@Stacyasks@lemmy.cafe @nostupidquestions@lemmy.worldYes. It's called "Eigengrau" and it happens due to the adaptation of the eye amidst the darkness.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau

how did you take this photo? Small camera through your ear?

This is just the result of neurons firing and chemical reactions taking place, and it's normal. Personally, for me it depends on my state of mind when I try to sleep. When agitated, I see noise like in your picture. When calm, I see flat, colorful shapes with soft edges that float around and change shape more or less rapidly (kind of like a lava lamp).

I think it's called visual snow, and it's normal.

This is a normal closed eye hallucination level 1 on this Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

You have too much gain.

But yeah it's normal.

I see pulsing waves of color, even in pitch black rooms. When I was little they were bright as fireworks, now, depending on the night they're either just vaguely waves of purple, grey, and blue or sometimes electric blue and white.

Yes, and if you GENTLY press on your eyelids you can make other colors happen.

Also if you stare at a clear sky, NOT AT THE SUN, or at a bluish wall, you may see little swirly things, it's the white blood cells in your retinas swimming around.

(Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia https://share.google/MveakONY2KB3QXUUh)

I see a little “DVD” logo zipping around that changes colour when it bounces off the periphery of my vision.

Purple, green, pinks and oranges (that's the blood in my eyelids I think). If I rub my eyes, the pixellated screensavers get wild, which I think means you're not supposed to do that.

I always assumed everyone saw it. I'm not special after all.

Though mine is gray, definitely not purple.

Probably just your tuner that's unplugged. Feel around for any loose wires.

Welcome to the simulation

Better than seeing weird letters and 80 style colored geometric shape sliding around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

From m'eye experience. Yes.

Uhhh everyone is saying this is normal and I don't have it...

If you see this when your eyes are open then it may be visual snow.

Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

What you're seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.

/Obviously I'm not serious....

Yes. I "see" it too but can unsee it quite easily. I think it's more apparent in unlit environments.

Bro is a CRT

Yeah, though mine doesn't flicker as fast - it kinda moves in slow waves.

for the topic of discussion it might be worthwhile to also look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

1/10 people have it and have no idea it's not normal, my sister and mother too

Does anyone else see 'the ring' when you rub your eyes and then just look at the canvas of your eyelids?

probably caused by some small amount of light getting through your eyelids , or random noise in your nerves

I do.

If there’s no light, you should see eigengrau.

I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.

I can make static if I squeeze my eyes very tightly, sometimes spots. No one i asked when I was little had the same results. Haven't thought about it in a long time.

My wife and I have never experienced this. 🤷

Very interesting though.

It is hard to know exactly what we see because our brain processes it so much and then we have to put it into words and we could easily be describing different experiences the same way or same experiences differently.

I would guess any light receptor produces noise whether that is a few stray protons or just thermal chemical/electrical processes. I would think for most people the brain is receiving noise very much like this but how they experience it depends on how it is processed. Unless there is some after image from recently staring at something bright, when my eyes are shut my brain gives me an impression of nothing which is almost certainly not what my retina is detecting.

Yes, but its not purple, its just like as if your soul was drifting through the universe and you see tiny dot-sized stars from afar.

Sometimes I couldn't sleep and the lights are off and there is a tiny bit of ambient light outside, and I just open my eyes and stare at the ceiling and also notice a sort of static like that, but with a brighter background light.

I'm glad to see most people replying yes, I was like "wait, is it not?". The only time I don't see noise is when I look at flat colors on a screen and I'm not a fan.

I do, and have had the same question.