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What do you call these visual processes/disturbances?

Asked by longtresses (1334points) July 24th, 2011

1) When you just wake up, possibly stare at the wall or the room, and things in your visual field don’t come together. Sort of waking up into a warped space, like M.C. Escher’s drawings. A few seconds later, your 3D, put-everything-together sense kicks in and you realize that you’re looking at the wall, and the strange, floating rectangular pit is not a pit but the door’s opening.

2) This could happen when you sneeze? You see transparent confetti falling. It’s sparkly transparent and with rainbow colors, wiggling down like worms. A few seconds later everything returns to normal.

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