This is just the result of neurons firing and chemical reactions taking place, and it’s normal. Personally, for me it depends on my state of mind when I try to sleep. When agitated, I see noise like in your picture. When calm, I see flat, colorful shapes with soft edges that float around and change shape more or less rapidly (kind of like a lava lamp).
Probably just your tuner that’s unplugged. Feel around for any loose wires.
Yes. I “see” it too but can unsee it quite easily. I think it’s more apparent in unlit environments.
In poor light I see an outline to all visible shapes. The outline is in green color.
Bro is a CRT
I see a little “DVD” logo zipping around that changes colour when it bounces off the periphery of my vision.
I saw it hit the corner perfectly once!
I personally don’t see it as intensively
I think it’s called visual snow, and it’s normal.
Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).
Seconding this. It’s not incredibly common but it’s not incredibly uncommon. Research shows that most people who have it don’t notice it until it’s pointed out. Drugs and stress tend to exacerbate the effect as well.
Better than seeing weird letters and 80 style colored geometric shape sliding around.
I only get patterns (usually floral-ish) if I press my eyes a little. You guys are getting them for free?!
Here’s an artist’s impression of what that might look like.
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
You have too much gain.
But yeah it’s normal.
I see patterns and colors. Almost like a screensaver.
I always assumed everyone saw it. I’m not special after all.
Though mine is gray, definitely not purple.
That gray is unique to individual. And if course has its German term. Similar to the other links floating about in this thread.
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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Yes. It’s called “Eigengrau” and it happens due to the adaptation of the eye amidst the darkness.
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.
This is what the night sky starts to look like when I try to look at stars
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?)
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.
