Re: I had a hallucination??


"John Popelish" <jpopelish@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Der alte Hexenmeister wrote:
>> "RP" <no_mail_no_spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> 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.
>
> I have experienced a few momentary hallucinations related to driving.
>
> In one case, I had been waiting for a long time to make a left turn from a
> side street, while a long stream of traffic inched past. Suddenly, I
> clearly saw a a right turn signal flash on the approaching pickup truck,
> coming from my left. I pulled out expecting him to turn to his right,
> leaving me an opening. And we impacted. He had no turn signal on.
>
> Impatience is dangerous.
>
> Another time, I was slightly exceeding the speed limit and wondered if any
> police were nearby. As I looked in the rear view mirror, I saw one blue
> flash. I have an active conscience.
>
> And once, I was driving down a strange road, looking for a stop sign I was
> told about, and I saw a momentary flash of a red octagon along the right
> side of the road, where there were only bushes, as if my mind was saying,
> "Look for something like this."



Impatience is a state of mind. Look before you leap, but having
looked and decided to leap, he who hesitates is lost.


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