I'm seeing colors, help!

simplysped · Oct 21, 2009

Hi Everyone,
This has been troubling me for some time, and I think this is the best place to ask.

When I turn out my lights, the room is pitch black. And I glance at my alarm clock, which has LEDs. I'll see a band of purple light that extends out horizontally from the alarm clock. When I move my head from side to side, the purple wave will distort.

I've done my best at photoshopping the effect (the color isn't as bright, but you get the idea) on the images below:

Anyone have any idea what's going on here? Why would my eyes interpret the coloring of the alarm clock with this band of violet?

Thanks

scopeguy20 · Oct 21, 2009

Got more shrooms? j/k, I understand Igor saw all sorts of violet artifacts after a few times using 405 nm lasers in the dark, it goes away usually or so it seems... -Glenn

rangedunits · Oct 21, 2009

Wow thats scary.

bobhaha · Oct 21, 2009

maybe u shouldn't go to bed at 12:08...might be tired eyes... has this ever happened before? do you think this is because of a laser related accident? I would make a educated guess and probably say, its a mix of tired eyes, maybe lazy eye, pupals not fully dialated and maybe to many shrooms LOL

D jks)

I dunno... does it happen during the day?

simplysped · Oct 21, 2009

bobhaha said:
maybe u shouldn't go to bed at 12:08...might be tired eyes... has this ever happened before? do you think this is because of a laser related accident? I would make a educated guess and probably say, its a mix of tired eyes, maybe lazy eye, pupals not fully dialated and maybe to many shrooms LOL D jks)

I dunno... does it happen during the day?

It only happens when it's very dark out. It happens every time I go to sleep, without fail everytime.

I've also noticed that I can't see the violet when I'm not laying down, so I am thinking that the lower parts of my eyes are sensitive to it. When I stand up and look at it directly it's not as easy to see.

Gryphon · Oct 21, 2009

Wow, that would creep me out

simplysped · Oct 21, 2009

Gryphon said:
Wow, that would creep me out

Yeah, it's very creepy :x

If anyone is interested, I'd be willing to mail my alarm clock to someone to prove my sanity.

simplysped · Oct 21, 2009

After speaking with some other people, it sounds like this might have something to do with the lens. This is a crappy Chinese alarm clock, so the lens could cause some "distortion in the lens or refraction" which is what I'm being told.
So tonight I'll do two things:
1) Get my roommate to confirm that he sees the band of light
2) Remove the lens and see if it's still there

brtaman · Oct 21, 2009

simplysped2 said:
Yeah, it's very creepy :x

If anyone is interested, I'd be willing to mail my alarm clock to someone to prove my sanity.

If I were in your shoes I would see a doctor immediately, especially since this is a re-occurring phenomenon. It could be nothing, but do it for the piece of mind, if nothing else.

simplysped · Oct 21, 2009

brtaman said:
If I were in your shoes I would see a doctor immediately, especially since this is a re-occurring phenomenon. It could be nothing, but do it for the piece of mind, if nothing else.

I'll mention it to my eye doctor, but it's not bothering me. It's only this alarm clock in the dark, if I was seeing this from the LED on my monitor's power button, or the light from my cell phone, then maybe I would see a doctor immediately. This is also why I plan on having my roommate check it out tonight to see if he sees anything. Until then, I'm going to assume that the device is producing the effect, and not my mind.

brtaman · Oct 21, 2009

simplysped2 said:
I'll mention it to my eye doctor, but it's not bothering me. It's only this alarm clock in the dark, if I was seeing this from the LED on my monitor's power button, or the light from my cell phone, then maybe I would see a doctor immediately. This is also why I plan on having my roommate check it out tonight to see if he sees anything. Until then, I'm going to assume that the device is producing the effect, and not my mind.

It could be the specific wavelength and intensity of the LED lights causing the "hallucination"? The way in which our optical nerve convert what they sense into colour and vision is quite complex. If the LEDs are red? and you are seeing purple, the nerves must be shifting what they see on the completely other end of the spectrum.

But yes, definitely have a friend check it first. :beer:

Benm · Oct 21, 2009

Indeed, though your friend might not see either. If it only occurs with this alarm clock and no other comparable light source (say, another alarm clock) i wouldn't be that concerned.

Benm · Oct 22, 2009

What would a doctor do with this? You have one specific alarm clock that appears to give off a purple glow... replacing the alarm clock seems like the advice you will get, at a cost of several alarm clocks you could otherwise examine.

Vision is a very complex function that has ocular but also mental aspects. Dont think that everything you see is some sort of raw data coming from your retina's. The mental processing power required to translate the signals from your optical nerves to images is tremendous.

Seeing things that arent actually there is very common - usually we disregard this phenomenon, but there are loads of optical illusions that prove it works this way. Since it happens in this case only with one single device, i'd say its either that device doing something odd, or your brain processing something wrong.

Neither is cause for immediate alarm - just replacing the darn alarm clock would be the solution.

boosted_4cyl · Oct 22, 2009

I see purple weird shapes when i close my eyes in a really dark room when im not so tired. Its really weird because they look like they are coming towards me and the closer they get the more they change from purple to a yellowish green. I think im just retarded though

Tech_Junkie · Oct 23, 2009

boosted_4cyl said:
I see purple weird shapes when i close my eyes in a really dark room when im not so tired. Its really weird because they look like they are coming towards me and the closer they get the more they change from purple to a yellowish green. I think im just retarded though

Think of all the money you save by not having to buy drugs to get the same effect....

Flaminpyro · Oct 23, 2009

What ever your smoking to see these wavy violet lines, SEND me some I want to see em :crackup:

Peace All...

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