Eli5 why does pressing my palms against my eyes create a kaleidoscope effect?
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when you push on your eyes you stimulate the same parts of it that detect light. Your eyes send this information to your brain as if it was normal light.
But it’s not, its useless information. Theres nothing to interpret, so you just get a weird mess.Its like when you would set an old CRT television to a non-existent channel. it would still try to pick up information, but instead all it gets is noise (static) It still tries to interpet it though, because it can’t tlel the difference
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