Florence Delprat

Writing is independent of visualising. I can speak with my eyes closed, so why I couldn't write without mind's eye ? I have my inner voice which speak to me all the time. I often pray, in my mind with words or with my real voice. I sing my emotionnals (I create instantanely new lyrics). So, it is easy for me to write ! And with paper I can ordonnered my ideas better. I precise, it's more hard for me to tell a story to a friend that write a story - but this fact concern my others handicaps (autism / other cognitif problem). When I discuss with someone, I forgot to recontextualize a situation and so, my interlocutor often gets lost in my story.

Hello,  One time, a friend had tried to hypnotize me. He is just an amateur, not a professional. At this period, I didn't know the "afantasia". So, I had listened his voice, closed my eyes (or not, I don't remember), and I tried to visualize. I had believed that I visualized, so it was not important for me do not see, I was believing to live a normal experience. My friend said me to visualize a forest, a house and other things and after few minutes he said me to tell him the memorie which was present in my mind at this precise moment. So I described a memorie. And he asked me what this memorie symbolised for me, I didn't know but after another time of reflexion (This memorie is confused sorry, I'm not sure of all steps) I had a memorie in my mind, clearly in my mind with color, with all thing. It was just huge (and very emotional). So for me, hyponose can to help me to visualize, but I didn't know if the memorie is a real or not, I'm afraid about this story because the memorie is wasn't a good memorie... And after this experience I was traumatized for a long time... Maybe I might retry. I'm curious about this, about my memories and my afantasia. P.S. : Sorry if my english is not very good, I'm french.