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edgar allan poe wrote in the golden scarab how a detective was able to read a guys mind by looking at his eyes
he deduced his thoughts paying attention to where he was looking at i noticed thats true in fact if you keep your eyes static in 10 seconds youll see dark and your mind will go blank i can keep my eyes static for 15 seconds, in ten seconds i see dark in 15 seconds i have a new perception but i cant keep it longer |
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I eventually have to blink.
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Sounds like meditation to me.
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You can also purposely mislead people with where you point your eyes. Are you using a point focus, or are you using a soft focus while you keep your eyes static when you meditate? Usually it is harder for people to empty their minds when they use a pointed focus. I always considered that to be the point of the exercise, by making the variation more difficult to achieve. (no pun intended) Try the exercise in front of a TV that has your favorite movie playing. You'll probably find that when you go back to the exercises where you use either type of focus on an object, or on nothing at all will be easier to fall into all of a sudden. I don't get the 'see dark'. Do you mean that your vision dims and actually goes dark when you perform this static eyes exercise? I've never had this happen, and I've also never heard or talked to anyone having this happen before. |
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6 seconds max.. and I'm thinking of SEX again... so POE talks rubbish...
  Forget the Garlic, Beetroot and Hardtack - Just gimme Gunz-n-Drugz |
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Well......could be "cataracts"
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You sound like Reed Richards......
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I can't stop thinking for a milisecond. My brain is alsways thinking aeroplanes, girls, school, you guys, me, food, bedtime, upcoming appointments, IL2, MiG-9's, Money, Math, my dogs, time, computers, girls, space and much more.
 Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way home, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. |
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I think there is hope for you then Owl.
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+1 Owl you're just a normal boy. __________________ There she goes There she goes again Racing through my brain And I just can't contain This feeling that remains |
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 Different I am. Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way home, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. |
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Thats the way works Owl, Ive had a very confusing week and I couldnt stop thinking. (I tried though)
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Short green guy, eh!  Forget the Garlic, Beetroot and Hardtack - Just gimme Gunz-n-Drugz |
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Usually i can go blank pretty quickly, with in 10 seconds, but as soon as i blank my thoughts i recognize it and i'm thinking about it.
Sustaining any lengthy meditation takes practice and training. I need to close my eyes, but its not always necessary that it be silent. I could probably learn to do it with my eyes open, but there is an unfocusing that occurs in my mind thats easier achieved with my eyes closed. I can sometimes feel the release, not physically, but the mental weight goes away and then shortly returns because i can recognize the release. If my mind weren't always on hyper-drive or experiencing heavy thoughts, then it might be easier to sustain longer periods free of thought. I hope that made sense. |
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Yeah, it did, about you describing about it being easier to empty your mind when your eyes are closed and the slipping in and out of no mind. That means more practice. I always thought the best way to practice is before you fall asleep at night, practice focusing on your breathing and nothing else. Ie, when it is hopefully quiet, without any outside stimulus to distract. If one performs this exercise during the day, make sure to set an alarm clock so as not to sleep too long after becomeing relaxed. Over the years of doing this, I will find that I am sometimes still breathing the same way as in practice when I awaken the next morning. To Wit: focusing on breathing out in a measured way by slowly filling the lungs as completely as one can, and then expelling the air completely in the same measured manner, in absolutely no hurry. A variation of this exercise can be be viewed in a 'crystals and granola' way  , where one can direct the 'breath energy' and focus it through the body. Ordinarily, if someone were describing this exercise to me, I would be laughing and dismissing it as BS, but I have seen the practical results. One of the practical benefits for me is that if my hands and feet are cold for example, I can warm them up by focusing the energy through my body and arms and out past my hands and feet. Another practical aspect of the focus is that it directs energy to a strike, such as when one focuses beyond a target. When I played baseball as a kid I would do this unconsciously, and I kept doing it because all I knew about it was that it worked better than interrupting the flow on the ball only. Another benefit is that if a person is in a stressful situation, they can get their breathing under control unconsciously without going into a shallow breathing method that could lead to hyperventilation.So, remember this: "No matter where you go, there you are." and... "Practice makes the master. Constant positive practice will lead to automatic unconscious positive action. Constant positive practice causes effective thought and action through constant positive practice."  Sounds kinda 'mentat'ey in a kinda 'Dune'ish sort of way to me.  |
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