Our dinner table conversations sometimes go into areas we don’t know very much about: quantum entanglement, the dual nature of vibration and matter, aura reading… you know, what every family needs to debate – or not.
In the last years of my mother’s life, she started hallucinating. Supposedly, that is not unusual among old people or people losing their vision. What we think we see is an interpretation caused by neurons firing in the brain. Which neuron fires, and when, is normally caused by signals coming through the optic nerves from the eyes. But if the eyes don’t see much due to disease or if the brain suffers mini-strokes, the neurons in the vision centers of the brain may still fire happily and create images. You know that it is true when you dream. Dreams can be very lifelike, but if your eyes are closed, surely none of the images get into your brain that way. On the contrary, the impulses may run in the opposite direction, with your eyes moving along with the dream sequence behind your closed eyelids.
All this just to remind you that not all that you “see“ needs to come in through the optic nerve.
So, this is the question raised at the dinner table: “If some people see auras and others don’t, is that because they have different cones and rods in the eyes than the rest of us, do they suffer from synesthesia, or might the signal come through another sensory organ to our vision center?”
Do you see aura?
I don’t. On a good day, I may see a vibration around the person I look at, probably an inch or so from the surface of the body. The closest I can liken it to is the heat vibrations you may see over the road on a hot summer’s day. So that is probably what it is, heat vibrations, because we are generally quite a few degrees warmer than the 68-72F common room temperature. But I know at least two people who see more; they don’t really talk about it because if they do, people treat them as if they are extremely odd.
I am reminded of religious paintings of the old masters, where – depending on their style – the saint or Jesus is depicted with a golden circle around their head or the whole person shining. It is said that happily pregnant women and people in love shine. Does love make us shine more? Eventually, so much more that also to people who are “not odd” can pick up the light with the naked eye (or by the normally underutilized alternative “sensoric apparatus” of to me unknown nature)?
Do you shine?
Some theories relating to energy and vibrations hold that our emotions correspond to certain frequencies and that we pick up these frequencies from others either as emotional contagion or just “getting a vibe” – but how do we sense that? The skin, our biggest organ? The third eye? The heart? All of them?
What are your experiences on these esoteric questions?
Leave a comment, or, if you are afraid others will think you are too odd if you do, come join our dinner table conversations. (But I warn you, another evening we may talk about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, circular economy, Star Wars, or how best to make dumplings.)
Yes–we label subconscious as if it were one thing. It is MANY things, for example, studies of precognition show that a few milliseconds before a card is turned over from a deck, many subjects already “know” what it is going to be. The subconscious mind is always active, and we by definition do not know what it is doing–or what it is capable of doing! Including telepathy. It happens to many people that they think of someone–and a few seconds or minutes later, that person calls.
Do you think this happens more often to people who believe it is a thing? Not negating your words but wondering if turnaround time for the cosmos is faster for people open to receiving its gifts?
Yes, of course. Our view of what is real is very much shaped by our parents and teachers. If they say our imaginary “friend” isn’t there, we stop seeing it, feeling ashamed of being childish/gullible. Children talk all the time about things that adults don’t believe in (past lives, for example). So it’s both things–you see more things if you believe they can be seen, and you see fewer things if you believe they can’t.
Also, I do know that people shine! Sometimes it’s a dark sparkle, like in a scary movie. But most often it’s when they are happy, they radiate like a small lamp. People are surprised when I tell them this about themselves, and I think you are right that it’s an energy field radiating from them–how else do we “intuit” what another person is feeling? It’s vision, but also emotion, physical clues that we get AND a “gestalt” feeling. Our entire bodies are energy sensors for different types of energy. It has even been written that scientists have detected human cells giving off light! I think it is Melissa mentioning the “great erasure” that happens as soon as we can talk and tell conditioned adults what we see, hear, sense. We are an amazing species, even if we can’t understand how it works.
Amen to being an amazing species.
I was wondering if we subconsciously notice micro expressions; our brain takes them on for a test ride, and then tells us that when we activate those muscles for creating that expression, our emotional state is usually XYZ. That would explain why people in the US are so bothered with “resting bitch face” while in most of Europe there is not the same assumption that women always smile, nor that they are unhappy when they don’t. The face gets “translated” by the inner standard of the observer.
Following this line of thought, the parents not paying attention to their kids for their screens are obviously detrimental for wiring the child’s brain to fit the pattern between emotion words and facial expressions. “Yeah, that is wonderful” while you are not even looking doesn’t depict wonderful.