r/hyperphantasia

So does this technically mean that I can’t see closed visuals when tripping on shrooms?

when i was a kid i used to imagine stuff such as like i used imagine budhdha (i had seen buddha's statues) like whenever i tried to relax or sleep stuff keep coming into my head whether it was budhdha or a car or something that ive seen on a daily basis

but now i dont know whether i still have it or not its like i can imagine the apple it is very detailed i could color it and such but i cant imagine it sitting on a plate i could add colors to it as if it was very close to me i cant see it as a whole i think i could make up stories whether im throwing it as ball or eating it but i dont know i see it as the hyperphantasia or am i just making a story

id appreciate if someone could explain what it is the different between making up a story and hyperphantasia , how do i know if i still have it ??

They are not hallucinations like i dont actually see then its like similar to mind chatter when u try to relax but with pictures.

Usually its things that i see everyday day on tik tok, social media, at job etc.

It will happen even during the day when i try to relax .

Anyone have this?

I think this is the best sub to post this in

Are you guys visualizing all the time? I know it sounds like a stupid question, but when someone is talking to you do you always picture what it is they're talking about? I just can't wrap my head around it. Because when anyone talks to me, i'm constantly learning new information and storing it for later, but I can't see it, I just *know* it. It seems unlikely someone is always picturing something (but to be fair, I haven't looked a lot through this subreddit yet). The phrase "__ is on my blank" especially in regards with like anxiety and stuff, do you actually see what it is you're anxious about ALL the time? Because I have 2 anxiety disorders, but it's only with the constant racing thoughts and bad feelings, no visual input. Do I have a weird misconception on visualization in general? Also with reading books--is the term "getting lost in a good book" actually true? Because when I read it's truly just words on a page

I need help my hyperphantasia is mixing with my intrusive thoughts and is making me question reality sometimes some of them are harmless other times I worry I may be doing something rude to strangers and I am really scared of it. Is there something to help me or someone experienced something similar?

Ever since I was a child, I’ve had an incredibly vivid imagination. One thing I used to do all the time was create my own WWE world in my head. I came up with original characters, their personalities, championships, rivalries, and entire storylines. I would imagine full matches that sometimes lasted for a really long time in my mind, including the things the wrestlers would say to each other before and after fights.

What fascinated me the most was that sometimes my imagination surprised even me. I would suddenly picture an unexpected move or a shocking moment during a match without planning it beforehand, almost like I was watching a real WWE show instead of inventing it myself.

Even though I have not been a WWE fan for many years now, I still catch myself doing this occasionally when I am bored. In school, this kind of imagination actually helped me learn and remember things more easily. Looking back now, it is honestly amazing how powerful the human imagination can be.

Okay first let me explain how I duplicate this every single time or almost every single time. Basically what I do is I go to bed. I lie on my left side, (I ALWAYS go to sleep on my right side), and while I'm lying on my left side trying to wind down to get to sleep I'm reading reddit posts and the theme on my phone is the black theme with white writing (basically dark theme).

When I think I am tired enough to go to sleep. I turn my screen off, turn over to my RIGHT side, put my phone on my nightstand and then close my eyes, and that's when I see it. What I am seeing is a "thing" that looks otherworldly. Basically what it looks like is a portal or an entity that is hard to describe in human terms.

Best way I can describe it is a circular thing that looks organic in nature and it has these little "fluttering" things inside of it. Another way of putting it would be like, if you had a 5 gallon white bucket of minnows in it, and you looked down into the bucket and the minnows are in there just floating in place, but you can see their little fins fluttering non-stop.

One day it was very vivid and I could see it very well and the outer sides of this thing, or outer ring was kind of moving, or undulating as if it were alive. So what the hell am I seeing? Am I looking into the pit of hell or what?!? After I see this thing, it usually only lasts about 30 seconds and then slowly fades away.

I've been living with this phenomena for like 5 years now and wondering if I should go get a CAT scan to see if its a tumor or something. I am hoping someone else is seeing the same thing and I am not alone.

Please help if you have any idea (other than "youre crazy, youre breathing carbon monoxide gas in your home). I have moved several times and its only affecting me, not my wife, and this phenomena has traveled with me, so its not CM gas.

I've experimented with this and it happens randomly (sometimes but rarely doesnt happen at all), but every time I go to bed I do the same routine. Here is the data I have compiled thus far:

I do not drink, smoke or do drugs - so its not that

I do not take medication for anything

I do not have a history of mental illness or hallucinating

It happens ONLY when I am lying on my right side

It happens ONLY when I head to bed to go to sleep

It doesn't always happen, happens about 90% of the time though

It's been happening for about 5 years now (started after the Covid thing)

It has happened across several addresses or locales, so its nothing environmental, that I can tell

It isnt stress, or any mental thing I can think of

I have not talked to a Dr about this yet

Thanks in advance for serious responses. <3

I can imagine a variety of things for prolonged periods of time. I did the little apple test to see if I have this hyperphantasia thing, I had the apple imagined on a plate, fall over and explode. However, the imagination of that event wasn't COMPLETELY permanent. It would flicker out abit, do I have it or nah?

okay so i want to share this bc i think a lot of people are doing the right things in the wrong order and getting frustrated when nothing seems to work and that was exactly me for three years.

the order of operations that i wish someone had given me from the start:

step one, fix ur barrier first before adding anything i was trying to fade hyperpigmentation on skin that was dehydrated and slightly compromised and nothing was absorbing or working properly, two months of just gentle cleanser, hyaluronic acid, lightweight moisturiser before touching any actives and the subsequent actives worked so much better on skin that was actually in a good state to receive them

step two, sort ur spf before expecting anything to fade this is genuinley not optional, not a nice to have, if ur not wearing spf 50 every single day without exception nothing u put on ur skin to fade pigmentation will work properly bc uv keeps reactivating the melanin production, i had to fully accept this before anything started moving

step three, one active at a time starting with the most evidence backed alpha arbutin is the most reliably effective brightening ingredient i tried, started with that alone for two months before adding anything else, saw more movement in those two months than in two years of using multiple things simultaneously

step four, patience measured in months not weeks this is genuinley a six to twelve month journey at minimum, anything promising faster results for significant pigmentation is not being honest with u

step five, add tranexamic acid as a supporting ingredient once ur seeing results from the above for melasma specifically this combination is genuinley effective but only on prepared skin with consistent spf protection

the order genuinley matters as much as the ingredients.

has anyone else found that changing the order rather than the products made the difference?

I don't always feel pain, maybe a dull sense of it. But the vivid nature of my imagination sometimes causes me to lean or flinch like it was a deeply rooted memory. I've had to ground myself because sometimes it's so believable that I have negative emotions against whomever I was imagining. Like parental figures and friends. Scenarios like fights and arguments and emotionally straining events that just don't feel good at all. It usually has to play through before it stops and it's hard for me to fully stop. Like hydroplaning on bald tires. You feel that drift even when you're pumping the breaks. Sometimes It's cruel realities where I find a loved one deceased. To sometimes better ones where my favorite pet was back with me again. I feel the emotional toll and it's anxiety inducing, sad, angering most of the time.

Otherwise I have delved deeply into fantasy and I have awesome views of valleys, castles and sometimes super unexplainable and exotic surroundings. Or characters, mechanical things, and more. Like itty bitty pieces from movies/games and my favorite shapes slapped into a geometric landscape/item I can see.

I looked it up and I realized due to how I sometimes flinch, and had a hard time deciphering reality from memory, like the additional negativity compounds an uncomfortable feeling around certain people. Until they're finally in my presence and it's not as bad as I imagined.

I haven't really used it in art because it's like a constantly moving picture that feeds off of actual memories. I am a really good artist though and sometimes If i focus really hard I can get a vague shape for a few minutes for a draft on my sketch.

(Could be something else but:) Additively sometimes I can calculate how something feels beneath my boot through or the texture of something before eating just by visual analysis. Its odd... Like my tongue remembers something that I've never had.

Can anyone express this as Hyperphantasia?

So when I sleep, I don't fully have control over what I dream about (I used to but idk what happened), so anything can happen, from fun adventures to bad events that cause me to not be able to sleep in my room.

This morning I woke up shaken, and I think I just got traumatised by this short dream. I won't go into details because it was horrible (>!but it involved a cat and a cliff!<), but I need to know if it is possible and has anyone experienced it before?

I don't know if you guys are familiar with fire emblem three houses. It's a video game for switch. In the game there's a school called garreg mach monastery. I've always been obsessed with that castle. Just recently I found out they have a vr port where you can explore the castle , but in v r.

I've been going there every day in VR, then later on in the day i try going there in my mind.

Will it get more real when I imagine it if I keep visiting it??

This has been the case for me my whole life, and I am wondering if it's the same for anyone else. When i do tasks that require repetitive motions (such as scrubbing a counter), aside from the actual noise it makes (if any) my brain starts to make its own sound that goes with that motion. This can go for seeing repetitive motion too, like watching a bunny hop, or even when reading. For me, the sound is almost always mechanical.

Does anyone else experience this? If so, do you think it's connected to or specific to hyperphantasia, or is it something the majority of humans possess? I tried looking it up and didn't get any accurate results.