Mind Filter (26)

1 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-18 20:25 ID:Po5IfTPD

Our senses receive a HUGE amount of information from the environment……and filters out the majority of it. Estimates vary, but depending on the source, our senses receive 200-400 THOSAND bits a second of information, and we end up with about 2000 that is actually used by the brain.

Here is a quick little experiment that you can try to see some of this “lost” information. Go in a room with dim lighting, the light source MUST be behind you or at least to the side. An overcast day with the shades half drawn works great. The walls should be a light shade, white works best for most people, but other shades will do.

Now get comfy, and hold your arms up at arms length and point both index fingers at each other. Bring them together until they touch. Now slowly move them apart while looking at the space between them. Well shit, you can see a whitish colored string of electro-magnetic energy still connecting them as they move apart. Now move one up and the other down. See the energy move? If you can’t see it, stop trying so hard and just let it happen. People that try too hard have problems with this. People that do it with an open mind and no worries or expectations about the outcome can generally see it quite clearly. Now hold all your fingers out. See the energy field surrounding them. DAMN THAT WAS EASY. I’ll tell you how to see a bit more of the stuff that is normally filtered later. Post your results if you are not worried about people thinking you are crazy.

6 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-20 04:43 ID:bcEPXgb3

No dim rooms at the moment, but i've always found it extremely easy to spot the energy around my hands.
But for me, that's one of the more mundane kinds of things I can look at if i feel like letting myself. I don't know how many other people are able to notice some of the things i can, or to what extent, but i'm pretty sure that i'm well above average. Probably abnormal.
If i relax my vision, almost in daydream mode, and look at the air without focusing, i can see little 'particles', they tend to be little, clear, ovular/circular shaped things. I have no idea wtf they are- my eye cells or something, somehow? It's easier to do in filtered light, or sometimes bright sunlight.
Sometimes, usualy under filtered lighting conditions, i can see 'energy' flowing around the room/area. It looks like the energy you can see surounding your hands, but less defined and noticable. But if i pay attention to it, I can sort of watch it flow around, like a twisting river that fills up the entire space. wtf?
Patterns. I saw them much more when i was a little kid. Most commonly, and available for me to see at just about any time i look for them, are groups of see through, day-glo orange little dots that dissapear if i focus on them. Usualy easiest to see at night. When i was a kid, i saw various patterns, even eleborate little pictures repeated over and over again all across my vision. Seen most frequently at night, behind my eyelids when my eyes were closed, but also when they are open. I could even change to different little images if i wanted, though i could never control what they were of. Sometimes at night they were so clear and vivid i would reach out my hand to see if i could feel anything. My cousin once talked to me about seeing 'fireworks' when she closed her eyes at night.
Micro-hallucinations. Mostly only happens when i'm very tired... i have severe insomnia, so i guess this kind of thing is to be expected. Little, tiny, brilliant white lights will apear, flying around for about half a second, before disspaearing. Usualy only one or two at a time, and it happens usualy a couple of times within a few minutes. Happens at random time,s in various kinds of lighting and settings, but most frequently right about my computer.
What do you make of this, anons? Am I in need of some psych drugs?

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