Eye hallucinations

Xivilai

If I massage my eyes and gently press on them with my hand I always get weird flashes of light and odd shapes appear. When I woke up this morning it happened when I was rubbing my eyes.

It can be very vivid sometimes - this morning for example, a fuzzy ball of light with a black circle in the middle appeared. As I concentrated on it, I was able to make it brighter. I could then open and close my eyes and get the same ball of light to appear. Often I just get a kind of shimmering fog or swirling streaks appear.

I mentioned it to the college nurse once when I was inquiring about my irritating eye floater problem
(Floaters are those annoying squiggles and dots that can appear as you get older - they're cracks in the liquidy part of the eye or something. I'm only 22 but my eyes are riddled with them) She said it was normal.

So does anyone else experience this? I have very bad eye-sight so that might have something to do with it.

Did a google, and it shows up as "Closed-eye hallucination"

orourkeda

Lay off the ecstacy.

kylith

I've been doing that since I was a nipper. AFAIK it's because when you press on your eye you're putting stress on your optic nerve and your brain interprets it as 'light'.

AnonoBoy

You know those little floaters that you talked about?

Imagine that they're all little parasitic worms that live on your eyeballs. At night they burrow around the back and feed on your brain, which is where their eggs hatch out.

Sleep well!

liah

Completely normal I'd say. I get the same thing and it never struck me as odd.

Captain_Generic

You have 2 days to live.

Xivilai

Xivilai wrote: »

If I massage my eyes and gently press on them with my hand I always get weird flashes of light and odd shapes appear. When I woke up this morning it happened when I was rubbing my eyes.

It can be very vivid sometimes - this morning for example, a fuzzy ball of light with a black circle in the middle appeared. As I concentrated on it, I was able to make it brighter. I could then open and close my eyes and get the same ball of light to appear. Often I just get a kind of shimmering fog or swirling streaks appear.

I mentioned it to the college nurse once when I was inquiring about my irritating eye floater problem
(Floaters are those annoying squiggles and dots that can appear as you get older - they're cracks in the liquidy part of the eye or something. I'm only 22 but my eyes are riddled with them) She said it was normal.

So does anyone else experience this? I have very bad eye-sight so that might have something to do with it.

Did a google, and it shows up as "Closed-eye hallucination"

So... you press on your eyes and strain them, see funny things as a result, and you also have very bad eye sight?
Am I right so far


Do you stare at the sun too

Kasabian

Try putting liquid LSD on your eyeballs. It is an experience.

Don't be stupid drugs are for losers

Xivilai

Interesting responses

The floaters are annoying. Especially if theres a lot of white paint. :eek: Like flies on your eyes.

Nothing warms up 2 cold eyes like watching the sun 8)

My name is URL

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liah

I like trying to focus my eyes directly on them, resulting in me visually chasing them around all over the place. Whenever I manage to look directly at one it immediately disappears or moves.

Sometimes they actually do look like little parasites as AnonoBoy so eloquently brought up. Or at least, little 3D tubey or circular-shaped looking things. Different to the light spots, can't remember how to get them though.

Xivilai

i know what you mean

Earthhorse

liah wrote: »

I like trying to focus my eyes directly on them, resulting in me visually chasing them around all over the place. Whenever I manage to look directly at one it immediately disappears or moves.

Ha! I used to do that all the time as a kid. Don't seem to see them as much now that I'm older. It would to be like watching a bubble floating through the air but knowing it would never burst!

--Kaiser--

Entopic phenomena. Perfectly normal

crazyderk

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the peripheral of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.

Agricola

I remember when I read online about eye floaters for the first time and found out that they were as common as the cold. It was a big relief, always thought I had wonky defective eyes!

RichieC

Xivilai wrote: »

If I massage my eyes and gently press on them with my hand I always get weird flashes of light and odd shapes appear. When I woke up this morning it happened when I was rubbing my eyes.

It can be very vivid sometimes - this morning for example, a fuzzy ball of light with a black circle in the middle appeared. As I concentrated on it, I was able to make it brighter. I could then open and close my eyes and get the same ball of light to appear. Often I just get a kind of shimmering fog or swirling streaks appear.

I mentioned it to the college nurse once when I was inquiring about my irritating eye floater problem
(Floaters are those annoying squiggles and dots that can appear as you get older - they're cracks in the liquidy part of the eye or something. I'm only 22 but my eyes are riddled with them) She said it was normal.

So does anyone else experience this? I have very bad eye-sight so that might have something to do with it.

Did a google, and it shows up as "Closed-eye hallucination"

Yes, everyone gets this, Newton nearly made himself blind experimenting with it.

Donal Og O Baelach

crazyderk wrote: »

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the peripheral of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.

Crazyderk's Ode to A Floater.

ScumLord

The picture the human eye captures isn't all that good before the brain processes it. Your brain fills in a large black spot, sharpens the image (only a tiny part of the image the eye captures is actually in focus) flips it and merges it with the other eye to create a 3D image. There's some hardcore processing going on there and people reckon you don't really see with your eyes at all but instead with your brain.

So it's quiet likely there's nothing wrong with your eyes, it's your brain that's fudged.

ejmaztec

I get eye hallucinations in my ears.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

sometimes I can see intricate clockwork, cogs and wheels everywhere

Jaafa

Apparently some of it is radiation from the start of the start of the universe.

Catari Jaguar

If it starts happening by itself without you touching your eyes it's called an occular migraine.

Mr Benevolent

Long time hallucinogenic users get them a lot. Are you a fan of the mushrooms, OP?

gamgsam

The photo receptors hyperpolarise in reponse to light hitting them. This is signalled to the brain to give the sensation of light.

The beauty is that no matter what the stimulus at a particular receptor (mechanical deformation in your case) the sensation that arises will always be the same, so if you poke your eye, you'll see a flash.

There's another theory that the neurons in the retina fire frantically because the bool supply is temporarilycut off, though I'm not convinced.

My name is URL

Jaafa wrote: »

Apparently some of it is radiation from the start of the start of the universe.

You're joking right? If you squeeze an apple and watch how bruises develop in the affected areas you wouldn't put that down to cosmic radiation.. you'd put it down to the subjects own natural way with dealing with the changes caused by outside forces.

Closing your eyes and applying undue pressure to them causes your rods & cones (harhar) to adapt differently to the lack of light than they would without the added pressure.

bronte

I thought this thread was going to be about eve out of adam and eve.

TeddyTedson

...So you're squashing your eye and seeing weird shapes...

krudler

cherub rock wrote: »

If it starts happening by itself without you touching your eyes it's called an occular migraine.

I get that if i'm exhausted, its like a big blotch of my eye has no vision, its not blurry, its just not there, like i look at something directly and it disappears, most annoying at work when i have to look at a screen and cant see what it is im directly looking at.

floaters I've had years, the more tired i am the more prevalent they are, or if its really bright light or looking at a plain white surface, theres they are. looking like a biology diagram of a germ or something

veryangryman

crazyderk wrote: »

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the peripheral of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.

Beat me to it...

whoopdedoo

I used to do this a lot on the yolks

would blow the head off ya flying thru space and then up, down and inside out thru tunnels at warp 9!!

I remember sitting a mate down one night and getting him to try it while we all looked on, he jumped up out of his seat when it started! was so funny haha

truely trippy stuff