(06-24-2015, 05:22 PM)Tan.rar Wrote: I think some people think of visualization as something complex and challenging. Some can't visualize it seems, or at least they can't relate the idea to their experience.
Well it's complex for someone who can't do it. Some people never had to train their visualization skills and by closing their eyes can see anything that they want. A forest, a symbol, a person's face, etc.
I don't have mental images of anything. If I don't look into a mirror or a picture of myself, I don't actually remember what I look like other than a textual description of it.
My visualization skills are getting better through doing rituals with my eyes closed, but they've been non-existent for a very very long time. The only thing I could see with my eyes closed was either dark void or ambient light through my eyelids. From my experience, people who are at the end of the zodiac signs in their sun sign have greater ability with dreams and visualization. My dream life is a lot like my visualization skills, pretty close to non-existent.
It's a veil thing. I've got a pisces friend and ever since he's a child, he can pretty much sit anywhere for a minute or two and start lucid dreaming in his mind whereas I spent countless hours trying to consciously lucid dream without success. I've succeeded 4 times, and out of those there was only one in which I was trying and succeeded. The others were at random and I generally have about 10 minutes of dream rememberance a year although this has been an exceptional year so far.
I'm pretty much satisfied with my daily life, but I'd love to spent a few hours soaring through the skies each night. Meditation seems not to help so much, it brings me into a timeless state of mind inside an endless void. Some people dream's life is just that, empty void.