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Hey, here's a poll. You're in bed. It's dark. You close your eyes. You start thinking about events of the day. What is the background color of what you see in your mind?

Black
61.7%
White
3.3%
Many colors
27.5%
Other (comment)
7.5%

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I get the weirdest shit. It starts out as barely perceptible abstract colors and images and then as I meditate they take on almost photographic quality. My best guess is that it is some form of visual hypnagogia.

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Damn, that sounds both cool and a bit frightening.

JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

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@olafurw

It's was a bit weird the first time it happened but it's more cool than anything else. I'm not sure what causes it but now I'm interested in looking up the causes. Question for you -- have you ever had a lucid dream?

11:12 PM · Oct 8, 2019Twitter Web App

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Nope. And I don't see anything when I close my eyes. Just black. Though I can think of events of the day, it's more an abstract idea, like list of facts. If someone asks me to imagine an apple or my childhood house, I don't "see" those objects, but I can think of them.

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That's really interesting and cool. Brains are amazing -- how we both "see" or not see the world differently and each have our own way of imagining things internally.

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