Hi,
I'm Dr.
Kim.
Today I wanted to have a casual chat about something very interesting.
The colors we see behind our closed eyes during meditation.
I don't mean imagining colors.
I mean those spontaneous circles,
Flashes,
Spirals or glows that seem to appear on their own when we're deeply inside the practice.
For me,
This happens most often during very certain somatic meditations.
The ones where I move my spine and open up the pathways running from my tailbone all the way up to my skull.
Where I draw my breath and the cerebrospinal fluid upwards into my head towards my pineal gland.
When I do these meditations,
More often than not,
I see a very distinct bluish purple circle right in the center of my inner vision.
It appears to me and it's definitely not something I am creating.
Over the past couple of years,
I've had a few online clients tell me the same thing happens to them during our sessions.
And recently,
Now that I've been guiding more people in person,
Even more of these stories have been coming forward.
After my very first in-person class,
One of the students came up to me afterwards and he said that he felt like his third eye suddenly opened.
He said he had only experienced this once before in his lifetime.
He described it as an intense cold sensation right between his eyebrows and his whole body dropped into a bliss state.
After the second class,
He told me afterwards that the same thing happened again.
He got that cold feeling in between his eyes and this time he started receiving visions.
The wildest part?
He told me that he hadn't dreamt in the last four years and after the very first experience,
His dreams suddenly came back.
Another person in the class told me that he saw a swirling spiral of blue and purple,
Which is also something I've heard commonly happens to people,
Although I haven't experienced a spiral.
For me,
It's just a circle.
So what does all of this mean?
To be honest,
No one really knows.
There isn't any science that can explain the colors we see behind closed eyes and I don't personally think that this is something that could ever be studied in a very clean,
Measurable way.
How do you measure someone's subjective inner vision?
But what I can say from everything I've seen in myself,
In the people I've guided and in conversations with other spiritual teachers is this.
These colors tend to show up when something is opening,
When energy is rising,
When the mind is quiet enough for the deeper layers of perception to wake up.
Some people associate the colors with the third eye and the crown chakra because the blue and purple aligns with these chakras.
Some say that it is the opening up of these upper pathways.
Others say it is a deeper connection with the self or intuition or something beyond the physical.
And others simply take it as a sign that they're dropping into a meditative state where they can sense more than usual.
I don't think anything is certain and I don't claim to know the truth of it.
I just think it is beautiful,
Mysterious and worth talking about.
Now I would really love to hear from you.
Do you see colors in meditation?
Have you ever seen the blue-purple circle or spirals or flashes of color?
Or maybe you get physical sensations,
Emotional waves or clear visions.
Please,
Please share in the comments.
I'm really curious how many of you experience these things too.
If you are interested,
Please let me know if you'd like me to record one of these specific meditations I mentioned.
The ones where we open the spine,
Open up the pathways and draw your energy and CSF upwards into the pineal gland.
I've only ever done these meditations with my one-on-one clients and in-person groups.
I've never actually shared one here on Insight Timer.
But if you want,
I am happy to make it for you.
Thank you so much for being here and exploring this mystery with me.
Have a beautiful day and I will see you next time.
