Since my last few experiences with mushrooms, ayahuasca, meditation, yoga and even sound healing, I have been feeling this stimulation of my third eye.

At some point during the experience I feel as if it swells up and expands. It's a very nice feeling to have. During psychedelic experiences it is much stronger. During my first aya ceremony I felt as if the visions I had emanated from that single point.

During meditation I sometimes manage to focus on that point, consciously stimulating it. It feels as if I start "looking" through this eye, leaving my two other eyes behind. At first it is a movement inside (to the back of my head) and once the stimulation starts it seems to move outside, forward. Breathing exercises also cause this stimulation.

I find it fascinating that it comes back throughout all these different types of techniques.
I was wondering if some of you guys experience this and what you make of it? Is there any source where I can find more info about this?

morning Elpo, how you doing?

while I have no direct experience of third eye activity (oh, the irony ) I was recommended a book to read by a Nexus member who said it had had a huge effect on his meditation, it is called "Inner and Outer Peace through Meditation" by Rajinder Singh and it is about a form of third eye meditation.

this might be worth a look.

I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion.

And good morning to you too

Yes Elpo, I can relate. For myself, inhaling causes the energy to condense inward toward the third eye, and exhaling causes the energy to balloon outwards. This isn't just for the third eye though. For me, it works with all of the chakras. It merely depends on which ones I'm focusing on. Try this: hold up your hand so your palm is facing your face in front of the third eye (or throat, or heart [over the organ], etc...) and take a long slow inhale followed by a long exhale. You may find the energies alternatively pulling and pushing your hand with each inhale/exhale. Your hand should be enough to do it, but sometimes holding an object to focus on can help as well. It doesn't need to be anything special, as it will work with mundane objects, but holding crystals or orgonite or the like seems to create a particularly strong affinity for this effect.

I can relate as well. I'd experienced it on dmt a few times but never consciously stimulated it until one lsd trip where at someones suggestion I pressed my palms together, bowed my head putting the tip of my fingers in the middle of my forehead just above the brow line, and just looked up. It seemed to work tremendously and opened me up to lsd breakthroughs without adding copious amounts of cannabis

A few years later I drank a strong dose of caapi and had a changa experience that, long story short, involved an 'entity' releasing a massive pressure in the center of my head and pulling it out of me, opening what felt like my energy centers. Ever since then that familiar feeling in the third eye can be accessed easier through other methods

after my first entheogenic experience, i had forehead tingles. and for a good month after that everytime i got really stoned (or meditated for a good amount of time), the forehead tingles would start to come back. then that went away for a few months (probably around 8 ), then i felt the tingles once more (when i got really stoned), and the next night an almost burning kind of pain (it didn't really hurt, but it felt like it would have if it were more pronounced, like a needle pushing the skin, but not really piercing it). and then i haven't felt anything since.

i guess i burnt my third eye shut

but yea i never actively tried to stimulate anything, just kinda let it happen.

What exactly is this "3rd Eye" you speak of?

I've always taken my 3rd eye to be my internal visual sense (the thing that 'sees' things when I imagine them, and which gets much more vivid and in-focus on psychedelics).
If that's it, then I also have a 3rd ear that hears songs when they're stuck in my head, and imagines conversations.

Sometimes, if I get REALLY stoned (which I try to never do anymore), the sounds in my head will spill out into my ears. It's not a hallucination, so much as a blurring of the line between what it imagined and what is perceived.

Blessings
~ND

We're all a bit different it should seem. Some people report "seeing" things in their third eye, but to me it's more just like an energy center. I can detect that it's there, but its implications are up in the air for me. It is in the center of the forehead.

My DMT trip yesterday made me feel like my third eye was going to pop/explode...it was borderline unpleasant. I get this same effect through meditation, but it is far more subtle.

It feels like somebody's hooked a jumper cable to mine most of the day. Other times it just feels... tiring.
I'll be damned if I focus on it frivolously these days; At best the result is gorgeous hallucinations, otherwise I start falling through my seat and wake up hours later in a cold, dazed sweat.

Interesting stuff. I've seen and felt what I believe to be my third eye. My first tangible experience of this was on my first experience with iboga, which I believe was a fair old dose. My third eye opened very suddenly and dramatically, in the centre of my vision behind closed eye lids, in the upper centre of my vision where one would expect it to be. It looked a lot like a normal eye, in that it had a pupil, and it was ever in motion, both the eye itself and the roving pupil. Below my eye with eyes closed, in the lower centre part of my vision, I watched this wormhole/energy vortex snake its way up to me, then I rode that into the iboga realm. My third eye remained open for at least 24 hours after this, and would seem to be more sensitive following this experience, opening to some degree when I smoked cannabis, when I meditated, or on other psychedelics and prior to sleep. I had some mescaline extract not long after the iboga and my third eye opened again in a really dramatic fashion. This was in no way subtle as experiences go, it was very obvious and very detailed and I don't believe what I was perceiving was illusionary, whatever its basis. This was quite a big thought for me at the time, as prior to this experience I had always been sceptical of the whole 'third eye' thing, I kinda thought it was baseless, new agey stuff. But iboga seemed to demonstrate otherwise, and in a very tangible fashion. I'm not alone either...it is really interesting how many people experience their third eye opening on a flood dose of iboga. I have a friend who practices zazen meditation, and he described an experience of his third eye opening, and for him it was a very powerful experience and he thought he was going mad for a time! His experience sounded remarkably similar to what I experienced on the iboga.

Since then I have definitely had sensations of my third eye being active, on pharma, ayahuasca, DMT, on cactus and mushrooms and when stoned and having consumed melatonin prior to sleep. For me I can feel this slight pressure in the centre of my forehead, and there is this definite twisting sensation the tends to accompany this, not unpleasant though. I'm curious as to how sound and meditation could affect this and plan on investigating.

Great to see so many of you have experienced this.

I too have had the feeling it was almost about to explode, to the point it feels almost unpleasant.

Never heard of Sananga, what I've found so far seems very interesting.
Do you have some kind of report of your experience with it?
edit: nevermind, I found your report