Do you see this in the dark?

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I see in the dark rather well myself (I eat a ton of vitamin A too though.)

Yes I have always assumed it was normal, I also see what looks like smoke
rings or translucent bubbles floating thought the air on bright days, or before
bad electrical storms

sometimes

though right now my bedroom never gets dark enough at night for me to notice such as my desktop computer has blue LEDs inside it and remains on all night (can't be bothered to turn it off)

No, I don't see that. I see other things in the darkness, but they are stationary.

I was under the impression that everyone could see this, it's just due to your eyes not picking up enough light. The game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth uses it as a graphical effect, and also the game Nosferatu kind of uses it, but that's less of a "visual snow" and more of a "film grain".

Also, when there's very little light to reflect back to you, you're unable to pick up colors. We all tried it on a pitch black snowy night one time...some of us had on very brightly colored snowsuits, but the only colors we could point out were shades of gray.

I've had out of body experiences before, and those are kind of fun...everything's not only snowy, but it's all in this sort of phosphorescent blue, ambient occlusion look, kind of like the ghost ship in the first Monkey Island.

I guessed this was rods (the photreceptors mostly in your peripheral vision and chiefly used in the dark) accepting a low threshold, but not so low that in the dark everything went white. I have fairly good night vision, but wonder if it could be improved beyond night training without riddick-esque surgery.

If I close my eyes (at any time, not just when trying to sleep) I usually go to level 3 within a few seconds. I get a small amount of snow all over my visual field with eyes open, dark or light, I've always assumed it's normal.

When I was a little kid I saw it alot and it went away as I got older. Then after college I got into practicing stuff like lucid dreaming, meditation, astral projection etc., and now I see it all the time. It can be very extreme after wearing an eye patch over one eye for a while.

When I close my eyes, in the center of my field of vision I see purple.

I get night terrors occasionally. And/or I wake up in the middle of night and see spiders or swarms of insects.

Yes, I see visual snow in the dark, and when I close my eyes. If I look at it for too long, it will even eventually start to form shifting, moving patterns like in those illusion images scattered all over the internet. It typically starts off as a black/white fuzz, but can turn into a dark purple.

And when I'm in the light, I can often be temporarily blinded by it if I stand up to quickly. It will start off as a little speck in the center of my field of view, and quickly spread over the rest of it usually accompanied by a head rush. Though sometimes I don't even have to stand up. It can happen randomly all on it's own. But that's been getting more and more rare with me.

Also, when I stare at an object or surface with a certain pattern, even that will eventually start to look like it's morphing and changing.

I can't delete a post? Lame.

^Hmm, so I only got to level 3 then.

For as long as I can remember I have seen snow in the dark, in the light... all the time.