John White:
Yes that's what I'm getting at. But if you do check out Huxley's book, you'll have a much fuller understanding of what is meant by eye mobility. This understanding has for me been very helpful. Basically the eyes can be very sticky, meaning they tend to grab on to things in the visual field.
as a kid i did always wonder how, in a car, if you stare at a pole and follow it, your eye moves perfectly smoothly. yet if you want to scan the inside of the car from left to right, either you do it so fast you can't see anything (just move the eyes back and forth really quickly), or if you do it slowly, its like impossible to do a smooth scan, moving the eyes at a constant rate - it's more like they pick out things slightly spaced apart to look at. so you are getting better at scanning smoothly?
John White:
When they do there is typically unconscious staring involved, along with unconscious thoughts and mental processes, all of which obscure reality.
i was wondering what triggers thoughts, sometimes. it usually seems to be me reflecting on things that aren't here. but i wonder if i'm just missing tons of visual triggers. i'll keep an eye out.
thanks again for sharing. i'll try the following:
* blink-consciousness. it's funny.. when i started meditating, breathing got weird cause when i would focus on it it would get messed up. by now i've gotten over it, but preliminary attempts at being conscious of blinking causes blinking to mess up in the same way. definitely something to improve, here.
* stare-consciousness. i think this is a great way to catch oneself wandering into thought, as when you do that you just fix on a point.
* getting contacts
also, try doing similar things with the other senses (like just being aware of sound happening, just being aware of touch happening). maybe every time you blink, check in with your hearing - personally i often notice that i'll have been walking along and had not really been paying attention to anything i was hearing. it might help to go into whichever direction the vision exercises are getting you into.