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Religions > Atheism |
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"Uncle Clover" |
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01 Jan 2007 11:51:01 AM |
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Seeing past the eyes... |
I'm really beginning to get into some trippy territory with my mental exploits.
I've mentioned here before how I have a sort of "field of vision" that extends
beyond my actual physical ability to see. What I mean by that is that while
most of us can see approximately 170 - 180 degrees in front of us, I can "see"
something well beyond that point. It's just a little mental space that I
discovered some time ago - like the brain has no real visual input coming in
from that region, but the mind is expecting to have a visual experience, and so
the brain just whips something up to keep the mind quiet. I can control what I
see in that visual space to a limited degree, it sometimes becomes like a
fountain of hypnogogia as I'm lingering off to sleep.
Okay, so there's that. Now, anyone with two eyes who can see out of both of
them and has crossed them - you know what I mean when i say that the field of
vision in each eye overlaps, so that you see two different areas in a place your
mind is interpretting as a single point. That's two fields of vision
overlapping, though they are -real- fields of vision. When I close my eyes, I
continue to see hypnogogic imagery darting around the back of my eyelids (I
guess it's some sort of brain dysfunction or something - I've never been able to
shut my hypnogogia off even if I try) and the brain continues to process as if
it's getting a signal from two distinc sources. I have a fair degree of control
over the hypnogogia that emerges and in which eye it appears to emerge in. If I
focus hard enough, I can make the hypnogogic imagery registering in each visual
space "merge" as real visual images do in the real, open-eyed world, to form the
perception of a single 3 dimensional experience. I'm not sure how the brain
evolved to learn how to trick itself that way, but I guess it's just one of the
many things about us that makes us perceive the way we do.
Anyway, I decided to try something different. I decided to see if I could trick
my brain into presenting the visual area of my mind _three_ fields of vision
whenever I close my eyes rather than just one. It worked. It was like I had
three different eyeballs - I was experiencing three overlapping fields of vision
- all of it hypnogogic imagery, but in three layers instead of just the usual
two.
This is all just so bizarre to me. I thought that the period of time where I
explored and played with such traits had long since passed, but my mind rarely
ever fails to throw something completely out of left field at me every once in
awhile.
I don't know what it all means, or what the underlying medical or psychological
processes might be. It's a damned fascinating trip to take, I just wish I knew
more about what's really going on when I experience these things.
Anyway, I'm just throwing this out there in case anyone happens to have any
knowledge on the things of which I speak. If not, well, never mind then. Try
doing it for yourself if you want, if I can do it I don't see why anyone else
should have any trouble - unless of course it really -is- a curious misfiring in
the brain. I may never know. :-?
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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| Title: Re: Seeing past the eyes... |
01 Jan 2007 02:33:16 PM |
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On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:51:01 -0500, Uncle Clover <UncleClover@SpamMeNot.com>
wrote:
I'm really beginning to get into some trippy territory with my mental exploits.
I've mentioned here before how I have a sort of "field of vision" that extends
beyond my actual physical ability to see. What I mean by that is that while
most of us can see approximately 170 - 180 degrees in front of us, I can "see"
something well beyond that point. It's just a little mental space that I
discovered some time ago - like the brain has no real visual input coming in
from that region, but the mind is expecting to have a visual experience, and so
the brain just whips something up to keep the mind quiet. I can control what I
see in that visual space to a limited degree, it sometimes becomes like a
fountain of hypnogogia as I'm lingering off to sleep.
Are you sure that what you have discovered is not the standard, "Eyes in your
arse" effect that comes to most parents as a direct consequence of, err,
well, being parents? (:-)
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