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27 May 2014, 2:22 pm

...but it turned out I had just closed my eyes.


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27 May 2014, 2:50 pm

Excellent. Not sure if I fully get what you mean, though. :)



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27 May 2014, 3:09 pm

I had something like that happen to me before

I was helping my uncle sharpen a bandsaw blade for his sawmill when all the sudden it was like someone turned off the lights so I reached out to the workbench to lean on. all the sudden I hear my uncle yelling for his girlfriend and im laying on the floor and the lights are bacl



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27 May 2014, 5:39 pm

That's funny!
Beneficii I LOVE your new avatar.


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27 May 2014, 6:48 pm

What do you mean? (Assuming you are not being literal)



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28 May 2014, 7:17 am

neobluex wrote:
What do you mean? (Assuming you are not being literal)


I was being literal. I intended to close my eyes, but instantly afterward forgotten that I did, so I literally thought the lights had gone out.

I think this is related to a temporary dysfunction in corollary discharge (where you brain makes a copy of your actions and sends it to all other parts of the brain to inform them of what the action entails and that it's you who did it). I can sometimes watch myself in 3rd person, for example and confuse things I think for what other people say.


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28 May 2014, 7:17 am

skibum wrote:
That's funny!
Beneficii I LOVE your new avatar.


Thanks. :) It's our cat Charlie!


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03 Jun 2014, 6:43 pm

beneficii wrote:
I think this is related to a temporary dysfunction in corollary discharge (where you brain makes a copy of your actions and sends it to all other parts of the brain to inform them of what the action entails and that it's you who did it).


Interesting. I've never heard of that.

Sometimes I see the lights go out very brief moment and I'm not sure if I blinked or it was a micro-outage. Other times I don't realize that my eyes have moved. I don't know if this is related to that phenomenon.



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03 Jun 2014, 11:37 pm

This has happened to me twice in the past 5 years or so. Everything turned dark and then I realized I had closed my eyes. It was a split second thing.



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04 Jun 2014, 12:11 am

Can't say I have ever had that happen. I will however be busy with whatever and all of a sudden everything gets brighter, MUCH brighter. Not sure what causes that it kind of reminds me of a head rush like when you smoke weed (haven't done so in like over 30 years). Usually it is when I am really concentrating and engrossed in whatever I am doing. Time tends to fly and sometimes many hours pass by. When things get bright like this I will look down and anywhere from say a half hour to a good part of the day has gone by. It is a rather strange feeling although I am more used to it now.