[HN Gopher] Blue Field Entoptic Phenomenon
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Blue Field Entoptic Phenomenon
Author : thunderbong
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-05-24 05:13 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| free_energy_min wrote:
| Thanks for sharing i just discovered this a week ago!
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| Crazy that we can see our own white blood cells and all we have
| to do is look up at the sky :)
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| In my experience those white lights/graininess exists even when
| looking at other objects. Been trying to find a name for this.
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| Is this true in others experience?
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| I know there's a phenomenon called visual snow but it's not a
| negative experience like that seems to be for people. There's
| also eigengrau but I experience this even in good lighting.
| NobodyNada wrote:
| "Floaters"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
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| They're caused by little bits of gunk floating in the fluid
| inside your eyeball.
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| > They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of "cobwebs",
| which float slowly before the observer's eyes, and move
| especially in the direction the eyes move.
| jameshart wrote:
| This whole list is just as fascinating:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon
| Waterluvian wrote:
| "What's your white cell count?"
|
| _begins staring at the sky_
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| I'm most fascinated by the concept of how our brain edits things
| out. The sensor to information pipeline is rather complicated. So
| much filtering and projecting and such being done.
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