Playing with invisibility

[sayonara tsunami]

Sometimes I'm invisible. People literally have said they didn't see me when they try to cut in front of me in line, or something like that.

Sometimes I'm standing in front of a cashier and they call to the person behind me.

I think I may be able to use this to my advantage cause I've stole something a few times and got away with it

[joel1212]

I think its a common thing.
or you could be eluding peoples eyes.

[asevaaamas]

This happens to me sometimes. I think it's just because I never project my voice loudly and so people can ignore my presence unless looking directly at me.

As an example, I was riding my bike once and passed a garage sale. I put the bike down and walked up the drive. Two women were speaking to each other about ten feet away and they didn't notice me. Their kids, however, did notice me. The women seemed to turn around in slow motion as if only slowly becoming aware of something, or someone - me. Then they saw me. How could I sneak up? Yes, I walked up their drive without saying anything, but I am 6ft tall and as visible as anyone else as far as I know, lol.

Perhaps it has something to do with how one's mind is working at the time. In other words, if you want to be noticed, you will. If you don't, you won't.

Please don't bug me about admitting this but I've also shoplifted quite a few times from one store in particular. I would literally just walk in, take what I wanted, and then walk out. I didn't even bother looking around to make sure no one saw me after a while, it was like I could just go in and take whatever I wanted and no one saw me. I felt at times like I was a conscious person walking through a collective dream of sleepers, and being conscious and awake I could manipulate reality around myself rather than be manipulated by their reality.

Strange, eh? Maybe I'm just good at shoplifting, though, lol.

In reality I think it simply has more to do with how one carries oneself. Consider the difference between a dog and a cat. A dog walks so clumsily, almost plodding along often grunting or making other noises. A cat is silent, cautious, penetratingly aware. Each footstep is placed knowingly by a car, never unconsciously while they are walking. They move silently, unnoticed. Sometimes people see a cat in one place and then a totally different place and then wonder - how on earth did he get there? Obviously the cat did not transport through time effortlessly, he walked, so he must have done so quietly and in such a way as to not draw attention to himself. I believe humans also have this potential - to either plod along like a dog or sneak like a cat. And if you sneak like a cat, perhaps people won't notice you because they're too busy seeing all the dogs plodding along...

Another interesting thing - in the eastern traditions, invisibility is said to be one of the supernormal powers that come from meditative realization. Perhaps they mean that one's body becomes literally invisible. However until I experience that or see it first hand I'd be more inclined to believe it's just an awareness of how to live and move around more easily, with more subtlety. Gurdjieff taught that we waste tremendous amounts of energy in unnatural postures or unnatural ways of moving around, as well as in negative emotions, and that when mastered the human being becomes a fluid cat like graceful creature rather than the mess most people are.

OP, are you thin? I'm thin and notice that this adds tremendously to how graceful one is in walked and standing around. Fat people are more noticeable for obvious reasons.

EDIT: thought of another interesting "invisibility" experience. I was again riding a bike and passed three people. I wanted to ask if they had any change I could use (it was right by the store). They were walking towards me, and I rode past them and then turned round and rode right up to them, riding along side them. They continued speaking as if I wasn't even there! I don't mean that they just ignored my presence and continued their conversation, but I saw no signs that they had even registered someone being next to them! I had to actually say something for them to realize that I was there! Strange, right?

That actually seems to happen to me a lot. I've played with the idea that our reality is not as obvious as it seems, and that although I perceive a world full of people, perhaps they do not perceive me at all unless I want to be perceived. So when I think they see me coming towards them, perhaps they see no one at all. Isn't that crazy? I don't necessarily believe it but certainly many of my experiences do suggest that I can move about without being noticed.

[loveisthelaw]

Sometimes I'm invisible. People literally have said they didn't see me when they try to cut in front of me in line, or something like that.

Yea, I find that happens to me a lot.

Especially around tax rebate time or when people are in a rush to get to work or to get home.

[spacedmonkey]

I get this, I wouldn't call it invisible, but more like 'un-noticable'
I think it's something to do with you masking your energy signature, people don't register you as being there, and so don't notice you.

It's fun to use to play pranks, but it's an aweful bother when it comes online without my will, like when trying to get a pint in a busy pub, the barman looks at everyone except me xD