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I have a problem with mental/astral vision and visualisation. Everything is always so...dark. For one reason or another vision is obscured, and its one of the only real dissatisfactions I've had with this kind of work. I am in much better control and much more receptive with the astral senses of touch, motion and sound, but in astral travels and lucid dreams my vision is always obscured due to darkness, over greyness, or my eyelids not fully opening, or something else of that nature. Only on the rare and spontaneous occasion do I have any clarity in my vision.

Any thoughts?

Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but have you tried reaching up with your hands and opening your eyes? Ive had similar problems with not being able to hold things, but I just unclenched my hands after realising I was holding my hands as fists. Its just a thought anyway - maybe thats all you need to do - simply reach up, touch your face, and force your eyes open, or wipe whatever it is off your face thats obscuring your vision?

Thanks Case. The best way I can describe it is as if the room is smokey or misty, but not physically. Everything is just, not intense enough, not clear enough, undefined, just not a lot of clarity even if I can see well enough to get around and function. My earliest two astral experiences had very vivid and clear colour but nowadays things just seem obscured, but not in any way I can pinpoint, I guess its like I'm only half there, or I'm not using all of my sight energy or something like that.

Anyone else have any suggestion?

I would suggest that in the beginning you should start with 2 colors. When I was at the height of my gnosis insanity I think I could do 4 colors. I had to pull back... well.... because I was going insane. The details were really crazy though. So these days I seem to go with 2 colors.

For example I project the my girlfriend Ioli's apartment and I seem to be using sepia which is brown and white. I notice that people have different issues with their astral bodies. Mine is my legs and sometimes my arms. They tend to want to fly all over the place when I'm not calm enough.

Perhaps your eyes are not open all the way because of a lack of calmness. Anyways try and reduce the number of colors to 2 (doesn't matter which colors) that way your graphics processor might be able to render more detail.

just a curiosum, I told someone I see only dark-white and black, no colours, he told me to work with tattwas - symbols of elementals in hinduism and yoga, each one has different colour
it is the golden dawn method to improve remote viewing when working with tattwas, I suggest browse the web and seek for it.
golden dawn tattwas remote viewing

Have thought that perhaps you haven't thoroughly relaxed your mind before taking off or are holding onto a set of perspective while astral traveling? Some entities, low level elemental are known to block psychic projection or stand in for an entity during an evocation, uninvited. You may want to start doing LBRP and the BRH before astral projecting yourself. Just my two cents.