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  2. Flickering Lights - Wikipedia

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    Flickering Lights (Danish: Blinkende Lygter) is a 2000 Danish black comedy crime film directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, and starring Søren Pilmark, Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Iben Hjejle, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

  3. Scintillating scotoma - Wikipedia

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    In teichopsia, migraine sufferers see patterns in the shape of the walls of a star fort. As the scotoma area expands, some people perceive only a bright flickering area that obstructs normal vision, while others describe seeing various patterns. Some describe seeing one or more shimmering arcs of white or colored flashing lights.

  4. Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia

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    The collected light from the eaten eyes gave "Boitatá" its fiery gaze. Not really a dragon but a giant snake (in the native language, boa or mboi or mboa). In Argentina and Uruguay, the will-o'-the-wisp phenomenon is known as luz mala (evil light) and is one of the most important myths in both countries' folklore. This phenomenon is quite ...

  5. Evil Recap: The Demonic Call Is Coming From Inside the House!

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    The lesson of this week’s Evil: If you want something done, get a diminutive-yet-feisty nun on the case. Case in point: That very unnerving, dark, scary and bat-filled hole that has been sitting ...

  6. Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

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    An animated sequence of simulated appearances of a red flower (of a zonal geranium) and background foliage under photopic, mesopic, and scotopic conditions. The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ⓘ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced / p ər ˈ k ɪ n dʒ i /) [1] is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the eye to shift toward the ...

  7. Twinkling - Wikipedia

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    While light from stars and other astronomical objects is likely to twinkle, [10] twinkling usually does not cause images of planets to flicker appreciably. [11] [12] Stars twinkle because they are so far from Earth that they appear as point sources of light easily disturbed by Earth's atmospheric turbulence, which acts like lenses and prisms ...

  8. What is a blue moon? Here's what one is and what the stars ...

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    The full moon is the culmination of a lunar cycle, and typically, there is one per month, equating to 12 full moons a year. A "blue moon" refers to a second full moon that falls within the same ...

  9. Standoff (film) - Wikipedia

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    Angry that Carter came instead of the girl, the hitman shoots Carter in the knee. As they argue, Bird descends the stairs to protect Carter. The lights flicker, distracting the hitman and Carter rushes him. He stabs the hitman repeatedly, but is shot as the lights go out. Mara runs outside and calls 911 and Bird approaches the hitman, who is dying.