Also have the ability to see the "energy waves" when I'm outdoors.  Usually works better when my eyes are relaxed and I'm looking at the sky or "through"/beyond an object, like a tree.  The energy waves sometimes look like fine rolling mist radiating out from an object. 

I've never taken any kind of hallucinogenic drugs, but I'm not diametrically opposed to the concept either.  I agree with you, Matt, that an open mind and observant nature (along with a healthy capacity for imagination) is all one needs to begin noticing these things.  Being in a peaceful, calm environment and state of mind also helps. 

Also agree with Lono and others, that certain drugs have the ability to open certain "doors" (I call it "activating latent neuro-pathways, but same difference) in one's perception of this reality.  I always keep in mind that everything within our visual range appears to us as "solid", but is really just an illusion of a common frequency/vibrational rate of tiny matter, and our eyes are limited in what they are able to perceive.  The more "hallucinogenic" visuals are perceived partly with the aid of our "sixth sense" (or "third eye"... I'd wager that those of us with "hyper-active" third eye's also have an easier time seeing these "anomalies").

The most curious visual phenomena is the one i have when im outside with a cloudy day or dense fog..and almost always with snow and fog together that make like a isolation box for the eye. this phenomen is close similar to your.. i see in front of my eyes and with the size you mention a strange vortex.. that swirl and swirl at high frequency and is like a maelstrom,, in the middle of the air...

Hello Nacho!  I had to point this one out, because I see it too.  It's best, like you said, against a white or light background.  For me, it's like a point of strobing multi-colors.  I also see the points of light or dots in everything, kind of like pixels on the computer.  Very strange!

The most curious visual phenomena is the one i have when im outside with a cloudy day or dense fog..and almost always with snow and fog together that make like a isolation box for the eye. this phenomen is close similar to your.. i see in front of my eyes and with the size you mention a strange vortex.. that swirl and swirl at high frequency and is like a maelstrom,, in the middle of the air...

I have read lot of theories about etheric, entopic, hypnagogic, snowy vision, migraine aura vision etc etc etc..but i dont know nothing...i only see this points...
Of course enteogen drugs can improve this kind of vision... but a hard flu with fever can make you see it more,, and i found that staying without sleep more that one day...uffff i can see with my periferic vision like a ghost movie..lot of forms moving quickly around me.

I also have a strange kind of visions every time i close my eyes and stay looking the inner screnn almost every night.. i see eyes...lot of eyes..disambodied eyes,,, perfect human eyes like in the dali picture.. i see this  always..every day... is not an all seeing eye...they are a lot and  have differents between them,, sombody can give me a clue about this?

Just this few comentaries and sorry for my bad english.
Happy summer to all you seekers!!!
Nacho

Thanks for your replies, they are reassuring. To comment and answer some of your questions....

I don't see bubbles, but I see the blue sky as millions of little circles that move and change in brightness. I figured it was just me and the way my brain processes it. But I said this to two of my friends at the beach. One said she saw the same thing, the other had no idea what I was talking about.

That's a great way of explaining it. Perfect in fact. At about the same frequency as a moderately spinning ceiling fan.

I think I get what you mean, if so I had the same thoughts while catching a train a few years ago and watching the track next to me. As the train slowed down, you could see the individual sleepers flashing by, and as it sped up you just saw one constant colour which was in place of sleepers flashing by at a higher frequency. It went from individual objects to one constant object. It is a simple idea yes, but once I realised what I was thinking about it just jumped out at me, and made me realise that what if everything exists like that, along with time speeding up and slowing down whenever. I don't have the answer to it, but it remains something to think about and be aware of.

Dont do and never have done drugs of any sort ever. I haven't even smoked a cigarette. Not that I care if people do do drugs or not, I just figured I have a great imagination to start with and my mind sees some pretty crazy things anyway that I have no reason to hallucinate. So all that I have described is naturally occuring.

I have meditated in the past, but it isn't something I do regularly. Although, I do listen to clasical music in a way that I would liken to meditation, in that I listen to the music and completely zone out. I relax and think about nothing. But if you mean proper meditation, then no. I would like to start doing it more though.

I hope that answers all your questions. If you have any more please ask. I wasn't expecting such a large response, but I am glad to know there are people who understand and experience these things as well.

Matt

Do you or have you been meditating?  If so, how often and for how long?  I'm curiously studying the effects of meditation in light of certain experiences such as how you describe.

cheers

. I was wondering if anyone here has not done a lot of hallucinogens in the past, and is experiencing some of these things?

*Looks around, slowly raises hand*  You can count me in on that.  I first began seeing the bubbles and vibrations while on LSD when I was 18, and have never seen things the same way since.  I agree that certain substances can open doors which tend to not close.  I, for one, am happy that this door has opened, and would not change it for the world. 

Over the years, I've been able to consciously develop some of the sight I had while tripping, which had initially gone away after the trip was over.  I once heard someone liken the use of hallucinogens to being in a helicoptor and seeing the top of the mountain.  You get a glimpse, but you still have to travel by foot in order to stay there.

An interesting thing about the "flickering" you describe relates to something I have been  thinking about a lot over the last few years.  It's the idea that time is not continuous.  Just like pictures flashing across a screen at 60Hz, the world only appears to be smoothly flowing by, when in fact it is a sequence of discrete packets of information that the mind uses to create the illusion of continuity.

I have experienced the white bright light that flickers right before you wake up. This only happend to me a couple times a WHILE back like a year ago.

I also have experienced the visual vibration of objects. Infact it was so intense EVERYTHING around me was swaying/vibrating everywhere and then I started to freak out and have been too afraid to do it since. This was approximately a year and a half ago.

NR: Brain Hemisphere Vibrations

NR: Right there but never seen: pointless eye trick

I've noticed the flickering since about 2001. It flashes between 7-10Hz and is most apparent in dim lighting. Looks like if a ceiling fan is passing over some night light. If I close my eyes and get into an alpha state, then open my eyes quickly, the flashing is quite powerful but fades within a couple seconds. If I open just one eye, I see that the pulsation is not just constant, but kinda sweeps across my field of vision, and same with the other eye except at a slightly different sweep angle and frequency, so that if I open both eyes like that, the combination produces this rapidly shifting/rotating and disorienting flickering, something like "flicker-flicker-flicker-SHIFT-flicker-flicker-flicker."

But most importantly, I noticed that days or weeks can go by when the flickering is barely even perceptible, if at all there. But in the week prior to some matrix-manipulated drama requiring me to be coolheaded to handle it well, the flickering starts up and increases, then on the morning of the situation the pulsations are really intense and seem to amp me up with nervous reactive energy that interferes with sleep, disorganizes my thoughts, and comes with overactive inner chatter. So I think it's either just some natural phenomenon, or else it's the visual byproduct of some artificial frequency zapping designed to put one into an alpha brainwave state or else entrain and lower soul frequency to make one more reactive. Just a guess...

I literally see everything flickering

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I'll look at a wall, or another solid object, and see it vibrating..... Now I don't mean like shaking on the spot, but as in its there, but it isn't fully there

When I took LSD years ago, I would see and feel things or even everything vibrating. It was part of my hallucinating experience.

Recently a friend took some liquid at Kerville Folk Festival. Kerville is akin to Rainbow Gathering and whatnot. Anyway he took a double shot sugar cube of this liquid and what happened to him was that he said he 'saw god' by percieving the vibrations of everything there is at the same time and having the 'knowing' that everything was also him and god. He said it looked just like you said - seeing everything vibrate . . . He has a theory he shared with me about his experiences on LSD and it is that the drug helps him to see things for what they really are . . outside of the 'illusion' - just energetic forms and that he recognizes that this is what is happening with his perception.

Back in 2001 I read a short book called The Superbeings and did a short meditation as suggested in the book. It said be calm, close your eyes and concentrate on a spot directly behind your heart and keep thinking the phrase "I am love". When I did it, it made me to where I couldn't stop smiling and I felt like I was being filled with love and vibrational energy. Then I stopped and went outside and was shocked because I realized I was percieving everything to be different than before. Everything looked just like what you said about seeing everything vibrate! And everything looked brighter, too. And more energetic and just more alive. But everything I could see, when I looked at it, would be vibrating.

I also see small bubbles in the air, especially in sunlight.  Again, this is something not even eye doctors can explain. 

I believe it was Starcat who posited that this is seeing etherically, or is the beginning of it.  I suspect that you're even better than average if you see the things you're describing.  In particular, seeing traces of your ethiric form while in darkness.  Also, seeing the hertz cycle type thing when you wake up.  It's like seeing beyond the illusion of form, if that makes sense.  As you put it, seeing beyond the illusion of cartoons.... this would be similar. 

As for the hole or portal in your vision, I can't speak on that.