Always wondered what all these visuals were when I closed my eyes. Had a conversation with ChatGpt and it makes perfect sense now. Thought there was something wrong with me.

Does anybody have both see phospehens and get tinnitus? I always see a reddish/purple kind of radiating energy that looks as if it’s coming towards me when I lay in bed. I’ve seen it a few times in the daytime when looking up at a clear sky and it tracks with my vision when look at different points. Both of these things seem to be associated with the state of mind prior to meditation for me. That could just seem like an exercise in focusing attention on one thing specifically too I suppose. Not really sure what to think of phosphenes, as I just found this term today.

I vividly remember experiencing "falling" through the void with streaks of green trailing by, but no matter what I do now, I just can't experience it anymore. Does it have to do with age?

I’ve been trying to control mines shapes, colors, and movement patterns. It’s working and i can make them longer and taller so far.

Hello everyone, I’m not sure if this is related to phosphenes at all. However I’m not sure where to find out the answer to this one, if you know anything about it that would be greatly appreciated.

When I was little there was a point where when I closed my eyes I would see black and grey images of eyes and faces. It scared me a lot at first, but as I came to get used to them they started to disappear.

From that point, it never happened again. But I remember it very clearly.

Last night after I turned the lights off in my room, I had this surreal sensation when I closed my eyes. I saw what looked like a room with a table, and a woman sat down at the table. I recognised it almost immediately and thought “Ah this, it’ll pass”. Then at the last moment this woman slowly moved over the table, lunging her face towards me and I physically recoiled backwards away from it.

I then looked around the wall and I saw a face appearing from the wall. It looked like some whack ass character from the conjuring or something. When I closed my eyes, I saw a different face that was similar. After that, it disappeared again.

I’ve tried Googling it, terrible idea I know, but I can’t seem to find an answer. Google keeps saying that it is a phosphene but that really doesn’t seem to fit the bill.

Does anyone know what this is? Freaked me out a bit honestly. And according to Google I’m dying of X different things haha.

Any help is massively appreciated. I will try post this in some other subreddits also to try find out what’s going on.

Thank you.

Probably the most closest image I've found that resembles what I've seen. Anyone else find any good images?

(P.s., stare into the darkness long enough and it WILL stare back. I can totally see where that quote comes into play " Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"

Stay vigilant my friends.

When I cross my eyes hard or like exert some kind of force with my eye muscles with my eyes closed, this is sort of what I see. It's apparently called like pressure phosphenes, or Convergence phosphenes according to googles ai. I've done this a couple of times when I was younger out of boredom and curiosity.

I experience some form of phosphenes every night since I was a little kid. I find them calming and cool, even and soothing. Recently, I noticed that when I take a low dose gummy and go to sleep, I see geometric patterns in like a kaleidoscope pattern. I find them jarring and fast-paced. I had another episode recently, no gummies in over 6 months, and and woke up with a migraine. Anyone familiar with this kind of thing? Do you see geometric patterns with or without other symptoms or influences?

Is this a thing? I have experiences where I see colourful patterns and shapes usually when eyes are closed or in dark spaces but I can also feel them sometimes. I'm trying to sort out what's happening but am still on a search for answers.

uh so anyone seen sum like this tryna sleep..?

Was hoping there was a sub for stuff like this and here y'all are. I was getting ready to sleep and decide to draw what I see with my eyes closed, here's the results, enjoy!

Is it possible to see the same pattern of phosphenes always? When I was a kid I saw this almost every night, and now if I want I can recall the same pattern at my will. I have always wondered what this thing is.

I remember I used to explain some friends that it’s like someone has tied me upside down with a bungee cord and I’m swinging over the lights (Diwali lights specifically we used to have at our home in India) in a specific pattern.

This is as close I can verbally explain. lol I’m glad to see a sub regarding this phenomenon… peace! ✌🏼

https://community.ld4all.com/t/phosphenes-and-hypnagogic-imagery/34199

I was just thinking about Phosphenes as one does and I decided to do A quick Google search asking is it possible to manipulate phosphates into creating shapes. The first one was a Christian who is experiencing these colors and had some questions about if it ever came up in any biblical texts. And of course the Christians all warn him against it saying they can open him up to the devil and evil spirits and stuff like that. I wanted to explain my experience so that person would have both sides of the story and perhaps I should invite him to the subreddit but this was my explanation of my experience and that subreddit.....(he does mention dreams at the beginning of his question so I start out by speaking about that.)

Yes! Dreams are so wild!! They definitely invoke emotions, and I think the response to the emotions are what will decide our actions on how we move forward in our day and future. So yes, dreams could have definitely helped in evolving us as humans and perhaps other animals who dream that we didn't notice before. 

Dreams give us a visual as well as an audio sensory (sometimes), but not all are needed for the feeling to happen. Like for instance, a person who was born blind and has never seen shapes or colors will dream only auditory dreams as if they are awake. To me that clearly indicates that being able to see In your dreams is a result of the memories you see and hear during your waking life, and your brain just tries to make sense of it all into a chronological story that makes sense. (Barely lol)



So now with phosphenes, pressing on your eye isn't the only way to have them appear and to me don't actually look or behave like the phosphenes you naturally create. Through meditation and in the absence of light you can still see these very active tiny speckles of colorful lights in the darkness. In my experience, I have noticed while meditating that I am able to unify the phosphenes and create 3d images of people, places and things just like in a dream. Only instead of them being solid and normal looking like in a dream, they are shiny and colorful as if creating a person out of sparkles like glitter. (Haha, I just thought of that scene in twilight where the vampire shines in the sun) 

but yeah, I used to think that perhaps phosphenes are what help us "see" dreams, like perhaps these dots and swirls are working together with the brain when u sleep to create imagery. But when I found out that the blind dream auditorially, only sounds like when they're awake. So then I figured that was a dead end. 

So I went back to meditation and exploring more of what I saw in the darkness with the phosphenes and I kept my focus on the center, not letting my eyes drop down and relax like they normally are when you sleep but actually keep them forward and centered. This started to push away the smaller phosphenes and allowed for something unique to happen. There was a light! In the darkness, and yes I know light can still appear in the absence of itself, but this was more like a glowing orb. It was small and far away, and had a warm red/orange huish glow to it. I drew all my attention and focus to this orb and and tried to make it clear and clearer and perhaps get closer or bring "it" closer. This took some time. But eventually I had it close enough that with my eyes open it would be about 4ft away, and about the size a golf ball. It was like staring at an atom or or the sun, like a molecule floating right in front of me, the light coming off of it was tough to stare at for long. But now it was clearer then ever and definitely a sphere shape.

After a few weeks of that I went to do my daily meditation and the orb (what I began calling it) wasn't there, instead there was something different. A blue ball 🔵 like the orb before but blue and more ethereal looking. To my surprise It felt like I had been seeing this blue orb a lot longer than I first thought, And that's when to hit me. I had been noticing a blue orb popping up randomly in my vision during the day while awake and doing daily activities. It would be very brief, for like half a second but it would be so vivid that it almost felt like when you stare at a light bulb and then close your eyes and see that after image burned into your retina. I almost never noticed it before but after that first experience I was able to recognize it more and more when it would pop up during the day. 

The blue orb was pretty far away and for some reason I was having trouble bringing it closer. I decided to do some research online and see what I can find. A friend had mentioned something about "the blue pearl". I did some Google searches and researched a bit and It sounded like other people were having similar experience as well. A lot of them were experiencing it through meditation after practicing it for a little while. As I read their experiences with it I got goosebumps because it described exactly what I had experienced. This sent me down a rabbit hole of possibilities with some people mentioning the opening of The Third Eye. 

The crazy part is when I was began to start focusing my eyes towards the center instead of letting them drop down, I began having this pain or soreness towards the center of my head, above my eyes sort a where the third eye would be if I had one. It felt like I was using a muscle that I hadn't used before and I assume I was straining it by looking forward while the eyelids are shut (not a normal function for the body) After some practice and time spent doing that tho  the pain went away and I was easily able to get into that focus much faster and see the lovely phosphenes and orb anytime I desired.( the darker it is where u are, the easier it is to see them when u have your eyes shut cuz light from other sources like a lamp can interfere with the light your brain generates as neurons are firing in your brain.) There was a huge flash of white light that encompassed my entire vision, it actually startled me and made me open my eyes because it felt like somebody had shine a flashlight in my face but I was at home ,alone, in the dark meditating and that's when I realized that my mind had made that or something had activated in my spirit/vision. Eventually that's what led me towrds the path of experiencing the original red orb I had seen and the experiences so on.

Something changed along the way and I got distracted with other things in the real world like bills and stress and I eventually stopped meditating as much. I don't see the blue orb much or at all anymore, sometimes I wonder if it's still even there. If anyone has experienced anything like this or has heard of anything like this feel free to comment. I'd love to hear your experience with phosphenes. 

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🤣👍

so last night when I 19F was going to sleep in a dark room, I keep seeing colourful bright spiral motions and flashes and I got very scared. Is it I closed my eye too tight? Is it something to worry about and to go see a doctor? I tried searching it up and i saw that it might be retinal detachment but I’m super scared as my degree is super high about 825+ with my astigmatism super high like 300+

I love seeing the visual representation of phosphene experiences on this page. Plenty of psychedelic art as expected, patterns colors shapes etc. Does anyone know of any visual artists who have worked specifically on representing Phosphenes? Are there any artists who use this as their muse or niche? For that matter, who in this subreddit likes to do that?

Anyone experience very tiny pins of light that are bright, have a slow floating movement and somewhat of a flicker? After some meditation that mainly includes reduced movement of the eyes, I started experiencing this. Not many, just one or two at a time. Unless I focus on one -- then more will start appearing. Whether day or night I see them.

I have a theory these can be controlled and ultimately somehow shaped into whatever one imagines. Along the lines of voluntary hallucination. As how that exactly works though, I am still trying to find out.

A few months ago i experienced health issues and almost kicked the bucket but i got to control my phosphenes and made a language and also formed drawings usin a single dot of phosphenes. my eyes were fully black and all the phosphenes became one. Current7ly im not capable cause the factors that led to that then are not now.

Hey it may not be paranormal but feels subreal! I was in the mirror in the darkness turned on lintern of the cellphone to my eyes and then started to see all the lines closing my eyes. Funny thing is that if you keep doing lines with lintern towards your eyes it for at least 30 secs you will see colorful lines in violet and blue. Then all the lines will sorround you and will feel like drawing with oculus glasses 🤓 Try !! Haha 🤣

Hello everyone, I’m not sure if this is related to phosphenes at all. However I’m not sure where to find out the answer to this one, if you know anything about it that would be greatly appreciated.

When I was little there was a point where when I closed my eyes I would see black and grey images of eyes and faces. It scared me a lot at first, but as I came to get used to them they started to disappear.

From that point, it never happened again. But I remember it very clearly.

Last night after I turned the lights off in my room, I had this surreal sensation when I closed my eyes. I saw what looked like a room with a table, and a woman sat down at the table. I recognised it almost immediately and thought “Ah this, it’ll pass”. Then at the last moment this woman slowly moved over the table, lunging her face towards me and I physically recoiled backwards away from it.

I then looked around the wall and I saw a face appearing from the wall. It looked like some whack ass character from the conjuring or something. When I closed my eyes, I saw a different face that was similar. After that, it disappeared again.

I’ve tried Googling it, terrible idea I know, but I can’t seem to find an answer. Google keeps saying that it is a phosphene but that really doesn’t seem to fit the bill.

Does anyone know what this is? Freaked me out a bit honestly. And according to Google I’m dying of X different things haha.

Any help is massively appreciated. I will try post this in some other subreddits also to try find out what’s going on.

Thank you.

I've always noticed that there is one phosphene(s), (sometimes two) that are just waaaaay more vibrant than the rest are. Like a shiney brighter dot, usually at or around where I'm focused at (with my eyes closed) but I can always spot it when I look for it but if I try to look at it directly it moves or disappears, kinda like a Star so you have to look just to the side of it.

I assume it has something to do with like the main pinpoint of the optic nerve or something but haven't found much about it specifically. Was wondering if any of y'all experience this?