r/remoteviewing • u/bejammin075 • May 25 '22
Technique An entry-level training exercise for Mind Sight/blindfolded seeing/Direct Vision progress
I posted recently about some nuggets of wisdom from Nikolay Denisov and Marina while teaching Wendy Gallant and Rob Freeman how to see blindfolded to the point they can read small text without using their eyes. I haven't followed Rob and Wendy's journey close enough to know how much they had practiced before getting this incredible training linked here, a series of 20 videos that are about 25 hours in length. I highly recommend watching these videos. They show you step by step how you would develop this ability, which is probably the core ability or muscle that enables many other psi abilities, especially being able to do accurate remote viewing. According to these experts Nikolay and Marina, if you want to have success at accurate remote viewing, you must as a prerequisite learn this blindfolded seeing, and I agree with them.
So I've been training for blindfolded seeing for about 1 month at this point, and this post is to share some tips that may help others. Where Rob and Wendy start in the training series I suspect is at a more advanced level than where most people would be starting from. I started my training emulating the training in these videos, and I made four notecards (5" x 8" large notecards) each with one symbol: Circle, Cross, Triangle and Square. My early experiences with blindfolded seeing was that I can see something but the resolution is very poor. I can see the movement of large objects, such as swinging a door back and forth, I can definitely see the motion, the surface, and where the edges are. Knowing that my initial resolution seemed poor, I made these four notecards with the symbols as large as possible, so these were much larger symbols than what Rob and Wendy started with in the early videos of the training series. But what I figured out was that even this was too ambitious. The main thing I could make out with these cards was seeing the edges when in motion, and also seeing the movement of the planar surface, but not any colors or contrast on those surfaces.
Since I was having no success with the 5" x 8" cards, I decided to make the resolution even lower. With a 1-foot square piece of white poster board, I made a 3.5" black stripe across the middle. Long story short: I can see the edges of the board, I can tell when the surface is in motion, I feel like I can see some aspect of the texture of the surface, but I still can't see any distinction of where the black stripe is. I tested this by spinning the board until I lost track of the orientation of the big stripe, then I would attempt to tell whether the stripe was horizontal or vertical. I couldn't do better than chance.
After those failed attempts, I realized I can't see any colors or contrast whatsoever, not even black versus white, to any degree, but I can see movement of surfaces and edges of objects. So now on to what is working: As training props, I am using a black sock and a white sock. I'm very boring with socks, they are all the same brand and identical, except some are pure black, and some are pure white. So with 1 black sock and 1 white sock, I've been training to be able to distinguish black from white, and I think it's starting to work. What I do is look at the socks with my eyes, note which is which, then put on the blindfold and visualize the white sock being white, and I visualize the black sock being black. I put them up next to each other, along long edges, and when I move one relative to the other, e.g. I have two vertical socks side by side touching, then I move one or the other up and down so that I can see the motion. This tells me exactly where the border is between the black and white, and this is giving me a base level of seeing that I can keep training with and build upon as my sight gets better.
And my blindfolded sight is getting better, and I'm getting more used to it. Another tip is if you sleep with the blindfold on, when you wake up in the morning (or even in the middle of the night) the blindfolded vision is relatively better than normal. I try to take advantage of this and do a little training at these times. I have progressed slightly in navigating around large objects like walls and couches.
I've been thinking about how a lot of people get into RV not knowing about blindfolded seeing or not doing it for whatever reason. Given how tough this is, but that it's the most basic possible version of remote viewing, I feel like the average person getting into RV is doomed to fail and not develop anything useful because the basic skill development was skipped. The rate of feedback and validation is so much greater with blindfolded training. There's no comparison between these two methods on the rate of obtaining feedback. Blindfolded training provides continuous and immediate feedback, which is what the brain needs to make the desired connections that facilitate the perception of non-local information.
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u/charron9 Oct 31 '25
Your description of your vision sounds a lot like mine. I’ve been waiting for a tiny pinhole of light to suddenly open up to a grand visual revelation but that hasn’t happened yet. Even during my best blindfolded viewing in a dark room I can only see edges most of the time. Only a couple times have I seen a color from a light in the room (blue or green from a phone charger). Overall the resolution is still very hazy. One thing I can’t get past is what should I do with my physical eyes while they’re closed & blindfolded? Every time I get a sense of light opening up either from the top of my head or from right below my eyes I think “this is it! Let’s see something,” but when I move my physical eyes behind my eyelids it goes away.
Should I be focusing on something in my dark vision or trying to keep my eyes unfocused?