Spheres of the Mind

[Chubysnow]

So I am trying to astral project, in my practicing I have tried various methods but that is not important....

What is important is that whenever I try to astral project it is ok for a few minutes but after a while I started to see circles in my vision, even though my eyes are closed. These circles start in the middle of my view and start shrinking into nothing the second they appear. After one circle is gone a new one, slightly larger takes its place and shrinks to nothing. The cycle continues with larger and larger circles each time.

Is this normal, is this ok, What is this?

[Tiny]

Dear Chubysnow,

I experience the phenomenon every time and it's very strange - like a pulsating program that would repeat itself in regular intervals.

Sometimes these forms move from left to right, or grow until they take my whole view or shrink and then a new one replaces it and the cycle starts again.

The main reasons I can think of are electric impulses on the optical nerve or some subtle energy layer in the auric field.


peace

[personalreality]

It's entirely normal, it happens to everyone who stays awake long enough after closing their eyes for sleep (or AP for that matter).

I would say that it is either electrical signals in your brain (because if you're not asleep you're still looking through your eyes like you are trying to find something) or perhaps the beginnings of hypnagogic images. 

Perhaps science knows.   Not that I would trust them.