27 May 09
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.

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.

time dilation