While staring at a snow-texture ceiling....Sky sperm

[rudiger650]

Anybody notice that if you stare at anything for long enough it starts to undulate and even bubble?

A snow texture ceiling is a good playground for this little experiment. As your eyes get tired and unfocused the image seems to shift, and one starts to even see tides or waves moving about. Then you blink and everything seems to go back in place. The phenomenon is greatly increased (and requires no conscious effort) if you use a hallucinogen like LSD, but that is not necessary to see what I mean.

Is this an example of particals turning back to waves when we stop focusing on them?

Try it!

There is also the matter of staring at a blue sky, or other brightly, uniformly colored surface. One can see what look like little... I want to say  sky sperm squiggling about. There are also larger objects that float about, which I've been told are obsolete blood vessels or vains (or something) that have been floating around in our eyes since the fetal stages where they were in use. So are these "Sky sperm" inside the eyes like the other things? Are they air prana or white blood cells as other people I've talked to have theorized?

TRY IT!
Lemme know what you think.
Keith

[rudiger650]

HAHAHA not one comment huh? Perhaps a more discreet title would have been appropriate.  

[bundance]

actually it's more like stills of interesting images in the shadows of the texture on the ceiling that sometimes stay the same for many years, and some that come and go and are ever changing.

[rudiger650]

YAY! Finally an answer!

[Selski]

There is also the matter of staring at a blue sky

Hi Keith

I was doing this the other day.  I was lay on the grass in the park and the sky was a lovely light blue.  I closed my eyes for a few moments and when I opened them, if I opened them slowly, I could see hundreds of tiny silver sparkles everywhere.  This was when I didn't focus on any one thing. 

It was quite fascinating and I spend a good half an hour doing it!  Ha ha.

Sarah

[rudiger650]

I talked to an eye doctor about the white things buzzing around in the sky seemingly and she seemed pretty sure it was white blood cells being hit by the light.

I highly recommend looking at a snow-textured cieling without blinking, things will begin to slide around almost like a tide on the cieling. Actuall you can probably do it with anything. like a carpet.

[jonmou]

What you are seeing could possibly be "floaters".  Information on them is at the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters

[rudiger650]

Nope I know what floaters are, these things wiz around much faster.

[glenda]

Yes - same as Sarah - I see thousands of silver sparkles everywhere, but I also see (don't know how to explain this) elongated worm-like things with transparent bodies.  These wormlike bodies have a black outline and what seems to be black spots in the centre of the body.  I know - sounds strange - maybe someone has had the same experience?

[rudiger650]

Glenda, those are what you'd call floaters, they're some sort of tissue that became useless after you left the fetal stages of life, and they just continue to float around in there.

[glenda]

Wow! now I know - also looked at the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters
and it is exactly what I was trying to describe - thanx for the info

any further info on the "silver sparkles"?

namaste

[rudiger650]

I think I know what you mean about the silver sparkles, I called them "sky-sperm" because to me they seem to wriggle around really fast, and I see them best looking into a bright blue sky on a sunny day. The Chinese call them air-prana I think, and the eye doctor told me they were merely white blood-cells.

[seen Here]

Hi,

These dots are sometimes known as Prana Dots. They are actually the Blue field entoptic phenomenon
which you can read about at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

seen Here

[tyciol]

There are probably other explanations besides particles fluxing when you don't look at them. Our eyes basically go out of focus and things get blurry. If your focus fluctuated between blurry/clear it might give the illusion of the ceiling moving.

When particles flux I don't think it is as dramatic as that.

[Werp Weg Alles]

Everyone here talks about this and experiencing it after laying down, but I sometimes experience it just when im walking down a hall, and all of a sudden the lil buggers are everywhere, the first itme it happened I got dizzy following them with my eyes haha. Any body else get them while standing up?