Related, my colleague during undergrad was convinced biophotons (light produced by our own cells - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophoton ) had a legitimate communication function. I still think about that time to time!
Take this with a grain of salt, but I dated a woman whose face (particularly the eyes) seemed to glow during sex in a dark room. I brought it up with her several times and she dismissed it as if I was making it up. It’s possible that the light foundation and makeup (she wore almost none) was reflecting light in some way, but I seriously doubt it.
Edit: turns out it is a real phenomenon in the literature
I’ll take it with a kilogram of salt lol. Unless you were in a literal zero photon environment, fluorescence and hallucination are more believable explanations lol.
Agreed, but here’s the thing: it’s never happened before with any of my other partners. Only her, and the room was pitch black. And yes, I was sober. She glowed in the dark. I can’t explain it. The room had blackout curtains. There was no visible light which is why it still haunts me.
"After injecting the particles throughout the striatum, the researchers were able to map the distribution of light from an optical fiber implanted nearby."
Oh, it is an intrusive technology. They have to drill holes in the brain. The "MRI" and "light" in the headline hinted otherwise.
So the light they're detecting is light that they injected into the brain?
I used to have a coworker who said there were "Tubes of light" in your brain that caused consciousness or something. It was one of their weirder beliefs. I told them it sounded like the premise for a bad sci-fi.
