What do you see when your eyes are closed?

hi bagarad the great one must indeed have been looking out for you when you hit that c oncrete slab . I ha ve had two f alls myself in the past five years. one I too m et a concrete slope behind my favorite restaurant but I threw my left arm out to break the fall I guess and instead smashed my shoulder. I ended up in ER and then in surgery as the bones were so crushed they had to do a shoulder joint replacement. so I spent almost a m onth in rehab. today I still have only limited use of myleft arem despite all the physical therapy. the other fall was a y ear ago this past valentines day. this time I did not see the pool of spilled coffee on dark brown highly polished tile in front of the elevator, I fell face down s o quickly i could not even break my fall. the only broken bones was my nose and my cheekbones but I really twisted my knee and I could not even walk on it as the pain was unbearable. back to rehab again this time the staff were new and really wonderful and I really was grateful to the physical therapist who helped me recover the use of my right knee.,. I don't think people realize that spilling fluid on a tile floor and leaving it poses real hazards for unwary walkers. I am so glad you did not have any bad breaks or twisted tendons. God must have been looking out for you.

I'm rereading these older discussions today and copying what I want from them. I had forgotten all about my fall, and I now realize how lucky I was. It may be part of the reason I may need surgery in the future, but it could have also paralyzed me on the spot if my neck had been impacted more. I have bone spurs that are almost touching my spinal cord in my neck. One fall or other mishap that puts my neck in the wrong position could do me in --unless I have the surgery. I find out whether the surgeon recommends it next month. I agree God must have been looking out for me. I'm glad you had good physical therapists after that last fall. Seems the old we get, the more vulnerable we are to the mistakes of others -- not to mention our own.

William, I've been much more careful today, and even took the car out for the first time. I also walked about a block to an outbuilding and back twice. I do feel stronger today, but I still have places that hurt. Sounds like you also see images of real things when your eyes are closed.

My husband is also able to fall asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. I've never been able to. If I'm really tired and nothing is disturbing me like a noise or pain, I might fall asleep within 20-30 minutes. I've always envied people who could fall asleep fast. I think seeing abstract shapes is pretty common. They often move on a dark or red background. It appears that what we think about also might show up on our closed eye screens.

You are so lucky to have a easy sleep.For me in case if i am tired or sick i fall asleep very easily but other than that it take too long time to fall asleep.While closing my eyes i see the particular days incidents most usually..

hi bagarad sometimes if I have arthritis pain at bedtime I take a couple of Ibuprofen and it relaxes me but it takes me awhile before I d o fall asleep.and if I get woke up in the middle of the night I have a time getting back to sleep too. I am a diabetic so often check when I am awake late to see what my blood sugar is as low blood sugar will wake you and also give you nightmares.

No, they're definitely those poppies, four petals and a dark centre. The petals are a little more defined than this one, that is, there is a bit of black space between them.

Are you sure they are poppies and not big red dots on black backgrounds? For sure a lot of people see red and black, especially in a dark room when the light has just been turned off.

hi just thinking as i am a writer I have often written something down late at night that I thought was great then looked at it in stark daylight and wondered "what on earth is so wonderful about that? Its interesting we both had the same experience and I often wondered if anyone else who loves to write had thought of a gem late at night then looked at it in the morning and wondered why they had thought it was a gem? I read mysteries and sometimes it does not relax me at night. I used to get up and write chapter or part of a chapter at night then I could go to sleep while I was writing a novel thats still unpublished and sitting in my sons new apartment now.

Great strategy, Jill. I've found if I work late on creative work, say past 2 AM, my brain wants to keep going in that direction. It's like getting my second wind, and my brain wants to continue writing or start writing about that new idea that just popped into my mind. Sometimes I write down the idea, and in the morning I wonder why I thought it was so great. I sometimes read before bed to settle down, but I have to make sure it's not a book with a plot. An old education text would be ideal, but they are just too heavy. I probably have thrown them all out as worthless, too. I tended to hang on to my literature and history texts, but they are also pretty heavy, so I try to read something inspirational.

I am not judging any individual I am just enjoying the energy of the class as a whole. If I were to center on any one of them without their permission I would feel uncomfortable.

Interesting. How do you know which color is which classmate if your eyes are closed?

I know, it never happens for me when I am awake with my eyes closed. But I can think about years ago. I just wish I could have a dream taking me back then. It would be nice to have at least an hour to relive those days. Even if it is only a dream. Maybe I need that little bit of revisiting. Sometimes I think that having that happen will make it easier for me to go forward. Anyway. I am happy to hear you are feeling better and getting around.

Sounds pretty normal. Do you often lie awake? Or do you get to sleep pretty quickly?

I don't go to sleep as soon as I close my eyes, but I usually fall asleep fairly quickly when I first go to bed. It's when I wake up in the night and can't go back to sleep that I lie there with my eyes closed forever and ever, it seems.

That would b e disturbing. Sometimes what I see are sort of like dream scenes instead of places I've really been. I just read that it might be a type of hallucination caused by medications I take sometimes. Last night I had taken both a Vicodin and a sleeping pill, and either could have caused that phenomenon. It's like dreaming when you're awake.

hi yoyo and bagarad when I am very tense or upset and sleep iwill h ave the same awful nightmare thats so real. I wm in a cafe with girl f riends and they decide they will mee t me at jC PENNYS after they visit a bit more.okay so far then I leave the cafe'and n oeverythings wrong,the streets are not familiar and I cannot find the Jc.Pennys that was always in Rapid City S.d.so I kept walking and stopping people and asin where is J;C pennys and they'would ask You m ean in P hoenix? I would snap no there in RapidCity. they would look at me like I was craz y and just walk away.,soon I came to an area where huge machines were digging fo undations for a mall I guess.. anyway I found a business building and walked 'in to use the phone if they let me. they said go ahead and so I called a cab.,I told the driver I needed to get to Jc.Pennys"He asked in Tempe or Phoenix.I screamed no no Rapid city. then I woke up,I was safe and not lost but I was not in Rapid city but Tempe Arizona where we lived then. I had not been in Rapid city for years.I guess there was some strain in my mind about being in Arizona or my marriage which my dad has not approved ofl

The brain has a lot to do with what the eye sees, open or shut. So it's not strange at all that if you've been thinking about cards, you will see cards falling. The rest of what you see seems pretty normal, too.

You've changed your myLot face. I didn't recognize you. Sounds like your sleep patterns are as crazy as mine are. I don't normally have the nightmares while awake, though, unless I hear coyotes after some prey.

You're lucky you can fall asleep so fast. It seems to take me forever most nights. I also wake up slowly when I can. I lie and listen to the radio with my eyes closed until I feel more like facing a new day. But I don't have to get up and go to work somewhere else and can keep my own schedule now. It didn't used to be that way.

So in that period before you fall asleep, do you see any images that might be associated with what you're thinking about? Or do you see the blackness with moving dots or spots?

hi oh my then I am not going nuts when I see so me sort of weblike things. that explains those sights. veins wow.

It is fascinating, isn't it? I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually thinks about these sights. Sometimes I see the shooting stars, too. And scientists say you really do see your veins in your eyelids.

Sounds like that helps you relax, feel good and go to sleep. Nothing wrong with that. Some people advise trying to imagine something relaxing before you got to sleep. I think that's the idea behind counting sheep.

Thank you I will certainly try that, I do not believe in God per se, however I can still be thankful to the universe. It is easy to take so much for granted, from walking to seeing, and to count the blessings we do have.

I'm sorry you struggle with that. As a Christian, when those thoughts that overwhelm me rise up to frighten or discourage me, I can talk to God about it and ask him to help me trust him and think about what is good. Then I begin to count my blessings until I fall asleep. That brings to mind all that is good in my life -- the roof over my head, the fact I have good food to eat daily, most of my body parts working well, etc, etc. That brings me the peace I need to sleep as I remember that God has forgiven my sins and he controls my future, and that he is my advocate.

Oh. Sometimes it takes a long time for me to be able to fall asleep too and that only happens whenever it's the night before a very big day like the night before the first day of school, the night before my birthday, or the night before a special event. I think it's the same for you too.

Looks like you're pretty normal. I'm guessing you fall asleep fast and don't lie around for long periods with your eyes closed when you're awake.

None of the images I see with my eyes closed keep me awake. They must come from somewhere in the recesses of my mind, but I usually do not recognize them. I remember recently that I saw a crowd scene and didn't recognize a single person.

When you see the images, are you consciously imagining them or do they just pop in front of your eyeballs before you think about them?

Even those images that you see could be interpreted the 'Reiky way' I suppose? When I was just initiated into this therapy I used to pay a lot of attention to the images I could see but as is the case with anything its newness is worn out and now I hardly pay attention. But for the other aspects of Reiki I fully believe in its healing power.

i"m not sure I'm convinced of this. I still think it's my subconscious, since I often know the people I see, and many images come from things I've experienced recently.

Sounds like a good plan. The light makes me see red, too. In fact, if the light was bright, I'll still see it in a dark spot even if my eyes are open.

It does sound like almost everyone experiences it.