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Stacyasks@lemmy.cafe to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?

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Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    Better than seeing weird letters and 80 style colored geometric shape sliding around.

  • Venator@lemmy.nz
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    probably caused by some small amount of light getting through your eyelids , or random noise in your nerves

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      That’s what they tell you to think. Hmmmm.

  • TheTurner@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    I see patterns and colors. Almost like a screensaver.

  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    You have too much gain.

    But yeah it’s normal.

  • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
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    I always assumed everyone saw it. I’m not special after all.

    Though mine is gray, definitely not purple.

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      i had it intensely when i also developed other neurological issues like peripheral neuropaty, and palinopsia(afterimage)although symptom was temporary. now its more of a background if i concentrate hard enough i see snow. i had also had pretty bad RLS for several weeks.

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    I can make static if I squeeze my eyes very tightly, sometimes spots. No one i asked when I was little had the same results. Haven’t thought about it in a long time.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      is it like swimming lights.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    a small proportion of people have this, i have it mildly as well. my opthamologist at the time said it wasnt common and he only knew a teen that had it. its mostly because of the part of yuor brain thats active. its a wierd neurological thing. i suspect mines was due to diphenhydramine at the time, plus i had undaignosed spinal issue which would cause neurological/neuropathy in my limbs. i think the DPH made it more pronounced, as bringing it from the background.

    its something having do with your lingual gyrus that is hyperactive(correlation)

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    If you see this when your eyes are open then it may be visual snow.

    Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 minutes ago

      What if you can at-will toggle the perception?

    • starlinguk@lemmy.world
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      I have it. I’m used to it. It’s not as if I can do something about it.

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      I have this… I just thought this was normal vision. I hate my eyes 😔

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        So did we all, friend. You’re one of the tv static people now. Welcome

    • Zirconium@lemmy.world
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      I have this in my right eye without break but also no migraines

  • Dethronatus Sapiens sp.@calckey.world
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    @[email protected] @[email protected]

    Yes. It’s called “Eigengrau” and it happens due to the adaptation of the eye amidst the darkness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau

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      This is what the night sky starts to look like when I try to look at stars

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      The indistinguishability of dark events from photon responses supports this explanation because rhodopsin is at the input of the transduction chain. On the other hand, processes such as the spontaneous release of neurotransmitters cannot be completely ruled out.

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      So it’s like when a camera doesn’t have enough light to properly take a photo, producing a lot of grain. Like when you have a high ISO when taking a photo/video in a dark room, it looks very grainy. I guess the eye is still adjusting its “exposure” if you see some of this graininess in the dark (or when you close your eyes?)

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        the brain is always trying to find pattern in incomplete data. one of the explanations i have seen is that when our ancestors were sitting around the fire, those who saw the tiger or something lurking in the dark had better chance to pass their genes than those who didn’t.

        it is why we are seeing patterns in clouds and random geometrical shapes on walls and stuff like that.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

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    I see pulsing waves of color, even in pitch black rooms. When I was little they were bright as fireworks, now, depending on the night they’re either just vaguely waves of purple, grey, and blue or sometimes electric blue and white.

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      I was recently reading about this because I discovered there’s a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner’s_cinema

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        crazy!

        What I see is very close to this:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3kVtc-4vY

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          Why did I know it was a NileRed video from the tiny thumbnail? 🤔

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          Oh yeah, those things, I get them too sometimes. I always thought they looked like one of those super old Mac screensavers. (I can’t find a picture, but maybe someone here knows the one I mean.)

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    how did you take this photo? Small camera through your ear?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      They just closed their eyes and then pressed in their ear and anus to take a screenshot.

      • SendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.works
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        Wow that’s so much easier! I’ve always had to pee and fart at the same time

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          Idk what piss poor model you guys are, but for me is sneeze & fart, much easier imo.

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          “Peeing without a fart is like having sex without an orgasm.”

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            Said no one goto the doctor

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    This is a normal closed eye hallucination level 1 on this Wikipedia page

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

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      Oh shit that’s why I can like make shapes and shit when I’m like in deep relaxation

      • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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        Ever try one of those float tanks? They’re really good for that.

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    Aight! I want to heart from people thinking this is normal, or not, and if you can actually see pictures in your inner space. I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.

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      I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.

      i feel you may be trying to break into open doors.

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    Yes, and if you GENTLY press on your eyelids you can make other colors happen.

    Also if you stare at a clear sky, NOT AT THE SUN, or at a bluish wall, you may see little swirly things, it’s the white blood cells in your retinas swimming around.

    (Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia https://share.google/MveakONY2KB3QXUUh)

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    Yes, but its not purple, its just like as if your soul was drifting through the universe and you see tiny dot-sized stars from afar.

    Sometimes I couldn’t sleep and the lights are off and there is a tiny bit of ambient light outside, and I just open my eyes and stare at the ceiling and also notice a sort of static like that, but with a brighter background light.

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