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[neil]

I have trouble imagining object in my mind.

when picture a cat or dog or person, it immediately flade into darkness.

i remember before illness i had good imagine skill and i remember oject very good.

is there any way to get it back? who do i see?

has this happen to you?

[TheVorticon]

Hey @neil.
I've never been good at having visual mental images, so I'm not sure how to improve the skill. Perhaps you could start by getting a physical image of the object and consciously noticing its features, then looking away and trying to keep visualising the various features that you'd noticed. Is that something you could try?

[Appleblossom]

I think it is a very important point. @neil

I am not a strongly visual person and have to work at it.  SOmetimes in a meditation I do visualise things or places or people to help settle and calm me down.

There is also a similar thing in the audible sense.  It is a fairly new concept called audiation, but it is about imagining sound and music. It is a skill that can be practised and I often deliberately do that.

[neil]

nice idea TheVorticon. i have try that before, the image flades after few seconds. however i think i have try many time. practice daily.

[neil]

Appleblossom, do recall the memory of sound, rather than imagine sound and music. ?