![]() ![]() It was when I married my second wife that the subject came up in earnest – because she had a highly visual brain. Later in life, when I began reading up about hypnosis, and I tried a few guided hypnosis sessions on tape / MP3, I encountered the same problem – being told to imagine I was walking up a flight of stairs was impossible.Īgain, I obviously know what walking up stairs is like, but there is no way I can create that picture in my head.Īpart from that, I just assumed it was a talent I did not possess – but I did know, or, at least, assume, that others had the ability, otherwise why would these books and audio recordings tell you to do that? (Mnemonics do work for me, but I know, having spoken with others who practise these systems, that it’s a lot more difficult if you cannot visualize anything.) Try as I might, I was unable to create that picture in my mind – all I could do was repeat the words to myself, but that is nowhere near as effective. That book was my introduction to mnemonics, or memory training systems, and I soon realized that the instruction to picture the items I was meant to be remembering simply wasn’t working for me.įor example, in a memory and magic square demonstration I once gave, I was tasked with remembering that an ape was sitting on a table. I never gave it much thought as a child, until I swapped some Penny Arrows (an old type of candy sold in England when I was a child) for a book called “ Instant Memory“, which was written by a South African magician known as Robert Harbin. I have talked elsewhere about my inability to picture anything in my mind’s eye (a condition known as aphantasia), and I’ve known about my lack of any visualization skills for a long, long time. #Does everyone have an internal monologue archiveI came across an article called “ People Are Weirded Out To Discover That Some People Don’t Have An Internal Monologue” earlier today (and if that link no longer works, then you can try this archive version instead), and I have to confess that while I don’t feel “weirded out”, I am nonetheless surprised. ![]()
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