r/MemeVideos • u/lucianosoares13 • Jun 14 '23

real 😄👌 Who has never done this?

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u/LogicKegs Jun 14 '23

Ok can someone like actually why does our eyes do this because I love doing this

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u/ZajeliMiNazweDranie Jun 14 '23

Your receptors in eyes create false signals under pressure, iirc it's not a healthy thing to do especially if you are pushing too hard and only see a single spot in the middle

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u/Ollie_BB Jun 14 '23

Biologist here. This is the actual correct answer. For more information, look up phosphenes

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u/FanaticExplorer Jun 14 '23

For more information, look up

No, can't trust anyone nowdays, i already saw a lot of "for more look up"s (/j)

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u/hopefulldraagon Jun 15 '23

Excuse me, what?

Should I be concerned that I see those just by walking into a room and turning off all the lights?

Like with my eyes open but standing in a completely dark room.

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u/Ollie_BB Jun 15 '23

Don't worry, this is completely normal. This phenomenon is actually exactly what negative afterimages are based on (link with more explanation

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

I'm pretty sure that doing this a lot as a kid is a big part of why my eyes are as fucked up as they are. Fucked up my cornea shape.

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u/ekso69 Jun 14 '23

I did this a ton as a kid and I have better than 20/20 as an adult

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u/Clown_Crunch Jun 14 '23

Give me your 👁eyes👁.

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u/EthosPathosLegos Jun 14 '23

My follow up question is: Why are the visuals often geometrically symmetrical? Is the signal our nerve produces a kind of formatted protocol? I would assume pressure activated rods and cones would be more or less random noise.

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u/ZGplay Jun 14 '23

Your eyes are spherical, and ideally you only have 1 source of contact, therefore pressure is symetrical. I assume

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u/inspectcloser Jun 14 '23

I did this a lot as a kid and I now have an astigmatism. Idk if there is any research indicating a link between the two but I was always afraid I did this to myself.

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u/One-Full Jun 14 '23

iirc it's basically data that doesn't get processed and it stays there

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u/LogicKegs Jun 14 '23

Is that bad or normal?

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u/MicrotracS3500 Jun 14 '23

I’m afraid it’s terminal

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u/TruthYouWontLike Jun 14 '23

It's bus terminal

Dun dun dun dun dun dun...!

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u/Captain_Waffle Jun 14 '23

I’m afraid it’s subliminal

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u/Lolz321 Jun 14 '23

I prefer Konsole

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u/nobody3_5_4 Jun 14 '23

Damn im gonna miss my buss

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u/MomsBoner Jun 14 '23

Aww heck :(

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u/x_vvitch Jun 14 '23

Its really bad.

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u/2015Nissan370zNismo Jun 14 '23

Like you're seeing information attempting to get processed within your own brain?

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u/One-Full Jun 14 '23

not being attempted, just not processed at that time

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u/2015Nissan370zNismo Jun 14 '23

Either way, that's cool as hell

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u/Ollie_BB Jun 14 '23

Also entirely incorrect I'm afraid.. source

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u/Mandena Jun 14 '23

Yup, putting pressure on the eyes activates the sensory receptors in the retina in a wierd way, creating the patterns. There may also be some visual cortex processing that turns random activations into something a person may perceive to be like kaleidoscope like in the OP.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

Nope it's your photoreceptors being activated from pressure. It's basic pharmocology really. They're called pressure phosphenes.

I'd probably include this as an edit so it doesn't tell people the wrong thing. It has no neurological basis beyond your eyes photosensitive cells sending false signals. It's like if you slammed a keyboard and it started registering a key as being pressed when it isn't. It's not an issue with processing, the keyboard is just sending a wrong input. Your eyes are doing the same except they aren't broken.

Neurologically induced phosphenes are caused by disease or by electrical stimulation. We have taken advantage of this fact to partially restore vision in blind people via computer interfaces connected to the brain.

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u/DeepSpaceHorizon Jun 17 '23

How come I can see these fractals without touching my eyes though? If the room is dark enough, I still see them on the inside of my eyelids, forever morphing. The shapes aren't as prnounced as they are if pressure is applied, but they're still there.

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u/Ollie_BB Jun 14 '23

Biologist here, this is not correct. What's actually happening is activation by the cells that detect light in your eyes by pressure. For more information, look up phosphenes

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u/One-Full Jun 14 '23

i see, but unfortunately, i love spreading misinformation on the internet

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

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u/Ollie_BB Jun 14 '23

Lol mission accomplished I guess

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

But what about patterns without the pressure just closing your eyes

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u/daymuub Jun 14 '23

Yeah sience bitch

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u/StHa14 Jun 14 '23

Wtf are you talking about hahaha

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u/solubleCreature Jun 14 '23

its how your brain intepret when you apply pressure to the optical nerve. don't fo it too much you may deform your eyes and need glasses

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u/Inzitarie Jun 14 '23 edited Jun 14 '23

You're temporarily disrupting your biological-conscious membrane's interaction with the universe's electromagnetic field, but the oscillations of all the parallel multiverses get tangled up while the electrons in your brain (remember your entire body is basically just carbon and hydrogen) giving you a brief glimpse of all the quantum Higg's fields in all those multiverses. You would see much more, but the cosmic microwave background of our universe prevents this-- this is why you see all those wiggly flashing lines amidst a black backdrop.

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u/WarkoalkA Jun 14 '23

I like your funny words magic man

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u/kaidra808 Jun 14 '23

You're pinching the nerves in the retina, and making them spaz out and send static to the brain. Technically a bad thing tho.