Can You Visualize Things in Your Mind??

perhaps he got lost on the word vicualize . what if you said imagine or think about a lemon....what color is it...yellow, what shape is it, now slice it in half. what does the inside look like. or even more difficult things. but choose different words than visualize. perhaps it is confusing to his man brain!!! :D

Mommydoodle could have written my response for me as well. I can visualize anything using my imagination. You're definitely not alone! :)

i would be devastated if i couldn't!
khairete
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Yep, reading a book is like watching a movie in my head. :)

Yes, of course. Everyone does, but not everyone is creative enough to find that gift. I am very creative and VERY visual. Not so much outwardly, but inwardly. I picture what I'm doing in my head, before I even start.

I also have a photographic memory. If I see something once, I pretty much don't forget. Not always a blessing, that one.

He can visualize things in his mind just the same as you. So far as I know everyone can. What you are looking at is a difference in interpretation.

A guy is going to expect that if he is asked to do a task it has an end result where women tend to look at the task as the result. So he is told to visualize a red apple, his mind pulls up a red apple and then nothing happens so he must not be visualizing the apple when he is actually doing the same thing as you, he just doesn't see the purpose.

Explain to him why he is doing it, the purpose, and he will see your apple.
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Sweet mother of pearl! Technical, logical people can visualize better than anyone!! I can see the flow of entire database systems in my head, I have to, I am a data monkey!

Trust me guys can do this just as well as we can but if they don't understand yoga they aren't going to get the purpose.

I can, and I think most people can. But for some people it is very difficult and doesn't come naturally. There is a series of books/research by Lindamood that talk a lot about people's ability to visualize and how it relates to memory and understanding of information. It's pretty interesting (to me at least).

I can visualize things like apples, lemons, clouds, no problem, but when someone says "take a left at the third light, then bear right at the fork, take a sharp right at the CVS, drive about another half mile and make a left on Main St." I am lost beyond lost beyond lost. And don't get me started on checking oil, changing tires, and doing whatever it is you're supposed to do with circuit breakers (break them?).

It's like there's this list of things everybody's supposed to be able to do -- math, spelling, cooking, finance, directions, mechanics, visualizing things, etc. Most people are total failures at one or two.

I had to teach my son.

Come to find, he was memorizing books instead of visualizing. Poor kid.

It can be part of a disorder (sensory integration, sensory processing, visual processing, dyslexia, etc.)... But its fairly rare. Rarer than the parent-disorder.

Also,

Some people think in pictures
Some people think in words
Some people think in both
It can be difficult to switch from one to the other

Also

I "can't" visualize things I think are stupid.
My mind totally rebels.

Have him try to visualize boobies.

If he can't see those in his mind's eye, then Id suspect one of the aforementioned neuro disorders.

I could be wrong but maybe it's not that he can't see something in his mind's eye, but for some, it can be difficult to hold that object in one's mind and focus on it without the mind wandering...and then the thought " focus" leaves... He can probably visualize an apple but that is one thing compared to giving all focus to it.. again, the mind wanders..
and to answer your question, yes I can see things in my mind's eye, but as noted, depending upon how I am feeling (if more stressed) I don't keep the focus, so the object fades..

Of course I can visualize things in my mind. Everyone can. Some people just don't know they can. For some it comes quite easily for others not so much. I've known people that say they don't see anything in their minds. I have a lot of experience with this, teaching it and such.
Some really do see in their minds, but when told to visualize something they think it should be this crystal clear image and because it isn't they say they don't see it. You can actually feel an image or vision just as well as visualize or see one and for some people it's much easier to feel it. It's not important that he see it clearly or at all, but that if he wants to continue this to just go with it and let himself feel it, sense it. I've seen people that say they cannot see anything in their minds and after weeks or months of guided visualizations they will suddenly have a break through and see images.
The first time I heard someone tell me they see nothing I was taken aback for a minute because to me it seemed such an easy thing. I knew not everyone would see things in the exact same way but I thought everyone did. The propensitiy is there for everyone even if a person doesn't know it.

Some people are more audio than visual, some people feel more or just have a knowing. Some people do see in their mind but don't really realize it. It's not a matter of one being strange or not, it's just what it is. All things being equal. He knows what a red apple is, a cloud, and so he's still connecting.

Everything in this world has first been a thought and a visualization before it became manifested as a physical reality.

For me as much as I've worked with spiritual visualization and I'm very good at it, I am more of an audio person and sensing person as to how I recieve knowledge, how I work and always have been.

p.s. my husband and son are engineers and are very good at visualizing and my other son is very science minded and too is very good at visualizing.

Yes, I can visualize very well in my mind. That is why I am so good at art. And why I was great at Organic Chemistry in college! I can visualize a compound with all it's parts, turn it around in 3D, add and subtract elements from it and figure out the answers. I think that is fascinating that your husband says he cannot visualize something in his mind. Really? Does he have dreams he remembers? That is just very interesting.

Yes I can.

Maybe hubby was not relaxed enough to be in the zone!

My husband and I both can - BUT we have talent for visualizing different things.
He can picture a complete electrical layout (circuit diagram) and make it work (he's an electrical engineer).

I can match colors PERFECTLY - when I buy clothes I can buy different items (pants, shirt, sweater, whatever) in different years from different places (without having the item I'm trying to match with me) and match up colors so that when you lay them out next to each other the colors match up as if they had been bought together from the very same dye lot.
Guess it's kind of a visual sort of perfect pitch, for lack of a better term.

I can, but it's not naturally the first thing that pops into my mind. If someone tells me to think of a red apple, my mind immediately sees the words like they are written on paper. I just have to pay attention and change the way I'm thinking for a second - then I can visualize it.

I've always learned best from reading. I remember almost anything I read - I guess my mind is just focused on words!

I can see things in my mind. I am a creative person and very visually oriented. My hubby on the other hand is a very technical type and he is unable to visualize things in his mind. The concept of that is foreign for him. If I am doing a project, I need to see it 90% complete in my head or I can't even begin. (I need to know what I want it to look when it's done before I start working on it). You are not alone :)

Yep. It helped a lot in science classes. Even now, I picture a map in my head when I'm trying to figure out the best way to get somewhere.

My kids think I can READ minds, but that's a different question! ;)

Nope, I cannot visualize--never have been able to, even as a child. I'm a concrete thinker. When some people can visualize the setting that an author describes, I can't. I need the movie. ;-)

I wish I could, but no, I can't. I have tried & tried and I literally cannot visalize things like you are mentioning. When I come up with ideas on how to rearrange furniture, for example, I can't visualize what it will look like...so i move furniture repeatedly just to see if it "looks" right. And I keep moving it until its how I like it.

I can visualize very well...as soon as I read "red apple, a giant yellow lemon, etc.) I saw them in my head! I also do this when something is bothering me...I visualize a closet, or a trunk or something I can close and lock and put away...and I put the thoughts that are upsetting me in the chest, lock it up and put it away...it usually helps to mute my anxiety a lil.

I don't think my husband would be able to "visualize" in the same way...he is more of a "reality" person...if that makes sense. Hmmmm...interesting...I'd have to ask him!

What an interesting question...I always assumed everyone could picture things in their mind! Hmm...learned something new today.

Along this line, I've always wondered what babies "thoughts" look like, and also how people who are born blind and deaf think.

This is it. Is he the provider and bill payer? He worries and things on his mind. He can visualize but it will take time and alot of temps to do it. He needs to be able to put everything aside and focus. He probably didnt get the yoga either once he can put his busy aside and take in his now he will be able to feel the greatness of it all. He needs to read the power of now by eckhardt tolle. You should do very good book of not only inspiration but how to focus to the now. Love it! Good luck. He needs to if possible during the busy day maybe even at work take a ten min meditation. It's like a twenty min nap its just enough to revive the mood n help out in difficult situations.