my weird stim: writing with light streaks

a long time ago my brain built up a stim that it likes to perform when bored: I draw words with my eyes.
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- what this means is, I saccade my eyes in various directions while looking almost directly at a light source, to draw out words, which persist in my field of view for a short moment due to persistence of vision.
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- I don’t exactly know when it started. I remember being enamored by how the human eyes are built & how they behave ever since I was little, so naturally one day I discovered you could use persistence of vision to draw out shapes, and therefore also letters.
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  - soon enough it became a regular thing.
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I tend to do this whenever I’m bored, there’s a clear, point light source, and there’s nothing else to do. (for example, when I’m waiting for a conversation to end.)
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if you ever see my eyes jerking in weird ways IRL, now you know why.
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- most likely, I’m just writing out whatever word my brain has fixated on at the moment with light.
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  - and most likely, that word is whatever you just said.
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- I’ve heard some people say it looks really creepy, and I believe them; unfortunately there’s nothing I can really do about it. my brain cannot stand being bored, and this is its default remedy.
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© riki moe / リキ萌

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