Here are two things you probably haven’t heard of:
All my life, in low-light situations (and recently in all lightning) I’ve been able to see a persistent “visual noise” in my visual field, if you open your phone camera and point it towards a very low light place, you’ll see the same effect that I have. Recently I found out that apparently not everyone has this (though all my family does), I always thought that the visual noise was just a fundamental property of a finite eye, just as it is for a camera lens, but apparently some people’s brains filter it out and they just see a completely solid blob of colour.
If I keep my eyes locked on a particular point for some time, the objects in the periphery kind of stop being differentiated and they all just become a sort of uniform fuzzy vibrating luminosity, this effect is accentuated for me during psychedelic mushroom trips, but it happens in daily life all the time (like literally right now). Apparently not everyone has this.
My visual acuity is unusually good (or at least it used to be; 50-year-old eyes don’t work as well as 25-year-old ones). I wonder whether there’s a noise/resolution tradeoff here.
(Note: by “acuity” I mean something like “resolution after aberrations are corrected”; it’s not the same thing as whether you need glasses/contacts, it’s how well you see with whatever optical corrections you require.)
I have #1 but if I pay attention the fuzz is actually on all the time over everything. The white background of this page has the distinctive patchy-blobby fuzz going on. How strong this is varies.
Here are two things you probably haven’t heard of:
All my life, in low-light situations (and recently in all lightning) I’ve been able to see a persistent “visual noise” in my visual field, if you open your phone camera and point it towards a very low light place, you’ll see the same effect that I have. Recently I found out that apparently not everyone has this (though all my family does), I always thought that the visual noise was just a fundamental property of a finite eye, just as it is for a camera lens, but apparently some people’s brains filter it out and they just see a completely solid blob of colour.
If I keep my eyes locked on a particular point for some time, the objects in the periphery kind of stop being differentiated and they all just become a sort of uniform fuzzy vibrating luminosity, this effect is accentuated for me during psychedelic mushroom trips, but it happens in daily life all the time (like literally right now). Apparently not everyone has this.
I have #1 but not #2.
My visual acuity is unusually good (or at least it used to be; 50-year-old eyes don’t work as well as 25-year-old ones). I wonder whether there’s a noise/resolution tradeoff here.
(Note: by “acuity” I mean something like “resolution after aberrations are corrected”; it’s not the same thing as whether you need glasses/contacts, it’s how well you see with whatever optical corrections you require.)
I have #1 but if I pay attention the fuzz is actually on all the time over everything. The white background of this page has the distinctive patchy-blobby fuzz going on. How strong this is varies.