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Did any of you invest significant time into training image streaming? How much time? Did you do any modifications to make the process work for yourself?

If so did it produce subjective benefits? Did you do any formal tests to see whether it improved your intelligence? Did other people notice a change in yourself?

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+1 Interesting! This is something a lot of people probably have not heard of... – Tom Wijsman Sep 8 '11 at 19:10
I don't have any experience about this subject but I found this and this articles. Hope they help.. – Soner Gönül Sep 9 '11 at 8:28
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@Soner: I'm already aware that the method is advertised to be benefitial. Asking people for personal experiences is a way to validate claims. – Christian Sep 9 '11 at 8:37
I'd vote this up again if I could. – Vic Goldfeld Dec 15 '11 at 19:29
Lacking practical advice to offer, I'd nonetheless like to add that this is part of the premise of the show Chuck. – asfallows Jun 20 '12 at 13:20

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I've never heard it called it by this name. When I was younger and a lot more spiritual, I learned about a program called remote viewing, and was intrigued to literally no end. Supposedly it was the US government's venture into the psychic realm. I'm sure you've seen/heard of the movie "the men who stare at goats." Which is, quite surprisingly, actually a lot closer to reality than fiction. So I actually found these training videos on the Internet, created by one of the General's that was part of the program believe it or not, and attempted to try it out myself. Basically it's like this image streaming technique, but the government was trying to use it to find hostages in wartime countries with varying degrees of peculiar accuracy. Sufficed to say, I never helped the police find any missing persons, but I did learn the art of image streaming!

Ever since then, I've streamed images nightly to help myself fall asleep, and ever so often when combined with the perfect state of relaxed meditation, one can literally control these image streams to gain direct and instant insight into whatever the focus of their meditation. When this happens, I later have no reason to write down and process these experiences, as I have all the information I needed. I don't know whether to attribute this to the remote viewing, or just a very deep meditative state. Anyway, that's my personal experience with image streaming. Always remember visualization is The Master Key! I hope this has somehow helped you further your mental journey! Good luck!


Just did a quick Google search to see if I could find the videos. I just need to clarify that I in no way support this guys agenda or views or whatever he may believe in now days, as the results definitely had some negativity, conspiracy-based view points. Which I always try to stay away from, and you should too!

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While I believe the rest of your answer adds to the discussion, I want to point out that Remote viewing is about using ESP to seek or see things unknown. Such as the hostage finding scenario you describe. As Christian's question itself links image streaming is about finding the answer within one's own subconscious. Although not an expert on either, I do not believe that image streaming would claim to know things beyond the experience of the individual. – Joshua Drake Apr 2 '12 at 16:05
I don't see how "remote viewing" figures into this at all. – Dave Newton Jun 11 '12 at 10:38

Minus the tape-recorder piece of it, I do something like this frequently. I have a background in photo and film, so I find visualization easier anyway. Mindmapping has always been a good tool because it wasn't so linear as other brainstorming methods. While I'm mindmapping, I am constantly visualizing things. Some are related to the topic at hand, some are not. My mindmaps are frequently pictures with word/phrase clusters.

Right now, I'm in the process of designing a dresser. There are some particular design challenges I'm running into. As I was drawing a whole mess of sketches...the usual way I visualize...I had an image of an imploding building enter my mind. No idea why, but I paid attention to it, wrote it down, and then tried to visualize relationships between what I was designing and a collapsing building. I eventually realized that with the design I had, placing a television on top would make it a little more topheavy than I wanted, so I revised my design. The result solved about half of the design issues I was having and created a more pleasing set of lines for me.

At night, I often visualize the details of a space as I drift off to sleep. I try to visualize a variety of places, and not someplace that I see frequently. Things like a cabin at which I vacationed when I was 6. A restaurant in Italy that had great mussels. I visualize the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures, and usually have a dream that involves those spots.

For me, because visual (rather than auditory or verbal) information is such second nature to me, this works really well for me to visualize EVERYTHING. I would suspect, though, like most learning/thinking processes, it's highly individualized and YMMV.

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