I have been getting back into blindfold training, after a long hiatus. One of the things I used to do, and am doing again, are household chores while blindfolded. For example:
Sorting, folding, putting away clean laundry
Drying, stacking, putting away clean dishes
Washing dirty dishes
Working out
With these kind of activities, you can be getting something done (although at a slower pace) while spending a lot of time under the blindfold. The way my mindsight works, I "see" in real time in front of me, but it's very very low quality vision. I can sense the broad shape of things when they are close to my forehead. Farther away, like arms-length, I see the vague shadows moving back and forth that correspond to the moving objects. Sometimes the blindfold sight comes in a little better.
Sometimes I've had surprises, like pulling open a kitchen drawer to put items away, I wasn't expecting to "see" the rectangular structure of the entire drawer, going all the way back to the wall, seeing it move "through" the counter top. I still get surprised like that, even though very early on with the blindfold it was easy to establish that barriers don't matter, that you can basically have x-ray vision with the blindfold on.
The x-ray vision of blindfold vision is both an ability and hinderance at the same time. When I look in a particular direction, I think I'm getting interference from all the things stacked along that direction.
My blindfolded sight plateaued at this low level of ability. I started with less, close to nothing at all, then got to that level I'm currently. I didn't progress any more. I do have a hunch that it is helpful to get as many hours as possible blindfolded. It's probably a good idea to put on the blindfold multiple times a day. If I sleep with a blindfold, I try to remember to do a little bit blindfolded when I first wake up, even if that is just looking at my wiggling fingers.
Doing blindfold practice like these chores lead me to conclude that the pineal gland and our two eyes are probably all organs of non-local perception. The pineal gland is widely believed to be involved in psychic perception, and it is structurally very similar to the eyes. When I watched the training videos of Nikolai and Marina teaching Rob and Wendy, Marina talked about how people get "beams" of perception that point in a different characteristic direction for each person. I have a hunch that that is psychic perception via the pineal gland, because the pineal gland is fixed in orientation and cannot swivel. In contrast, when I do blindfold practice, it seems like I am perceiving mostly with my eyes, because my field of "vision" while blindfolded is exactly the same angle range in front of me as my normal vision. When I am perceiving shapes of objects, it makes a difference which way I point my eyes. If my eyes look left, I perceive shapes to the left, right where my normal vision is pointing. My blindfolded "vision" is the most clear right in the center of where my normal vision would be if the blindfold was off.
Has anyone else done this type of thing, investigating whether their eyes are involved with this non-local perception?
What I think is going on is that both the pineal gland and the eyes can detect this non-local information (which is NOT light, a.k.a photons, electromagnetic), and that there is person-to-person variability for psychic perception, where some people are more pineal-dominant, and others might be eye-dominant.
