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226 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 2 Aug 2024 \ on: I felt a VERY weird sensation, but don't know what caused it. FiresidePhilosophy
I like to think that some synapses or nerves in my brain / eyes "overreacted", causing me to "see" said "spark", but how can this cause such an instant and "primal" level of fear?
Not knowing where that spark came from taps into the (primal) fear of the unknown and all your imagination. So I think it's normal to have intense fear when something unexpected like this happens. You enter survival mode since you literally don't know what's going to happen next. But only you know if that was what you felt or if it was something else.
Is there no possible explanation for that spark? A dying light bulb or something?
Funnily, I also sometimes see sudden sparks of light but I dismissed them as some sort of HPPD1 after I realized nothing is causing them so it's probably just me seeing them. I dismissed them since they are ~mostly_harmless and thus don't really bother me; it's more that I am intrigued by them.

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  1. I also see visual snow and floaters regularly, apparently another HPPD syndrom, but that has always been the case, unlike the sparks of light ↩
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106 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Aug 2024
Sounds like glitches in the Matrix. If you or Fabs go missing, I'm going to assume you got unplugged and are now fighting the good fight in some dystopian real world.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 2 Aug 2024
I can see @Fabs going Cypher
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Aug 2024
Maybe that's what already happened. We did go a while with any Fabs, recently.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs OP 3 Aug 2024
🥺...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Aug 2024
*without
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 3 Aug 2024
Is there no possible explanation for that spark? A dying light bulb or something?
No. The room was dark, only the basement light was on, and I stood under it.
If that room hadn't been dark, I probably wouldn't have noticed it, and no, it couldn't have been a reflection of something else, since there is nothing to reflect off of in there.
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