r/hyperphantasia

Does anyone know if medication can lower this? I have come to the point where I'm tired of intrusive thoughts and remembering weird stuff for it pop back into my head when I'm trying to think of something else.

I don't always feel pain, maybe a dull sense of it. But the vivid nature of my imagination sometimes causes me to lean or flinch like it was a deeply rooted memory. I've had to ground myself because sometimes it's so believable that I have negative emotions against whomever I was imagining. Like parental figures and friends. Scenarios like fights and arguments and emotionally straining events that just don't feel good at all. It usually has to play through before it stops and it's hard for me to fully stop. Like hydroplaning on bald tires. You feel that drift even when you're pumping the breaks. Sometimes It's cruel realities where I find a loved one deceased. To sometimes better ones where my favorite pet was back with me again. I feel the emotional toll and it's anxiety inducing, sad, angering most of the time.

Otherwise I have delved deeply into fantasy and I have awesome views of valleys, castles and sometimes super unexplainable and exotic surroundings. Or characters, mechanical things, and more. Like itty bitty pieces from movies/games and my favorite shapes slapped into a geometric landscape/item I can see.

I looked it up and I realized due to how I sometimes flinch, and had a hard time deciphering reality from memory, like the additional negativity compounds an uncomfortable feeling around certain people. Until they're finally in my presence and it's not as bad as I imagined.

I haven't really used it in art because it's like a constantly moving picture that feeds off of actual memories. I am a really good artist though and sometimes If i focus really hard I can get a vague shape for a few minutes for a draft on my sketch.

(Could be something else but:) Additively sometimes I can calculate how something feels beneath my boot through or the texture of something before eating just by visual analysis. Its odd... Like my tongue remembers something that I've never had.

Can anyone express this as Hyperphantasia?

Anytime someone is talking or telling a story, I actively visualize what they are saying and the scene plays out like a movie in my head. I’m just now realizing how distracting that is sometimes and how maybe it causes me to be a bad listener sometimes since I get distracted seeing what they say. Sometimes it’s easier to not look at the person i’m talking to because it is less distracting for me to hear all of what they say if I don’t pay attention to their face too. It also makes things uncomfy when someone tells my about their imitate life because I literally see all of it. I feel like sometimes the movie like visualizing can cause me to see more instead of hearing and then I miss some of what’s said. (Because I was watching the movie in my head that’s being described and lost focus on their words) Anyway to turn the visualizing down some so that I can be a better listener?

First post here, literally just found out that hyperphantasia is a thing, and I'm just curious to what extent some people have it, I imagine it would be so cool to structure entire cinematic movies as if you were watching it on a screen and had god power over each pixel.

So anyway, first off, what exactly qualifies as hyperphantasia? The apple spinning test seems far to simple, it's just a thing I've always been able to do with ease, I thought everyone could. I can even imagine eating it, the sound it makes, the texture, if it's dry or if it's wet, not really the taste, but the texture in the mouth. I often manage to make music in my head too, generally based off a song that I can recall and it will slowly devolve/evolve into something else entirely. But rarely, I produce something from scratch, and when I do it's typically a banger.

I'm not nearly this good with visuals though, I can't create anything from scratch(unless it's somewhat simple, like making the apple yellow, though the yellow apple tends to become a yellow bell pepper after a moment, or if I lose focus). What I can't do, is invent a whole new human with consistent features, or create a detailed fictional vehicle, sci-fi power armour or space ship that I have no baseline for), and if it's been awhile since I've seen something it may be more difficult or impossible to imagine it clearly.

If I superimpose a character into reality, say a character I've seen datailed art of recently, a space marine from warhammer 40k(specifically a black templar)in this case, he sometimes pops in and out of existence and/or is transparent if I try to properly superimpose him over active reality(as opposed to just imagining a scene that looks identical to reality with the Templar present, I can have him pick up real things, however it's very difficult(borderline imposible) to erase the real object while he picks up the fictional clone of said real object(so there aren't two visible objects, which would obviously break physics and immersion), typically if in my peripheral, I can make the real object vanish until I blink, then it will be back.

Also, I can clearly imagine an 8 foot tall Black Templar, in his full power armour smashing through my living room drywall, making eye contact with me while mentioning that the heretic shall burn, as he begins to menacingly walk toward me, power sword drawn, highly detailed blue energy wrapped around the blade and with dope sound effects. I've imagined this with enough detail to spike my heart rate with legitimate, although mild fear. Similar feeling to waking up from a nightmare. Though this wasn't superimposed, it felt like it, the whole scene was fabricated even if it looked like my living room, and I was physically present in my living room, but if someone walked into my vision, I wouldn't have registered their presence. I've also simulated pain during a day dream where I was stabbed clean through the gut, the pain wasn't nearly as severe as would be realistic, but it was enough to pull me out of the clouds and check myself for legitimate injury.

So do I have hyperphantasia, or just decent typical phantasia? I want to make my imagination even better if possible, like when I was 8yo, just thought it would be cool.

Anyway, thanks to whoever read all that.

I don't know if you guys are familiar with fire emblem three houses. It's a video game for switch. In the game there's a school called garreg mach monastery. I've always been obsessed with that castle. Just recently I found out they have a vr port where you can explore the castle , but in v r.

I've been going there every day in VR, then later on in the day i try going there in my mind.

Will it get more real when I imagine it if I keep visiting it??

This has been the case for me my whole life, and I am wondering if it's the same for anyone else. When i do tasks that require repetitive motions (such as scrubbing a counter), aside from the actual noise it makes (if any) my brain starts to make its own sound that goes with that motion. This can go for seeing repetitive motion too, like watching a bunny hop, or even when reading. For me, the sound is almost always mechanical.

Does anyone else experience this? If so, do you think it's connected to or specific to hyperphantasia, or is it something the majority of humans possess? I tried looking it up and didn't get any accurate results.

So when I sleep, I don't fully have control over what I dream about (I used to but idk what happened), so anything can happen, from fun adventures to bad events that cause me to not be able to sleep in my room.

This morning I woke up shaken, and I think I just got traumatised by this short dream. I won't go into details because it was horrible (>!but it involved a cat and a cliff!<), but I need to know if it is possible and has anyone experienced it before?

okay so i want to share this bc i think a lot of people are doing the right things in the wrong order and getting frustrated when nothing seems to work and that was exactly me for three years.

the order of operations that i wish someone had given me from the start:

step one, fix ur barrier first before adding anything i was trying to fade hyperpigmentation on skin that was dehydrated and slightly compromised and nothing was absorbing or working properly, two months of just gentle cleanser, hyaluronic acid, lightweight moisturiser before touching any actives and the subsequent actives worked so much better on skin that was actually in a good state to receive them

step two, sort ur spf before expecting anything to fade this is genuinley not optional, not a nice to have, if ur not wearing spf 50 every single day without exception nothing u put on ur skin to fade pigmentation will work properly bc uv keeps reactivating the melanin production, i had to fully accept this before anything started moving

step three, one active at a time starting with the most evidence backed alpha arbutin is the most reliably effective brightening ingredient i tried, started with that alone for two months before adding anything else, saw more movement in those two months than in two years of using multiple things simultaneously

step four, patience measured in months not weeks this is genuinley a six to twelve month journey at minimum, anything promising faster results for significant pigmentation is not being honest with u

step five, add tranexamic acid as a supporting ingredient once ur seeing results from the above for melasma specifically this combination is genuinley effective but only on prepared skin with consistent spf protection

the order genuinley matters as much as the ingredients.

has anyone else found that changing the order rather than the products made the difference?

Okay first let me explain how I duplicate this every single time or almost every single time. Basically what I do is I go to bed. I lie on my left side, (I ALWAYS go to sleep on my right side), and while I'm lying on my left side trying to wind down to get to sleep I'm reading reddit posts and the theme on my phone is the black theme with white writing (basically dark theme).

When I think I am tired enough to go to sleep. I turn my screen off, turn over to my RIGHT side, put my phone on my nightstand and then close my eyes, and that's when I see it. What I am seeing is a "thing" that looks otherworldly. Basically what it looks like is a portal or an entity that is hard to describe in human terms.

Best way I can describe it is a circular thing that looks organic in nature and it has these little "fluttering" things inside of it. Another way of putting it would be like, if you had a 5 gallon white bucket of minnows in it, and you looked down into the bucket and the minnows are in there just floating in place, but you can see their little fins fluttering non-stop.

One day it was very vivid and I could see it very well and the outer sides of this thing, or outer ring was kind of moving, or undulating as if it were alive. So what the hell am I seeing? Am I looking into the pit of hell or what?!? After I see this thing, it usually only lasts about 30 seconds and then slowly fades away.

I've been living with this phenomena for like 5 years now and wondering if I should go get a CAT scan to see if its a tumor or something. I am hoping someone else is seeing the same thing and I am not alone.

Please help if you have any idea (other than "youre crazy, youre breathing carbon monoxide gas in your home). I have moved several times and its only affecting me, not my wife, and this phenomena has traveled with me, so its not CM gas.

I've experimented with this and it happens randomly (sometimes but rarely doesnt happen at all), but every time I go to bed I do the same routine. Here is the data I have compiled thus far:

I do not drink, smoke or do drugs - so its not that

I do not take medication for anything

I do not have a history of mental illness or hallucinating

It happens ONLY when I am lying on my right side

It happens ONLY when I head to bed to go to sleep

It doesn't always happen, happens about 90% of the time though

It's been happening for about 5 years now (started after the Covid thing)

It has happened across several addresses or locales, so its nothing environmental, that I can tell

It isnt stress, or any mental thing I can think of

I have not talked to a Dr about this yet

Thanks in advance for serious responses. <3

I can imagine a variety of things for prolonged periods of time. I did the little apple test to see if I have this hyperphantasia thing, I had the apple imagined on a plate, fall over and explode. However, the imagination of that event wasn't COMPLETELY permanent. It would flicker out abit, do I have it or nah?