which makes me think about a question (unanswered) that i posed to my healer in october of last year:

"how does the mind see?" i meant like eyes do.

i am a craftsman/artist by trade and i have a lot of experience with visualization. Nothing unusual, mind you, just close the eyes and 'pictue' stuff: morph shapes and move them around, see how they fit.. all the normal stuff: quite useful and a skill that can be developed by anyone.

well on this particular october day, i was in a bit of state, having not slept more than 5 or 6 sleep cycles in as many days and the night before my session with my healer i had had the single most surreal night of my life.

now mind you, i am no stranger to the drug induced surreal having had quite a number of hallucinatory experiences in a wide verity of conditions, many of them with what many people would describe as an overwhelming amount of outside visual/auditory stimulous: i like it that way.

but on this particular night i was au natural and in a waking nightmare, experiencing the halucigentic effects (twisting open vision and all the rest: no big deal, just odd cuz i didn't have any of the associated and familiar (to me) drug 'side effects'. and therefore trully surreal (to me).

anyway the truly strange part was when i closed my eyes i could *see* stuff: not like my creative visulisations, but actual *seeing*. hence the question: how can the mind "see".

what i saw terrified me and so ensued yet another sleepless night.

of course the real surprise was the next night after my needle session...


still don't know the answer, mind you.