Re: I had a hallucination??


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> Charles wrote:
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>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:39:48 GMT, "Der alte Hexenmeister"
>> <vanquish@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> (snip).
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>>>I had a similar experience while waiting at a red light
>>>on my back to work after lunch. The light turned green,
>>>I rolled forward, the car in front didn't move. I stopped,
>>>looked again at the traffic signal and it was still red.
>>>To this day I am convinced a neuron fired falsely; I
>>>was fully conscious, never drink while working or driving,
>>>but that light was seen as green while it was red.
>>>Fortunately no accident occurred.
>>>
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>> (snip)
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>> consider that it may well have been a defective light.

No other car moved.


> More likely that it was retinal fatigue.
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> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=retinal+fatigue&btnG=Google+Search
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> Richard Perry

Retinal fatigue lasts longer. I wasn't staring at the light, I was looking
around me,
in the mirror, watching other traffic, changing the radio station, doing all
the things
a person does when driving a car and paused at a light.
Impatient for the light to change, certainly.
Staring at it, no. Besides which, the complementary colours of retinal
fatigue
only appear after the white background is shown, not while the light is
still red.
I'll accept that it was hallucination, cause unknown.

Hexenmeister.


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