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When you close your eyes, can you make any visualization whatsoever? Not the press-fingers-into-eyes stuff nor from-memory visualization, but just anything. Whe

by chaps 22d ago

When you close your eyes, can you make any visualization whatsoever? Not the press-fingers-into-eyes stuff nor from-memory visualization, but just anything. When I close mine, I can let my brain wander with little intention/feedback and my mind will create giant megastructures that I kinda sorta fly through. It's fully continuous almost like I'm zooming into a fractal.

misthop 22d ago
Nothing, no
_ink_ 22d ago
Not GP, but fully aphant. No I can't do that. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my eye lids (red / brownish). That's it. Nothing comes up, even if I try to remember the face of my mother.
al_borland 21d ago
99.99% of the time, it’s just black. Seeing things like you’re describing sounds like a super power. The 0.01% of the time, I have seen blue lights. Without trying to look around too much, it’s something like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzQ0zAtFL0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzQ0zAtFL0 This has only happened a handful of times, maybe 5, definitely less than 10. I was in my mid-30s the first time it happened, at some house learning transcendental meditation. I opened my eyes for a second, thinking they were shining some lights to make it seem like something was happening. Sadly, I was never able to repeat this through meditation, but it has happened a few times as I try and fall asleep. I wish I could trigger it on demand. It’s super cool when it happens.
- chaps 17d ago
  Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking about! It's a very specific visualization where it comes and goes and feeds into itself. It's really cool. The brightness you're talking about is legit. It's fun to play with bringing that in and out. A thing that seems to kinda trigger the visualizations I've experienced is to focus on where those blueish blobs disappear into nothing. For me, that looks like an intense brightness kinda sorta collapsing into the center of my vision which happens again starting from the edges of my vision. In a way it feels like I'm watching some low level neuron activity. But if I close my eyes and try to force some sort of visualization, it doesn't happen until I slow down and just pay attention to that middle point between my brain and my vision. Not really a meditator, but I've experienced it the strongest when I'm about to fall asleep. Once I'm in that headspace, I can keep it going until I see those wild, megalithic visualizations.

by chaps 22d ago

misthop 22d ago

Nothing, no

_ink_ 22d ago

Not GP, but fully aphant. No I can't do that. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my eye lids (red / brownish). That's it. Nothing comes up, even if I try to remember the face of my mother.

al_borland 21d ago

99.99% of the time, it’s just black. Seeing things like you’re describing sounds like a super power. The 0.01% of the time, I have seen blue lights. Without trying to look around too much, it’s something like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzQ0zAtFL0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzQ0zAtFL0 This has only happened a handful of times, maybe 5, definitely less than 10. I was in my mid-30s the first time it happened, at some house learning transcendental meditation. I opened my eyes for a second, thinking they were shining some lights to make it seem like something was happening. Sadly, I was never able to repeat this through meditation, but it has happened a few times as I try and fall asleep. I wish I could trigger it on demand. It’s super cool when it happens.

chaps 17d ago
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking about! It's a very specific visualization where it comes and goes and feeds into itself. It's really cool. The brightness you're talking about is legit. It's fun to play with bringing that in and out. A thing that seems to kinda trigger the visualizations I've experienced is to focus on where those blueish blobs disappear into nothing. For me, that looks like an intense brightness kinda sorta collapsing into the center of my vision which happens again starting from the edges of my vision. In a way it feels like I'm watching some low level neuron activity. But if I close my eyes and try to force some sort of visualization, it doesn't happen until I slow down and just pay attention to that middle point between my brain and my vision. Not really a meditator, but I've experienced it the strongest when I'm about to fall asleep. Once I'm in that headspace, I can keep it going until I see those wild, megalithic visualizations.