If I close my eyes, I can briefly (< 5 seconds) see the card in detail and some color when thinking of the Fool or the Magician cards from tarot.
Yet I cannot hold the image longer than 5 seconds, and yellow is difficult to picture., I can picture the image of the fool, or at least the outline, stick and all. Can see the facial expression. I can see the card in whatever one it may be, but to actually picture the card for 5 minutes is a mountain for me at the moment.
Ideas?
The only one Ive had so far is to go back to seeing and sensing the other four on a given colored fruit.
Colored posterboard.
Thats about it.
Just a theory, maybe start by staring at the card for as long as you can as many times a day as you can for a week or so then try visualizing it again.
Are you specifically wanting to be able to visualise your tarot cards or just hone your visualisation skills in general ?
The reason I ask in one of my witchy books thereās a little visualisation exercise that is so simple but it really helped me out .
You practice over the course of a week daily.
All you do is visualise a flower any type .
See itās petals , stem , thorns if itās a rose etc all the tiny details and hold the image for as long as possible .
The next day visualise the same type of flower only this time it is green , the next day yellow , then blue and finally red . On day 6 see if you can visualise all 4 colours flowers together as if they were hovering in the air in front of you in a row , finally on day 7,
visualise the flowers together again then go back to just one green flower then change it to Yellow , blue , red one after the other as if they were being projected from slides - speed this Up and move quickly from one colour to the next , ending with them back in front of you in a row .
And thatās it
One trick I do is fruits, for example an orange. I can pick it out down to smell and taste. Blueberries, plums, apples, lemons, kiwis, etc. The trick is holding a picture in mind for up to 30 minutes. In detail.
This is an excellent exercise. Visualisation is a powerful Workout and the key to manifestation. There are people who canāt visualise and those are so totally boring. They are very different to the ones who can visualise
Interestingly I read only recently that there are some people that are actually born with a rare inability to mentally visualise, literally anything!
I think itās called Aphantasia.
Sounds awful doesnāt it ?
Correct I canāt visualise anything, canāt see any colors, nothing. But you learn to deal with it. Instead of seeing things, I will just know, I donāt know if I explain that correctly, but thatās just for me.
Instead of visualising, try to feel it. Like if you see āvisualise a bright light above your headā, feel it. Is it cold, warm, sensationsā¦ Thatās how I work at least
I hope you and @Silverleaf donāt mind me asking but for example ā¦you know how when ppl say ādonāt think of a back catā and the first thing your mind does is imagine a black cat
( partly aided by the fact youāve just been told not to )
How does that work for you . @Mei you mentioned you just āknowā what something looks like , is that how visual descriptions always work for you ?
Would reading descriptions in a book would work differently for ppl unable to visualise them?
Then i also wondered if your brain actually compensates for this by enhancing other senses or abilities compared to ppl that can visualise .
So is there a sense that you have that is more developed when compared with the senses of āvisualisersā?
Thanks
Other senses are more developed because of thins , for sure I see a black cat but never stays there more than a split second not sure , i have the ability to visualize but only a little bit ,itās so bad itās crazy , for example i could never draw something from my mind not matter what it is , cause I donāt see it in my mind i stand and scan the sigil for example Raphael itās basically a triangle with a z and I canāt see it on the wall or in my mind i try to see it but never stays there , i can imagine things and such decently as Iām an avid daydreamer but visualizing itās another piece of bread
On mine side probably itās because of ADD , is how my brain works xD
Thatās so interesting thank you for sharing , I think like @Mei suggested , using your other senses to feel / smell/ touch/ hear could be a way around it ?
I cannot draw from memory - for example if you said ādraw Homer Simpsonā I can see him very clearly in my minds eye as heās a popular cartoon character so heās ingrained into my memory but my hand / eye co- ordination is terrible - so it wonāt look any good paper lol ( not much of a lefty am I as they are supposed to be good at art )
Iāve always admired ppl that are good at art for that reason .
@Lunaa Same went to art school people there were terrific compared to me xD , i mainly focus on feeling spirits and seeing them trough my astral eyes compared to visualizing in my head , no wonder why Raziel path working never works for me xD
I canāt visualise anything, canāt see any colors, nothing. But you learn to deal with it. Instead of seeing things, I will just know, I donāt know if I explain that correctly, but thatās just for me.
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