As a Kid, did you see floating objects in the dark ?

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I used to, and still can to some degree; just get "lost" in all the different colours. Sometimes I would "paint a picture" in my head reltaing to the colours, such as some would be desert dots, and others white fairies. I also used to imagine a tiger on my wall, and thought it was real. I was very scared. Now, If I am bored, I can still focus on dots and colours in the air. It's fun, but a bit silly. And a waste of time

I'm so freakin' relieved I found this thread!!

I had the same thing as a child. I'd lie in bed and my room would be dark, and I'd see what would be like dark inkblots floating around, changing shape, moving closer or farther away from me. It was kinda spooky and fun in the same respect. I don't see those anymore. In fact, I haven't seen it since I was a child. All this time I was wondering what this was and why I was seeing it. I'm so glad you guys cleared this up for me!

I think I did.

I used to see little floaty circles when I was a kid, that would switch from a bullseye pattern to little dots in a circle to a dotted line. It was weird. It used to keep me awake. It doesn't happen any more unless I concentrate and then I can make them happen, either in the dark or with my eyes closed.

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hello, i have been looking 4 years for someone that has experinced these thing as when me and my two sisters where children aged ,3,4,6.
we used to share a room, and sometimes we would wake up late all together, and we would see these weard shapes of lights they were in all different shapes and colours, there were not very bright, but u could see them very clearly. we could put our hands throught them and sometime they would move in and around our fingers and hands and we would try to eat them but not doing so. also we would see the same one and point them out and tell eachother what colour the other person was pointing to, to prove that we where seeing the same thing. 4 years i have been looking 4 something that mentions them as we have seemed to have been the only ones.
also when we saw them we would feel this over wellming joy ! but as we got older we stoped seeing them ?
my eyes sight is amazing better then anyone i have ever met, my younger sister can see very well and my older has to wear glasses.
when i got moved out of the room to have a room for my self, i didnot have the same exprineces as i hated beeing on my own.
and had some very bad experinces of not feeling alone but with bad companie like something dark was watching me.
trying to go to sleep sometime so scared i would not be able to move and i would sweat my self to panic and pass out into sleep, where i would be in a awake but not really, experince. and hear an defferning drilling sound throught my hole body. and would see shaddows moving all around me. witch made me terrifide for along time to go to sleep. i would try to sneak into someones room to feel more protected, these things i have never told anyone because of what they would think or say,
these thing stayed with me till my early teens and once into my 20's where i once trying to sleep and felt a bad feeling was looming over or watching me, and at on point could even hear what i was thinking. i had fullen asleep and jumped out of it straight away and swang out in the dark and shouted f**k off leave me alone, and from that point have never felt like this again.
my sisters never experinced anything like this it was only me.

ps this is the only other thing that i have found on the sobject,


Children seem to react differently to their alleged abduction experiences than adult claimants.[10] Many alleged adult experiencers report doubting their sanity or the veracity of what they believed happened to them.[10] Children, by contrast, never seem to doubt that their experiences happened to them.[10] For an adult, an abduction experience can challenge much of what they believe about the world.[10] Children however, by virtue of being in a formative stage of development, more readily assimilate the experience into their developing worldview.[10]

Many repeat-abductees report that, as children from the ages of 2-6, they would be visited by balls of light that would enter their room at night.[11] These balls would seem to play games with children and fly around the room.[11] Some have interpreted them as being a way for the alleged abductees to develop their psychic abilities the way a physical ball helps develop coordination and athletic abilities.[11] As such these intangible orbs have been dubbed "psychic toys." Although these phantasms are alleged to have appeared regularly, no corroborating sightings from members of the abductees' families or others that may have been expected to see them have been reported

I didn't see shiny objects, I saw dark, amorphous blobs. I once saw a dark blob in the upper corner of the room which grew in size then floated across the ceiling, settled over my body and then sort of 'melted' over me. I could feel a sense of pressure when that happened. Scared the crap out of me.

What I wonder about now is this: what the heck are those tiny specks of light you see flitting about in and out of your field of vision against a light backdrop like the sky or a wall that's light. You don't see them against a dark backdrop. I know it's probably something directly on my eyeball, but what?

I often see little golden orbs shoot past me. Some are small, some are bigger but they're always fast. I often see dark, black orbs too, behaving the same way

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No, myodesopsia is physical changes in the vitreous humour and little deposits (which my optician recently told me are bits left over from the time of foetal development which were trapped and always there but as you age, your vitreous humour liquifies and they move around and become visible):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

What the others are describing is what they perceive they see in the atmosphere around them, which could be what Chronos described, or something else.

I have had this and still do, I can see all sorts of shapes and moving things at night, (I also have floaters/myodesopsia as a separate issue) and during the day I can see what seems like the microscopic particles of the air. At night the shapes do appear to be subtly lit at times with almost a purple or bluey glow. They not only move but they morph into other shapes too. I have felt it's almost like neurons firing at times because although I see it externally it seems to come from within somehow. It's there whether my eyes are open or closed.

I've had hypnagogic hallucinations on occasion; is that what you're talking about? There have never been floating objects, though; they've always been focused on my physical body and surroundings, with distorted perceptions rather than new objects appearing. The most common one seems to be one of having "two bodies"--I can feel my physical body, but I can also move the mental version of it, so it's like I have two sets of arms, or even on occasion I can float up, out-of-body-style, except that naturally I'm still in my body as well. It's probably a result of the border between waking and sleep, still getting trickles of data from my actual body while I'm going into a dream state and creating the accompanying representation of my body that I create when I'm dreaming. Occasionally, when I wake up I can't move yet; it's as though I'm very heavy and I simply can't think of how to move things, so my limbs lie on the bed as though I'm made of lead. I've identified this as a form of sleep paralysis, though it does not seem particularly distressing to me. Thankfully I have never had the illusion that someone is holding me down or sitting on me. That sounds very distressing. It's always just a feeling of heaviness. Maybe what I experience is a rather mild form of sleep paralysis.

I wonder how many other people have experiences like this. It can't be unusual. Maybe people just kind of shrug it off and go about their day.

I am another who ditto's the reply that I am relieved to read this post.

I definitely still get the ink blobs, the colors have settled.

Anyone get "visual snow"? The closest I can describe it is like static on a t.v. screen - it makes it very uncomfortable to drive. I've never been without it and it is most pronounced against a light surface.

I am also synesthetic - I am not sure "how" it would be so, but could it be related?

I do, but thankfully not all the time. No synaesthesia though.

I used to be more proficient at lucid dreaming but I got lazy about it and now my dreams are more muddled and random. I read your blog page and I can relate to that feeling and fear. Nothing scares me more than not having any control over any aspect of my life and people making all my decisions for me, especially if they're decisions that would make me unhappy.

I've had the out of body dreams too. It does happen in twilight sleep state but all the elements have to be perfect for it to happen. I usually have an accompanying feeling of dread when it happens though so I don't stay out of body for long. One thing I noticed in that state is that everything changes direction. The last time this happened to me, I fell asleep on the couch which is flush against the north wall and my head was pointed west. But when I had the out of body dream, I distinctly remember the couch being against the south wall and my head was pointed east.

Same story ^^. I was able to "summon" the lights and loops and crap. I can't do it anymore. The only time that I would see things when my eyes were open was when I would shut my eyes tightly and then open them again. When I did this, I could see these grey circles that would move around in my vision. They would move by themselves and would frequently move out of my vision. The only way I could control them was by sharply moving my eyes toward where I want them to go. If they left me vision, then I couldn't bring them back. I'm still not entirely sure that they were all in my head... maybe they were piles of bacteria or dust sliding around on my eye? I'll probably never know.

I was always fascinated by the patterns when I close my eyes. You see them when you get an EEG too and they flash that strobe light at you. If you press your fingers into the inner corners of your eyes, you see those patterns and lights. Wow, the things a bored, hairless ape will do to entertain themselves when they're bored.

I still notice this, although it is not nearly as intense as when I was younger. nowadays, it takes on a multicolored static-like appearance rather than shapes... I miss the shapes and other abstracts. I used to look forward to it every night.