seeing colors while meditating

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Post: # 9770Post Matt »

alex Hajtko wrote:yeah that IS interesting, and it seems as though you need to explore this fear and get past it.

Only time i ever see the light is when i concentrate on the inner sound.
today after meditation i tried to listen, and after about 30 seconds it became so loud that i got a bit scared and thoughts got back into my head. I also saw a light that was very faint and distant, but once i lost focus i couldn't get it back :(
What does the inner sound sound like? Is it different for every person? I've never actually heard the inner sound before - it's something I never really explored.
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Post: # 9773Post alexH »

I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but here's how you look for it, and details:

Start in a perfectly silent room. After maintaining your “quiet
mind” during a period of meditation – try to become aware of
the “inner sound” that resonates in your mind.

Note, that we are NOT talking here about a sound of breathing
or heartbeat – only the sound that is in your mind.
Explore this sound. Then aim to identify its Source. By
concentration try to “locate” the Source of your “inner sound”.
While maintaining complete relaxation of every part of your
physical body, seek the maximum intensity and the highest
pitch of your “inner sound”.

Eventually (which may happen spontaneously or after many
years of practice) you will reach a state in which the “inner
sound” becomes so loud, that you will find it almost
unbearable, but only for the very first time. Do not be afraid –
this is normal.

When you are sufficiently close to the Source of the inner
sound, you should be able to find the beginning of a “tunnel” –
the same “tunnel” that has been reported by many people who
have experienced clinical death and came back to life.

To locate the “tunnel” in such a state, seek The Light at “the
other side”. The Light will initially be no bigger than a distant
star. Try to focus your attention on the star and not to “lose” it.
Then, by concentration, aim to “approach” The Light. If you
succeed, you will have a sensation of travelling with
phenomenal speed towards The Light, even though your
physical body will be perfectly still. Everything around The
Light will create the illusion of a “tunnel”. It is an illusion,
because if you exercise your Freedom of Choice and decide to
stop along the way – you will find yourself among the stars,
and the “space” will seem distorted.

When you succeed to approach The Light – it will become
very bright and eventually its brightness will exceed that of the
Sun. What we perceive as The Light – is actually our Higher
Self [1] – our very private interface to The Great Intellect

How far can you go along the “tunnel” depends on how good
your reason is to go there to start with. The final result will not
only depend on you – but also on your Higher Self admitting
you to itself. You can even negotiate – you have the Freedom
of Choice at all times. Never forget it.

When you are admitted to your Higher Self – the bliss cannot
be described in any human language.


The best I can express it – you feel loved SO much that you
simply faint from being Loved. When you wake up – you will
think that you fainted for several seconds, but your watch will
most likely show a time that is an hour or two later...
There are two things that are very characteristic to close
encounters with The Light of the Higher Self.
The first is that every time you have a clear recollection that
you understood absolutely everything that you ever wanted to
understand when you reached The Light

The second characteristic thing is that you are not able to
remember any details when you come back and recover from
the bliss. Recovering details takes days, weeks, months, years
or even a lifetime of thinking and intensive conscious study
after your encounters with your Higher Self.

It seems that all details are purposely “erased” from your
memory. You remember only a “summary” of the encounter.
For example - you remember the fact, that you had no
questions - simply because everything was crystal clear to you,
but you do not remember any particular answers.
This selective “memory loss” during my experiences with The
Light puzzled me for many years. No teacher could explain it
to my satisfaction. However, as for everything in the
Consciously Designed Universe, there had to be a reason for
it. The only source that guided me to a logical explanation was
the reference [1].
The Freedom of Choice 75
As we have already established, our physical lives are “exams”
or “tests” for “doing” things. We are not supposed to know all
answers from memory – we need to prove that we can find
answers entirely by ourselves.
We need to prove that we understand, not just “follow what
we remember”. When you only “remember” you can easily
forget and there is no way of reconstructing the information.
When you understand – you cannot really undo your
understanding, can you?

From understanding – you can reconstruct any part of the
information you need – even in a totally new and unexpected
context. Do you see the difference?
Incidentally, this is exactly what the best teachers do when
examining their students – they test understanding, by giving
students unexpected problems to solve. Best teachers are not
impressed at all if someone just remembers things without
understanding.

A chance of “doing” in our physical lives enables a unique
“test” to determine what we just “remember” as a “theory” and
what we truly understand and can apply in a situation of
autonomy.
Memory is always temporary. Understanding is permanent.
Development of Intellect occurs only by increasing the level
of understanding.
Incidentally, this is a primary reason for starting every lifetime
with a “fresh memory”.

This is from The Freedom of Choice by Tom Chalko

Anyway's to me, the sound is what you aim for it to be.
If you aim to get the highest pitch and highest intensity, you will get it...eventually:)
Its like a resonance, resonating in your mind, kind of like if you hit a high pitch bell except constant and gets louder with time and concentration.
If a blind man leads another, they will both fall into a pit. -Jesus Christ

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no thing.
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Post: # 9783Post Essene »

My experience has been a high pitched buzzing or ringing which if I focus can sometimes get unbearably loud, although I have never endeavored enough to see any sort of light.

Sort of like the sound when the cells of your ear are dieing, lol I hope I'm not hearing myself going death...
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Post: # 9803Post alexH »

Yea, that's what i hear too, but i try to find the maximum intensity and pitch.

To see the light, you have to focus on seeing it, and you will see a small dot far in the "distance"
Focus on approaching it.
If a blind man leads another, they will both fall into a pit. -Jesus Christ

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no thing.
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Post: # 9932Post dhav »

Matt wrote: I see a purple-pink blotches/clouds that grow until they fill my vision, and then fade into black. They are sometimes accompanied by a golden, slightly orange mist(sometimes, however, it's yellow instead) that fills the interior of the purple-pink blotches. Also some blue flames surround the purple-pink.
i see exactly as you and i have never understand what does it mean?i see these colors when i meditate or sometimes just when i am relaxing with eyes closed.lately i noticed that i see the colors purple-pink and gold with eyes open in the dark.they swirl together.i hope sopmeone could throw some light why i see this. :)
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Post: # 11634Post BlueHaze »

To start my first post here and dig up an old topic, I haven't meditated a lot, actually my first time was just few days back.. Anyway it caught my attention since I also saw purple clouds during the very first minutes of meditation. There were some other colors as well but I don't recall them too well, might be that there was some pink also. Anyway interested with the results I immediately googled it and found from one source that it would have something to do with chakras, for example third eye / crown. This would seem logical to me at least.

I didn't really think meditation was necessary before since I've been able to silence my mind even without it, but now there seems to be a lot more to it than that, so I guess have to do some more experimenting. Actually now I'm kind of ashamed I didn't try it earlier.. :oops:

btw, I also get the ringing, it usually starts stronger from my left side ear but last night lying on my bed awake and with closed eyes I could introduce it to right side with equal strength filling my whole head. Not sure what it means, is it this the inner sound then that Chalko mentioned in his book? It sure does feel painful at first, but you get used to it, and it seems it's possible to control it, so maybe I'm not going deaf yet either. :lol: I actually started to think maybe it's kind of mind cleaning effect of our own, I got a similar effect watching a video where Nawang Khechog Oms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwbnqQW5dg if listened through headphones it just fills your head like an emptying vortex :shock:
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Post: # 12228Post Matt »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

I actually came across this today, it is the scientific term for what you guys are experiencing. It's actually been heavily studied (but not understood, at all, as to what the root cause is or it's method of action).

The specific patterns that arise are also given a name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
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Re: seeing colors while meditating

Post: # 13215Post Aeon Psyche »

My spirits that visit from the "higher realm" are like blue and purple coloured vibrations that i can see best in the dark. don't forget that everything in the universe is made out of the same core substance, some call it energy, i call it spirit. since what i see from my spirits must be electrons i would say both words would be correct to use. you start seeing the spirit part over the material part once you start understanding that spirit comes first and matter second.
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