Mind Filter (26)

15 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-13 00:50 ID:RHmbSE9a

>>1
Sounds like an optical phenomenon. You might be unfocusing your eyes when you "just relax and let it happen" which could help. There's a demonstration in school physics that does something similar...

>>8

> When i was a kid, i saw various patterns, even eleborate little pictures repeated over and over again all across my vision. Seen most frequently at night, behind my eyelids when my eyes were closed, but also when they are open.

Like >>3 said, welcome to the human visual system.

I remember seeing that as a kid too, and I can still force that sort of patterns (usually checkerboard-ish) to appear by squeezing my eyes shut tight or using my hands to push lightly on the eyeballs. In that case, I believe the patterns are because the light receptors / neurons in the eye / whatever also respond to pressure and start firing randomly; and the brain is trying to make sense of the nonsense coming in.

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