Thread: Any good technique for seeing in your mind's eye?

Ya im trying to find a better way to visalize in my mind's eye.And i cant find anything on the net.So i was just wondering do anyone on here have any method's that work for them? Ok I know this sound stupid but i got to ask? You know when you sneeze or do somthing that strain your eye and you start seing those little spark thing floating around.Yeah sometime when i go to bed and close my eye's i see those but there still they just fade in and out.I was wondering is that an image or scene trying to come though?

Image streaming is a pretty good way to improve your visualization skills. I know some DV members practice it as a way to improve dream clarity. You can find information at http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm or more thoroughly in a book called the Einstein Factor. Basically, the method involves describing the spontaneous images that come into your mind out loud to a tape recorder or another person, which will cause more detailed images by means of a positive feedback loop.
I've tried it myself and found it pretty effective.

Good Luck

Thank you quiver for the reply im checking the link out now.

Originally Posted by donnieb2

Ya im trying to find a better way to visalize in my mind's eye.And i cant find anything on the net.So i was just wondering do anyone on here have any method's that work for them? Ok I know this sound stupid but i got to ask? You know when you sneeze or do somthing that strain your eye and you start seing those little spark thing floating around.Yeah sometime when i go to bed and close my eye's i see those but there still they just fade in and out.I was wondering is that an image or scene trying to come though?

The spark thing when you sneeze or look into bright light is the extra water produced around your eye surface and you see some refraction through the fluid of some of your eye blood vessels.
Same as if you look out a bright window and squint your eyes and you see all those squirmy threadlike worms wiggling. (if you have ever done that).

As for beginning to see through your minds eye... Imagine your head is hollow and you are looking from inside it. You won't actually be able to do this obviously, you have to imagine it.
You can see your bright eye openings and the muted opening of your nostrils and ear orifices.
Now look from the center point of your skull and make a little opening slightly above the point between your eyes (like where the red Buddha spot goes) like a key hole size.
Now slowly move forward from inside your head to peer out of the minds eye hole (not your eyes). Stay about an inch to inch and a half back from the hole.
This takes you away from the looking at the inside of your eyelids as normal, to actually visualising and seeing with your minds eye.
Now you sort of overlay the whole imagery and put it around your actual head, like superimpose it. You are now looking out now of your minds eye.
It is not a real eye, so this helps with the manifestation of the point and imagery of its origin.
Hope this rough explanation helps. I see from my minds eye much easier using this.

Thank you dream chaser for your technique it sounds great. Im gonna try it tonight before bed ill post the result's tommorow.

No luck but im still gonna give it a couple more trie's. It's like my concentration and visualization skill's are just awful. I guess i have to keep giving it more time maybe ill get better at it.But it's kinda funny had and obe once and it started from me seeing my bedroom with my eye's closed.But now it hard as heck to make it happen agian. I got to ask this technique of your can it be used anytime or do you have to be to the point of near sleep ?

Try this to start. Hold your hands out front of you. Really look at them.
Now close your eyes with them still held in front of you. Picture them still there.
Open your eyes and see them. Close them and see them again in your imagination.
Remember the feeling of holding your arms and hands up and seeing them with your eyes closed.
If you can't feel the weight of your arms and hands move them up and down a little. Anything to feel them there.
If you do this a few times a day it should help.

When imagining your hollow head from my earlier post, at first just imagine the imaginary head and the minds eye. Don't yet superimpose it over your actual head.
I should have been clearer. Even though you are looking out of your minds eye, you don't have to look for anything imparticular.
Just looking out of your minds eye takes away from staring at the back of your actual eyelids, and takes you to looking with your dream world eyes.
Let anything happen and do not force images or wait 4 hours trying to see something. Just look out of the eye and relax. See what comes.

I've read in several books on meditation and whatnot that a good practice is to try visualizing a candle flame. Mind you, I can't recall the exact procedure, but I've heard it helps to actually look at the flame (probably through squinted lids, staring into a candle for a while might start to hurt!) and then moving to simply visualizing it in your head. I've tried this myself and I've found that one of the keys to keeping an image in mind (for me personally) is movement. If I try to focus on a static image for a while, it eludes me. But if I imagine the object in three dimensions, and 'turn it' in my head, I can focus on it quite well. I suppose this makes sense since your brain is used to processing a constant stream of changing stimuli. I assume that with practice it becomes much easier to keep stable, unchanging images in mind for a long time.

But again, I'm not sure that is really the procedure here. However, I doubt it would hurt to try.