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I wish it was still 1999 :(
Can I offer you a blue pill in this trying time?
I see patterns and colors. Almost like a screensaver.
I personally don’t see it as intensively
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
I have this.... I just thought this was normal vision. I hate my eyes 😔
So did we all, friend. You're one of the tv static people now. Welcome
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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.
Yes
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probably caused by some small amount of light getting through your eyelids , or random noise in your nerves
That's what they tell you to think. Hmmmm.
could also be cosmic background radiation exciting the rods and cones inside your eyes
or maybe it's black body radiation coming from your own cells inside your eyes
I do, and have had the same question.
Yeah, though mine doesn't flicker as fast - it kinda moves in slow waves.
Yes. And if you want to see something really cool, take a look at a clear blue sky. You'll notice tiny dots of lighter color moving quickly following constant short trajectories. These are your own leucocytes moving through the capilars right in front of your retina. The brain compensates the darker color of the predominant red blood cells, so you can't see the capilars, but the white blood cells are translucent, so they appear as lighter dots!
Mine varies from the static to a fine lattice grid that is constantly changing.
I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.
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I do.
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.
I'm glad to see most people replying yes, I was like "wait, is it not?". The only time I don't see noise is when I look at flat colors on a screen and I'm not a fan.
My wife and I have never experienced this. 🤷
Very interesting though.
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