Split-screen reality

When Nicodemus says, "You are a teacher come from God", Jesus tacitly accepts it.  But though He has come from God, He is still with God, as He has been from all eternity!  "No-one has ascended into heaven but Hwe who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.  We speak what we know, and testify what we have seen, and you (plural) do not receive our witness.  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe when I tell you heavenly things?" (3:11-13)

Because He is both God and man, Jesus lives in a split-screen reality, continually aware of what His Father was doing and saying, but also fully aware of His earthly surroundings.

Just as He had copied Joseph's woodworking techniques in every detail, so with His Heavenly Father: “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father do” (5:19)..  And like any true Prophet, He speaks only what He hears the Father say: “I have not spoken on My own authority, but the Father told Me what I should say” (12:49).  So anyone who receives His words, receives the Father who sent Him.

A W Tozer puts it like this:
"When the Son of God walked the earth as the Son of Man, He spoke often to the Father and the Father answered Him again.... The dialogue involving the Father and the Son recorded in the scriptures is always to be understood as being between the Eternal Father and the Man Christ Jesus.  That instant, immediate communion between the Persons of the Godhead which has been from all eternity, knows not sound nor effort nor motion."

We too live in a split-screen reality: but of a different sort.  We are continuously aware of the things of this world, but cannot conceive the things God has prepared for us (1Cor 2:9), the 'things which are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of the Father' (Col 3:2).  Materialism sets our eyes on the newest 'must-have', or the latest fashions: especially in the West.  Our spiritual eyes are blind: blinded by Adam's sin, and our own.  But Jesus came 'to open the eyes of the blind' (Lk 4:18)

You might think, it requires special grace for a Gehazi to see the armies of God, or Paul to see Jesus on the Damascus Road. But the promise of God is, that when He pours out His Spirit on all flesh, "Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions" (Joel 2:28).  It is God's will to give all of us a spirit of revelation, to enlighten our hearts' eyes to know  the hope of our calling, (that Jesus will return one day); the wealth of glory He has invested in His saints; and the incredible power He exerts on our behalf (Eph 1:17-19)

God does not give us a 'third eye' or chakra - indeed He abhors all 'divination'.  But at its simplest, Christians often experience seeing a picture as they pray.  Sometimes we may have dreams in which we prophetically 'see' things in our spirits.  Sometimes we may have visions, in which God takes us up into His Presence.  Both Paul and John record such experiences: indeed it was a prolonged and complex vision through which Jesus revealed to John, what was to happen in the Last Days.  But this does not obviate the need for faith - to walk by faith, and not by sight:  “Faith is confidence in what we hope for, and assurance about what we do not see”; “By faith Abraham lived in the Promised Land like a nomad, because he was looking forward to the heavenly city built by God”; “By faith Abraham offered up his only-begotten son”  'By faith, Moses endured Pharoah's anger, 'as seeing Him who is Invisible ' (Heb 11:1,9-10,17,27)