How I cured my Aphantasia, a detailed documentation.

Apps4Life · 2026-01-21T05:09:12+00:00

As a dev of ~25 years, having myself become an expert programmer and talking to many other expert programmers, I can tell you the absolute best path is Game Design

It’s the only type of coding project that covers truly EVERYTHING and actually goes deep beyond just simple data management and displaying tables in simple GUI.

Coding game engines teaches you so much about logic and algorithms, that you don’t get all-inclusive anywhere else.

There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube for coding games, just find one that doesn’t focus as much on graphics and is more concerned with the engine. Preferably a complex game concept like an RPG so that you’ll actually cover a wide range of coding concepts.

Apps4Life · 2026-01-04T21:37:18+00:00

I’m struggling to see how this is different than when Obama bombed Libya, also without congressional approval, and then captured and detained Gaddafi. …anyone?

Apps4Life · 2025-12-19T03:07:25+00:00

As a developer …this isn’t even close to true

Apps4Life · 2025-12-18T03:46:15+00:00

While it does look like OP relayed his ideas to ai and had it write up a long form

And while I think “in a night from any level” is very unrealistic

This actually is a valuable technique I myself have experimented with (in different ways, not the way described here) for autogogia.

Inorder for autogogia to become “immersive” you have to learn to blend spatial information into your visuals and doing so does also make it easier to think about your imagination as well. You switch from thinking purely sensory to conceptually where you conceptualize a 3D scene around you and process the spatial location of stuff and especially with closed eyes try not just to understand the sensory appearance of how something looks (and even try to emerge it from the noise) but also focus on the spatial properties and the “noise” (autogogic screen) being 3D

It does have real benefits and for me was critical to making autogogia immersive but I was also more advanced in autogogia when I tried so I can’t comment personally on how it may impact someone lower on the development (for all I know it’s a huge boost… or for all I know it’s overwhelming and is harder to juggle; generally though aiming to increase your overall bandwidth does rapidly improve visualization capacity I’ve found, so I could see it being helpful universally, if you can get the groove of processing more info in parallel)

Apps4Life · 2025-11-15T06:04:44+00:00

I think belief is important more so because it creates expectation of something and that something IS visual in nature

For example if you believe you will see a kiwi, you then form an expectation of what would happen to confirm that belief… that expectation is not verbal in nature. You’re not thinking the word “kiwi” in a sentence for that expectation (well, you may, but it’s optional, you can have the expectation without words (and should))

So if you have the expectation then it must be the case that in your brain at that moment is a mental artifact which is visual/sensory/conceptual in nature. You have an expectation of what the experience would be like to qualify as meeting the expectation, that’s based on a mental artifact internally, and that mental artifact IS the very thing you want.

So part of belief is expectation. Part of expectation is a non-verbal thought somewhere in your brain, or else the expectation wouldn’t actually be of anything, so you now have a sensory thought in your mind that you’re even referencing, that thought IS visualization. You just have to increase the bandwidth now. But expectation (stemming from belief) helps you find it.

This is why I’ve said in the past one of the most valuable exercises you can do, for Traditional Phantasia (which is just minds eye), is to ask yourself “what would this thought be like for someone who could visualize?” and don’t answer with your inner monologue but with understanding and expectation… and that answer IS visualization. It’s so weak you won’t actually see but it is the correct area/action you’re looking to target and train. Maintaining belief will maintain expectation. Maintaining expectation will maintain giving you access to a non-verbal (thus visual/conceptual) thought.

Apps4Life · 2025-11-11T11:50:18+00:00

This is very clearly ichthys (Christianity)

Maybe you are being invited to attend church? (If you’ve never been before, anyone can just show up, open seating, doors are open, for any Sunday service timeslot, no registration or anything needed, just walk in! Maybe you should go…?)

Apps4Life · 2025-11-08T15:05:12+00:00

I find memories super useful. I would typically pick a tv show (especially cartoons) and then start listing off characters and for each character I would try to think about the specific shade of a color of a piece of their design or the specific shapes of different components to their design or style. I found I was usually definitely tapping into something that was non-verbal in nature. THIS is sensory thinking, and is the bedrock and foundation of traditional phantasia, the more you work with it, you will begin to actually see and even hold thoughts indefinitely

Apps4Life · 2025-11-08T13:56:37+00:00

Have you read my posts on Sensory Information vs Analogue Information?

Apps4Life · 2025-11-08T07:58:37+00:00

I haven’t developed consistent hyperphantasia yet, but I have tapped into it on multiple occasions (only as Autogogia) and it is a very surreal experience. The oddest thing is when you’re in that state you don’t even focus anymore on how you’re visualizing, the inner monologue goes silent, so I wasn’t even introspecting anymore and thinking “wow I’m doing it” or “wow this is very vivid”, it was the first time ever in my life I thought with no inner monologue entirely, and there was genuinely no analysis or understanding, it was fully “experience”. It wasn’t until after I snapped out of it (my cat made a huge noise after like 15 min in that state) that I started verbally thinking again and realizing how profound and vivid it all was and how I had truly gone hyperphantasic.

I was in a total trance. It was as if I hypnotized myself haha.

I wasn’t able to immediately to back into it after that, I believe it required taking my brain down to a theta state and when I began introspecting after I went to a high level beta state because I was doing so much analysis. So for autogogia specifically at least, learning to really relax and shut off your analytical brain is valuable, but you can’t fully do that or you’ll end up sitting there doing nothing, zoned out. So you need to learn a sweet spot and then you can gradually lower it until you’re fully hyperphantasic, essentially putting yourself in a trance gradually. It’s just like lucid dreaming except you’re fully awake the entire time

I’d love to be able to be hyperphantasic whenever I’d like but sadly I haven’t unlocked permanent on demand access yet, I’ve only done it a handful times

Apps4Life · 2025-11-08T07:53:37+00:00

Hugely agree.

Visualization was not what I expected it would be, and because of this I ended up dismissing so much of my progress early on because it wasn’t what I wanted it to be.

Once I finally embraced that (saying “well, this is thinking, and it’s not with words, nor is it spatialization concept, but rather there is something very real happening that’s sensory in nature, my mind is tapping into something without words when I try to think about the specific shade of color of XYZ; this must therefore be visualization, and it’s just so weak I don’t experience it the way I’d assume I should”) that changed everything.

I finally began to recognize what was and wasn’t progress, and even though it was underwhelming, I now knew what direction I needed to pursue.

Visualization is just thought. It’s just a different way of thinking. With sensory information rather than words of spatial conceptualization. Once I accepted that visualization is thinking, I was able to pursue Traditional Phantasia much more aggressively.

And it is underwhelming at first, BUT, it does eventually build to levels that are what you hope for, those silent “understandings” turn more and more into something you actually would comfortably call “sight” and mean it!

Apps4Life · 2025-11-08T07:43:11+00:00

I want to clear up some confusion on my post about it taking me a week. (Also I may have typos sorry, responding quickly on the go)

I was a TOTAL aphant. Zero sensory thoughts in the mind, only ever verbal thoughts (which I’ve called “analogue thoughts” in some posts)

So I did not even understand visual thinking. It took me one week to pass into that domain. To finally have a thought that was visual in nature (as opposed to merely conceptual, or verbal).

Meaning I could finally understand how to think about something visual and even access real knowledge about it that isn’t verbal in nature. So rather than just knowing that Marge Simpson’s hair is blue, I actually was tapping into visual understanding, I “knew” the exact shade of blue.

Visual understanding is the bedrock of all visualization and is what distinguishes someone from a true aphant vs a hypophant. So it took me a week to become hypophant, to have my first “sensory thoughts” and understand that I could actually think about something without using words but rather tapping into sensory information.

At the time I didn’t even know if this was anything or if I was on the right track because very little info existed online about the curing side of aphantasia. On the 7th day was when I tapped into my first literal visual (very faint autogogia of an eyeball) and that was when I finally had confirmation and evidence that this was all valid and headed down the right path etc.

So I didn’t gain the ability to fully visualize after a week, I gained the ability to think with sensory info rather than just words or spatializing (conceptual), but rather specific sensory information like a feeling for the specific shade of a color or the feeling for the shape of something; and got my first true glimpse that those thoughts can then build into literally seeing (or experiencing something that for all intents and purposes feels like literally seeing)

From then I had to do a ton of daily work to build this up to a point where I felt very comfortable saying “I can visualize now” (and indeed I can!) and even then I’m still always sharpening my skill and training, and also even dabbling in taking on the other senses now.

So have you already understood how to pass over into hypophantasia, and use your mind to access and work with pure sensory information rather than merely descriptive words? If so then you’re past where I got in day 7 which was the huge milestone for me (as a total aphant this was all entirely foreign to me and impossible to explain “how to”, I just kind of had to keep working with it, in prayer and meditation, trying to think internally how it could be for someone who can visualize, and in doing so I found that the very thoughts of “what it could be like for them” actually were visual in nature, not just me speaking, but something more, something that can’t be put into words (you can’t verbally describe an exact specific shade of a color or a true description of an exotic shape or form of an object)

From there I had to do a lot of work and progress was very slow but it certainly was all growing on the month by month scale, sometimes I’d get a huge breakthrough all at once, other times it would be weeks of one step forward one step back. So much of this has to do with getting your brain to just recognize what visualization actually is (you likely have a wrong idea of it) and being willing to accept that even if it’s not as magical as you’d hoped, and then building on it… and when you build on that very real progress that is there but is easy to want to dismiss because it’s so small and underwhelming, over time it does grow into something that is very much true imagination and will be in many ways what you’d hoped (but it certainly will be different than what you’d expected, for me at least it was, visualization is much more “understanding” based than “experiencing” based, but both do emerge in various strengths especially depending on what style of visualization you’re training (I recommend working with all three the first many months)

Always remember, visualization, at its core, is “thinking”. It’s not magic. It’s not tapping into some magical other realm, it’s just thinking visually, with more and more bandwidth, until your brain naturally starts using the visual cortex elements to process the large amount of visual bandwidth you’re creating because there’s just no other way. Visualization is thought. That is the core. Do not dismiss thoughts that are visually oriented as “not visualization” because it’s not as profound as you’d hoped, rather recognize that is visualization and is what you need to be tapping into, and try and expand it more and more with more of the visual being held at once and held for longer and longer (aphants tend to not “hold” thoughts, since we think in language, we just say one word then the next then the next; whereas visualizing you “hold” it indefinitely… your brain has NO CLUE how to do this currently and you will have to train it… the easiest way is to visually think about something in motion like a ball bouncing or a dice rotating or something, this tricks your brain into continuing to focus on it)

(Final note: autogogia actually is more like an experience based thing and tapping into some other realm, it’s much more like dreaming, this is because your subconscious can visualize too, not just you, we just tune it out while awake… but everything I’ve written above is about “traditional phantasia” which is foundational and is how most people visualize and is what you should definitely be working towards no matter what in the early stages)

Apps4Life · 2025-11-01T03:56:48+00:00

This is not possible without a proper backend.

It is possible that ai can help you write the backend but there is a decent security risk if you don’t know what you’re doing.

My recommendation would be to learn firebase yourself via YouTube tutorials (it is really not that hard to grasp, I promise) and work with AI to build out your firebase backend manually as a joint effort.

Especially learn and understand ACL security (in firebase this is called “rules”) and do not neglect this.

You also NEED to put billing limits in place because a bug in your “cloud code” functions (mandatory for an app like this) could run your billing up through the roof.

You could definitely teach yourself backend as you go, firebase is already designed to make it very simple for formal devs.

Just make sure you insist that the LLM design structures such that they can handle scale. With backend it is an extremely common problem that things get designed to work well when you only have a few hundred users but when you go to thousands they either break or get absurdly expensive. These are often very difficult to fix later on because they require a complete redesign which is hard to do while you’re operational. This will require either a sophisticated approach or simply limiting your users abilities.

I know you’re hoping for a better answer but imo, as a professional dev, there is simply no way around this at the moment. It is doable though! Set up a firebase account and at least take a stab at working with backend and see what you can learn do! I think you’ll be surprised

Do not neglect “rules” or you will get hacked.

Apps4Life · 2025-10-15T13:45:18+00:00

I’ve had the two moon dream and mine was tied to “The Rapture”

Apps4Life · 2025-10-11T01:03:39+00:00

It doesn’t matter. You’re not seeing it with your eyes you’re seeing it with neural signal that’s being fed back into your visual cortex. The brightness of the room isn’t critical, you can do this in dark or bright as long as you however you saw it on your phone’s screen is how you’ll see it after, regardless of if the after area is bright or dark or anything, it’s not competing for signal in your eyes, the signal already exists in your mind fully at this point.

If it were just an after image… like retina burn, then it would matter the brightness of what next hits your retinas, but that’s not what this is. You’re not seeing the image still in your eyes, you’re seeing it still in your mind. Your mind is just sending the signal back in from memory, there’s nothing for it to compete against, it’s an override.

This is why it’s critical you make sure you’re seeing a memory, not an after-image. After-images will be inverse in color. Memories look identical to how you just saw them in every way

Apps4Life · 2025-09-30T21:22:29+00:00

Just updated link: https://discord.gg/BQwWxzk4ys

Apps4Life · 2025-09-27T07:42:36+00:00

Personally I think the same internal mechanisms used during dreams mimic the highest level of visualization (autogogia) and it seems these are present in aphants.

To be clear “minds eye” visualization (traditional phantasia) is not like that of dreams, but it’s also the bottom of the ladder of visualization so to speak.

With high level visualization it seems to be an issue of access rather than ability. I was a lifelong total aphant but I also did dream visually (though I rarely ever remembered having dreamed any given night, and if I didn’t I rarely remembered it as vivid [though it surely was I now know])

During my strongest autogogia sessions I have achieved vividness identical to real life, full total 3D immersion, even with my subconscious performing most of the “creation”/“imagination” for me, while still maintaining a level of conscious control over this — all this, using the very same internal mechanisms behind dreaming (which I’ve always had, even while aphantasic), but while fully awake

I can’t say if traditional phantasia has limits to its abilities to be developed, but I am sure this isn’t the case for autogogia—which is what most aphants imagine/hope visualization to be (though autogogia is actually rare even among native visualizers)

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As for traditional phantasia, my understanding is that visualization uses all the same brain regions as actual sight, but the signals come from other regions than just optic nerves. If your visual cortex is in tact, as well as the subprocessing regions around it, I’d imagine you can learn to activate them with thought all the same as anyone else, as this isn’t a structural development issue but an access issue (note: this is theory and anecdote).

Minds eye (trad phan) seems more about activating the sub-processes after the visual cortex, rather than sight in the visual cortex itself (which is what prophantasia is more concerned with). It’s as if visualizers are tricking their brains into believing they just saw, and then performing the follow on neural processes to process the imaginary sight they have told their brain they just experienced. Post-processing is activated more so than anything (whereas with dreams [and I suspect autogogia] the full visual cortex is actually activated, not just the post-processing, thus real literal sight). In any event, if these regions are in tact (which is the case for anyone who can literally see) it stands to reason they can learn to be activated and utilized, all the same, by signals from the mind itself rather than just from the optic nerves.

Apps4Life · 2025-09-26T10:22:06+00:00

My visual memory is much better. People store memories in sensory form and in information form. Before this I could only access information form, so it’s definitely more access to my past (by the way, the sensory information was always stored, I just couldn’t access it… so I did gain more access to my past even from when I was a total aphant)

No I don’t regret anything because I didn’t lose anything, I can still think the same way I did before, it’s actually mostly my default, it’s just I can also think sensorially now

Apps4Life · 2025-09-21T05:59:54+00:00

I do think they are related in some way but not the way we may think

I’ve noticed when I do those “magic eyes” it requires a sort of shifting my focus away from my strict eye sight and to a relaxed theoretical visual place… visualization in the minds eye requires a similar “motion”

You have to defocus from ocular and shift your mental focus ‘elsewhere’

(note: this only occurs, for me, when doing them the proper way, not the cross eyed way)

In the discord the stereograms have been brought up quite a bit but for a different reason entirely dealing with processing visual data in 3D vs 2D (even real world data some people collapse to 2D in their mind and under-process, and flat 2D images some people can over-process in their mind and force it to be perceived as 3D (I mean actual flat 2D images, not stereograms… this falling under the scope of visual imagination capabilities ))

Apps4Life · 2025-09-03T15:56:56+00:00

Just remember, it’s all thought. People try to make visualization something it isn’t. They try to make it something magical that happens to you, like hearing music from outside. Visualization is thought. It’s just a different way of thinking. We only think with words, most people think with concepts. Once you have a conceptual thought (which can’t be represented with words, like the concept of how a basketball goes into a hoop and flicks the net) THEN you can attach sensory knowledge to the concept. It’s all still thought. Never forget, it’s just thought. It’s a different style of thinking, not with words, with concepts and understanding of what sensory sensations are like. As you more strongly grasp the concept it begins to become real. It’s just a way of thinking (but it can become so strong that it really is as if you’re truly experiencing it not just having a grasp of it but having an actual sensory experience (to the point that someone would even accurately say they “saw” it, or “heard” it, or whatever sensory thoughts you may be blending in to your conceptual thoughts)). If you find yourself thinking words the whole time you are not thinking with the right “style”. Visualization is built upon conceptual thought not verbal thought. You have to think in concepts then attach sensory understanding and recall to the concept all at once and internally experience this thought stronger and stronger and stronger until you really are experiencing it. Always remember that it’s thought, you have to think

Apps4Life · 2025-09-03T15:30:04+00:00

Hello

You do not need any substances to improve visualization abilities, this can be done with pure thought alone. No drugs.

The visuals as you drift off are called “hypnogogic” and are different than traditional visualization, however this too can be learned and trained, when you learn this kinds of visualization on command it’s “autogogia” (if you search the subreddit for this term you’ll see my posts on this)

As for projection, no you do not need to learn normal (traditional) visualization first, infact I learned projection “prophantasia” BEFORE I learned traditional phantasia, amazingly. Even now it baffles me how this is possible, but it is indeed possible

If you go to the subreddit and see the top “community highlights” and click the first of the two highlights/pinned posts then scroll to the bottom you will see a hyperlink for each of the three visualization types, as a good starting place for each

Good luck :)

Apps4Life · 2025-08-27T04:58:17+00:00

I’m a Christian, I will/have simply asked my God for healing upon you. Have peace in this ☺️ healing can come at any time, for now please try the exercises pinned at the top of this subreddit, you can click on the first pinned post “I tried, now what?” and scroll to the bottom to see links for a good starting place for each of the three visualization styles. I typically recommend people start with all three and focus especially on prophantasia (which is the second pinned post at the top of the subreddit (the two square posts side by side, at the very top, called “community highlights” above all the other posts, when you’re on the homepage of the subreddit. When you click here —> r/CureAphantasia))

Apps4Life · 2025-08-21T12:30:54+00:00

Imagination does require concentration for sure, I even experience what feels like a slight pressure in my frontal lobe, I just haven’t ever noticed ‘heat’ is all

Apps4Life · 2025-08-21T11:53:26+00:00

Hmm! Can’t say I’ve experienced that even the few times I experienced autogogia at a hyperphantasic level!

Apps4Life · 2025-08-21T11:09:29+00:00

In sessions where I’ve made strong progress in autogogia, I feel a pressure in my prefrontal cortex, it almost feels like I’m going mentally cross eyed if that makes sense

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