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From my photography experience I noticed a lot more abnormalities than just tetrachromacy, which is not uncommon amongst artists. I had a model that was "seeing
by bitL 12y ago
From my photography experience I noticed a lot more abnormalities than just tetrachromacy, which is not uncommon amongst artists. I had a model that was "seeing" colors in the sounds (synaesthesia) - she was often saying you talk to me in blue or that person has such a nice white voice.
I've been tested for color vision and I am 100% accurate meaning I can discern subtle shades from each other precisely with no effort. I also have a very light form of synaesthesia manifesting itself by seeing a flash of light in the night right before an unexpected sudden loud noise (yet with observable latency) - like seeing a lightning just before hearing a thunder, even if the noise is not accompanied by any light.
I was also always wondering if what I perceive as "blue" is the same as other people perceive as "blue"? What if the neural response in my brain wires the color sensation in the same way as other people perceive "green"? That would help to understand individual preferences for colors. Also, we know there are special cells in retina doing direction detection, edge detection etc. - what if this had a profound impact on how we individually perceive world around us? Somebody can have a strong edge or directional detection present in their view all the time, logically assuming it's normal for the others as well that are lacking that ability. We are just too diverse, and people are rather quiet in order not to risk being considered abnormal and marginalized, a common problem for artists in general.
- im3w1l 12y ago>seeing a flash of light in the night right before an unexpected sudden loud noise Does this improve your reaction time to sudden noises? You should totally test it :)
- bitL 12y agoIt's only a few milliseconds before the noise, I would have to develop Bruce Lee-grade reflexes to do anything about it ;-)
- emsy 12y agoI see this flash at nighttime as well and always thought that it was my sleepy brain jolting awake.
- javert 12y agoI sometimes see a flash at nighttime (not accompanied by any sound, though). My first hunch was that my computer or phone may have been bugged to take a flash photo. But that's hard for me to believe. Maybe it's just my brain doing something weird (or something normal).
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoMaybe you are seeing Cherenkov radiation? Cosmic particles passing through the eye. "Cherenkov radiation can be generated in the eye by charged particles hitting the vitreous humour, giving the impression of flashes" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation#Characteristics http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation#Character...
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoYou'd have to be in the path of a cosmic ray shower ,near some dangerously critical nuclear decay, or near the beam-line of a particle accelerator.
- tripzilch 12y agoBetter check under the bed, then.
- weesals 12y agoDo you also see a pattern in the white flash (zebra stripes, lines, checkers)? I always assumed that was a normal side-effect of being startled while resting; changing from your brain-vision to eye-vision, though I'm not sure of the patterns significance.
- bitL 12y agoI can't recall any pattern - all I remember is a dynamic amorphous shape with different light intensities in different parts, and this just quickly flashes in front of my "eyes", right before loud sound hits.
- mabbo 12y agoI once had a friend, over some beers, describe his synaesthesia. He thought it was just him being crazy, until I handed him my phone with the Wikipedia page on it. He said that people who were being dishonest sounded purple- the man was a walking lie detector, and never knew how he was doing it.