Small-but-funny side-effect of meditation and other attentional training:
You start noticing these weird pseudohallucinations. Brains are funny and like to pattern-match. Currently, the dishwasher is sort of playing music at me, the gaps in the rhythm filling automatically.
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for me, it was when I noticed that our vision constantly gets subtly brighter and darker as the blood pulses into and out of our retina,
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Yes noticing how vision quakes with each heartbeat, with the much higher frequency fluctuations coming from light sources, had quite a big impact on me also
I think my atypical wiring may have helped my practice wrt this, eg: it’s common for autistics to notice bulbs flickering.
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As a kid I remember having a minor freak out when I realised I could hear my heartbeat - and then I’d listen to it as I fell asleep.
Sounds like a womb. Freud would jizz his thong.
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lol
I have scarcely any episodic memory at all. It's sometimes a bit disturbing. A lot of things I strongly feel I *should* remember that are only there when heavily prompted.
It's weird.