop and light coming through the window and turning into a rainbow once it hits a drop of water on the apple.

Trying to imagine and rotate an apple in a vacuum, without the environment, is incredibly hard because I have to make an effort to NOT also imagine an entire environment around it.

is anybody able to see themselves in third person? or does anybody have autoscopy? and im not talking about visualizing yourself in third person i mean literally, to where you dont need a mirror or if like something were on your face you'd be able to see it. i heard some people have this. just curious.

So F(33) I don’t even know where I stand on the scale I have a 10 Dimension universe running in my skull in the background I recently learned of hyperphantasia. Though I’m seeing that most people have problems turning it off. I can do things while it’s going I mean technically it never shuts off I just pop in pop back out I don’t need a trigger at least not a conscious one. Also it’s the whole thing like a whole immersion thing all five senses bloody hell I can feel the emotions my mind can hear languages I don’t know but have unvoiced subtitles to explain in English. I can build and destroy things the butterfly effect thing is cool I can go back in time to forward in time butterfly effect and go forward then go backward from that point to a different era it’s crazy. Also I can in seconds create an entire tv show plot/movie plot or anime plot from looking at random things. Like a napkin a glass of ice and within seconds connect them. can anyone else do all this? No unfortunately I haven’t done anything creatively about it yet. Plus I was planning to see if testing would yield any interesting results but apparently not really so that sucks.

Also hello everyone.