Construct
2009-01-23
So, let’s think about the construction process for a moment. We can clearly classify people into two groups: those who can easily visualize images and those who can not. For example I can rarely do it with my eyes closed. But I know people who can do it with their eyes wide open. I should immediately direct your attention to Shulgin’s definition of a hallucination. When you see something and aware that it might not be real you are not hallucinating. There are many strange things that our mind produces and not all of them should be alarming or verbally connected to any psychological illnesses. Most of the people I know, however, can visualize with eyes closed and in a calm state of mind.
This (ancient term) hypnogogic imagery is a direct pathway to more interesting states of consciousness, like lucid dream or so called “out of body” experience. But that’s a subject of some other post. Question now is: how is that possible, that without any visual stimulation we can produce precise ( or completely irrelevant and phantasmic) representations of real objects. So no wonder there is a lot of bullshit literature about the “third eye”. I mean, it is only natural to live 5 hundred years ago and thing, that if you can see with your eyes closed, then you must have some special invisible eye. How else would you able to see? So many people are still stuck in this silliness, it gets on my nerves! Especially when I try to find any coherent thoughts or empirical evidences in a pile of rotten dogmatic anachronisms.