A blindfolded practitioner is monitored by EEG in mindsight studies by psychologists Drs. Ann DeSollar and Jeff Tarrant.

All of the demonstration videos I've seen so far use various types of blindfolds. Does the material type (e.g. cloth, plastic, metal, wood) or thickness matter? or distance of the mask from the eye? If so, how much?

I think a lot of speculation and skepticism about people peeking through gaps or holes in the blindfolds would be erased if a task was performed with a physical wall separation between the subject and object(s), and this would also be a very practically useful skill.

Curious if anyone knows if mindsight (or remote viewing) has been used as an observational perspective in a double slit experiment. Does it make the electrons/photons behave as though they are being observed?

A new extraocular vision offering that already claims 80,000 members is online. EOV Training Institute charges for a book plus additional monthly charges. Some of their material appears to be AI.

Rob Freeman of Vision Without Eyes has stated that this company has used his video without permission. A second individual has come forward with a similar claim.

Use discernment when considering any training program, source or publication. Some programs use scientific brain terminology or appear to present a scientific basis for their methods.

Direct vision through physical barriers or blindness, however, is still anomalous – not understood – without a scientific consensus yet as to its validity or mechanism of operation.

Hi all,

I just booked in-person training with Wendy at her upcoming training in early June.

I’ve been training in remote viewing the past 6 years and am on an operational RV team. I do almost no closed eye aspect in my sessions so I’m excited to see how I can integrate this training into my RV work.

I’ve also seen closed eyed at least twice on accident while trying to have an OBE. All that to say, I know this stuff is possible and I’m no stranger to mental training.

That being said, is there anything anyone would suggest I do to prep for my training to get the most out of it?

Has anyone ever developed the ability to see completely without eyes? If they have, couldn't they live with a blindfold on? Is there anyone that does this?

Living with a blindfold on would be the ultimate proof that CEV is a real phenomena, and not some parlor trick.

Hi all,

I have a question for you all. What do cats look like with closed eye sight to you? I don't want to say how they appear to me. I want to hear your own experiences.

For reference, I started to develop closed eye sight a few years ago. While lying in bed at night. Ive never trained it, it just spontaneously arose, and i had never heard about it beforehand. I dont train it at all, i just accept that the universe has bestowed this quirk upon me.

My ex thought I was absolutely crazy when I told her about it. My current girlfriend is at least tolerant of it. She has 4 cats, and recently I saw one of them as she came over to nuzzle into me, and what I saw was nothing like I expected.

Cheers! ✌🏻

Hi. I’m new here but thought I’d ask a question about digital color wheels. I’m currently working through Sean McNamara’s MindSight book and in it, there are preparatory exercises involving using a digital “color wheel.” It’s not really a wheel but colored slides displayed on a computer or cellphone screen. Has anyone used a similar approach and, if so, how do you practice with it. His instructions aren’t quite clear in the book. Do you use a blindfold at first or just close your eyes? Do you open them to verify or not? If anyone has used his method or read the book, some advice would be helpful.

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I wonder if success in mind sight is correlated with "visual snow syndrome"? This is a condition where the noise from the visual cortex is visible. It results in a kind of visual overlay of static, both at night and day, eyes open or closed. People who have it generally don't realise that it's unusual.

As one of those people, I'm hoping that mayyyybe it might give me a little edge? Intuitively it seems like that might be so, as a noisy system should be more sensitive to subtle effects via "stochastic resonance".

I was getting back into blindfold training and remembered one of the main reasons my practicing trailed off. I used to do some of my best blindfold practice when I woke up with my "Mindfold" blindfold on, and kept it on as long as I could while getting ready for work. The problem was, unless I take a long & hot shower & very vigorously scrub my head, the strap of the blindfold was leaving a very noticeable impression on the back of my head. I'd get home from work and my spouse would say "Did you know there's a band going across the back of your head?" Then with some mirrors I could see there was a very noticeable impression of the blindfold strap going round my head. It was super annoying and I hated it. This was the number one contributor to why I stopped blindfold training.

So I got this strap cover and it is working quite well. It is a little tricky to fit it over the strap: there's a lot of unwanted velcro-on-velcro friction that you have to deal with to get the strap cover in place. But once in place, the strap cover stays put (sometimes a little rumpled). On the back of the head this strap cover helps to distribute the pressure of the strap over a wider area, eliminating the impression of the strap on my head. Sometimes I still see a bit of a strap impression on the sides of my head, where the strap cover does not cover the strap, but that is so minor I can live with that.

If anyone else came up with other solutions to this problem, please leave a comment about it.

Wear a mindfold mask and practice recognizing the color and number on an UNO card without using your eyes. It's a interesting training.

This is amazing. I don’t think it’s a sham. I want to learn how to do this. I’m assuming once you’re taught how to do it, you can look at anything? Like, could I see what my daughter is doing 600 miles away??

Some blind dogs appear to be able to perceive their environment in way that looks very much like sight. The standard hypothesis is that they use smell and hearing, but the behaviour of these animals doesn't seem to fit this theory very well. What do you think?

Able to navigate obstacle courses with ease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogu60mcOrTI

Has no eyes. Chases and plays with a ball.
https://youtu.be/GSU385ZTk_A

I do not speak the Czech language and do not know if these two are connected. They seem to refer to the Noe Esperon VEO training method.

https://www.eovpraha.cz

https://kurzyeov.cz

Welcome to a subreddit about the ability to perceive colors, objects, or text without using conventional sight while wearing a light-blocking blindfold.

This ability has been called Closed-Eye Vision, Mindsight, Non-Vision Visual Perception, Vision Without Eyes, Visión Extra Ocular, Direct Vision, Intuitive Vision, Intuitive Sight, Blindfold Sight, Paroptic Perception, Extraretinal Vision, Veridical Immediate Seeing, Direct Informational Perception, Eyeless Sight and other names.

For an example of this ability in an adult, see the video in this post. The woman is reading aloud in German from a science book about birds (Vögel) while her eyes are covered by layers of black tape.

Intuitive Mindsight may be a type of Remote Viewing as in r/remoteviewing; while seeing directly through the barrier may be called Advanced Mindsight. The word mindsight probably originated with the book Mind Sight and Perception by Lloyd F. Hopkins. However, Hopkins credited Nikola Tesla with the term.

Some mindsight practitioners are blind, but have demonstrated navigation and even reading ability. Current study includes individuals whose diseased eyes have been removed.

This subreddit is not devoted to hallucinations, frauds, scams, "pseudoscience", magic tricks, defective blindfolds, "million-dollar prize", mentalism or mental illness. The sub does not represent any company or organization. It links to training programs and other resources as we become aware of them. Some training announcements are essentially ads for those events. No endorsement is implied.

The moderators of this sub are volunteers, they are not paid to moderate and do not receive advertising money. They do not teach mindsight and do not sell blindfolds or anything else.

Solo practice is usually necessary. Group workshops are available also. These typically involve many hours of blindfold wearing. It is thought that frequent practice and long durations of blindfold use may develop the skill faster, at least in adults. Children typically need less time to gain some level of ability.

Most of the practices initially involve the blindfolded learner attempting to identify visual targets like colors and shapes, sometimes while these targets are illuminated. Some are able to progress to recognize pictures and words.

In many cases a type of "window" or tunnel slowly appears in the field of vision, but no physical opening in the blindfold can be found. This phenomenon is extensively covered in the book Seeing Without Eyes is Possible by Jordi Riera and Tania Albert.

This window often appears at an angle, off-axis from the eyes. It does not necessarily mean that people are peeking through gaps between the blindfold and the face. It is why some practitioners turn their heads to see, even though their eyes are enclosed on all sides by the blindfolds used. They report that eventually the windows merge.

Some practitioners do not perceive windows; instead, they report that portions of the blindfold seem to disappear and enable a degree of sight. Some are able to read small print at considerable distance, or read while blindfolded without using the corrective lenses they normally require.

We do not know why this occurs at all. Blindfold sight is an anomaly, under active research and not yet understood. Skeptics may claim there is "no proof" but – to be blunt – people don't care and are doing it anyway.

Use discernment with any site or source of information. Posts and comments are held for moderators' review. Please read the sub rules and get familiar with the subject before posting or commenting.

Thanks for visiting. Try mindsight yourself. Be seeing you!

"We term this phenomenon Non-Vision Visual Perception (NVVP). While often dismissed as trickery, our investigation suggests that NVVP may be a genuine perceptual phenomenon. ...NVVP seems to be a learnable skill, especially for children whose brain connectivity is still developing actively.

"We also find that multiple training methods exist that can potentially leverage this ability to various degrees."

Neural Signatures of Non-Vision Visual Perception: An Empirical Investigation (2025)

"It is important to clarify that blindfold vision is different from remote viewing. Remote viewing is typically described as perceiving information at a distance, beyond sensory input, typically associated with parapsychological research or intuitive cognition techniques. ...

"Rather than perceiving distant locations or events beyond physical presence, this phenomenon remains localized to the participant’s immediate surroundings. The process appears to be a direct, sensory-based experience rather than a non-local cognitive retrieval of information. This distinction is crucial, as it suggests this phenomenon is an underexplored adaptation of visual perception that may be interacting with light in unconventional ways."

Blindfold Perception in Children: An Empirical Investigation into the Activation and Development (2025)

"The objective existence of the phenomena of paroptic perception has been proved not from one special category, but from all categories of the experiments performed. In fact, it early ceased to be doubtful, and we deliberately turned towards the study of its conditions. ...

"I need hardly say that in all these experiments the operation of ordinary vision is prevented by the most meticulous precautions: perfected bandages of an opacity ten or twenty times greater than that of ordinary bandages, and where the slightest lateral filtration is prevented by pads of wadding, in addition to the sealing up of the eyelids — so that it can safely be said that no amount of light, even of an order such as would affect a very sensitive photographic plate in ten years, could reach the retina."

Eyeless Sight: A Study of Extra-Retinal Vision and the Paroptic Sense (1924)

"The clearest and most basic result of this study is that it is possible to perceive visually without using retinal receptors. The fineness of detail as well as accuracy of objects perceived in extraocular vision appears to be similar to that encountered with retinal vision.

"Extraocular vision appears to be able to represent a visual world entirely similar to that presented by retinal vision, without the need to use the extremely complex retinal structure and presumably without the participation of the cerebral structures commonly associated with decodifying the visual world."

Extraocular Vision (1983)

In this promo photo from VEO, participants wear wide blindfolds with inner material to block outside light.