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- 1y ago
2 quick questions - Mental Imagery
1. Can you imagine things and still be aware/see your surroundings? 2. Are they in first person
1. Can you imagine things and still be aware/see your surroundings? 2. Are they in first person
I can. Everyone is different though. I know someone who can't picture anything, not even dream pictures. That to me was insane to discover as I had no idea that was possible
@Invalid You can to what? Both? Sorry for asking
@ObsessivePenguin Yeh I can imagine myself in 3rd person too if I try and still be aware. What kind of things are you talking about, have you got an example of what you mean?
@Invalid Sure so one day I was in my kitchen and I imagined a horrid scenario in first person of me hurting someone outside Yet I could still see my kitchen
@ObsessivePenguin Brains are weird. I've had similar stuff like that. Took a recreational drug 10 years ago and the experience was pretty much like that. No way it could possibly happen as it was physically impossible but felt real. Was like wtf was that. I just find it funny because it's so ridiculous
@Invalid Ever without drugs or?
@ObsessivePenguin Yeh, but not as vivid
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
does anyone else get really vivid intrusive thoughts of the person who you are talking to (or close to physically) just randomly striking you violently? i keep getting them when i’m just talking to my dad one on one in the car & i get a flash of intrusive thoughts of him grabbing my hair & shoving my face in the dashboard. it gets me so anxious :’)
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