Is it just me...

[Jasper]

Sometimes I'm daydreaming, and without even closing my eyes I can see whatever I'm imagining.

It is distressing.

[NotPublished]

Hmm ... Is it more like you lose focus with your eyes, even though they are open; your not really concetrating but you somehow vaguely see what your thinking - but its not really the same as seeing with your eyes. (bad explanation)

I have gotten that a few times, when I'm on the train I'll just gaze out at anything.

[Jasper]

It's like a weak hallucination.  It seems like while part of my mind can see what is really there, part of my mind is superimposing bizarre imagery over it. 

[NotPublished]

Oh then no. Thats cool!

[Jasper]

It would be seriously uncool if I couldn't control it.

So I think I'll avoid doing it too much.

[NotPublished]

It might be worth looking into .. could be fun

http://www.schizophrenia.com/schizoph/hallucontrol.html - didn't read it yet .. but oh dear?

[Jasper]

I have taken a few courses in psychology, and done a lot of personal study as well as working with schizophrenia sufferers firsthand.  I am roughly the right age for a psychotic break, but vivid imagination is not a precursor.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlysigns.htm

I don't have any of these signs.

Which is a relief.

Still, it is not without trepidation that I approach the phenomenon.

[Jasper]

Hahaaa!  Fun!

I like pretending to have x-ray vision and targeting reticles.

[Cain]

Perhaps you are a Cylon?

Number Six/Caprica Six also revealed that Cylons exist by 'projecting' an environment of their choice on the real/physical world.

[LMNO]

Sometimes I'm daydreaming, and without even closing my eyes I can see whatever I'm imagining.

It is distressing.

I do that.  It's not so bad.

[Richter]

Yeah, likely just a sign of a strong capability for visualization / visual memory.  I'll do this too when working on something, stare off into space while I play CAD studio inside the brain.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I thought everyone did this. I can't do overlays, though - that'd be awesome. I can either look at the real world or something I'm imagining. When I concentrate on one the other goes away.

Only time I've done overlays is when tripping and/or hallucinating

[Freeky]

It seems like while part of my mind can see what is really there, part of my mind is superimposing bizarre imagery over it. 

I can do this.

[Doktor Howl]

It seems like while part of my mind can see what is really there, part of my mind is superimposing bizarre imagery over it. 

I can do this.

I do it regardless.

[Jasper]

Omigawd, I was listening to this 'here to go' remix in the car, and I got this great music video of vector arrows popping out of everything, and equations flying all over the place.

So cool.