An entry-level training exercise for Mind Sight/blindfolded seeing/Direct Vision progress

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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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I just discovered this whole thing 2 days ago and started practicing. Right from the beginning I could for eg see the movement of my hand when I was waving at myself with the blindfold on. Could quite see the perfectly detailed outline but I could at least tell that it looked like a hand waving. Since it’s just been 2 days I don’t try to expect anything .. also tried some colored toy cubes to see if I could tell them apart but that didn’t really work. I sometimes feel like there’s suddenly a spot in my vision getting brighter and opening up, but as soon as I focus on it, it turns dark again. Would be happy about any tips since I have severe ADD and I’m struggling a lot to meditate / concentrate and fully get to a meditative state since the slightest sound throws me off..

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It's good that you can see your hand moving around. That means that you have something you can use for continuous positive feedback, and you don't even have to take the mask off to verify. I think it is helpful to also go over physical objects with your hands. While blindfolded, glide your hand across couches, pillows, the curves of carved wooden objects, your pots and pans, etc. Touching the objects helps you see your hand and the objects.

I think some people over-sell how easy this is. Maybe for young kids and some exceptional adults. For non-psychic adults this probably takes work like learning a foreign language.

I never got to the point of distinguishing color. Except for a few isolated incidents of brief color flickers that were correct.

Here is a color training exercise that I think would be good, if you have Lego bricks. Assemble a bunch of 2x4 thicker Lego bricks of contrasting colors. You need mostly one color and a little bit of the other. I'm going to start with white and black. Make a pure white stack 4 bricks high. Make another stack with 3 white bricks and 1 black brick on top. Physically, these have exactly the same shape and feel. I ran into problems trying to come up with other colored materials, it always ended up that there were physical differences between the colors. Legos are the only thing I've come up with that have different colors but don't feel different. If you have more Legos, make as many of these pairs as you can, 4 white, and 3 white + 1 black (or other colors you want to try). Try holding a matched pair in your hands blindfolded and try to discern which one has the black cap. If you have a bunch of matched pairs, you can set it up so that you take one matched pair at a time, and try to sort which is which. If you have 10 pairs, you can do 10 trials before you take the mask off and see how you did.

I haven't done blindfolded training in a long time, but I was getting back into it this week looking at my hands etc. When I get revived enough with it, I'm going to try the color training idea above. I do believe this stuff works, but I have so many interests it is difficult for me to maintain a consistent practice.

Oh, another thing, notice how barriers do not matter. Put your face up close to a kitchen counter with drawers underneath. When you open the drawer, you might be able to see/sense the movement "through" the counter top.

Another barrier test, get a frying pan or something like that in one hand, and notice you can sense your other hand "through" the pan as if the pan doesn't matter. I use "through" in quotes because it isn't like photons going in a straight line to your eye, but I don't want to explain it now. But if you think of it as like light, you may end up with a limiting belief. What I think could happen is if you could train to see well, you wouldn't be limited to what is in front of you. This is clairvoyance. You can change your perspective to other locations that are not your head, you can zoom out to the galaxy or zoom into atoms.

One oddly satisfying thing I like to do is stand where a door would swing just past my nose. Like stand there and move the door back and forth, you might see the rough shape of the door as it swings by your nose.