:The colors and whatnot that you see when you close your eyes are discussed in our Phosphene article, and its " Electrical stimulation " section discusses electrically induced phosphenes in blind people.
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For example, simply injecting current into a primary visual cortex location may produce a percept of a phosphene ( small flash of light ) at the corresponding retinotopic location; but not much more.
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Another common phosphene is " seeing stars ", from a sneeze, laughter, a heavy and deep cough, metabolic ( such as from low oxygenation or lack of glucose ) stimulation of neurons of the visual cortex or of other parts of the visual system.
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One time I was lying down to enjoy some "'mondo-radical phosphene bodaciousness, dude "'and I was getting some pretty chill phosphenity going on and then SOMEONE decided to turn on the lights and then I turned them off and I couldn't see crap in the sea of eigengrau.
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Dow was the publisher and a founding editor of " Phosphene Magazine ", a quarterly literary magazine in the Houston area from 1978 to 1981 that featured fiction, poetry, essays, graphic art and photographs, and " Dialog Magazine ", a bimonthly urban tabloid in Houston from 1983 to 1984 that featured articles, essays, reviews, features, fiction, poetry, graphic art and photographs.
