A question I've seen circulating asks "do you see images when you close your
eyes?"
An artist writes: "It wasn't until I was in my 20's that I learned that not
everyone does this. I just assumed that everyone saw movies when they closed
their eyes and that it was so common place, like the sun rising in the morning,
that no one talked about it."
From intensive dancing to drug intoxication, the phenomenon seems to occur in some people episodically. The first time I saw images was around 1992 under the influence of a drug cocktail while breathing nitrous oxide. I saw insectoid aliens about to probe me or something. It was startling.
But it wasn't until after my flashbacks of specific childhood events that I
began to see these images on a regular basis. The images in my mind are
disconnected from
anything I'm thinking about. They usually start vague and
difficult to see but grow more complex and vivid. While mine don't approach the
brightness quaility of a dream, they aren't all that dark either. Occasionally I
will have limited control of the images.
The flashbacks I had were like reliving the experience as vividly as being
there. They were of occasions when I was drugged so as not to remember the
event. They filled in missing time from training exercises and dangerous
operations I participated in as a child.
During sleep, I "enjoy" hypnogogic and hypnopompic dreaming; that is, dreams
that start while falling asleep and end after awaking. My dreams are also
typically lucid in that I know I'm dreaming.
If I do any one thing too much like working on my web sites, writing a program,
or playing a game, I start to dream about it "recursively". I'll wake up from
the dream with its imagery stuck in my mind and return to the same dream upon
falling back asleep. There have been other times when I want to return to the
dream and it has worked: once 5 times in sucession.
Lately I've been getting random song fragments stuck in my head upon waking
early which agitates me until I finally fall back asleep.
I should also mention that I'm convinced I have a brain implant or have otherwise been psychotronically controlled on at least two occasions. (The first time had me write down a word that while unfamiliar to me described my personal ethos to a tee, and the second time being directed to see a UFO.)
I hope to do more research into these phenomena. If you have any information please contact me.
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Epicureanism: the philosophy of Epicurus who subscribed to a hedonistic ethics that considered an imperturbable emotional calm the highest good, held intellectual pleasures superior to others, and advocated the rununciation of momentary in favor of more permanent pleasures.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
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