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By closing the eyes and gently pressing them by your palms, you may see some specks of brilliant light. How do you get this sensation when there is no light entering your eyes?

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Since our brain can retain the image last seen for a few seconds these specks of bright light can appear because of retention of that image for a few seconds.

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