@larryogilvie
Joined almost 2 years agoI am a Muscle Therapist and have been doing that for over 22 years. I am a baseball nut and follow the Boston Redsox. I played college baseball and yes, wanted to play at the pro level, it just did not happen. I had four short careers before I found my true calling. I love to paint and make beer. My best friend is Fenway, a German Shepherd. I found I was 100% Aphantasic just last year at 65.
@larryogilvie
Joined almost 2 years agoI am a Muscle Therapist and have been doing that for over 22 years. I am a baseball nut and follow the Boston Redsox. I played college baseball and yes, wanted to play at the pro level, it just did not happen. I had four short careers before I found my true calling. I love to paint and make beer. My best friend is Fenway, a German Shepherd. I found I was 100% Aphantasic just last year at 65.
I have also used guided body scan meditations. A strange occurrence on one meditation practice years ago. I had been taking meditation coaching for about six weeks, twice a week when 30 minutes into a session. I was bombarded with facial images so clear and vivid I could see hair follicles on mens beard area and every little blemish on someones face. The faces, no one I knew, were coming at me 2 or 3 a second. This happened for over a minute or so. I have never seen anything like this before. I shared this experience with the meditation coach and she was like, OK. I could not explain it and by her saying OK, I thought, OK what's next. I want to do that again. It was a year later when I first heard of Aphantasia. I called the coach and she had never heard of it and she told me that she never heard of anyone not being able to "visualize". That is when I realized her OK was that she did not understand. To me, to see some images in my mind was incredible and I wanted more. I must report, that was the only time anything like that happened. That was nearly 5 years ago and I have never been able to repeat it. I was going through some tough personal things at that time and maybe that is what caused the images. Could stress have caused this sudden visualization? I just do not know. Maybe someone else has experienced this also and are still looking to repeat the experince.
I have also used guided body scan meditations. A strange occurrence on one meditation practice years ago. I had been taking meditation coaching for about six weeks, twice a week when 30 minutes into a session. I was bombarded with facial images so clear and vivid I could see hair follicles on mens beard area and every little blemish on someones face. The faces, no one I knew, were coming at me 2 or 3 a second. This happened for over a minute or so. I have never seen anything like this before. I shared this experience with the meditation coach and she was like, OK. I could not explain it and by her saying OK, I thought, OK what's next. I want to do that again. It was a year later when I first heard of Aphantasia. I called the coach and she had never heard of it and she told me that she never heard of anyone not being able to "visualize". That is when I realized her OK was that she did not understand. To me, to see some images in my mind was incredible and I wanted more. I must report, that was the only time anything like that happened. That was nearly 5 years ago and I have never been able to repeat it. I was going through some tough personal things at that time and maybe that is what caused the images. Could stress have caused this sudden visualization? I just do not know. Maybe someone else has experienced this also and are still looking to repeat the experince.