Hi:

Are there any cases of bilateral SUBJECTIVE light perception seeming
much dimmer than what it is w/out affecting color, image, or motion
perception?

I ask because...

I used to have this frightening sleep paralysis disorder when I was
around 10 years of age and when it began, the light entering my eyes
seemed to be MUCH dimmer than what it
actually was.

Once, during that age, I had an attack of paralysis in the night with
my desk lamp on. This is a bright lamp and it uses 100 watts. When the
attack began the light seem to only be 4 watts.

In another case, I paralyzed in the middle of the night. When this
happened, I could no longer see any light from my night light. Totally
black.

The most frightening case I had was when I took a nap in the afternoon,
around 12:00 PM. This is the brightest part of the day. However, when
the paralysis attack began, the sky dimmed to point that it appeared to
be approximately 8:30 PM. I was terrified and I could not break out of
the paralysis.

The paralysis usually occured when I was extremely relaxed [both
mentally and physically]. It seemed more likely to happen when I faced
upward.

What interests me, is that despite the perceived dimness [and sometimes
even absense!] of light, I could still see colors, images, and motion
CLEARLY. It was just so wierd. In reality, the brightness of the
environmental light probaby didn't change at all. It was just a
hallucination.

Thanks,

Radium