Eyelid sparkles

**fatcatcog** · 03-29-2011 06:13 PM

Does anyone stand up too fast, squeeze your eyelids together or gently push your eyes in which leads to odd patterns and shapes over your vision or on your eyelids like hypnagogia?
I think everyone can do it, but what I wonder is what excacly it is. When I see it it begins as a purple and deep green wave that starts roughly in the center of my vision then spreads out to every corner. then there is a deep pink/green mist in the middle and after a few random brownish sparkles there is a brown X that moves around a little and has lots of darker brown shapes inside it.
When it finishes it seems to go backwards from the X to the purple wave clearing up. When you regain your sight there is a red/deep pink/burgandy stain over your vison, like you would if you stared at a light for a while.
I think the whole pattern, colours (Alot of them seemed to be auric pairs) and shapes were a little bit too weird to be normal (or at least I hope they are

) Anyone have any ideas or theories on what this could be?

**Polarity** · 03-29-2011 06:53 PM

I remember when I was a kid, and I mean early childhood, I was used to close the eyes for minutes, staring at those swirling images. They were often simple circles or yellow doughnut-shapes.
Lately I've experienced geometrical movements; perfect and complex shapes forming and animating with an incredible perfection in my eyelids, I couldn't believe it.
I never saw purple or orange imagery patterns, I've always seen yellow shapes.

**Raspberry** · 03-29-2011 06:55 PM

Yup, I like changing the colours

**fatcatcog** · 03-29-2011 06:56 PM

I can still get swirly images behind my eyes like you said, but not as much as I could once. I have vivid memories of being layed down staring at the ceiling until huge swirling mazes appeared in purple and mustard - coloured. I can still do this occaisonally but I have to have just woken up.

**Polarity** · 03-29-2011 07:05 PM

Another cool thing, if you stare at a light for too long and then look somewhere away, you can continue on seeing the light on the bare space; sometimes I even see imagery patterns after staring at a bright light.

**fatcatcog** · 03-30-2011 03:56 PM

I noticed that as well! I might have quite sensitive eyes actually because I only need about half a second most of the time if its bright. Then as it goes away it changes colour, usually from mustard down to blue then dissapears.

**Raspberry** · 03-30-2011 05:00 PM

I see them all the time. I don't notice them anymore, but even during daylight, my vision flickers etc. I'm sure that happens to everyone though.

**fatcatcog** · 03-30-2011 05:34 PM

I get it on a lesser basis all the time too. In fact, I have another thread on it called walking hypnagogia. like a sparkly overlay on your vision... Seems to intensify when you push in your eyes though

**nina** · 03-30-2011 05:58 PM

This has nothing to do with Beyond Dreaming.

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

Image burn-in (afterimage)

Image burn-in occurs when very bright objects lie in one's field of vision, and should not be confused with closed-eye hallucinations. Visual burn-in from bright lights is visible for a few minutes after closing the eyes, or by blinking repeatedly, but the burn-in effect slowly fades away as the retina recovers, whereas the waking-consciousness CEV noise will not disappear if observed continuously over a period of time.

Physical retinal stimulation

CEV is unrelated to the visual noise seen when the retina is physically stimulated. The retina can be made to produce light patterns of visual noise simply by one rubbing their eyes somewhat forcefully in a manner that increases intraocular pressure. Additionally retinal noise can be produced by touching near the rear of the eyeball (for example, if one closes their eyes, looks all the way left, and lightly touches the rightmost part of the eye socket, this produces visual noise in the shape of a circle that appears at the left side of the visual field - a practice that is neither painful nor dangerous). None of these are closed-eye hallucinations.