27 May 09
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you know when you close your eyes and press on them and you get that “prisoner’s cinema” thing going on?
it’s an entropic phenomena called a pressure phosphene and it’s a result of stimulating your retinal ganglion cells; the aft-photoreceptor retinal neurons that transmit light data to your midbrain basically get activated and go a little haywire when you do that.
also: your mother would like you to stop doing it, she thinks it’s weird of you.