I feel the poll options are a little specific about some details, namely the color of the phosphenes. I think I've read before where people say their phosphenes are blue or even more of a red. I even think I've heard someone say on a video that they saw colorless glowing spots, where the phosphenes had no color information. I've actually experienced red and purple, but a good 95% of the time it's one of two major variations of green. As far as options go, it's a toss up between the "dull patterns, then phosphenes" and "immediately see phosphenes". Usually I'll get minor phosphenes almost immediately, and if I will it to swirl or grow or whatever, it responds accordingly. If I don't choose to do that, sometimes it takes a minute for them to occur on their own. Other times, usually at night and in dimly lit or dark rooms (or, more rarely, if I'm outside and the sun is shining and it's very bright out), I'll have phosphenes glow and pulsate pretty strongly, to the point it can even disrupt my vision so thoroughly as to see nothing but green in many patches of my field of view. Unlike with eyes-closed phosphenes, I've never experienced purple or red.
To show the colors of phosphenes I get, I'm going to assign them numbers and post small images labeled with the numbers below. The two colors of green I experience are usually a sort of key lime/color 1 (usually the color I see the most, and the only color if my eyes are open and I've got phosphenes) and a more subdued green with maybe a bit more blue or less yellow in it, which will be color 2. The purple phosphenes rarely ever occur on their own. It's not terribly uncommon for them to occur when the green area of the phosphenes stops being green, like it's the reverse color afterimage of it. I've only had lone purple ones a few times, and the color of purple was quite a bit different than the afterimage purple from the green ones. It'll be color 3. The red phosphenes occurred at the same time the purple ones did, but not as afterimages of the purple (which would be more of a green color if it was an afterimage anyway). The colors would just sometimes switch. It was much darker and very subdued, at times making it hard to tell if it was really red in a way because there was only the black darkness to compare it to. It'll be color 4.
Color 1:
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The intensity and brightness of the colors isn't necessarily reflected well in just pointing the color out though. Sometimes the color isn't quite as saturated but seems to be quite intense and bright, other times subdued but still very intense in color. When it comes to this green, it's both very bright, very intense, and very vibrant in color.
Color 2:
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This green is fairly vibrant when I see it, but it's much more subdued in intensity and brightness.
Color 3:
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Despite actually looking dark, this one was very intense and powerfully vibrant despite still being a darker color. It's not that the color is different so much as the impressions I get of them while seeing them are, and it shows up most noticeably in this purple and especially the red.
The afterimage from green phosphenes is usually this color:
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This one shares all the same characteristics of color 1's description.
Color 4:
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This one was perhaps most interesting. It was so dark, like I said, that at times I couldn't tell if what I was seeing was actually red. When I could tell that it was though, despite being so dark and subdued, the color was very intense, but not bright at all.
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