Visualizations

[Laeskis]

Consider your "Mental World", the internal 'place' where your consciousness and personality reside...
Take a deep breath, and close your eyes; visualize this place.

Now the point:

If your internal environment could be manifest as a physical place on earth (like maybe your house) what would it look/feel/be like?

Can you describe it?

If it helps you get started, perhaps think of this place in an architectural context.

This should be interesting. ;)

[Tatsuboshi]

Hmmmm... interesting question... I don't think I "have" a mental realm. Rather than bringing subjects to me, or into a mental realm, it's more like I enter them and move between them. So I happily traverse the realm of all possible subject matter, just a humble wanderer in the vast expanse of cognition.

[Laeskis]

If I can get the energy up, I'll post something too.
Right now, I think I'll take a nap.

[shaytana]

There is no way that it can ever be described, much less actually manifest in a physical form. I do not have one world in my head I have infinate worlds that can be anything I imagine them to be.

[Johnny]

I only really see things in my mind when I have a lucid dream. Otherwise, I can't see or visualize anything there when I'm conscious. But when I read and write, I automatically speak the words in my mind and don't know how to read or write otherwise.

When I play musical instruments, read music, or sing, the pitches go off in my mind while I play or read too. I don't know how to play a song in any other manner there either.

:sombrero:

[Avengardh]

I don't think I can imagine the place, however when I look at something it gives me that feeling of peace and it really hits my inner core, I can look at Gaudi's architecture and say "that is me".

Everything else is in my dreams ^_^

~*Aven*~

[Arioch]

My inner palace has always seemed to be more a place of impressions rather then actual things.

[Odyssey]

LOL! I know exactly what I see; one of my strengths is visual-spatial ability, so I do it excessively. Therefore I tend to have objects and thoughts and words floating in my 'thoughtspace' whenever I look into it with curiosity ^_^

Well, besides the backdrop of blackness/emptiness, there are shapes.

There are geometric shapes, usually of bright colors, mostly of a translucent shadowy nature. They are in 3D, and they like to swirl around, and mix and do all sorts of special effects (e.g. lava lamp melding). Along with that I have an strong aesthetic attraction to large swoops and swirls, and they like to move around a lot also. When I'm thinking about something meaningful, an abstract concept gets assigned to a relevant shape (or simply the shape of the written word) and the lines connect the shapes like a shifting mindmap web. What's more fun is that unlike on paper, which is limited to 2D, a mental mindmap is in 3D!

Translated into architectural terms... it would be extremely "modern" looking. I live in outer space (of course), inside a construction of simple block-like shapes with vivid colors, and random swoopy staircases connected the various areas. Staircases and shapes are constantly shifting around, as if they're live snakes. I'm able to float where I want, to observe the shapes from whatever angle.

~Odyssey

[Laeskis]

If I were to try and visualize my internal environment....if it was a real place, letsee...
I've had a five hour nap and a shot...maybe I'm up to this.

nah; I don't think I'm up to it yet...got an Idea of it though, just don't feel like writing it down...
Later.

[s]

I am not prepared to decribe the environment, but the first random thought in my head was the movie "Being John Malkovich."

When I dream, I am often in my childhood home; there is never any furniture, except for the built in bookcases filled with books, and there is always mid-morning sunlight pouring in through the windows onto gleaming wood floors. Lovely.

[Google Monster]

Darkness works best for me, And it can co-exist with the external enviroment also when I go in my room.

[Laeskis]

Well now, a couple of posts are falling right in line with the question.
But it's only a couple....I think I shall rephrase the question.


If someone woke up one day, and found themselves 'physically' in your mind; what would it be like for them?
It's an exercise in imagination, so stretch your mind out accordingly. Use any descriptive/subjective/feeling words you want...it's your imagination after all. The only requirement is that you keep it true.

(ex: if you've a happy disposition internally, don't say "they would awake to an incomprehensible darkness, oppression and gloom..." etc.)

[cloakable]

My internal landscape? Generally it looks how I want it to look (duh). Right now, it's a massive city of steel and glass skyscrapers.

[Tatsuboshi]

They would find themselves eerily suspended in limbo, probably seeing only some kind of wispy pervasive fog representing that "concious/subconcious" part of me. It might pulsate with different colors depending on my mood as they hear the acoustic waterfall of my non-visual thoughts. And when I grasp onto a spatial concept the fog would fade away, revealing my mental visualizations. Or perhaps it would coalesce into them. If I was aware of the observer's presence, they'd have to deal with whatever entertaining challenges I might present them with. :devil:


Well now, a couple of posts are falling right in line with the question.
But it's only a couple....I think I shall rephrase the question.


If someone woke up one day, and found themselves 'physically' in your mind; what would it be like for them?
It's an exercise in imagination, so stretch your mind out accordingly. Use any descriptive/subjective/feeling words you want...it's your imagination after all. The only requirement is that you keep it true.

(ex: if you've a happy disposition internally, don't say "they would awake to an incomprehensible darkness, oppression and gloom..." etc.)

[Google Monster]

Sorry no room for physical being in my mind. But their mental being could exist in my realm. Nothing but darkness and no feeling besides comfort and tranqility. But the thing they will enjoy is the thoughts will be heard clearly and undistirbed. Probaly the best time for them to seek out answer to what has been bugging them and to feel at ease with their problems, or to expand their mind by web like thinking.

[Jkrs]

I have several, but the most common one is darkness contained within my body, accompanied by an area of me-ness in my kinesthetic sense (i.e. behind my eyes or along my spine). Visualisations within that space tend to look like someone had photoshopped then just added a flat background, unless something else is specified.

One of the others is a bridge over a marshy area, something like those that one occasionally finds the remains of in similar areas of Britain. Sometimes there's a large central platform; sometimes there isn't. The bridge piles are all in various shapes & materials, usually symbolic. There's forests at either endpoint of the bridge, always quite vague through the haze.

[Horger]

I don't really have a place...

Although when I close my eyes I often see alot of multicolored patterns and images that generate from a single origin, and come towards me.