[Help] Trataka question..

[Accipeveldare]

I have been doing the practice of staring at a wall for as long as possible (i am aware its usually a candle but the wall works better in my opinion) is it normal for things to begin turninh completely black? For example, i had a tv on at the side of my vision with no noise and as my focus intensified it very suddenly looked as if it had turned off but when i looked at it it was still on.

For more context i had been attempting at least 15 minutes of this a day during my 3 day vow of silence which ended not too long ago.

 

[Morell]

Sounds normal to me. As in every meditation the point is to focus of the mind and detachment of the body. When I meditate with music, when i get deep, I stop hearing it and enter the silence, different layer of reality where that music doesn't exist. With eyes open it's the same. I think I've experienced it few times too when meditating with open eyes. You move your attention elsewhere and the input from your eyes no longer reaches your mind that now looks through other senses, spiritual eyes, if that makes sense. At least that is what I think basing on what I experienced.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Also, just the way your eyes work, if you stare at something blank without moving your eyes for a while, your vision will just blank out - your eyes are made to detect movement above all else.