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Is the scotoma similar to the effects that you get by applying pressure to your eyeball?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimulati...

Or is it quite different?



Pretty different. I used to like to induce pressure phosphenes. I found that a hazard of it was that more pressure produced more spectacular light shows, but that direction led to sore eyes.




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