A Vision From Meditation
A collaboration with @greatdabu
I wrote on one of his "Sound Poem Collaboration Posts," "All things are dreams, lovely collaboration @greatdabu🌀 There are stars inside our bodies and outside in the sky, there is no in or out from what I saw. I know the way it's through the golden spiral I saw it in a vision. Beings full of stars traveling down the golden spiral. I sat on the cusp and watched them go, wishing I could fly with them. But It is not my time yet so I stay here for a little longer and help my family. He asked me to paint my vision and make an audio file of me reading what I wrote, he said it sounded poetic. That made me giggle, I am very clumsy with words! He will combine my painting with his music and my voice. I am very excited to work with the @greatdabu.
13 x 21 inches, 300lb Hotpress Cotton Paper, and Watercolor. This is the first layer of color so the painting will look nothing like this when I finish. I like to layer colors on top of each other to make other colors.
Service Work At Meditation Retreat Back in 1995
I had this vision while taking a short rest after morning meal was served and I went to my room to take a short nap. As a server one gets to meditate 4 hours a day rather than 10 to 12 hours a day as a student, we all start our work at 4:30am and finishes at 9:30pm. We never sit longer than an hour unless one wants too. Two meals a day were served and I spent most of my time in the kitchen, cleaning, prepping, and cooking.
As I was laying on my bed I focused on my breath and let the body rest. I started seeing colors, which I always do when I am relaxed in or out of meditation. The color display is called Closed-eye hallucinations and closed-eye visualizations (CEV). Wiki . I also can see patterns and colors if I am very relaxed with my eyes open, it's easier to see the fractals type patterns when I am relaxed. I've been able to see these patterns since I was a kid and they are as normal to me as breathing. Later in life I found out most people don't see the little light patterns with their eyes open, however many people see colors and patterns with their eyes closed. I've thought that maybe the reason I have visions is because I can easily see phosphenes, many studies point to this phenomena as one of the causes of visions.
As I was laying on my bed with my eyes closed focused on my natural breath coming and going from around my nostrils and letting the body relax a little ball of bright blue color stood out among the swirling microscopic balls of color and stopped moving. I focused on this little light and it grew bigger until I was surrounded by bright white light and a vision opened up and I was sitting on the lip of a vast golden spiral surrounded by darkness that seem to have no end. I saw what looked like bodies of humans full of stars. I wanted to see what was at the bottom of that spiral, to follow the star people, but I had children to take care of and I had no clue what would happen if I jumped into the unknown. I sat for a few moments longer and watched the star bodies fly down the spiral and I was pulled into other visions. I hope someday I get another chance to visit the golden spiral and take that leap into the great unknown.
I tried to paint my visions before and my skill-set wasn't good enough for me to be satisfied, hopefully with all the practice I've done on Steemit since September of 2016, I can finally catch my visions I had at meditation retreat and some of my waking dreams I've had outside of retreat. I usually don't remember dreaming so when I do they usually happen when I am awake like meditating or resting during the day. When I go to sleep at night, it's as if I died, I don't remember anything!
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beautiful art! I've tried to bring my visions on to paper and in pictures but never works out for me lol
@wix, same with me, as you can see after how long has it been since my vision , it's taken me 20 years of trying to catch the meaning on paper....Thank you @wix and keep on trying to catch those bubbles...hahahah
Woah man I always wanted to see something when I close my eyes... I have been meditating for quite some time now but I have only seen blurry colors just a few times.
You can't want anything when meditating, all you will see is the wanting. The mind can only see one thing at a time, so stay on primary meditation object and RELAX! Most of the time nothing will happen, this is very much like getting the dirt ready for gardening.
I've never meditated but I thought you just let thoughts pass through you, without judgment. This seems more like observing what happens, which feels different. Am I totally clueless about meditation?
There are thousands of meditations one can practice. I practice several kinds of meditation, the first method I learned is called vipassana meditation from the Buddhist Theravada tradition at https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index. I've learned several other methods from different traditions as I studied and found other teachers over these last 20 years. One must be very careful when going to meditation retreat. It's kind of like exploring a house full of treasures, clutter, unknown rooms with some monsters hiding in the closets. That's why one needs a teacher and support group when seriously meditating, like going to retreats.
Also there are a bunch of guru scams and meditation retreats waiting to take your money and energy, so one has to be very careful. The spiritual path is very dangerous, freedom is always very dangerous ;-) lololol
Pretty good pictures if at least I could do something like that
@lasper, you have no art published yet, You better get to work!
@reddust,
Great artwork, it's really hard to draw something by using water colors for me :D
Cheers and keep it up!
I've been working with watercolors since the 1980s after my toddlers got into my oils. So I have had a lot of practice, that's the key, practice! Thank you @theguruasia.
Great to hear that @reddust, actually I have tried this but not worked properly. Keep sharing your artworks. I will be a big fan of yours!
Cheers~
Interesting reading reddust i learn a lot in each post
Dreams are fun compared to night terrors :p lololol thank you @dim753
Upvote!:) I like the content, keep it going :) Also, fun fact for today: domestic cats dislike citrus scents, hah.
I am going to try this statement out on my cat, I'll report back on my findings @ergoproxy.
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Looks like a great poster for olympic games!)
I thought this first layer would make a great poster as well. I think I got the layout design down! You and I think alike!
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oh that is some awesome art :D i loved it.
Very Nice work Mam..
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This is a great project. I can imagine how hard it is to paint from memory. Reminds me of trying to play a dream back mentally to re-form the imagery. It can be difficult at times, but I use it to help me fall asleep. Is it hard to re-form imagery from mediation as well? These seem a challenge, because they were not gathered in through the eyes and mind, but the mind and imagination (or wherever meditation comes from, I am not well versed in such). Either way, very cool project. Enjoy putting it together, and thanks for sharing it with us.