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hi mylynes.
when I stare at plane surfaces I can see the so called visual snow.
is that good? can I use it to get better at controlling my vision? how?
I don't understand what you are saying. Plane surfaces? Visual snow? Huh?
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So I am curious of the end result of this. A controlled hallucinogen seems like it would be cool, but is it fun? Lets say you're going for a run through a field of soft grass, can you make it so you feel like you're running through clouds in the sky or something? Could you pretend to shoot fireballs out of your hands and catch trees on fire? How far can this be taken!:D
Anything you can imagine you can create with your mind. When you completely cut your senses off from the real world you move around by controlling your senses to make yourself believe you are moving around however you want and your actual body would not be moving. How far can this be taken? As far as you want. You can get as creative as you want as long as you have good control over your senses. I personally like modifying my own body. Manipulating all or your senses including proprioception you could place multiple eyes in strange places and connect them to your vision to increase your visual input and see through many eyes at the same time. You can give yourself extra limbs and be able to feel everything with them. You can completely mutate your body to become as small or large as you want or to take on any shape you want. With practice you can control senses that humans do not have such as echolocation. Normal human senses can be manipulated and taken to a much higher level than would be possible in the real world.
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Mylynes, you said earlier you could turn your monitor pink, leave the room and return and it would still be pink. Would this apply to everything? if you put yourself onto a beach with all 5 senses, for example, after the initial effort would you remain there, or does a certain level of concentration need to be maintaned? Also, what if someone from the real world tried to interact with you? Would this person appear in the 'beach scene', would you hear them, or be aware they are there?
It normally requires a certain amount of concentration to keep these hallucinations intact but there is a technique I use to better solidify these hallucinations so that they take little to no focus to maintain. If a person from the real world tried to interact with you while you have yourself cut off from the real world they would not be noticed by you unless they create input stronger than the level of sensory control you are exerting in which case you would be able to feel a punch to the face for example or hear loud noises ect. As long as the input you create is higher than your real input all you notice is your own sensory input.
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Also, how interactive is this? must everything be conscous or would your mind fill in the blanks? If you were, for example, to replace the visual of a wall with whats behind it (making it invisible in effect), would you see the image behind the wall 'update' as you move around changing your line of sight?
If you walked towards the wall could you still touch it, since you only adjusted your sight, not your touch?
In many cases your mind will fill in the blanks for things but my approach to manipulation of my senses requires constant effort on my part although the more you practice the easier it is to maintain control over your senses. You can sense anything you want to sense. You could see whatever you want on the other side of a wall and can even walk through it or merely completely remove the wall from your mind. Of course you wouldn't be able to physically move through the wall and although you can see anything behind the wall you will still be unable to sense what is actually there. If you know the layout of the building well then you can replicate it with your mind but you would still not be seeing actual objects from the real world.
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Also, in the case of the beach scenario, lets say you had all 5 senses tapped into the beach and you were sitting on sand, but there was a rock to your left. If you were to touch the rock, would you feel it, or would the effort need to be consciously made?
It depends. If you are awake and inducing a hallucination then all of your senses involved need to be consciously controlled. You can however use this technique in a dream in which case you could take a much more passive approach and still manipulate what you want to.