#visual phenomena

[buysomecheese]

The fact that I’m probably not ever gonna be able to see... clearly? That I’m never gonna see things normally- without a field of static over everything, without seeing lines and flashes of color when it gets just a little bit too dark, without intense pain when looking at anything brighter than my phone on one of the lowest levels (pain that’s bad enough to rival my sensory issues with sunglasses), without negative afterimages that last at least twice as long as they should- really fucks me up sometimes. Usually, I don’t mind, and honestly a lot of the visual phenomena is kind of cool. But then it hits me and it starts to hurt my soul. I’m such a visual person but I won’t ever experience “normal”, it’ll always physically hurt me to watch movies, to be outside without sunglasses/shade of some sort, to look at the fucking walls and floors in my house.

[ploopy2]

Hallucinations and visual effects I get sometimes (Part 1)

Sometimes when I stand up or turn around too fast.

This is also kind of what my vision looks like out of my bad eye.

Black circle on faces. Only happened once.

Next: Hypnagogic jumpscares

Images may be disturbing. Gross organs and trypophobia warning

Sometimes I see a scary face like this when I'm falling asleep, and it jumpscares me awake.

Sometimes I see something like this when I close my eyes when tired. It also jumpscares me and makes me feel itchy.

[thatguycalledmyth]

When you rub your eyes or close your eyes kinda hard

[apostatedreams]

That feel when you talk about something for like 15 minutes, and then the person you were talking to tells you that they were never interested in what you were saying and that you were being annoying.

(I was talking about Scheerer’s phenomenon, visual snow, and prisoner’s cinema. Links are italic, in case anyone actually is interested in being annoyed by me I guess.)

[articlesnlinks]

Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

Optical illusions neither trick the eye nor fool the brain, but …

… are fascinating! They also teach us about our visual perception, and its limitations. Emphasis here is on the beauty of perceptual phenomena, on interactive experiments, and explanation of the visual mechanisms involved – to the degree that they are understood.