[Maxwell Jennings]

Originally Posted by Jon Tore

Also, patterns on the pink wall on the bathroom downstairs. The pattern is many small arrows like <<>><<>>, or something. The bathroom here upstairs has the floor pattern I mentioned. ANYWAY, since I've obviously spent some time down there, I've discovered that when I look at the wall, I can see a 'stream' sort of roll horizontally on the wall. It goes either left or right, and I can make the arrows seem to move either left or right. It takes some mind power, but usually when I *toss* my eyes to the right, I can make the stream go right, and so on. Same thing with phone wires on lamp posts if you know what I mean. I realized I could make it look like the wires were sliding one way, really fast, and could change the direction myself.

This reminds me of a question. In daylight, when I look towards a cloudy sky and such, or... even just somewhere else, I (and probably everybody?) can see small, small mini dots. Even here on the computer screen. They move at their own will though, and some dots are bigger than others. I assume it's just something that comes with our vision (contrasts and such), like a grainy film. But when I was a kid, I used to close my eyes at nights and pay attention to the small yellow and orange dots in my eyelids. They could be any color I wanted though. They would form into trains (many of the dots lined up after each other, into several "trains") and drifted around.

Ah yeah, I've seen something similar too while looking at fluorescent lighting behind a diffuse plastic panel. There are capillaries in the back of the eye that actually cross over the retina in a few places, so I was thinking the specks might be red blood cells traveling single-file through those vessels. Random specks can be floaters of material in the eye or dust on the external surface of the eye. None of these explanations I just listed will account for seeing it with your eyes closed though.