Dang...I'm taking the wrong drugs! I do not recall seeing colored flashes when in total darkness (lava tubes in NE CA)...or else they did not make an impression on me. I'll have to give it another go next time I photograph over there. It might be due to the significant amount of time I have spent developing sheet film in trays. My brain is attuned to the darkness and may not feel the need to create sights when there are none to see -- except --... or anesthesia...
I was in total blackout (underground mine with no light source at all) several times. No grey was noticed but profound experience of shooting colored light flashes.
There may be individual differences, IDK. I was between 3000 and 5200 feet underground. But later I had similar experience when having migraines and retinal detachment.Dang...I'm taking the wrong drugs! I do not recall seeing colored flashes when in total darkness (lava tubes in NE CA)...or else they did not make an impression on me. I'll have to give it another go next time I photograph over there. It might be due to the significant amount of time I have spent developing sheet film in trays. My brain is attuned to the darkness and may not feel the need to create sights when there are none to see -- except --
I still love that I 'see' my hands while developing film in darkness. I believe muscle positioning tells my brain where my hands are, and my brain does the rest. I can 'see' my hands but not what they may be holding.
There is no such thing as "blackout" unless perhaps death. In "total darkness" our complex neurological system generates gray, an easily demonstrated reality... obvious in sensory deprivation research...much like system noise in audio. As well, our eyes generate colorful phosphenes, which we usually ignore.
Yes they are. (Both).fwiw I
fwiw those comments are based on sensory deprivation research that many (including myself) have done using totally black settings : e.g. a steel room floating on oil with a double freezer-locker-style door. Was not only totally black but was virtually dead sound-wise, except for sounds made by heartbeat and movement.
As to the colored spots of light, those are well known to your opthamologist as well as wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene
The lava tubes tend to be close to the surface, but of course sloped downhill, and one can go quite a ways -- quarter mile or so in some. Hit my head on a drop of lava hanging from the ceiling...saw some stars!There may be individual differences, IDK. I was between 3000 and 5200 feet underground. But later I had similar experience when having migraines and retinal detachment.
The brain is a remarkable and mysterious organ.
The shot actually gve me the shivers.The lava tubes tend to be close to the surface, but of course sloped downhill, and one can go quite a ways -- quarter mile or so in some. Hit my head on a drop of lava hanging from the ceiling...saw some stars!
I once heard that "Brain Teasers" should really be called brain failures...LOL!
I hope this is not too muddy for you, jtk -- an alt print of the inside of a lava tube...and B&W in low light, too! (8x10 carbon print)
...anymore.not everyone is always afraid of the dark,
This is the beginnings of culture; the shaping of natural behaviors within a group to survive. As to color in higher primates: does color give us even more advantages in discretion, understanding, predicting, surviving in greater numbers, building societies.Yes and no. Evolution is not so much a matter of a species changing to survive, but instead, of some or many members of a species already have the qualities needed for survival when a need arises. Much less "tooth and claw" than usually assigned evolution. Human color vision might just be a nice thing to have, and not a significant survival characteristic...a by-product of a bigger brain.
It would be interesting to know if they studied the cone/rod make-up of the ice man's eyes (5000 yr old frozen body found in the Swiss Alps). Not that old, though.
Not just shape recognition, but other types of “redundancy coding” too.Nah...feel and smell come into it also. Plenty of men get along quite well in our colorful society being color-blind in various degrees and types. We might be a lot better at shape-reconition without color vision.
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