Living with Hyperphantasia |‌‌ NeuroQ

[@J1GS4W_13]

As a confirmed Hyperphantasiac, its a freaking curse. Not only is past unpleasant memories hyper vivid but unrealistic hypothetical scenarios are also very vivid. Its like seeing a freaking flashforward

[@baptistem4377]

I get you so hard... I have the same, and i struggled a lot to get over violent thoughs... I hated myself, since i didn't knew it was an actual condition, but knew it was not normal to imagine so clearly such things, and i was terrified that someday i'd do what i was imaginating... I've litteraly seen, heard, for fuck sake even felt myself hurt (to say the less) peoples i love over pointless arguments... I felt like a monster... Gladly i've found a way out of this, but it still haunt me. Yes, hyperphantasia have good sides, but the drawbacks clearly nullify the benefits.

[@betweenherenthere]

yes its a curse. You need to keep pushing!! I still struggle with it.. people still get mad, or think I’m weird-yes friends & family. And I guess we just are? But I never knew others felt like this. thank you

[@paularmstrong6471]

In a way, you have both a blessing and a curse. You just need the right tool to remove the emotional pain from the memories (i.e. get them to be neutral.) TAT and EFT are common tools. Or, try this - it works much better for me: 0) Subjectively rate the issue from 0-10 in terms of intensity, so you have a reference to come back to for before and after. 1) Picture / feel the things that you're reacting to. (ONLY IF YOU CAN TOLERATE THE LEVEL OF FEELING IT EVOKES! If you can't then other approaches will be better.) 2) Put the thing outside of you - in front of you (in your imagination). I have very poor visual imagination, so I literally use my hand to scoop out the thing and place it in front of me. 3) Now it's in front, see / feel what comes up for you with the first thing outside. 4) Repeat the process - place the new bodily sensation / emotion / thought outside of you. E.g. if you feel fear, then you may get experience this as a wispy black cloud outside of yourself, and usually the internal fear disappears / diminishes. (Could be any image though.) 5) Continue this until you feel neutral, i.e. no more thoughts / sensations / feelings. In practice, do a maximum of 5 things the first time. 6) With those things in front of you, imagine going up in an elevator in a straight line. 7) The elevator will intuitively stop somewhere. When it stops, just allow whatever is there to play itself out. Highly visual people will probably be quite entertained, I usually check if there is any feeling left. YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT AT THIS POINT. 8) Eventually you'll get a sense of completion - neutrality again, with no movement. 9) When this happens, continue up in a straight line into the centre of the sun. 10) See / feel yourself filling you up with the golden fluid of the sun. Make sure no empty / dark / blank spots, and pay particular attention to parts of the body that were related to any of the things that came up. 11) When full, start expanding slowly into the full size of the sun, filling yourself up along the way. 12) At full size, expand out into the solar system / universe and stay for 1-5 minutes. 13) Come back to yourself. Immediately re-rate the issue. If more / different aspects come up, just repeat the process until you get to zero.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

Autistic and ADHD ruminations can destroy you. Sometimes it's cool to have another universe you can slide into when you need a break though.

[@Bendover-6758]

When i was young i get uncomfortable when i cant stop something from rotating in my mind.

[@ChapolinColorado-jd6yc]

Me too :D Good to know that is a worldwide problem

[@ethanstewart8841]

I can visualize anything…. except memories for some reason those are always foggy. And I suck at drawing, what’s on the paper is never the same as in my head.

[@danihatton9535]

I totally agree! If I'm imagining something from scratch it's vivid, if it's from a memory it's more foggy

[@HaxdHmsllgyrqt3.14]

I don't know if I have hyperphantasia or daydreaming problems 😭🙏 Like I keep daydreaming I can't stop

[@azizakaseruuzi206]

If you don’t see memories how do you rewrite them?🥲

[@UltimatePerfection]

I think I have this. Sometimes when I close eyes I just see stuff. I know it's my imagination, so it's not a hallucination, this video describes pretty well my condition, although I have control over it so I seldom imagine bad stuff.

[@floppy_the_froggo]

Hi! Ive spent the last few years doing some research, and I’ve started to believe that i have hyperphantasia. (I have no clue how to spell it) everything said here is true. The good, and the bad. So just in case someone doesn’t understand anything, you have someone to ask now!

[@kalt1976]

Question: when I read about hyperphantasia there is ofte mention of being able to rotate an imagined object in your mind. What does that mean, exactly? Does it mean for example, visualizing holding an apple in your hand and moving/rotation it so that you can see it from differently angles, like in real life, or what does it mean?

[@audioadhd]

That's my takeaway.

[@kalt1976]

​@@audioadhdI'm 47 years old and only now realising that not everyone has hyperphantasia... I knew there were people with aphantasia, but I always assumed that the rest of the population could visualize the way I did - which I am only now realising, must be an extreme form of hyperphantasia, as I see everything in 3D and with movement- and also smell, taste, hear and feel everything I visualise. And I can most definitly do the rotating. Omg this is so crazy, I literally thought every single human being did that, unless they had aphantasia.

[@audioadhd]

@@kalt1976 Same for internal dialogue. I thought everyone hears their thoughts in hi-res

[@kalt1976]

@@audioadhd Wait what?! There are people who don't hear thoughts- or am I misunderstanding?

[@audioadhd]

@@kalt1976 Not us, but yes!

[@SomeoneVeryRandom69]

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