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If you apply pressure to your eyes, you'll see phosphenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene). You can also see t
by DonaldFisk 7y ago
If you apply pressure to your eyes, you'll see phosphenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene).
You can also see them during meditation, and as hypnagogic hallucinations while you're falling asleep (but you might not remember this).
- kstenerud 7y agoHang on... so people normally DON'T see these moving colors and shapes whenever their eyes are closed?
- coldtea 7y agoNot all moving colors and shapes you see with eyes closes are the ones the parent describes. There are different kinds of them... (the ones described are pressure based "phosphenes"). You describe another. And if you close your eyes in a lit place (outside in the sun, etc), you probably don't see phosphenes at all, just various shapes and colors caused by small leakage of light through the eyelid skin).
- kstenerud 7y agoI see them every time I close my eyes, whether in a lit place or not. The only difference is that they're always tinted red/orange/yellow, and very rarely green when I'm in a lit place (and they seem a lot more muted because they're overpowered by the outside light).