It has a name! We've all experienced this, and now I know what it's called.
"Phosphene - A ring or spot of light produced by pressure on the eyeball or direct stimulation of the visual system other than by light."
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
Jerry - I found a neat article on this phenomenon - unfortunately only the abstract is available without coughing up $40. If really interested your local library might be able to get it for you, or certainly a nearby medical library at a medical school. This article discusses not the physiology but the history of philosophers and others discussing the phenomenon of phosphene and what it might mean.
http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2209368/
sb wrote:
Jerry - I found a neat article on this phenomenon - unfortunately only the abstract is available without coughing up $40. If really interested your local library might be able to get it for you, or certainly a nearby medical library at a medical school. This article discusses not the physiology but the history of philosophers and others discussing the phenomenon of phosphene and what it might mean.
http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2209368/The other problem besides the $40 is the article may not contain what you think it does. I wrote a lot of scientific articles and abstracts are generally limited in size by the journal. Working, the tax payer paid for any articles I needed, now me and cost is a real problem. If you are an Allumni anywhere you might have access, but mine dropped that as it was rarely used and cost them. When I retired, some journals were allowing the author to pay for open access, but the cost would have meant either publishing less or doing less research or both due to budget constraints.
Oh, gee! At first I thought you were talking about phosGENE! Totally different! 😳
--Rich
RiJoRi wrote:
Oh, gee! At first I thought you were talking about phosGENE! Totally different! 😳
--Rich
Yes. I hate words that are so similar yet so different in meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene
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