Optical illusion? Are you familiar with this?

#41

He probably shopped it to make the effect seem twice as bad. I’m guessing the noise moves around as well so he can tell it’s not the normal appearance.

Checking insurance for twelve hours and idling overnight in a slow chatroom come to mind :zip:

I didn’t believe it to be a hallucination at first, because I’ve never actually hallucinated anything outside of going into sedation. The rest of the scene was clear as normal, and the details of this effect were too… too elegant in their curves (yet erratic compared to oneanother) to have been artificially generated. I know the brain is complex, but I do not expect it to be able to run a completely foreign particle simulation.

I suppose it is, however, possible… The preceding sensory deprivation may give some credit. Despite this, I wouldn’t give hallucination any more credit than the BFEP.

Interesting thing about the caves, though… I wonder if that inspired art in the first place.

#42

It isn’t - not to keep flogging a dead horse, but people refuse to stop speculating. You’re seeing white blood cells tracing paths of capillaries in your eyeball. If you observe carefully you’ll realize that the motion of the “fireflies” coincides with your pulse. Try looking up at a clear sky for a minute or so, its quite reproducible. If not, you might want to get a doctor to check for other symptoms of a detached retina.

As an aside, the capacity of the brain to alter visible perception in ways much more complicated than a “particle simulation” is well documented. Besides the more topical example of the brain ‘editing out’ visible veins in the eyes (except where white blood cells cause ‘gaps’), there is the example of the blind spot approximately 6 inches in front of the center of your eyes, the invisible contents of which are ‘interpolated’ by the brain to give you the illusion of a seamless field of vision. And this leaves aside the various experiences of hallucinogenic altered states in which entire alternate realities, perfectly convincing, are constructed by the mind.

#43

Everyone who has posted in this thread already is simply lying to avoid upsetting you: the truth is you have cancer of the eyeballs.

#44

No, not sense, eyeball cancer.

#45

Jon, you have sense cancer.

#46

My cancer sense is tingling.

#47

How do I sense cancer?

#48

dude!lay of the morphine!

#49

Awwwww, your sig reminds me of the real manbearpig…Where did he go, I miss him!

#50

Morphine? Why, I’m drug and alcohol free (with the exception of freezer-chilled vodka).

Imonfire, detect cancer by paying attention to where dogs sniff you the most.

#51

My nuts?

#52

dude,it was a joke.but as far as I can tell morphine has the same effect on me.I know because I had on time a cutting wound on my leg of 'bout 3 inches deep and the doctor put a little bit morphine in my blood to keep it clean.

#53

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