Does anyone have trouble visualizing in their minds? I don't mean just one image..usually I'm good at picturing something someone is describing but as if you were creating a movie scene in your mind. Can you control the action? Does it bounce around? Can you see things clearly?

Try it, just close your eyes and image yourself doing something that involves moving, actions..like driving, talking to friends, whatever.

Not just can you visualize the images well, but how long do you hold that thought? So many times I've been replaying in my mind something that happened, could happen or whatever, and all of a sudden I'll realize I lost that thought and was thinking about something else for the last 10 minutes..and I probably don't even know what.

No matter how hard I try I either can't visualize properly(it bounces around, I can't control whats going on) or I can't hold the thought long enough to get anywhere with it..

It's really irritating because when I'm lying in bed trying to sleep at night I like to take that time think about things that have happened, or that I'll be doing in the near future and think about it all going well, etc, but I can't because I can't stop the thought getting distorted/side tracked.

Does anyone else have this problem and do you think it's due to ADD?

If I try to visulaize something in my mind, it's difficult--I can't just close my eyes and necassarily see a picture. However, I have very vivid daydreams, and can visualize everything. But...if I try to do it on my own and "see" the image on demand, I lose it. I can, however, daydream on demand and see stuff.

Not sure if that made sense....

Yeah, I can't visualize very well so I'm rather bad at drawing- I try to come up with an image in my head, but it's rather foggy. Which is weird, since like happycat I've had very vivid daydreams. It's almost like as if your mind "fills" in the details of the vision without actually letting you see it, which is why daydreaming seems to work and actual drawing doesn't. For me, anyway.

I can visualize very well. Which is half the reason why I am not happy with just the "norm"

I can always visualize how I want things to be.. and I can concentrate on it for quite some time.. provided that I am interested in visualizing that image.

I do this with what I want to do in my life.. which is why I think I switch my interests so much. I visualize myself doing whatever it is I want to do.. and it can be so real.. that I know if I really want to do it or not.

When I am reading or studying however, I try to visualize in my mind the words I am reading. I find when it works.. I am more able to remember what it is that I have read.

If what I am reading is very boring.. I may have trouble keeping the image that I am visulizing because that is when my mind wanders off to other things.

I can literally be going over words that I am reading in a sentence... and be thinking about something very different. This is when I have to realize that I am not really reading it.. I am just seeing it. (Although I am seeing it.. I am not processing it.) I am too busy thinking about whatever has popped into my head. These are different. When my mind sees the words instead of reading them... I cant remember them.

I started this visualizing from a very young age. I could never sleep as a child... so in order to make myself fall asleep.. I would visualize a story in my mind from the start of the story untill I would fall asleep. I made sure in my visualizing to visualize every detail.. as if I were watching that movie instead of imaginating it. Now I can not sleep without this excersise.

But it has helped me fall asleep in under 15mins.

I can visualize anything and everything, extremely well, and in complete detail.

With my eyes, either open or closed.


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I can visualize things but without medications I can have problems maintaining control over my visual pictures. When un-medicated my mental pictures seem to "change channels" on thier own, some times fading out.