Eyesight/Vision Question?
November 24th, 2009
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- Eyesight/Vision Question?
i had an exam today at school and i got bored after finishing so i put my head down to sleep. My arm as bent so that my right eye was on my forearm and my left was on the upper arm with my nose in the middle so like ther arm ws in a < position and there was some pressure on my eyes. anyway i looked up quickly once and when i shut my eyes again on my arm it wa like i could see a freeze frame image thing of what i had last seen. at first it was quick but i kept on doing it (looking up then down) and the image of what i had seen would stay for about for seconds. It was like my eyes had taken a picture and i could look at it like inside my brain. the ‘image’ itself was actually pretty clear. white parts were white bu anything else was shades of a bluey purple. Its all hard to explain but i was freaked out about it. i could like look at things that had append seconds before and i could look around in the image if you knwo what i mean.
my question is why was thre this imprint left when i shut my eyes? some pressure was applied.
i also tried this a while ago but iit didnt work. why?
thanks
exam as in english test things
You were seeing an after image, perfectly normal. Just like the circles you see after your picture is taken. It happens when you look at a bright image. By keeping your eyes closed, your eyes adapted to the dark.
To elicit again, try looking at a bright window then looking at a blank wall.

November 28th, 2009 at 12:29 am
that sounds weird but the eye exam probably strained your eyes and thats what made it do that
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November 28th, 2009 at 1:18 am
You were seeing an after image, perfectly normal. Just like the circles you see after your picture is taken. It happens when you look at a bright image. By keeping your eyes closed, your eyes adapted to the dark.
To elicit again, try looking at a bright window then looking at a blank wall.
References :
I’m an optometrist