Meditation Visualization Exercises

I can’t visualize, is there something wrong with me?

I know it sounds ridiculous, but as long as I can remember I’ve never been able to picture things, when I read a book I don’t picture the characters like many people seem to do, I don’t picture anything, it’s just words, I’ve tried many times to visualize, I’ve tried meditation quite a lot and all I get is darkness. Is this common? Am I just not able to really let myself go? I’ve tried a lot of exercises to help with visualization nothing has helped. The only time I can picture things is in my dreams. Is there any way to open myself up to visualize?

I think I sort of don’t do this either. I can see places, but I don’t see people in my head. For instance, I have read To kill a mockingbird hundreds of times, and I know all the streets and places, but I couldn’t describe the characters, they are just people. They exist by name only. They usually have bodies but I kinda skip the faces….that sounds really odd written down.

I could never do that whole “picture lying on a beach…” thing either, I am far to active to slow my head down like that. It just doesn’t work for me.

I think I must be very wordy and not very visual. Can you draw? I can’t draw a stickman. Maybe you’re like me.

If you listen to the TV without looking at it, can you follow the story, but then if you then sit down and watch it, do you know who anyone is? I find that when I am cooking, I know the story intricately, but when I try to watch it, I can’t tell who anyone is any more, it’s all about the voices and what they’re saying.

no limits relaxation and visualization exercise