When you close your eyes...,

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I see a dark red background with an infinite number of yellow specks. Electric blue abstract images are known to float by or morph and change to scenery or abstract charactitures.
Mostly though, especially now that I am not under the weight of any great amount of environmental violence, there is only the dark red background and an infinite number of yellow specks-a welcoming non busyness to my ongoing peace.

I don't really see much at all.

It depends. Often I see a dark tunnel (and if I keep my eyes closed it will soon feel like I'm going through it, winding around and up etc, sometimes seeing random images) It helps me sleep.

I see irregular circular green blobs while moving through a dark tunnel, often against a background of capillary veins that stains the tunnel a bit red. (As my mind goes through the tunnel one blob gives way to the next, so it looks like the first blob enlarges and leaves my field of vision, causing the next blob to start to do the same.)

When I was younger I used to just see darkness until I concentrated, and then I would see what looked like dark red paper with serif newpaper-looking print on it (without headlines or pictures). If I concentrated further the paper would spin or turn into another one or disappear, and I could never read the words.

I fall asleep. Scant hours later, I usually see the alarm clock...

I see a bunch of shapes and patterns jumping around, but that's about it.

Nothin' but I hear myself think a lot.

If I'm not thinking of something, then I tend to see either spinning circles of color or something that could more closely be defined as a kaleidoscopic effect of shifting colors that I can occasionally tweak and turn around if I think about it. But I like seeing what my brain comes up with randomly; so I don't do that often.

I have never told anyone about this. When I close my eyes at night I can see images..like a dvd movie in skip chapter mode. I try to focus so that I can understand. Some things that I see have come true... but for the most part I can not focus on one image long enough to understand it. I guess I just want to know if others have had this happen to them. I want to know if I should be trying to understand it or just going with the flow like a little bed time skit.

Every time I close my eyes I see pictures and different types of visuals. I always thought it was normal and everyone had that till a few years ago. I'm not quite sure why it happens but I find meditation brings it out so much more. A lot of people say it has something to do with having a good third eye

I see orange from the light filtering through my eyelids. Any after images of the bright lights here. I feel my eyes throbbing with pain from too much looking ay screen. But not much else.

I don't close my eyes unless I'm sleeping or in savasana (relaxation after yoga). When I did close them now to write this post I couldn't think of anything except trying to keep my eyes closed. I certainly didn't see anything interesting.

When I'm in savasana I see things that are happening in my life or in the world and I trace them back or follow them forward to see where they're coming from or where they are going. It's very helpful. It's a bit like lucid dreaming I guess but I can't do that, or at least I never have.

This is just a hypothesis; perhaps we all see (more or less) the same thing when we close our eyes. But we all have our own, individual interpretation of what we perceive behind our closed eyelids... We each focus on different details of the experience, and each interprets the question itself in a personal way.

There's very likely some truth to that. Retinal fatigue probably also plays an important role, so that it will vary depending on what you've just been seeing.

The thing I've noticed is that the main part of my field of vision will contain one kind of ... whatever, while my peripheral vision will be totally different, and I wonder if this is related to the way those visual regions are processed differently in the brain.

I see the mental equivalent of white noise. A blur of random dots of light, at first. If I keep them closed for a while, they start to swirl and change colors. If I rub my eyes, sometimes I can make extremely complex patterns form I find it quite relaxing, really.

Senses are a weird topic for me.

What I see literally? Colours that form the most interesting geometrical forms and shapes that resemble all kinds of things, even such as animals. When I concentrate on what I see, the shapes and patterns shift constantly and I see lots of different things there. Numbers, real stuff like chess pieces...

I can visualise anything with my eyes open. However, visualising with my eyes closed is problematic because of the constant movement of the shapes I'm forced to see I usually don't close my eyes when I go to bed, because it's more dark with my eyes open - but when I manage to relax and concentrate, then I happen to see full blown photographic pictures. With real colours, shades and just as if it were me looking at a static scenery.
The photographic pictures I see are in my head, definitely, yet I 'see' them as if I were an observe standing in that scenery. It's like my vision fades, because when I abruptly open my eyes, the photograph lingers for a moment, I see nothing else of my real surroundings for the smallest moment and then normal vision returns. Having no idea, I imagine that's how blindness can be - loss of vision, not blackness, but just nothing.

I hate closing my eyes, it's scary. Funny thing is, when I was small, I'd resist to open my eyes. I ran around with my eyes closed, yet I didn't bump into anything and knew were to turn and stop. I was extremely overwhelmed by sensory input back then, I'd feel things without touching because of the temperature they gave off.

Shutting one of my senses today freaks me out. I need a certain amount of input to keep my senses working normally, otherwise they start firing freak signals on their own.