Do you see static? (Or dead people?)

FoxEye · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:20

This is not a medical thread. That out the way...

When you look at a turned off monitor, ignoring any obvious reflections, do you see solid black, or do you see something resembling static on an analogue TV that hasn't been tuned?

Apologies at this point if you've grown up with digital TV and have no idea what TV static even means. I'm sorry for being old

Esp in low light conditions? I'm just curious if anyone here knows that the hell I'm talking about...

Ayahuasca · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:22

I see you baby, shaking that ass

NoobCannon · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:23

Crack is bad mmkay

ash_scotland88 · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:24

I think I know what you mean.
In low light situations it's often like looking through static to me

Vidar · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:25

I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom for me and you...

Grandmaster Fap! · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:28

I use my night vision goggles in low light, static is for pussies....

Bassmansam · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:36

Yep and its called visual snow, can also see it if stare at a white wall after a few seconds.

robin66 · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:45

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

???

adidan · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:47

Ah the days when TV would stop broadcasting and we'd be left watching the aftereffects of the big bang.

Used to love watching that.

MR_Punk · 1 Oct 2018 at 20:50

I just read the article on visual snow. I assumed everyone had it and never really thought about it. Strange.

Tek81 · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:02

I see an aged and crooked version of myself, staring out across a vast abyssal depth formed of hopelessness and shattered dreams. No static though.

Dis86 · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:06

FoxEye said:
This is not a medical thread. That out the way...

When you look at a turned off monitor, ignoring any obvious reflections, do you see solid black, or do you see something resembling static on an analogue TV that hasn't been tuned?

Apologies at this point if you've grown up with digital TV and have no idea what TV static even means. I'm sorry for being old

Esp in low light conditions? I'm just curious if anyone here knows that the hell I'm talking about...

It's a medical thread matey. I had the same thing years ago and it was caused by stress. Didn't think I was stressed but turns out I was!

V F · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:07

tek81 said:
I see an aged and crooked version of myself, staring out across a vast abyssal depth formed of hopelessness and shattered dreams. No static though.

I don't even see reflections.

Minusorange · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:18

I only see Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion

V F · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:19

Orion's Belt?

FoxEye · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:22

MR_Punk said:
I just read the article on visual snow. I assumed everyone had it and never really thought about it. Strange.

Yeah I only learned it's name today. Like you I always assumed it was normal and everyone had it.

Dis86 said:
It's a medical thread matey. I had the same thing years ago and it was caused by stress. Didn't think I was stressed but turns out I was!

Do I look ******* stressed to you?

ScoTTyBEEE · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:24

How can I ignore my reflection? I'm beautiful. Even in vague reflections I can see the most wonderful outline of beauty, as though the hand of god were doing brushstrokes upon the screen.

Pawnless Endgame · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:37

Serious response to this thread: I'm affected by synaesthesia, which is where the senses are muddled. I have the coloured hearing version, which is the most common version - I "see" sound. When there is total silence and dim lighting i.e. low stimulus, the synaesthesia is less controlled. When you turned off a 1980s CRT TV, you see a green or red line or a kaleidoscope pattern that should shrink to a dot before disappearing completely. This started to manifest itself as a phobia where I would randomly see the line or pattern while the TV was already off. It got to the point where I had to cover the TV e.g. dust cover. In 1999, I have already left home and didn't have a TV, but I did get my first PC that year. The more modern CRTs (Pentium II-era) didn't display the line or pattern, but I still had the phobia and still had to order a dust cover for the monitor. I still 'trip' to flat screens but not as bad as the CRTs.

LOAM · 1 Oct 2018 at 21:57

I see dark terrible things contorting and twisting in the shadows behind me. Some times I sit there staring in to the screen all night, too terrified to get up turn around and leave the room.

Gerard · 1 Oct 2018 at 22:02

LOAM said:
I see dark terrible things contorting and twisting in the shadows behind me. Some times I sit there staring in to the screen all night, too terrified to get up turn around and leave the room.