Mind Filter (26)

19 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-25 14:17 ID:RLWFMpgd

>>15

>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.

Hey, I remember seeing that when I shut my eyes too. Have you any idea why we only saw it so easily when we were kids? Perhaps some sort of gradual change in the shape of the eye socket or something.

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