Why does one get visions?

Isobel Gaudie said:

I've been reading this thread with great interest but felt shy joining with my odds.

From a psychological point of view we can reach out to the phenomenon of dissociation.
This basically means disconnecting from reality. Sounds weird and psychotic, but hang on.
It's a coping mechanism for overload and stress when inner psychological boundaries are low or one is sensitive.

Everybody has this to a certain extend. A dissociative mindstate can show as a big blank emptiness in your head, also often as accidental daydreaming. Your head is taking a break.

It relates to meditation and dreaming. Except meditating people do it purpose. There is a neurological link between. If sleeping, meditating or disassociating the same brainwaves raise on scientific scans what refers to similar activities. I know this from having been a living example. But this is dry scientific stuff.

What is likely to rise in all 3 related conditions are archetypical pictures if we want to refer to Jung and Freud.
Inner archetypes get intojected and developed in early childhood and surpressed again in later years.
But pops up in one way or another.

If we follow the route of coping mechanism, flashing pictures work like an inner escape to soothe an overloaded mind.
I myself have an entire inner landscape. Built naturally since early childhood. Here we can go a dash esoteric. My head is all about water and sea. I'm a watersign.
If I close my eyes and fall back into my mind I'll find myself at the seaside or at least at a rivers bay.
I subconsciously had to build this safe place during a very rough childhood.

I don't call those moments visions. Then what qualifies as a vision? This is probably up to the eye of the beholder. I sometimes get them. They grab me out of a sudden while being fully switched on. Nothing dreamy about that. More like a kick in the head. But then I don't do channeling. Would be interesting to compare those experiences.

I hope I could shed some light on a different perspective.

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Ron521 said:

I have visions periodically, often when dwelling on a situation for a while. The first time this happened I was about 11, and becoming interested in cars, specifically OLD cars of the 20's and 30's. Riding in the passenger seat of my father's truck one warm day, staring through the windshield, I SAW a sedan of the early 30's enter the crossroad ahead of us from the left side of the intersection, do a sharp donut in the street, and tear off in the direction it had come. The scene looked like a few seconds from the movie "Bonnie and Clyde", except that the car was not shiny and new, but painted with red primer.

I asked my father what kind of car that was, and he asked "What car?" When we rolled through the intersection, there was no car of any kind in sight. Apparently, I had created the vision by dwelling on the subject, and tuning out other external stimuli.

Things like this still happen sometimes...think deeply about something, and ignore other sounds or visual inputs...not sure what it MEANS, or if it means anything.

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Saskia said:

I'm not sure there's a simple one-size-fits-all answer. Why do we dream? Why do we daydream? Some of it is the brain processing information and emotions, some of it is maybe messages from the shared subconscious or the spirit world or the soul level. I'm afraid nobody knows, because we don't even fully understand consciousness yet.

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