How did William Blake describe the visions he experienced from childhood?

William Blake experienced visions from early infancy, which he regarded as a natural faculty that all people possess but often lose by failing to cultivate it. He spoke of these experiences in an ordinary, unemphatic tone, treating them as trivial matters rather than extraordinary events.1

Throughout his life, Blake maintained that he did not perceive the physical world in a conventional sense. Instead of seeing a simple "round disk of fire" when the sun rose, he described seeing an "innumerable company of the heavenly host" praising God. His childhood visions included seeing God’s head in a window at age four, encountering the prophet Ezekiel in the fields, and witnessing a tree filled with angels whose wings appeared like stars.1

These visions served as the primary inspiration for his poetry and art, as he felt he was under the constant direction of "messengers from heaven".1