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Re:Ask HN: Teach me something new by schoen on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:51PM (#31218249)
Is the scotoma similar to the effects that you get by applying pressure to your eyeball?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimulati...

Or is it quite different?

Re:Ask HN: Teach me something new by mikelevins on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:58PM (#31221052)
Pretty different. I used to like to induce pressure phosphenes. I found that a hazard of it was that more pressure produced more spectacular light shows, but that direction led to sore eyes.