I'm really enjoying this thread. Vision.....what a thing. In order to make my point as it relates to this thread…unfortunately I need to give a little background. The reason for the background is to illustrate that what’s happened and how it wasn’t the result of effort on my part….it just is/was.
When I was 8 I had vision problems. (1968) I needed glasses and it turned out for the first 2 years that I needed stronger and stronger glasses every 3 or 4 months. My uncle who was my optometrist recognized that the problem was that as I grew physically the shape of my eyeballs was changing as well resulting in increased depreciation of vision. He determined that if nchecked it could lead to being blind. (legally at least)
He suggested hard contact lenses to hold my eyeballs into shape so to speak to retard the process of deterioration of my eyesight. In those days contact lenses were not standard operating procedure. Most people had never even heard of them. He prescribed them and they worked. After that I only needed a change in prescription a few times in twenty years. There was no such thing as disposable or soft lenses then.
The reason for the lenses was to prevent my eyeballs from changing shape….kind of like corrective shoes. If you weren’t born before 1965 or so you won’t know what I’m talking about. Google it. Anyhoo…As time went by eventually I had to move to gas permeable rigid lenses with what they refer to as a monovision structure.
Basically all that means is that rather than having to wear reading glasses I have one eye (my left one) fitted with a contact that allows me to read but it gets kind of fuzzy when I try to use that eye for distance viewing. My right eye can’t really focus on things close up but I can see like a hawk down the freeway with my right eye. The downside to this arrangement is that I don’t really have good depth perception and the upside is that I don’t need reading glasses.
What happens with this type of scenario is that your brain quickly learns which eye to pay attention to and which eye to ignore. So basically I’m only seeing out one eye at a time depending on whether I’m looking something close up or far away. That being said….(the boring story of my eyesight plight) (sorry) I can now address this tread and be on the same page with everyone.
It was easy to begin to become aware of which eye my brain was automatically using. At the distance of a computer screen they are both about equal. Closer than that…left eye…farther than that right eye.
By becoming aware of which eye my brain was choosing I developed the ability to “gaze� and use both eyes either close up or at a distance when I decided to. What happened next is what was both unexpected and somewhat remarkable.
I began to see things in what has been referred to in this thread as 4d when I chose to. Then I realized that it was easy to make everything “pixel out� on demand. Now I can make everything appear to be wispy or thin on demand. After practice I learned to gaze on a subject with one eye, the other eye, or both eyes when I wanted to.
After getting comfortable with this process I started trying to do it with my eyes closed….just focused on the inside of my eyelids. This really began to open new doors. At first it had nothing to do with what I saw or experienced….it was just about doing the same exercise with eyes closed that I had mastered with my eyes open. Then I applied it (involuntarily) to lucid dreaming. That was a significant step for me because it facilitated the use of conscious tools to my dream states…..automatically…..and vise versa.
Then with my eyes (physically) open (all the time) everything began to get thinner. I don’t know another way to describe it. Nothing looks as solid as it used to. I have no conclusion or explanation as to what that means or why….it’s just that a point in time there was a fundamental change in how my eyeballs perceive “reality� through my brain.
But the real kicker is that it’s there and I’m “stuck� with it. I’m not opposed to this shift in perception…I guess what I’m saying is that I have absolutely no clue as to how to go back. I don’t have any desire to as well. I like being here.
The best explanation that I am able produce at this time is that it serves to me as a constant reminder that I’m living in a dream state (when I think I’m awake) and that nothing is what it seems.
And to think that my possible blindness early in life…(the trials and tribulations that accompanied that experience).. were perceived as a negative thing by my parents, peers and myself.
I’m left (as usual) scratching my head and thankful.
Cheers!
Winston
P.S. Does this make sense to anyone?
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER