#29. Dot Your Eyes

One of the three major concepts you will need to learn to apply is hidden in a common illusion exercise you’ve probably been aware of since grade school.  The exercise is simple: If there are two dots on a paper with a significant separation, something interesting happens after continued focus on a single dot.  The other dot seems to disappear.  This happens because we have areas around the outer limits of our vision where the nerve endings are fewer in number, and our subconscious uses it’s predictive powers to fill in those spaces with little or no real input.  Creating more neural connections involving these areas is crucial to the perception of psychic phenomena.  There is a reason a lot of ghost stories start from the “corner of the eye,” but getting back to our illusion exercise, we are going to try to take it one step further.  I have come to find that with enough meditation on this mechanism, you can apply that function from the outside in, basically erasing all of what you see with its own negative, and you’re left with the abstract mindscape.  It requires both stillness of the eye and stillness of the mind, but this is another one of those things you might want to practice getting good at if you intend to master mind-reading of imagery.