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Yes. It's called "Eigengrau" and it happens due to the adaptation of the eye amidst the darkness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau

how did you take this photo? Small camera through your ear?

This is a normal closed eye hallucination level 1 on this Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

I see a little “DVD” logo zipping around that changes colour when it bounces off the periphery of my vision.

You have too much gain.

But yeah it's normal.

Better than seeing weird letters and 80 style colored geometric shape sliding around.

This is just the result of neurons firing and chemical reactions taking place, and it's normal. Personally, for me it depends on my state of mind when I try to sleep. When agitated, I see noise like in your picture. When calm, I see flat, colorful shapes with soft edges that float around and change shape more or less rapidly (kind of like a lava lamp).

I think it's called visual snow, and it's normal.

Probably just your tuner that's unplugged. Feel around for any loose wires.

Yes, and if you GENTLY press on your eyelids you can make other colors happen.

Also if you stare at a clear sky, NOT AT THE SUN, or at a bluish wall, you may see little swirly things, it's the white blood cells in your retinas swimming around.

(Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia https://share.google/MveakONY2KB3QXUUh)

I see pulsing waves of color, even in pitch black rooms. When I was little they were bright as fireworks, now, depending on the night they're either just vaguely waves of purple, grey, and blue or sometimes electric blue and white.

I always assumed everyone saw it. I'm not special after all.

Though mine is gray, definitely not purple.

Bro is a CRT

Welcome to the simulation

Yes, it's random firings of light receptors from the absolute ocean of potential stimulators for such sensitive cells and sensitive neurons that connect them to your brain.

Your brain does a profoundly involved job at every moment editing your visual input into a coherent, moving picture, but your brain edits out a LOT of interference and noise every moment.

If you really wanna blow your mind and prove it, make a pinhole in a card and in a dark room and look towards a light source. If you wiggle the pinhole light beam across your retina you will suddenly see all the blood vessels that feed your retina. Evolution decided it would put them on the front for some reason, but your brain normally makes it literally disappear for you. When you wiggle the shadows of the vessels, your brain forgets how to edit it and they appear like a mass of floater-spaghetti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination

If you see this when your eyes are open then it may be visual snow.

Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

for the topic of discussion it might be worthwhile to also look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

1/10 people have it and have no idea it's not normal, my sister and mother too

Yeah, though mine doesn't flicker as fast - it kinda moves in slow waves.

I can make static if I squeeze my eyes very tightly, sometimes spots. No one i asked when I was little had the same results. Haven't thought about it in a long time.

Uhhh everyone is saying this is normal and I don't have it...

I see patterns and colors. Almost like a screensaver.

From m'eye experience. Yes.

probably caused by some small amount of light getting through your eyelids , or random noise in your nerves

I personally don’t see it as intensively

I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.

I do.

This gif is very calming to me.

What you're seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.

/Obviously I'm not serious....