The visual field becomes a sort of active space.

When this level is reached, the CEV noise seems to calm down and fade away, leaving behind an intense flat ordered blackness. At this level, thoughts visually manifest as objects or environments. The patterns themselves might resemble fractals. When lying down at night and closing the eyes, right before sleep or just before waking up, the complex motion of these patterns can become directly visible without any great effort thanks to hypnagogic hallucination. However, it is also accessible to people involved in deep concentration for long periods of time.

This level is relatively easily accessible to people who use psychedelic drugs such as LSD. These regions can span the entire visual field, but seem to be fleeting in nature. When properly relaxed it is possible to cause regions of intense black, bright white or even colors such as yellow, green, or pink to appear in the noise. Some mental control can be exerted over these closed-eye visualizations, but it usually requires a bit of relaxation and concentration to achieve. Individuals suffering from visual snow see similar noise but experience difficulty blocking it from conscious perception.

When active observation is stopped, it is not obvious or noticeable, and seemingly disappears from normal physical perception. When seen overlaid onto the physical world, this CEV noise does not obscure physical vision at all, and in fact is hard to notice if the visual field is highly patterned, complex, or in motion. įor a person who tries to actively observe this closed-eye perception on a regular basis, there comes a point where if they look at a flat-shaded object with their eyes wide open, and try to actively look for this visual noise, they will become aware of it and see the random pointillistic disorganized motion as if it were a translucent overlay on top of what is actually being seen by their open eyes. Instead, if actively observed for a few minutes, one becomes aware of an apparent disorganized motion, a random field of lightness/darkness that overlays the redness/blackness of closed eyelids. But in either case it is not a flat unchanging redness/blackness. In a dark room, blackness can be seen or the object can be more colourful. In a bright room, a dark red can be seen, owing to a small amount of light penetrating the eyelids and taking on the color of the blood it has passed through. This can be seen when the eyes are closed and looking at the back of the eyelids. The most basic form of CEV perception that can be immediately experienced in normal waking consciousness involves a seemingly random noise of pointillistic light/dark regions with no apparent shape or order.

Before i close my eyes