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- From: dwjurkat@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jurkat)
- Subject: Re: I SEE LIGHTS...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153658.10620@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <1992Nov5.183358.18050@gnosys.svle.ma.us> <1992Nov6.215120.6792@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1eao0oINNmss@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:36:58 EST
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- In article <1eao0oINNmss@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.215120.6792@m.cs.uiuc.edu> mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov5.183358.18050@gnosys.svle.ma.us>, gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
- >>|> In <002369c.39.720913401@ace.acadiau.ca> 002369c@ace.acadiau.ca
- >>|> (WILLIAM FREDERICK CUSTANCE) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> > Have you ever had the experience of closeing your eyes at night or whenever
- >>|> > you go to sleep and see patterns form?
- >>|>
- >>|> Yes. The experience is called "hypnagogia." There's a good book on the
- >>|> subject by Andreas Mavromatis called simply _Hypnagogia: the Unique State
- >>|> of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep_ (Routledge & Kegan Paul,
- >>|> London & New York, paperback edition published 1991, ISBN 0-415-05794-9).
- >>|>
- >
- >As an alternative to this, who has had the experience of closing their eyes and
- >being able to *see* (not "mind's eye, I mean a visible picture) a sometimes
- >stationary, often moving, image. This has happened a few times to me, I never
- >recognize the location or the people, and there is no accompanying sound. This
- >happens while I am wide awake, it is not the onset of dreaming.....Any ideas?
- >
- >The picture is usually a small circular area within the "black" that you normally
- >see when you shut your eyes. What is this called, if it is not a form of
- >hypnagogia.
-
- What also works well is looking at a map for a few minutes. Then when you
- shut your eyes you can still see it, do zooms, and make it change. However
- it is never accurate even though when doing you tend to think it is. :)
-