Images inside other images

[DeepPurple]

Something I have been doing for along time is looking at things and seeing other things inside of it. Like I can be looking a picture of trees and I'll see something that resembles something else. It's not just pictures either. It could be a wall, shadow, curtain or anything that has a pattern on it and I'll see something else besides the pattern. I don't know if there is a name for it.

I wondered if this should be in the how you think thread? However no real thoughts accompany it besides, "That looks like a ______ ."

[aelan]

is that kind of like when you see things in the clouds, only with other ordinary objects too? I see things in the leaves of trees, like the way the leaves are arranged makes it look like something, like a face for example. And other random objects I come across, especially in nature tend to look like something, like that branch that looked like a ferret, and the snowman that ended up looking like a skull (I was the only one who could see that- it was kinda freaky..)

[niffer]

Well, yes, I do that a lot too.

[DeepPurple]

Few questions then:

Does anyone here think that they do it more than the average person?
Does anyone think this is more common with iNtuitives?
Does anyone know the scientific name for it?
Do you generally have an overactive imagination?
Does anyone here think it's just someone's overactive imagination and is nothing out of the ordinary and has absolutely nothing to do with the way people think or their intuition and reveals nothing about the person?

[Hdier]

Few questions then:

Does anyone here think that they do it more than the average person?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. On average yes, though.

Does anyone think this is more common with iNtuitives?

To my understanding, it is an aspect of Ni, so I would have to say yes, most definitely.

Does anyone know the scientific name for it?

Absolutely no clue at all whatsoever.

Do you generally have an overactive imagination?

Hmmmm, does having a fully developed town, with three fully developed people and one more that is developing inside of your head count? I visit the town sparatically, and I go to the two people for different reasons: one helps me vent anger and review the past, one I go to for guidance, and the other one is much a mystery. He/she (not sure about gender) hides in the shadows and whispers things to me. Very unreliable, though I will follow his (her?) advice when it feels right, as well as on the rare occasion when he (she?) provides sound reasoning. The third one is still and embryo in a giant test tube, so I'm not sure what she's going to be yet. My guess would be some sort of mutant, though. I haven't been to the town lately, so I don't know if there has been any major events their, but I am friends with the shopkeeper (he looks up to me) and get a discount there.

Does that count as an overactive imagination? (All of that is true)

Does anyone here think it's just someone's overactive imagination and is nothing out of the ordinary and has absolutely nothing to do with the way people think or their intuition and reveals nothing about the person?

No. I'd say that S's are less likely to, simply because in my experience they tend to not (to quote a wise, if a bit senile, ape) "look beyond what they see", in the metaphorical sense as well as the literal. They also seem to 'get' metaphors and similes less, though I could be wrong about this part.

[Circe]

Does anyone here think that they do it more than the average person?

For the most part, absolutely. However, I'm not the average person (what is average?), so I'm not one to say.

Does anyone think this is more common with iNtuitives?

I'd assume so, yes. Our freewheeling, interconnected thought process seems to lead to these types of "images within images."

Does anyone know the scientific name for it?
Wish I did. If there isn't a term, we should invent one.

Do you generally have an overactive imagination?
Probably. I daydream, vividly, all the time. I don't have any developed people in my mind, but I hold imaginary conversations with random characters and real life people of my choice. When there's a problem involving other people, I also have a habit of imagining all possible outcomes, and the interactions these outcomes lead to between me and the other people (this is often where the imaginary conversations come in. . .)

Does anyone here think it's just someone's overactive imagination and is nothing out of the ordinary and has absolutely nothing to do with the way people think or their intuition and reveals nothing about the person?
I don't think that it's unnatural at all, but I do think that it can give insights into the other person's thought processes.

[Hdier]

The mapping out of all possibilities is either Ni or Ti, I forget which. If anyone remembers off the top of their heads, will you please inform me?

[phoenix]

When I look at something with a tight pattern, usually on a large flat surface, I often see the same pattern superimposed as if the image of the surface has been moved closer. Then another image will appear between me and the image I visualized, and again and again until it seems like the surface is only inches from my face. I can even get claustrophobic from it because it can take a lot of concentration to get back to viewing the surface in its original position.

I love playing with how my eyes see things. I use to enjoy putting light pressure on my closed eyes so I could watch the patterns that popped up under my eyelids. I'm sure there are other examples, but those are the two visual tricks I can immediately think of from my childhood.

I'm sure they were both horrible for me.

[BadMojo]

Something I have been doing for along time is looking at things and seeing other things inside of it. Like I can be looking a picture of trees and I'll see something that resembles something else. It's not just pictures either. It could be a wall, shadow, curtain or anything that has a pattern on it and I'll see something else besides the pattern. I don't know if there is a name for it.

I wondered if this should be in the how you think thread? However no real thoughts accompany it besides, "That looks like a ______ ."
I don't see it in pictures, but I hear it in music. This means that I can sit and relax and hear some music, and then one snippet in the song makes me think my phone is ringing.
Also, often when I hear a song, I start to hum another song to the same rhythm and melody of the first song, without really thinking about it.

[DeepPurple]

I don't see it in pictures, but I hear it in music. This means that I can sit and relax and hear some music, and then one snippet in the song makes me think my phone is ringing.
Also, often when I hear a song, I start to hum another song to the same rhythm and melody of the first song, without really thinking about it.

That happens to me too. It usually sounds like someone is calling my name or banging.

I did a whole bunch of searching and came up with nothing really. I found a bunch of stuff on illusions. It's actually called a fiction illusion. Definition sounds about right except no drugs and I'm not schizophrenic.

To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I found this site while I was searching. I saw everything quite easily except for the old woman/young girl's face. Took me about 15 minutes to see it.

I also ran across this artist Octavio Ocampo. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Fiction illusions are the perception of objects that are genuinely not there to all but a single observer, such as those induced by schizophrenia or hallucinogenic drugs.

[ThrowerMatt]

I used to be a lot better at this when I was younger. I could almost always see an image inside an image. However as I get older, it's becoming harder and harder for me to do.