Thread: What Do You See When You Press On Your Eyes?

Originally Posted by KingOfTwilight

My vision goes a bright white, and what appears to be checkered black and white squares spinning.

Originally Posted by Invader

Black, white, and grey spirals. The spirals twirl while I move the eyeballs under pressure. I also get distorted checkers in black and white. No colors.

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

I see a slightly blinking light towards each corner. It then becomes this strange almost mini-checkered black and white pattern that moves and twists a bit, almost like some of those optical illusions. Kind of cool.

Originally Posted by slash112

...then i see a sort of chessboard/checkered stuff, then that stuff swirls round, then i see flashing lines which then start to swirl, then they slowly dissapear, then i see image. ...

Originally Posted by tkdyo

I see a blue and black checkerboard which eventually turns in to what looks like white vaines around the outside. :S

Originally Posted by Lord Toaster

ummm... hard to describe ->here goes:
OK think of a whirlpool, but instead of water you've got a checkered pattern like a chess board, and it's all swirling down and spinning, and there's two of them. Oh, and it's not black and white it's like brown(ish) and grey(ish).

Originally Posted by EagleEye

Orange and red overlaid with a moving checkerboard pattern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

http://www.neuroscience.med.utah.edu...Bressloff.html