Meditation x-ray vision

[FraterFraxinus]

So recently I started meditating with a blindfold and after some time (usually about 30min) I can somewhat "see" through the blindfold if I move my arms in front of my eyes. I tested also using a pillow and blanket, which i can also "see"/perceive. Not crisp but i can make out the contours. I also tested if the blindfolds might let a little light through to make that possible by shining a flashlight at my face and nope - no light passes that blindfold.

My working hypothesis is that I just hallucinate that sensation because I know that these things are there but it feels oddly real.

Anyone else has that happen or have any insights about that?

 

[Durward]

Over the last 10 years or so there has been a lot of news about blindfolded people being able to read, call out colors and objects from across the room and more. Simply search the Internet for "mindsight," "

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", or "third eye" activation. You can even check out the extensive videos on YouTube regarding the Psi Games International for some pretty wild demonstrations of it.

 

[Kellhuss]

Your eyes get accustomed to the lack of light and adjust to the relative amount of light afforded through the blindfold; they always yield some.

Try taping your eyes, then wearing two blindfolds.

 

[FraterFraxinus]

Your eyes get accustomed to the lack of light and adjust to the relative amount of light afforded through the blindfold; they always yield some.

Try taping your eyes, then wearing two blindfolds.

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I tried shining a flashlight directly at my eyes and no lights come through these blindfolds.

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For clarification I testet that while my eyes where already adjusted to darkness.

 

[drbrucebruce]

I went to a seminar and learned mindsight.Sharing some of what I learned. There's two flavors of it. 1) intuitive sight and 2) real time seeing beyond the blindfold. Biologically and Psychologically we tune into a different sense of seeing when our eyes are open versus closed. Lets shelf edge cases of high level mediators who can meditate with their eyes open but understand enough training allows you to manipulate this shift from one seeing to another. When your eyes are open behind a blackout mask you do pick up on very subtle light leakage and start to perceive things in real time from it (colors, motion, etc). For a beginner the more light leakage, the easier the practice is (training wheels). People at the psy games are the creme that rises to the top where they practiced alot and have natural abilities, can practically see everything with 0 or near 0 light leakage and may also pair it with intuitive site. Intuitive sight is a psychic sense, you have a feel of knowing or get impressions from your subconscious mind, when your eyes are closed. I don't think people would ride a bike or drive a car blindfolded with only intuitive site alone, but I reserve the right to stand corrected (psyonics supposedly pilot ufos without being in the cockpit using some advanced techniques adjacent to intuitive sight). Alternatively I don't think you would use real time seeing blindfolded to see something outside of your normal sight, like a needle in a haystack on the opposite side of a football field.

 

[luxnatura]

If you practice paying very close attention when falling asleep (or napping), you may notice that as you cross over the threshold, you can see around you, as if with eyes open, but often if you try to focus too strongly on that, you will wake up. There is almost a peripheral style of awareness required, and by this I mean to allow yourself to see, but not try to see too strongly. Often if you try and focus on what you are seeing, it will dissipate, and you will "snap out of it" so to speak, so the trick is to remain aware of it, but not "look at it directly".

I had discovered this many years ago, as something I experienced when having naps, specifically as I was slowly falling in towards sleep. Over the years I have had many conversations with people who have also experienced similar things. The quality of the visual phenomenon is slightly different than seeing with eyes open when you are awake. I believe it is still information that is ultimately being fed to the visual centers in the brain, but it is not coming down from the rods and cones in the eyes, nor along the main optic nerve.

The stream of information is delicate, in the sense that if you engage some other mental processes (too strong of trying to pay attention to the visuals), then I believe it tries to access information via the optic nerve, and thus it severs the other connection.

There are, I believe, some similarities that can be found within the general practices of visualization. One can force to visualize, in their center of vision, or in the main field of their vision, and this may take a long time of practice to get good at it. The other type of visualization occurs without this direct focus, it is much more of a release, and the visual field in which this occurs can take place in the entire 360 degree sphere of vision, but it exists in a constant peripheral experience, which is to say, you are never "directly looking at it through your main conscious center of focus", but experiencing it as something that envelops you into it. For me, this style of vision is always a bit "off to the side", but I don't mean this in a directional sense, but a conscious one.