Earlier today, I could see with my eyes shut., page 1

reply to post by Hexidecimal

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Next time, have a friend put a blindfold on you and ride a bicycle up and down the street, weaving between parked cars.

Have him video you riding with (presumably) no eyes.

Might get you on a TV magic show with Criss Angel, you never know.

Hex, ya didnt look hard enough on your very own ATS turf Seeing with closed eyes. And heres a link to some funky school that teaches kids to use their "'radar vision' from the brain" .

Originally posted by Equinox99
Actually it is your picture memory kicking in.

Im not so sure you know, as it has happened to me in unfamiliar places.

reply to post by Dae

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I have done this many times.Look around the room in an unfamiliar place and I am sure you will miss a few objects. It is your memory that draws the pictures in your brain. I tried this exercise in my communications class:
Take about 2-3 minutes to look around the room and then close your eyes and start naming everything in the room in front of a friend. You will name what you remember and what your brain draws in your head.

If you were to walk into a room with your eyes closed and you see everything then that means you are using a third eye.

reply to post by Hexidecimal

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Of course you wouldn't do anything like that, because this was not a real event, and it would be foolish to do something specifically concrete and expect that it would work.

I agree with Jedi - a sleepwalking event or an illusion that was not based in reality.

Still a pretty cool experience. Thanks for reporting it.

reply to post by Hexidecimal

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I am very short-sighted (have been since childhood) - plus I have severe astigmatism.

A few years ago, I had a 3 gram capsule of melatonin before I went to bed.
As I switched off the light and closed my eyes, I immediately realised that I was able to see the phone on the gueridon - which was in the corner opposite to my bed, some 5 or 6 metres from my bed - with extreme clarity. It was dark, of course, but the outlines of the table and the phone, and every single detail, were sharply visible.

"Wow! Did I forget to remove my lenses?!" I thought - or rather, I would have thought, but the thought was too fleeting to even formulate it in my mind. Because then, after a few milliseconds, I realised that not even with my lenses I would've been able to see as sharply as that - and another millisecond later it hit me that my eyes were CLOSED...

I opened my eyes, almost sure that it was a strange prelude to a dream or something (that's the eternal skeptic on the lookout in me : )) - but my head was turned exactly in the right direction. And if my eyes were as sharp as a lynx's - instead of being short-sighted and astigmatic - I would have been able to see exactly what I saw with my eyes closed. Even the "light" - or rather, the quality of darkness - was the same.

That was no "prelude to a dream".
And it didn't really surprise me. I knew all along that such things were possible.

I don't know whether the melatonin had anything to do with it.
Possibly - because it was the first time in my life that I had taken it.
But - so far - it never happened again, melatonin or no melatonin.









[edit on 16-12-2007 by Vanitas]

reply to post by Hexidecimal

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Well I have two different thought types.#1 is eyeless sight Russian girl sees with fingers, with subtype of close to home light/slight OOBE...#2 is that brain injury software-type function they call confabulation, where the patient through some lesion is technically unable to perceive (say, things on their right) but the internal narrator doesn't notice consciously that deficit and instead makes up what would be there usually and somehow quickly glosses over contradictions with a clear conscience ( this is not to imply that you are delusional or defective, it's a recognized brain function and could no doubt occur for unknown transient reasons). I myself had a transient ability improvement once, so I believe you easily.

reply to post by Hexidecimal

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Well I have two different thought types.#1 is eyeless sight Russian girl sees with fingers, with subtype of close to home light/slight OOBE...#2 is that brain injury software-type function they call confabulation, where the patient through some lesion is technically unable to perceive (say, things on their right) but the internal narrator doesn't notice consciously that deficit and instead makes up what would be there usually and somehow quickly glosses over contradictions with a clear conscience ( this is not to imply that you are delusional or defective, it's a recognized brain function and could no doubt occur for unknown transient reasons). I myself had a transient ability improvement once, so I believe you easily.


[edit on 16-12-2007 by nine-eyed-eel]

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