Friday 19 April 2013

Seeing stars...


Have you ever done that thing where you close your eyes, raise your hands to them and gently push against your eyelids?

No? Well, go on give it a try now. But don’t press too hard, you don’t want to damage your eyes. If you try you’ll probably see the initial blackness start to change. At first there might be pale dancing spots of lights, but keep holding your hands there, pushing a little harder, and soon you might be seeing geometric shapes, then rainbows of colour shooting across you inner horizon.

It hurts a little; a little more the longer you do it. But the longer you stay the more likely you are to see the swirling kaleidoscope of the aurora borealis inside you head, maybe even surreal landscapes.

Closed eye hallucination.

If you practice you might be able to manage it without pressing your eyes, maybe even control the images you see.

Lucid dreaming. Your very own picture show and you have the only seat.

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