How did you connect the objects you see as glowing with UV light specifically? Couldn’t the glow be a hallucination or a perceptual rewiring like the persistent “breathing wallpaper” LSD users can start seeing, or some different physical property entirely? Can you see UV light emitted by machines that should be invisible like a person in the newscientist link claims he could after he got an artificial lens?
On leaving hospital, I decided I deserved a pint of bitter. Standing at the bar of my local pub, I noticed that their device for detecting counterfeit banknotes was emitting very bright bluish light. I mentioned this to the barman, who looked at me with a very quizzical expression but made no comment. I then realised that he couldn’t see the light: it was visible through my right eye alone.
Mostly because I first noticed the effect with objects I knew reflect a lot of UV light, like flowers, which gave me the idea, and then I did a little experiment and sure enough stuff that should reflect a lot of UV light glowed more than stuff that doesn’t.
As I say, I may be wrong to say I see UV light, and instead what’s happening is I see something that correlates with UV light. I didn’t have any devices that emit UV light only to test with. Just hasn’t been that important to me to test, since this is just a random thing of little consequence other than it’s a small example of a perceptual “power” I got from meditation, and if I’m wrong about the UV then it’s something else going on causing me to notice some other quality of light I was ignoring before.
How did you connect the objects you see as glowing with UV light specifically? Couldn’t the glow be a hallucination or a perceptual rewiring like the persistent “breathing wallpaper” LSD users can start seeing, or some different physical property entirely? Can you see UV light emitted by machines that should be invisible like a person in the newscientist link claims he could after he got an artificial lens?
Mostly because I first noticed the effect with objects I knew reflect a lot of UV light, like flowers, which gave me the idea, and then I did a little experiment and sure enough stuff that should reflect a lot of UV light glowed more than stuff that doesn’t.
As I say, I may be wrong to say I see UV light, and instead what’s happening is I see something that correlates with UV light. I didn’t have any devices that emit UV light only to test with. Just hasn’t been that important to me to test, since this is just a random thing of little consequence other than it’s a small example of a perceptual “power” I got from meditation, and if I’m wrong about the UV then it’s something else going on causing me to notice some other quality of light I was ignoring before.