Last night as I was lying in bed and watching the lights I see, I suddenly thought to myself “The fan only exists because I believe it exists.” As I thought this and stared at my fan the blades began to disappear!! When I snapped myself back to attention they returned. That’s the second time I’ve watched something vanish. What a surreal experience. I would’ve got the whole fan to disappear but I got distracted.
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My advice - Stick to your dreams.
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it only disappears in your blind spots
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Some might argue that reality is subjective and therefore there is no such thing as a break from reality but if you see the devil talking to you and a room full of 50 people don’t then collectively the reality is that the seeing of the devil is an hallucination.
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I was looking directly at it. So unless my blind spot is my entire field of vision I don’t think so.
Anyways even if it was just a hallucination then it’s still cool that I found a way to not see things willingly.
Can hallucinations appear with will power?
Yea, it’s probably an optical/brain processing phenomenon. If you stare at something, your brain can randomly make it vanish. I found this out as a kid and probably looked very strange staring at random things for 2+ minutes without blinking. Lol. I’m not really sure why it does this, maybe to reduce the processing it needs to do (Like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park who could only see movement). Either way, the brain likes to filter static or repetitive stimuli so it doesn’t keep your attention more than it needs to on something benign.
Also, reality is VERY subjective. All of us on here know this more than most others do. If a group of 50 people didn’t see/hear something you did, who’s to say those 50 people aren’t the hallucination and the stimulus they didn’t sense was real. There’s a branch of philosophy that states EVERYTHING we experience might not be real, that only the one experiencing things exists and everyone/everything else is just a figment of imagination. “I think therefore I am”…but that’s about it.
In fact, I’ve been trying to figure out what consciousness really is so I can write conscious computer code. However, I’m starting to think that consciousness really isn’t anything…that it is no different from procedural instructions. Free will doesn’t exist, so I don’t think consciousness can exist without free will. We are just VERY complex computers. Our minds are more complex, so they have a higher entropy and thus seem more unpredictable than a computer. It is this unpredictability managed by a simpler system (self awareness) we have mistakenly labeled conciousness. Either way, given enough knowledge about ourselves, you can predict EVERYTHING you will do in EVERY situation…exactly like a computer.
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Actually a lot of mine are strange in that I have to be actively trying to see them. Like if I’m focused or doing something I won’t see anything strange, but the moment I relax and look around things get super weird.
And the fan was the first time I ever saw something that directly correlated with what I was thinking. So I find that interesting.
It’s called hallucinating, Anna.
if one is experiencing psychosis i would say yes you can manifest what you want in hallucination
Reality is objective.
Perception of reality is subjective.
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What about a lighter flying off a bench onto the floor without anyone touching it. Explain that. Just flew right off the bench onto the floor. Nothing touched it and I witnessed this. In fact it seemed directly meant for me to see, then I picked up the bic lighter from the floor and put it back. I also got a fortune cookie recently that said “Your dreams create your reality”
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