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Originally posted by lordjeebus
I see things in my peripheral vision sometimes too. Here's my theory.
Your brain gets a lot more visual information from the center then from the edges of your field of vision. In order to piece together what is going on, your vision-processing units in your brain seek to recognize patterns, and those patterns are recognized as objects. Along the edges, where there's less information, there's a higher chance of misinterpreting random data in a small area as a moving unit, and hence, an object.
People have specific processing areas for recognizing motion of biological origin based on very little information so it could be those that are being triggered. For instance, if someone puts a few LEDs on their body and limbs in the dark it is obvious to an observer that they are walking/jumping/whatever, despite the low amount of incoming data, because the processing areas are so sensitive.
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That's a really good theory. Good job =)