Alternative Vision

[Rastus]

To me it sounds like you are describing Astral Vision.  The entities are a big clue, and of course if your seeing Aura's, they don't quite match the physical now do they?

To me it sounds like you have highly developed Astral/Auric sight.  you are probably an "old soul".  Most of us aren't as gifted as you are, and we ahve to meditate and work to get a functional point.

As far as how to develop it?  Building energy and meditation.  Find a good book on Chakra's (your third eye is responsible for your Astral vision) also.  What form of energy building and meditation is up to you, you can go eastern, western, modern or ancient, it really doesn't matter.  Try the main page download section for a good primer on Auric vision.

[flock]

"The entities are a big clue, and of course if your seeing Aura's, they don't quite match the physical now do they?"

I've only seen people's auras during OBEs, there they are quite irregular and white.  Usually I don't experiment with the "alternative vision" with other people around as it makes me look dumb and I don't want them doubting my mental sanity more than they already do after the "speaking to the invisible people" episodes.

Right after writing the lines above, I decided to watch my mother while she was watching TV and try to notice the aura (this was the first time I've tried to use the "alternative vision" to see non-physical things), but I could see nothing besides her body.  At that moment she fell asleep and seconds later I saw a bright white cloud leaving her body through the head, like as if she had some gas inside her and suddenly someone removed the cover from the top of her head to let the gas out.  This frightened me as I've never seen anyone falling asleep this way before and due to my fear, even though I knew it was her uncounscious projection there, I left the room immediately.

[Rastus]

WOW! []

That is a gift indeed.  I wonder if with training you could see the silver chord?

Seeing Aura's is different.  You don't see them directly.  It is more of peripheral vision effect.  Clothes and background can make reading them difficult.  You can try reading your own, you want sudued lighting and a white background if possible (light and  solid is okay).

[flock]

Hello there!

Before I begin, I would like to give out some background so people can generally understand what I've already been through in this life.  I will not tell single experiences in detail, only the general observations made through time, because even though there has only been a year, I've already had so many intensive experiences that I wouldn't know which ones to focus on and when to stop spaking about them.

-- The background --

Since my childhood, I've experienced with almost all sorts of sensitive/passive mediumnity (passive and sensitive in a way that I had a lot of psycho extra-sensorial experiences which never harmed me nor were the entities ever able to interfere with the physical world using my body as a medium but I am and was always able to fairly communicate with them (mostly through telepathy)).  All these experiences were a bit uncounscious back then since I was a skeptic and would always try to relate them to other things and comfort myself that way.

About a year ago, I met with a few people online who used to study and practice these "nonsenses" and I asked them several questions about the possible laws of that non-physical world they seemed to be aware of.  This was the dawn, what I discovered was that those people were telling me things I've felt and seen before, and better than that, they suggested me experiences, reality testes, and to not be afraid of facing this new world as I would be (probably) ready for it.

One of those people pointed me out to some literature on the subject, she told me to read "Jorneys Out of the Body" by Robert Monroe for an introduction, which I did and after about one week I managed to have my first fully counscious OBE, it was nice and I was willing to explore more, but then she adviced me not to go much further nor force this condition as it would lead me to experiences I would not be ready to control thereafter.  I asked her about how could such experiences harm me but never understood her answers, she told me that it could lead to mental disorders and tried to explain me why, but I never understood.

Suddenly, during an OBE, I became supercounscious (aware of multiple reality contexts at once) and I was able to control each and every single counsciousness in that process (there were four in total), which I find hard even to remember when using the physical brain as it's beyond its natural capability.  That experience made me understand why it would lead me to mental disorders: because my physical brain is too limited to accept that supercounscious.  Even now, after having the experiences, I cannot exactly remember how it was when I was supercounscious, the only thing that remais in my phyisical brain related to the subject is the memories of what I felt in each one of the contexts, that they all happened at the same time (even though I cannot think about them all at the same time) and that I felt I could control them all (my brain doesn't even allow me to draw circles in different directions with a leg and an arm on the same side of the body).  I understood the lesson and did not force any OBEs thereafter (sometimes when the vibrations are very high I still have them 5 to 15 seconds after lying on my bed, but I always try to return and sleep uncounsciously).  There were other experiences which frightened me even more such as when I started to try walking through closed doors and walls with the physical body (don't laugh, it happened a lot), I was getting too used to the rules of the astral body and that could be dangerous to my phyisical body (hopefully I never tried to fly out of the window in the physical, otherwise I wouldn't be here pressing these keys).

After this experiences, all my mediumnic awareness became stronger.  Now I could feel presences around me all the time, even in other rooms, receive messages in the form of feelings (telepathy) and even SEE projections every here and there, I knew they weren't physical because they were translucent most times and did not cast shadows (this is one of the techniques I use to disclose between lucid dreams and OBEs).  This was so out of control that sometimes I ended up answering to entities at work, entities which I didn't seem to know from anywhere (in the physical at least), but who my subcounscious accepted very well.  Other people may have thought I was becomming crazy because of the way they all used to look at me after those "dialogues with invisible people".

After a few monthes trying to get my mind away from this subject, I have not yet managed to get rid of my awareness, but now and hopefully I can control it much better.

-- The problem --

My visual awareness is now growing to the point that my eyes are becomming useless organs with time since I am now able to control a sort of "alternative vision" (e.g.: see through eyelids or from different parts of the body).  This vision is specially good in the dark since it greatly outperforms the phyisical vision, it does not require any time to get used to very dark areas and a single LED works as a perfect lightsource allowing me to see everything as if it was day (I recognize this superior vision from my out of body experiences where I could sometimes see the world with much greater detail and brightness than I can physically do).

The problem with this "alternative vision" is that I still find it very dificult to recognize objects (e.g.: I see them there and their shapes, but I don't know what they are), sometimes I don't even know whether my eyelids are actually closed or open (since the vision is never lost, only darkens down a bit when the eyes are closed) and occasionally I see projections and other oddies which I can't see with the physical, but I can already use it to find my way across the dark halway to the kitchen, for example, which is nice (for a start).  I've tried to block this vision with my hands over my eyelids everal times, it used to work in the beginning, but now the hands become translucent themselves, so there's nothing stopping me from seeing, fortunately I've already got used to it.  This "alternative vision" is permanent and as soon as I manage to read things with it, I am going to subject myself to tests.

Amongside the "alternative vision", I got another weird vision which doesn't see light (at least from the same spectrum the physical vision does).  This vision is monochromatic and allows me to see boundaries and shapes in the gray scale which are cast by physical objects.  The tonality of the gray seems to be given by the material which makes the objects.  Metal surfaces look brighter while wooden ones look darker, I don't know much more about this vision as I can only use it in very dark areas and I find it hard to ignore the alternative and physical visions and use this one instead, therefore I haven't yet got much time to walk around observing things with it.  Unlinke the "alternative vision", I can actually read stuff with this weird vision because the detail persepction is very high and things don't get messed up as they do in the "alternative vision".  In fact, my first counscious experience with these unusual perceptions of my surroundings happened with this light-independent weird vision.

-- The question --

I've been searching for people with the same awareness but found out there aren't many around!  The "alternative vision" is so easy to use that (with proper training) I think I could completely stop using the physical eyes.  I came across some scientific research on the subject (http://www.informnauka.ru/eng/2002/2002-07-12-02_157_e.htm) and found out this alternative vision is accepted by some skeptic scientists as "skin vision", which is hard for me to accept since there aren't any lenses focusing the light into the skin to form an array of dots like the one we have in the eyes which focuses light in the retina which is made of rods and cones which in turn translate light into electric signals and send them to the braind through the optic nerve.

Is there anyone with the same experience with similar or better results?  If there is, I would like some advice and information on how to improve this perception and perhaps (now I'm dreaming) turn it into something more useful than the physical eyes.

Thanks everyone in advance.
And do not fight too much for something you don't naturally have (chances are that you may be not prepared to face the consequences).