You don't open your eyes. You keep them closed.
I don't know. I think it varies. From what I've heard, it usually takes around fifteen minutes to start. Reasonable by my standards.
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You don't open your eyes. You keep them closed.
I don't know. I think it varies. From what I've heard, it usually takes around fifteen minutes to start. Reasonable by my standards.
Then why use the ball halves?
Regardless as to whether or not your eyes are closed, light is filtered into the eyes, unless you are in the dark, in which case, it does not actually matter.
In truth, I have never even tried this. I have no ping pong balls.
It's just that the classic experiment involves ping pong balls, and every article on the issue says you should use them.
The ball halves are supposed to only let in one frequency of light... Maybe you can still see other ones through your eyeslids? I don't know. I was under the impression that you kept your eyes open.
That's what I'm getting at, because that's the whole point of the experiment.
In essence, your eyelids are too thick to let in sufficient light unless you were really close to a light source. I've tried this with something somewhat close to ping pong halves. You can't filter in light if the filter isn't somewhat seethrough. Your eyelids are just that; lids.
And this...
...would make the whole experiment fail.
So, I'm a bit confused.
Do you absolutely have to use ping pong balls? Could some kind of paper work?
Do you keep your eyes opened or closed? If opened, does it matter if you blink?
How long does this usually take, or does it vary for everyone?
@red: I don't know, but I approve of the quote in your signature. :)
:chuckle:
If the quotes thread was still around, I'd would've posted that quote. :D
red, I'd imagine you could blink if you needed to. The whole explination of the experiment is pretty vauge as far as the small details go. You could go ahead and try it with paper and see if it works and report back to us. It would definately save us money. :D And I'm pretty sure the time varies for everyone.
Speaking of which, what happened to the quotes thread? That thread was great.
We probably have a golf ball lying around somewhere... Even though no one in my family plays golf.
Alright. I'll try it with printer paper and report back tomorrow. :)
Why can't you do this in the dark?
Golf balls aren't hollow, though. They would be kind of difficult to use.
Anyways, I was an epic fail trying to use the printer paper, so I ditched it and used one of those plastic Easter eggs. I got one without holes in the top/bottom and put the top half on one eye and the bottom half on the other.
I put the static on the radio and just laid in bed. After ten or so minutes (I think) my vision started going kind of wonky; black/gray kept waving in from the sides and those little blobs of color that are there when you close your eyes came and went. I watched that for almost fifteen minutes and then decided nothing else was going to happen.
Maybe the Easter egg just wasn't good for this, or maybe that was it. Oh well, it was kind of fun. :D And I looked SO intelligent with yellow plastic egg halves stuck on my face. :chuckle:
Oops, I meant ping pong ball. >.>
I also thought about using plastic Easter eggs. They seem more convenient than cutting a ping pong ball in half. Maybe you didn't wait long enough... -shrug-
Have any of you seen Joe Rogan's isolation tank? he explains it in detail in a video. It seems more effective than this method though, because of the deprivation of all senses. Also, he has pure oxygen running into the tank.
It's also really expensive.
I've heard of float tanks before. I'd like to try one sometime, to see if I can WILD in it.
Tried it and i got some creepy hallucinations...first all black then like portraits in a black background with faces deforming and a weird tingling in my ears and suddenly a complete disappearance of sound.. Also after i stopped when i closed my eyes i could still see faintly the hallucination but disappeared shortly. I will try it again it is really interesting.
btw i did it with my eyes open, first it was a bitch trying not to blink but after a while just dozed off and after 20-25 mins it happened.
So cool that it worked!
Does not work, and there is no scientific evidence to prove it works.
Maybe not for you. Have you tired it? Scientific evidence isn't needed for everything. Lucid Dreaming is a prime example.