I have just observed a strange phenomenon related to eyes and quick switching the lights off and on
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okay, this is really trippy and I don't know if it's just me that can see it, but what I do is in a dark room i switch on the lights for half split second, and then turn it off. when it's all bright it's normal but when it's off everything goes bright blue for a few seconds (like my eye "exposure settings" adjusting to the darkness). sometimes when I do this and I focus my eyes on something like a wall or some such, after a half second of staring and standing in the darkness everything get's "lit up" by what I'd assume the last visible image my brain could witness. This is fucking so cool, I do it in the mirror and I can observe my past self (past by like 5 seconds). what's even crazier is if I move around the picture doesn't move with me so I got a little dizzy. if you move to much the effect goes away and fades back to darkness but I literally spent about 10 minutes in the bathroom experimenting.
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im not sure if im fucking my eyes up doing this so i posted this thread to see if anyone else knows about it/has it happen if they try
Sounds like afterimages, i get them from flashing lights too. I think it's caused by shocking the light sensing cells in your eyes so that they send the same messages for some time.
Sensory memory.
Congratulations, you've discovered how eyes work.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
It's the same principal that makes illusions like this work:
[img]http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Beach-afterimage.gif[/img]
Stare at the dot in the center until the picture changes.
[QUOTE=The Vman;42650036]Congratulations, you've discovered how eyes work.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
It's the same principal that makes illusions like this work:
[img]http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Beach-afterimage.gif[/img]
Stare at the dot in the center until the picture changes.[/QUOTE]
Beach-afterimage.gif
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/beack.JPG[/IMG]
[QUOTE=The Vman;42650036]Congratulations, you've discovered how eyes work.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
It's the same principal that makes illusions like this work:
[img]http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Beach-afterimage.gif[/img]
Stare at the dot in the center until the picture changes.[/QUOTE]
Woah that's pretty crazy. You can look away and then back at the dot and it still goes back to colour.
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