I've been meditating for a few years now and have noticed that different times I will see different colors. Sometimes it will start as one color and then develop into another. One time (while on Vicodin from surgery) I couldn't get any colors, it was only black my entire meditation which has never happened. Anyway, any others with similar experiences?
Colors while meditating?
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Shifting, colored blob CEVs and phosphene-like events / patterns can be noticed during even conventional relaxations and literal light-deprived situations, too. I've even had that happen with my eyes wide open while reposing for a few minutes in a chair with my mind somewhat cleared of thoughts -- sporadic occurrences dancing fuzzily on the ceiling, floating colors devoid of belonging to an object.
Colorblind synesthetes may subjectively experience colors that otherwise could not be part of their palette for visual perceptions or for dreams / imaginations derived from memories of those perceptions. What one of V. S. Ramchandran's patients referred to as "martian colors". Somewhere over the last decade there was some research on blind, haptic synesthetes experiencing colors when their fingertips touched keyboards, etc.
Rajagopals
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Fluorescent green
All kinds of sensory experiences are possible. It's not significant.
I find that when I have been meditating regularly, when I lie down to sleep, I don't see blackness behind my closed eyes as light pastel colors. I have no idea what the significance of this is. I think of it as the light of spirituality and clean, clear mindedness.
You can attribute optical illusions to spiritual nonsense, but it doesn't make any sense.
Do you even know what an optical illusion is? Pay attention please. My eyes are closed. I see what I see, not blackness but light. What doesn't make sense? If others feel things you don't , there's need for belligerence. Do you dislike meditation? Perhaps you ought to try it sincerely before you dismiss it out of hand.
I have and it's a waste of time and injurious to the body. By optical illusion I mean you are seeing something that isn't there. Your optical nerves are firing in the absence of light. It's a biological thing.
Rajagopals
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Strange and unlike me, every time I made a progress with my practice my guru only corrected something in my meditation posture - corrected my practice of what was taught 20 years back - and told me exactly what I was seeing. I am very surprised to know you can make a progress without that. I am sure your guru is powerful enough to bless the knowledge directly.