Re: Visual flicker and other perceptions

i see the bubbles, and in my experience its usually crap on my eyelashes. i also see the visual flicker when i first wake up. its generally my eyes getting used to the light. also, its a human eye's natural tendency to spread a solid color when focusing on something in low light. its how the eye works. But, now that ive basically been an ass about those, i will say that i have experienced some of the ones that you are talking about, and i will admit to being able to generate some of these situations at will. The vibration sight, i can generally call up at will. In my experience it happens best when your mind isnt focused completely. It occurs strongest when your basically just thought-coasting, as i call it. The best way i can describe it is that you let your mind go into auto-pilot and just step back and observe. eventually my reality will begin to flicker as i reach deeper states of self-observation, and during this shifting stage everything does tend to vibrate. Ive also noticed the vibration in times of supreme rage. When i let go, let my anger take over, i cant even focus because my site is vibrating. i basically go by sensing everything around me, and feeling things out. I have also experienced what you have described in the bath tub. I have reached the point where i can call it up at will, and it is a lot more intense then what you have described. from what ive experienced, you are sensing life. the best way i can describe this is i would have you picture the world in a weird way. What you need to do to understand what is happening is basically view reality as a very dense liquid. as you move, you create ripples and flows, but since you are submerged in this liquid reality, and since it is so dense, they do not last long. Next time this happens to you, dont focus on it. Ive found that i can do this in the light only when two major things are occuring. first, i need to be in the shower, and second the water needs to be 120 degrees or higher. basically, if its not burning, its not hot enough. What you need to do is accept pain as what it is, merely a message saying that something is wrong, acknowledge it and give in to it. let it wash over you. use it. Pain is a very powerful thing. In a way, you are manipulating chaos. Basically, you use the heat and the sound of the shower. Focus on it, absorb it. Drown yourself in the senses. The goal of this excersize is to make your mind go completely blank. im sure there are less extreme ways to do this, but if you find one that takes as little as a month to master, let me know. but anyways, once your mind is completely blank, you wont just be sensing yourself moving. you will sense everything moving. When i do this, i can sense every detail around me, including things occuring in different rooms. You can basically feel the currents of reality. a cool thing is, a lot of the time when im doing this, ill break out of it because a song or something will pop into my head, and when i go downstairs singing this song, i will be singing along with the TV, or the computer, which is impossible to hear from my bathroom. my advice is try it out, play with it. let yourself go. and in case you havnt noticed form my post, im a big into the fact that everything is chaotic, and if you can learn to see this chaos, and manipulate it, you can do a lot of trippy things.

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Re: Visual flicker and other perceptions

I've noticed that when I'm extremely relaxed (to the point of where I have control over my pulse), I've noticed that for every beat of my heart, everything within my visual perception brightens and then darkens momentarily... another beat, another bright then dark. 

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").

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