Blindfold chess and chess imaginative skills

I have always found blindfold chess extremely exciting though I am pathetic at it. It's a brilliant mental exercise.Isn't it ? It' also cool to imagine 3d chess boards and play the game out in your mind without actually seeing the board.I want to improve my chess imagining skills.Please do share your ideas with me.There is one mental exercise that I love.I pick random positions,observe them for a short duration and try to play it out in my mind.Would this help ?Please give me other ideas too.

It's good of you to practice blindfold play, as it certainly helps visualisation. Here's some more resources that could be of use:

http://en.chessfish.com/content/chess-blindfold-trainer/

http://chesseye.alexander-fleischer.de/ 

Thank you robert

feynarum, I have also used the links that Robert provided, but my favorite site by far is http://en.lichess.org/training/coordinate

I hope you enjoy it. I'm also keen to master my visualization chess skills 

I will check up on your link.Please do share your own ideas with me :)

I remember the first time I sat down and visualised an entire Grandmaster game from the move list alone (I think it was Botvinnik vs someone) it exhausted my brain so much that I couldn't concentrate on anything for the rest of the day! Thanks for the links btw :)

@Catastrophe - that's awesome. Hopefully one day I'll be able to do the same. Annotating games is already helping with my visualization.

@Feynarum, my ideas are basically training in that site and annotating games. There is another idea (not my own) for improving tactical/strategical ideas which involves getting a master's game and after the opening phase, write down 3 of your best moves for each move. Score yourself 1 points if what you wrote down was the move the master played, and 0 points if none of your moves were right.