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Blink Visions
Jun. 24th, 2024 10:46 pm For many years, I have sometimes had 'blink visions:'
Everybody blinks throughout the day, and everyone is familiar with a very brief episode of darkness during the blink, followed by the resumption of vision almost instantly. Most of us hardly pay attention to blinks most of the time, and that includes me.
However, at times I will be surprised when, shutting my eyes briefly to blink, I see a vivid picture that is often something entirely unrelated to the world before and after the blink, and at other times it gives me insight into things that are happening;
Example:
We got a new worker to my store that had transferred in from another location. I had spoken to her a couple of times, and didn't know her well. While welcoming her to the store, I blinked and saw a vision of her face sewn together out of brightly colored fabric--A patchwork face with button eyes and a brave smile, but held together by threads and only just staying together. It was very surprising and unnerving at the time, but on meditation it informed me to be on my guard with this new employee. This proved to be a good warning!
This was a free-standing blink vision. Other blink visions are recurring. I write them in my Dream Journal, and often don't have a good understanding of what they may mean. This series happened over several months and had an ominous feel to it.
At the time, I was conducting the magic circle defense described in Dion Fortune's book, 'Psychic Self-Defense,' Methods of Defence: Part II, page 196, starting with the sentence, "In making the magic circle, the operator stands upright..."
I began to have blink visions while doing the magic circle defense. Not every time, but with related themes. Here are my Dream Journal entries with (not very good) pictures that I drew:
(I am looking down at my armored boots at the edge of the precipice)
19 July 2021 North-South Chasm 
Common Features:
1) Chasms. In 4 of the six visions, there are chasms at my feet while I am doing the Magic Circle ritual. It would be very dangerous to turn around in circles at the edge of a cliff or chasm. So some danger is involved that could keep a person from doing the Magic Circle at all. Also, the chasms and new bay seem to me to represent declining conditions. All the faults were running North-South with me on the West side of them, except one in which I was straddling the chasm.
Perhaps I am seeing both sides of an issue, but having one foot on each side of the chasm is the most hazardous position of all. I am doing a magic circle ritual for protection, and am wearing armor-- but Chasms in the earth are not the sort of thing you can fight with armor or a flaming sword. I am facing vast and developing problems that are far beyond my defenses.
2) Buildings: The pyramid with vanes at its top; the weathered laths of a destroyed lath-and-plaster wall. The pyramid seems to represent overwhelming power that has been there for a long time. The destroyed lath wall has a path through it, so there is destruction but also a way of escape.
The pale woman-- perhaps a watcher of some sort. She is frightening, but does not seem like an adversary. She mostly seems to be watching me to see what I will do. Will I give up on my protection ritual? As it turned out, I did not give up.
Current events at the time:
In Summer 2021 we had severe wildfires throughout the Province and extremely smoky air. The province is also at risk from earthquakes, so perhaps in the picture language of visions and dreams, the unmanageable wildfire risk was translated into the form of unmanageable earthquake risk. There was also the ongoing COVID pandemic and all the social weirdness that accompanied it.
There seemed to be a message of doing what I could in the face of unmanageable risks that were beyond my control, and that there would be a way through the destruction. This was a hopeful message in hard times.
Blink Visions--They aren't really dreams, but are dreamlike glimpses of alternative realities. Now that I think of them, they mostly seem to happen when I am in ritual space. I have never heard of anyone else experiencing this, but I do wonder if it is a common occurrence.
Everybody blinks throughout the day, and everyone is familiar with a very brief episode of darkness during the blink, followed by the resumption of vision almost instantly. Most of us hardly pay attention to blinks most of the time, and that includes me.
However, at times I will be surprised when, shutting my eyes briefly to blink, I see a vivid picture that is often something entirely unrelated to the world before and after the blink, and at other times it gives me insight into things that are happening;
Example:
We got a new worker to my store that had transferred in from another location. I had spoken to her a couple of times, and didn't know her well. While welcoming her to the store, I blinked and saw a vision of her face sewn together out of brightly colored fabric--A patchwork face with button eyes and a brave smile, but held together by threads and only just staying together. It was very surprising and unnerving at the time, but on meditation it informed me to be on my guard with this new employee. This proved to be a good warning!
This was a free-standing blink vision. Other blink visions are recurring. I write them in my Dream Journal, and often don't have a good understanding of what they may mean. This series happened over several months and had an ominous feel to it.
At the time, I was conducting the magic circle defense described in Dion Fortune's book, 'Psychic Self-Defense,' Methods of Defence: Part II, page 196, starting with the sentence, "In making the magic circle, the operator stands upright..."
I began to have blink visions while doing the magic circle defense. Not every time, but with related themes. Here are my Dream Journal entries with (not very good) pictures that I drew:
19 June 2021
I have been doing the Circle of Protection or Magic Circle for a while now. Usually, I put on the flaming armor, take up the flaming shield and flame-shooting sword against evil and oppression. I observe the sword shooting flame straight up into the night sky, roaring like a rocket engine as I grow tall. Then I look down on North America and the curve of the Earth before beginning the ritual of protection.
But this time, I see a large, pallid face with stringy white hair and a stern expression facing me. When I look down, I am standing on the edge of a precipice so deep that I cannot see the bottom. North America, that part that is East of me–most of it–is gone.
(I am looking down at my armored boots at the edge of the precipice)
I continue the Ritual of Protection at the edge of that cliff.
29 June 2021 Protection Ritual Visitor
The pallid woman, a face in the darkness, looking down at the chasm at my feet:
Lots of Black and Grey hair with cloth strips woven into it. A rough face, large, flat nose. Complexion Grey, like clay. Dark eyes.
A stern face, but with concern and a hint of kindness.
19 July 2021 Protection Ritual Part 2 - Different Scene
In intervening days, I am having trouble perceiving North America. It has become narrower–East to West. Sometimes I am standing at an eroded shoreline to the East. The sea is washing away the cliff that I am standing on, forming a U-shaped bay.
I can’t perceive what is behind me.
19 July 2021 North-South Chasm
Today when I look down at the ground, I find I have one armored boot on each side of a deep crevasse. A crack in the ground that goes far down into blackness. My right foot has crossed over it. Somehow, I am facing North though I want to face East.
18 September 2021 Pyramid in the East
When doing a Circle of Protection, I am in armor with the sword of protection/defense against evil and oppression, flaming into the dark sky above me– I am facing East.
Instead of seeing the outlines of North America, I see an enormous pyramid, white and gleaming across a dark plain. It has 4 vanes on top of it:
No one is visible and I can’t tell the scale or size of it, or how far away it is. It is a non-natural object, but fills me with dread, like seeing a hurricane coming.
One vane looks like this:
Darker than the pyramid. Significance unknown.
20 October 2021 Circle of Protection Picture
During the Circle of Protection ritual, I see a bunch of tumbled down strips of lathe, as if an old lathe-and-plaster wall fell down and the plaster weathered off. The lathe strips are grey with exposure.
I notice a small path or hole through the middle of them:
Significance unknown.
Common Features:
1) Chasms. In 4 of the six visions, there are chasms at my feet while I am doing the Magic Circle ritual. It would be very dangerous to turn around in circles at the edge of a cliff or chasm. So some danger is involved that could keep a person from doing the Magic Circle at all. Also, the chasms and new bay seem to me to represent declining conditions. All the faults were running North-South with me on the West side of them, except one in which I was straddling the chasm.
Perhaps I am seeing both sides of an issue, but having one foot on each side of the chasm is the most hazardous position of all. I am doing a magic circle ritual for protection, and am wearing armor-- but Chasms in the earth are not the sort of thing you can fight with armor or a flaming sword. I am facing vast and developing problems that are far beyond my defenses.
2) Buildings: The pyramid with vanes at its top; the weathered laths of a destroyed lath-and-plaster wall. The pyramid seems to represent overwhelming power that has been there for a long time. The destroyed lath wall has a path through it, so there is destruction but also a way of escape.
The pale woman-- perhaps a watcher of some sort. She is frightening, but does not seem like an adversary. She mostly seems to be watching me to see what I will do. Will I give up on my protection ritual? As it turned out, I did not give up.
Current events at the time:
In Summer 2021 we had severe wildfires throughout the Province and extremely smoky air. The province is also at risk from earthquakes, so perhaps in the picture language of visions and dreams, the unmanageable wildfire risk was translated into the form of unmanageable earthquake risk. There was also the ongoing COVID pandemic and all the social weirdness that accompanied it.
There seemed to be a message of doing what I could in the face of unmanageable risks that were beyond my control, and that there would be a way through the destruction. This was a hopeful message in hard times.
Blink Visions--They aren't really dreams, but are dreamlike glimpses of alternative realities. Now that I think of them, they mostly seem to happen when I am in ritual space. I have never heard of anyone else experiencing this, but I do wonder if it is a common occurrence.
