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We experience things in many ways. You see stuff with your eyes open or closed, you touch things in the same space as you, and your whatever soul/spirit has it's own ways of experience that are not tied to the immediate matrix bounds
I don't see shit when I close my eyes lol. Aphantasia.
Aphantasia here as well, at least with active, intentional, picturing. But practicing has made progress and that's why a clear experience from elsewhere is super interesting
If you have aphantasia, could it be that you imagined those rings and you just don't know how imagination feels? Something like "Is my red the same as your red?", most people know how imagination works, but you don't know how to interpret it?
I kinda get what you're going for
My imagination with aphantasia is non visual contexts. Meditation, kinda like passive "imagination"/intuition/receiving from the source can modify that if you're doing like a guided thing or add intent ("golden light/purple aura" stuff)
This entity/object is a different kind. Clear, less of a projected image and more like a this is how it is if you'd be there.
For another commenter I mentioned like remembering where you put your keys
Huh, that's interesting - when I imagine things it is almost always clear, not like a projected image, and definitely how it is/would be like if I was there. I have trained my imagination for running D&D games so that I can describe a scene better for my players.
I often imagine I go on trips to my imagined D&D setting, including things down to the details of feeling the woodgrain of the bar where I am sipping on an imaginary rum.
I wonder if your experience with aphantasia has made what I find normal to be a near mystical experience for you?
Edit: added paragraph breaks.
Practicing can alleviate aphantasia and it matches how people describe an internal screen. Like your watching stuff inside your head. It's kinda flat and small and contained in a way, distinctly different than how people do out of body experiences for example.
Also one difference I've noted in descriptions and myself is that imagining can repeat. You imagine something and can do it multiple times quite accurately. Whereas an experience gets kinda corrupted, lost in memory. I have no way to repicture this event with my mind/imagination so I took to 3d tools.
I don't see much as mystical anymore.
to achieve that insight it takes years of meditative practice, it doesn't just happen on it's own. That insight happens during action of meditation, just as we take action of seeing.
Yeah years of practice sounds right adding up but I don't associate this immediately with meditative states or purposeful cosmic traveling stuff. Kind of a blink during something else