Enter the meditators at the annual three-month vipassana course at the Insight Meditation Society, the same ones who did so well on the test of selective attention. Vipassana meditation, on the face of it, might lessen the blink, since it cultivates a continuous nonreactive awareness of whatever arises in experience, an “open-monitoring” receptive to all that occurs in the mind. An intensive vipassana course creates something akin to mindfulness on steroids: a nonreactive hyperalertness to all the stuff that arises in one’s mind.
