I agree. These all feel like very real sensory information. This is in contrast to being in sleep paralysis and creating extra sensory information or in very vivid dreams, since in both of these cases I realize afterwards “Oh, those weren’t real” as in, I didn’t actually receive that sensory information.
Also, I made a mistake in my initial post, my correction is separating different things that might be confused with “visual snow” such as:
1. Visual Snow—Like a million very tiny dots. Very much like static/white noise in the wiki. More visible in low light conditions or when you’re tired. I saw it for the first time this (8/12) morning in low-light conditions.
2. Patterned lines (?) - Like the geometric/kaleidoscopic shape in this picture. Doesn’t have to be that consistent or patterned but is better described by “lines” than either of the other two. This is what I meant by “jumpy spiderwebs made out of light” and what I thought visual snow was.
3. Blue-sky Sprites—The picture is a nice animation (can be seen without looking at the blue sky but apparently it’s more prominent in that case). Dots and wisps the size of a mm or a little bigger. Maybe 5-100 at a time vs the million in “visual snow”. Resembles afterimages and the “black stars” when feeling faint.
4. (Also very possible there’s more that I’ve missed)
I agree. These all feel like very real sensory information. This is in contrast to being in sleep paralysis and creating extra sensory information or in very vivid dreams, since in both of these cases I realize afterwards “Oh, those weren’t real” as in, I didn’t actually receive that sensory information.
Also, I made a mistake in my initial post, my correction is separating different things that might be confused with “visual snow” such as:
Did you see visual snow as in #1? And the others?
Atleast 1 and I guess 3 too but no 2