<P> This is a fairly deep state . At this level, thoughts visually manifest as objects or environments . When this level is reached, the CEV noise seems to calm down and fade away, leaving behind an intense flat ordered blackness . The visual field becomes a sort of active space . A side component of this is the ability to feel motion when the eyes are closed . </P> <P> Opening the eyes returns one to the normal physical world, but still with the CEV object field overlaid onto it and present . In this state it is possible to see things that appear to be physical objects in the open - eye physical world, but that aren't really there . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> If we remember that the essential difference between what we call the real world and the world of imagination and hallucination, is not the elements of which we build them up but the sequence in which these elements appear...then it follows that the sequences directed from without represent a limitation of the otherwise unlimited combinations of the selective forms released at random from within </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--- Jurij Moskvitin, Essay on the origin of thought . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> If we remember that the essential difference between what we call the real world and the world of imagination and hallucination, is not the elements of which we build them up but the sequence in which these elements appear...then it follows that the sequences directed from without represent a limitation of the otherwise unlimited combinations of the selective forms released at random from within </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr>

What are the patterns you see when you close your eyes