Sustained scene
I've been making progress on inner silence recently - noticing a verbal inner dialogue more often. More often cutting it short instead of continually trying to answer its thoughts.
I've kept up doing the first 2 parts of Series for Preparing Intent daily.
This morning right when I woke up I saw a scene out of my left eye, "through" my sleep mask. I sat up and started the recapitulation breath trying to look at it more while keeping my eyes open. I had an initial dialogue thought of "this is just a dream and it's disappearing as soon as you wake up" but I knew I was awake and ignored that, excited and knowing the visuals were staying!
Previous sights in the morning happened shortly after waking up and during recap. One was a small alphanumeric readout like an alarm clock. The other was a wavy scene, as if looking at ocean water through a very opaque glass that obscured it. Both were sitting up (not asleep).
Today was a full visual scene! Out of my left eye I saw a cluttered desk. Not a messy desk, lots of gadgets on it. I think a keyboard or a typewriter (something that had a height to it) and a bunch of various shapes. They were all fairly defined looking, not blobby, but I couldn't focus on any particular one, I was taking in the whole scene. The view was like looking at a screen projected a few inches from my eye, with a faint watery distortion, like there was a wall of water in front of the desk, or in the "lens" of my view.
The view panned slowly from left to right then on a subsequent pan I noticed the distortion/water lens.
Yesterday I spent hours wearing an eye patch as an optional part of a costume for a show and I kept my eyes open, hoping for some kind of dark room effect. After about an hour with it on, it was disorienting in a fun way. Visuals like branching vine tendrils shimmering, more like a rapid sped-up plant vine video, but blueish. Much more detailed and spread out than the "sheets" of color I've seen move around when fully in dark room. I've got to wear the costume more today and I'm going to try it again. I think spending focus looking at the weird tendrils helped on the slience front and seeing such a detailed scene this morning is encouraging me to try more.