XPost: alt.magick, sci.med.vision   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <71r31jlilzzs.nc1p3j2y46gu.dlg@40tude.net>,   
    Mike Duffy  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:24:06 -0230, David Dalton wrote:   
   >   
   > > Also wouldn't it have been a bright tunnel rather than   
   > > the dark tunnel I observed?   
   >   
   > Yes. Sorry, I did not not notice that when I read your message the first   
   > time. I must have read it too fast. The effect I described is a series of   
   > bright images. (Also what I see when I "Do do do lookin' out my back door"   
   > because of the inner & outer door windows AND the light at the same level   
   > as my eyes in the room at the other end of a hallway directly behind me.)   
      
   No, it was a curved cone with the wide end at the sun, and   
   with the wide end about 1/4 the diameter of the sun, and   
   it was dark gray, not bright, and it wasn't a series of   
   images, it is just the curving out of plane that   
   reminds me of the curving when you peek inside two   
   mirrors facing one another.   
      
   > >> And what about the giant butterfly wings of space   
   > >> that folded in on me (like a giant metal vegetable   
   > >> steamer or umbrella ribs in the sky) just after the   
   > >> sun stare and just before I blacked out?   
   >   
   > Hmmm. When you say "blacked out", do you mean that you lost consciousness   
   > or lost your sense of vision?   
      
   When I said blacked out I meant I lost consciousness   
   briefly and fell into the water, coming to in   
   the upward-facing-dog pose of the yoga sun   
   salutation, and having inhaled so that I was   
   floating and not in danger of drowning.   At   
   no time did I lose my sense of vision.   
      
   > I saw red on two occaisions, and when my vision returned it was tunnel   
   > vision (in the "classic" sense) after the phosphenes stopped streaming   
   > inwards.   
      
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   "But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night   
   You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
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