How can I start seeing stuff again?

[Sirius]

I think these things have been seen through human history.

people just assign it whatever label they have based on their society and personal belief systems.

angels become djinn become ghosts become UFO’s become interdimensional creatures become… ???


every society has a short sighted know-it-all attitude, guess it’s human condition. Look at science 200 years ago, 1000 years ago… each age has their answers and we look back at how ‘ignorant’ they were. 

200 years from know, or a thousand they will look back and say the same of us…

love it, immediately your brain goes ->.->.->.->. you should try this  -> ↓ <- ↑ -> ↓ <- ↑ -> 

I wouldn't put ghosts on the list, ghostly apparitions sure, sometimes it's an echo as I understand it. Still uncle John visiting is a bit more personal than just Bob up to no good in his flying saucer....

Ghost hunting, I have never understood this.

[BeTheGoddess]

I'm nearly 50 mate, I just stick to the odd gub full of magic mushrooms or cups of mushy tea when the season comes about.

Tried mescaline a few years back, now that was a journey and a half.

Im just into it for the experience, and the joy it can bring as well as the personal illumination of sorts. 

Is Datura not like nightshade aka highly poisonous?

It's not something i would consider consuming or handling without expert guidance.

Short answer is yes, but without guidance it is something people fk up on it. 

We played with it and then learned about the historical uses. We did not kidnap lizards but in retrospect we should have.

[CrastneyJPR]

'Proof' of anything is subjective and mostly irrelevant.
If you don't believe something, then no amount of proof will be enough to persuade you.
If you do believe something, you no longer need proof.

just look at religion for many examples: people who believe and have faith don't need proof that 'God exists', they don't question it, they just know that it's true.  People who don't believe, require and ask for proof of miracles, proof that God exists, etc, but then they always have scientific explanations as to why what they've been shown isn't proof, or doesn't explain it, or they add on caveats to say yes but....

[Helperman]

So do you, or did you, simply have an overactive imagination? Were you also a daydreamer?

How To Raise A Child With An Active Imagination - Firstcry Intelli Education

Where some children actually think they see an imaginary friend, so you too may have seen imaginary robots as a child (?)

Sort of. Except my visual imagination stinks. I was a daydreamer, but my day dreams were text based. I dont imagine things with sight.

[Tinkerpeach]

I once used to see a lot of weird stuff, mainly robots but there were a few other things, and then I just stopped. I realized the pattern was that I saw stuff back when I believed anything was possible, and stopped once I realized some things were impossible. I'd like to see things again because now I have a phone and could get photographic proof, I want just one more strange sighting. Can anyone give me tips to go back to seeing stuff, possibly by believing again? How do I believe the impossible enough to see the impossible? Or, am I wrong and it has nothing to do with belief and I need to do something else?


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Well first of all it isn't believing in the impossible because they are possible and do exist. 

You just need to go where they are. 

What you saw as a kid was probably just your imagination so you won't ever experience that again.

[Ray1990]

Sort of. Except my visual imagination stinks. I was a daydreamer, but my day dreams were text based. I dont imagine things with sight.

Start with dreams maybe?

Anyone who dreams visually has a visual imagination, it's feasible that the only difference between hallucinations and dreams is the state of your consciousness, as in being awake or asleep.

It's normal for people to hallucinate just before sleep as they "drift between worlds" so to speak. It's called the hypnagogia state.

Mugwort in the form of tea is apparently good for inducing vivid and even lucid dreams, plenty of other stuff that can have this effect too and of course there's the more hardcore stuff mentioned here that'll cause hallucinations within a waking state but my personal opinion would be to start slow and work with whatever is already within.

Within certain meditative states it's possible to induce hallucinations and the likes too.

Tripping balls works too, I'd probably go with meditation personally if my experiences were that long ago.