pretty sure they are!! it’s just a bunch of dim white noise basically and our brains try and find line segments, curves, patterns, and shapes in it because that’s what visual cortices do! the placement/varying density of your photoreceptors also has an impact on how much guesswork your brain has learned to make in different regions. so its kinda more like the photons make your brain dance:)

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this is such a good visual representation of that experience, too :0

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