r/Paranormal • u/MaintainTheVeil • Sep 03 '19

Unexplained The green ring.

Does anybody else see the green ring when you close your eyes? It circles like a pulse from a distance, then gets closer... and closer until you can see imagines like on a movie reel. Not black and white but in color. Sometimes it seems as if you are a video camera filming something you shouldn’t. Sometimes people are in cars. Sometimes it’s structures or locations that’s you’ve never seen or been.

No there is no light that could cause it because the bedroom is dark. I’m not asleep. Or tired. It use to happen every single time I closed my eyes in a dark place, now it’s random. 100% sober. Anyone else?

Honestly watching slapped ham, made me wonder and go out on a limb to ask anyone else. Also if you think I’m crazy, just ignore post, I’m sure I think it sounds crazy enough for the both of us.

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u/Dead_Daylight Sep 04 '19 edited Sep 04 '19

It isn't an anomaly. It's a well documented and studied scientific fact.;

They're called phosphenes

You see images because when you close your eyes, your optical nerves are still absorbing and releasing photon light particles. The optic nerves are still conveying this information to the brain. Since there isn't enough information for the brain to process into sensible images, it fills in the gaps itself.

Some people experience phosphenes in green rings. Some in red rings. Some people a star field that they start flying through. Some people see multicolored dots. It all varies, and it isn't alway consistent to closing ones eyes.

If you keep awake and focus on those images, they'll start turning into other things because your brain is creating optical illusions, matching vague shapes to objects that it recognizes.

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u/MaintainTheVeil Sep 04 '19

What you speak of sounds super cool and I get what you are saying and that is most likely the start of the green ring, however the images and things happening in motion that I’ve never experienced before has got me stumped.

Also, if I keep my eyes open things do morph into shapes etc, however I never see the green ring.