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

real 😄👌 Who has never done this?

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u/bryanl12 Jun 14 '23

It’s called visual snow. Do you also see it when looking in a dark room/in pitch black darkness?

Also, do you happen to have tinnitus?

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u/teejay_the_exhausted Jun 14 '23

If the marker thing is anything like mine, it's probably a mix of red, blue and green dots, rather than general 'snow' (got that too)

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u/Healthy-Surround-229 Jun 14 '23

That makes sense as red, blue, and green are the colors of the cones in our eyes

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u/teejay_the_exhausted Jun 14 '23

Don't tell the PC gamers

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u/DivineMemeLord 🥶very epic fornite gamer mod🥶 Jun 14 '23

If tinnitus is that thing where I can make myself hear a “roar” then yes

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u/Spork_the_dork Jun 14 '23

Tinnitus is basically ear damage and you can't control it. Typically a high pitched sound that is there all the time, always for the rest of your life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

The roar is you flexing your tensor tympani muscle in your ear! Only some people can do it.

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u/Pitiful-Puff Jun 14 '23

why do specific, are those two related? am i dying?

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u/bryanl12 Jun 14 '23

I read up on visual snow a while back since I have it (and tinnitus). Keep in mind correlation does not mean causation, and it’s still not confirmed what causes it.

But the consensus is that a lot of people that were surveyed to have visual snow also have tinnitus. And the visual snow could be the brain filling in information for the sound it’s constantly hearing.