Is there a reason why I see a bunch of floating colors when I'm in a dark room? It's not enough to distort what I see, but it's sort of like a bunch of static in a picture. It's hard to describe but I was wondering if other people here see the same thing.

It happens to everyone during sensory deprivation. When your senses are receiving very little or no input, your brain makes things up to fill in the gaps, so to say. It happens with hearing too, if you put yourself into a situation where there are no sounds to hear, you will star to hear stuff anyways, for the same reason.

I go caving as a hobby, and we always turn our lights off in caves where there is no natural light at all- no matter how long you wait, your eyes will never adjust enough to see. You can waive your hand in front of your face and not see it. After only a few minutes, you start to think you can see light, but it's just your brain making stuff up.

While working as a backcountry Forest Ranger this summer, it happened to me with sound a few times- there were times when 3, 4, or even 5 days would go by and I wouldn't see a single other person in the woods. A couple of times, I could've sworn that I heard a group of hikers chatting as they were coming down the trail, but they never came- I'm pretty sure that my brain was inventing the sound of humans talking, a sound that I was normally quite used to hearing but had gone without for an extended period of time. Either that, or I'm schizophrenic.

Stars of the Lid is named for this phenomenon. It is actually quite normal.

You're officially a crazy mountain man! Maybe you weren't really in the woods!

Wouldn't you typically have like a radio to listen to/communicate with other people when you are away for that long?

yea i see the same thing. as well as those floaties.

Yeah, I had a radio, but it was for official stuff only. I usually only used to to sign in in the morning and sign out in the afternoon.

This.