Trying to do that reminded me of something I used to do as a kid: I would watch static on TV, and find myself constructing imagery from it. Usually, it would be like traveling over landscapes, or a rotating/panning view over some entity, and the quality of the visuals would be like line drawings.
The reason I remember that is because my mental visualisations have a very similar quality. After maybe a ‘flash’ of a fairly detailed scene—or at least the suggestion of one—it rapidly devolves into short-lived abstractions, and only where I’m mentally focusing.
Perhaps what I need is to look at some static again and see if it improves visualisation.
That’s basically lucid daydreaming, then?
Trying to do that reminded me of something I used to do as a kid: I would watch static on TV, and find myself constructing imagery from it. Usually, it would be like traveling over landscapes, or a rotating/panning view over some entity, and the quality of the visuals would be like line drawings.
The reason I remember that is because my mental visualisations have a very similar quality. After maybe a ‘flash’ of a fairly detailed scene—or at least the suggestion of one—it rapidly devolves into short-lived abstractions, and only where I’m mentally focusing.
Perhaps what I need is to look at some static again and see if it improves visualisation.
And I tried it. Didn’t help :-/