Your True Tales
February 2007 - Page 3
Floating Points of Light
by PJ
I am very curious to find out if anyone has shared such a visual phenomenon as this because it happens to me fairly frequently and I want to know if there is an accepted scientific explanation. It occurred first when I was about 13 or 14.
I was standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs at my house talking to my friend, who was at the top of them, when suddenly and inexplicably I was surrounded my tiny moving points of light, which would each appear, move a bit in one direction or another and then fade out. There were hundreds of them if not more, all moving in their own random and ever-changing directions. Wherever I turned my head, they were there, and their movements suggested that it was not some strange effect of my eyes because I could look at any individual light and it would not move with the movement of my eye, but would swerve and turn and wink out seemingly of its own volition.
They were all very bright, much as you might imagine fairies or something with its own bright light source. Like I said, there were hundreds of them and it immediately scared me because I thought, this isn't right. Why am I seeing all these bright lights? They eventually faded away and the room looked the same as before.
I asked my friend and he didn't see them. So at first I thought my mind was playing tricks on me. But then a week later or so it happened in class while I was staring at my desk. It went away again, but over time this has happened often and I have gained increasing control over seeing these little light forms.
Now the easiest way to do so is to look at a white or bright surface and sort of go out of focus with my eyes, kind of like a seeing eye picture, and I can almost always see them. I have had them explained away by people like my mother as being similar to the spots you get in your vision when you look at the sun or a light bulb, but it is nothing like this. The points of light do not move with the movements of my eyes and I have come to think of them as being on another plane or dimension beside ours, which you can only see under the right circumstances. However this idea may just be fantasy and there may be a much more scientific explanation that I just haven't heard.
I don't think it is the result of random firings of the eye nerves to the brain or something like that because then I would think my eyes' movements would effect the movements of these little fast moving swirling lights, but I do not know. If anyone else experiences these of has a scientific explanation to offer, I would be very happy to hear it because I don't know and haven't heard of this from anyone else.
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