Do you pray with eyes open or closed?

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This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
 
Well, i’m still learning some of the prayers so I need to read them from a prayer book. So yeah, I do pray with my eyes both open and closed.
 
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This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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Mostly open. Reading a prayer from a book. Looking at an icon or other picture. Or needing to keep eyes open so I am petting Fluffy properly while praying. Fluffy likes to “help out” when I am sitting and praying. If in bed I will close my eyes, of course, as I drift off to sleep with 3 cats.:sleep:
 
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This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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I almost always pray with them open because there are too
many distractions when I close them. It helps me to look at
a cross or a crucifix.
 
Beno said:
This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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Either - depending on the time & place.​

I “turn off” easily, so I tend not to be distracted by my surroundings anyway ##
 
Well, if I’m laying in bed, praying before I go to sleep at night, they’re closed. If I’m driving in my car, they are usually open.😃
 
Open if I am reading out of a prayer book, and closed if I know the prayer by heart, or am speaking freely from my heart. For “The Lord’s Prayer”, my eyes are always closed and my head bowed. I learned this in (?) preschool and continue it now.

God bless!
 
I’ve noticed that I usually close them when I first start praying, but by the time I’m finished, they are open.
 
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Well, if I’m laying in bed, praying before I go to sleep at night, they’re closed. If I’m driving in my car, they are usually open.😃
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That was funny about the driving part! I needed that. I’m so glad you brought that up. Prayer should take place all the time, and you reminded me that driving time is a good time to pray - especially for patience!
I also asked the question after observing some differences between the way a certain protestant congregation prays publicly and the way us Catholics pray at Mass. At the protestant church, they close their eyes during the prayer times. At our Catholic Masses when the priest says “let us pray” almost no one closes their eyes. Just curious.
 
Mostly closed. Maybe that’s why I fall asleep part way through half the time.
 
Mostly, I pray with my eyes open. However, when I kneel next to my bed and pray before going to sleep, I pray with my eyes closed. This is because, for some reason, my cat sits right in front of me and stares at me, and if I pray with my eyes open, I feel like I am praying to my cat.😃
 
If I am sitting up I can pray with my eyes closed. If I am in bed, then they have to stay open or else…zzzzzzz… (OOps, I think that my “z” key got stuck!)
 
Beno said:
This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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i mostly find i pray better with my eyes shut because theres no distractions…but that isnt always posible if im out and about and want to pray in my mind while in public then i keep my eyes opened
 
Beno said:
This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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I pray with my eyes closed in the morning, and with my eyes open in the nighttime.

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
 
Beno said:
This is probably a silly question but, do you pray with your eyes open or closed? I myself tend to be less conscious of my prayers when my eyes are closed perhaps because I rarely communicate with someone with my eyes closed.
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When I’m saying the Rosary while driving, I keep my eyes open. 😉
 
*I mostly pray with my eyes closed, head down. I can concentrate better that way. :gopray: *
 
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