wander-man, i tried something similar once. there is a yoga technique of mirror-gazing... apparently what happens after that is that whatever you see after your normal vision fades is no longer the result of your physical eye doing the perceiving. people supposedly "see" through their third eye after that. i have never been able to do that, because for some reason i start to freak once my vision fades. (guess i'm just an old 3rd-density mudball who can't deal with the other dimensions. lol)