earlier this year after months of practice i was able to look at something and manipulate it with my mind in my mind. for example if at a red light without closing my eyes i could look at the car in front of me and see it explode, drive off, vanish, fly, anything that i could think of! i thought it was awesome but after doing this for a couple of weeks i got scared and thought that if i kept at it that i might really make those things happen in real life. it wasnt just with random objects, i could see the driver of the car and people on the sidewalk reacting to what was going on in each scenario as well. its been almost a whole year since ive tried this and after losing a fight with boredom a while ago, i realized that i cant do it anymore. was it the beginnings of some sort of power or skill or did i just have an overactive imagination?

The latter.

yeah i figured as much but this is the place to discuss such things...

Well, it certainly sounds like you have a powerful imagination. You were visualizing scenarios, and visualisation is something that improves the more you do it, so I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to get back into it.

you need to reopen your mind let the thoughts flow, maybe your trying too hard?

im guessing that fear is the main thing keeping me from doing it now. if you thought you could really make an airplane fall out of the sky just by visualizing it, youd be a bit more cautious next time too.

That would be awesome to be able to do that.

Unfortunately such powers do not exist beyond the realm of imagination.

I suppose something like that could be interesting, as long as you keep it in the realm of imagination!
Thinking something like that could really happen might get people worrying about you.

But, you seem to realize that it is you're collective imagination! So I don't see anything wrong with what
you're doing.


Regards,
Tom

Amazing, with that "skill" you can watch movies without watching it on TV/computer

try focusing on the positive then, visualize yourself winning tatslotto ( not too much money though, it seems to destroy people in many ways)

the only movie i'd be watching would be 'the day after tomorrow' with those bleak visuals

man i have to say

you must have a sharp mind to create that effect

your like lucid daydreaming

and think how awesome it is you can imagine reactions of people allows you to prepare from all angles great for planning parties and stratagies

and pondering alternate realities

just do your self this favor dont go Alice in wonderland on us

I would go with the advice to try it one something positive!

Lol

I do this all the time walking through shopping centres and visualise it blowing up. Like watching a movie in my head. I like my imagination it can be quite fun to play with.

I do the reactions of people to. my favourite is walking through the shops and imagining how you'd storm the place in a military attack. It took a while to do but I figured out how to do it with my eyes open almost as well as i can with my eye's closed. It comes in handy for film units in drama etc.

"Lucid Daydreaming" I like it lol.

ive never tried this with my eyes closed

Much easier to visualise with your eyes closed. Eyes closed I can visualize it pretty much down to every bullet notch wheras Eyes open I can get down to about the rifling marks.

This is weird? I do this all the time, but don't blow things up in my mind. I guess I'm just not violent like that. One of my favorite things to do is 'erase' powerlines and billboards from the landscape. They actually vanish from my conciousness as I drive along. (shrug) I wouldn't think this kind of imagination is that odd ???

mothman i like your style of building tactical skill
ive done that since goldeneye
just afraid people would look at me weird

and Purplos try imagining the landscape with a huge makeover like say imperial capital
gardens every where, towers to protect the city on the horizen, marked by a wall the chinese would envy
troops with a discipline to shame the swiss, and a manmade river to irregate water through the town, also acting as a moatm then draining down the falls into a harbor where the navy and fishing boats rest

Well, I can imagine stuff like that easily enough (I'm a fiction writer. It is required.) but I don't think I would want to actually alter the landscape to something that extreme. I like knowing where I am going. Hard to walk out on the battlements of an imagined city that appears to be real when you are really in suburban NJ.

im not an alice

i just like to conceive archetecture as it would appear

not play on it [until built for real]

our host should try writing if he already doesnt or LEGO

it will be very safe to try it and keep trying it. It can develop into a power if kept there long enough but you won't be able to kill anyone

I wonder if this has anything to do with the mind processing what we see before we actually see it. Because when you do it with your eyes open you almost see it in front of you although you can see what is also there. Thats why I think closing your eyes helps, because there is no other visual "interferance".

Purplos I write fiction to! Not profesionally yet. I hope to incorporate my writing into one of the jobs I hope to do (like the lady who writes the TV series "Bones"). The leading on the list at the moment is Criminal Psychology.

EDIT: Also when I read books I end up forgetting I'm reading. My brain sorta reads the words, turns them into a video so I never remmember individual words sorta thing. So for me readding a book and watching a movie arent much differance in time either. (I can read at about 15-20 pages of a hardcover sized book in a minute without speed reading and 30+ speed reading. But normal reading gives me a better "movie" lol.

Because of this it really annoys me when I realise I'm reading cause I end up missing 2 pages of the "movie" until I get back into the mode.

This is completely opposite to when I read poems or something shorter. Because I can remmember Scripts and Poems word for word after reading them 3 times or less depending on the length.

i thought anyone can imagine things so vividly, so its not common i guess im lucky

among visualzing or daydreaming without closming my eyes I'm always "watching" movies of songs that I'm listening to. If only I had the knowledge and skill to make some of these music videos they would be awesome. Power to ze imagination!!

i have a theory on imagination being so realistic

as we all know the brain constantly sorts every scratch of sensual data via nerves

one day i was thinking about this when my hears began to ring. instantly my mind mind likened to a signal test on the radio [you know the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeb sound]

that got me thinking what if our imagination is a more conciously prepared signal test.

in theory i beleif practice could actually allow one to create their own virtual reality
[addictions to it id call pulling an Alice]

[maybe this explains some mental illnesses and cases of autism]

I don't quite get the imagination as a test signal thing.....

But... I do think it possible for people to sink into fantasy worlds inside their minds. During a very traumatic period in my life, I had an internal world I escaped to regularly. (It was however, fully internal and not really what is being talked about here).

I have an austic son and he is definitely busy on a level that I cannot comprehend. What I mean is that it is obvious there is a lot going on in his mind, but that much of it does not pertain to our world. At times, he resents being brought into this world too.

(And no, I am not saying that autistic kids are from another dimension or aliens or anything!)

i understand im autistic as well.
i am either blessed or cursed with Asperger's Syndrome.

My cousin has it. It has hurt him his whole life.Kept him from achieving things. Hope it hasn't done that to you. I still don't believe you have powers, but I can empathize with you.

I hope you are not assuming that you have special powers with this autism! I really don't think it would be very nice
of anyone to say such a thing.

hahaha
powers, abilities im not sure
i can take things apart in my mind.
and when i sleep i am instructed on what it means
probally a form of lucid dreaming while still thinking of a problem.

it usually happens when i absorb to much info [when your mind goes numb] before sleeping.

I will agree with that! Dreams can be a very powerful thing. And, to some they can even seem very real, (To Real!)

Vivid imagination! But hey, imagination is a good thing, and if channelled into art etc, who knows what you could achieve.

My son is at the opposite end of the spectrum to Asperger's.

And yeah... lots of people think "Rainman" and that all autistic people are savants who can do weird number tricks and remember what the weather was like every day for 100 years or whatever.