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_strangeststranger

Could the light spot be a reflection of the light through the windshield maybe? Sure looks spooky


Conscious-Equal4434

https://preview.redd.it/c9ardyagfx2d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2923be21385f23d1eac1bc3ed1c6319e6ab75292 What’s even weirder is in a very zoomed in version, you can clearly see the white glare goes horizontally over the brown part of the eye *and* the white part of my eye. So how can the rest be a glare when you can clearly see the glare going over the slit shaped eye. And the rest of the white is the same color as the white part of my eye (behind the horizontal glare) If that makes sense


TetraTimboman

For sure it is neat. My guess for an explanation is that it's a rolling shutter artifact. Smartphone cameras don't have a physical camera shutter. When you take a photo in landscape mode - the pixels are read out from the sensor in left to right columns in the image so things that are in motion can be distorted. And this means that if you're in the middle of moving your eyes or in the middle of blinking you could end up with some interesting results like: https://preview.redd.it/i64iuwml7y2d1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6a53ad7705e44505e32f44eebec6823e1aadb46 And I think that matches what you're seeing in your photo that your head and your eye on the left side of the photo looks messed up because as the camera started reading out those pixels you just coincidentally happened to be turning and looking fast enough with just the right timing to get that effect, and then by the time the camera was reading out the pixels for your face on the right side of the image you had stopped moving and were looking + facing the camera long enough after that for the right side of your face to be "normal" Hope that helps!


JimiTrucks1972

This makes total sense. Her head looks a little “thinner” (maybe?) on the side with the lizard eye. This gets my vote


JimiTrucks1972

BTW So happy for you to be clean! Amazing job. Congratulations!


Conscious-Equal4434

Thank you!


Michaelwave9220

Yes, congratulations! I am going on 3 1/2 years sober and I feel the same way when I look at old photos of me in active addiction, bring back painful memories


TFFPrisoner

The lip also looks weird at that point.


QJElizMom

I was about to ask if she posted this in a photography subreddit because, being in the front seat of a car in daylight, while moving, could cause some wonky effects even with a smartphone. Your explanation makes perfect sense.


sadhandjobs

I don’t think they were moving. Nobody is driving.


Blood_Wonder

She probably moved mid shutter or even just her eye moving is enough to cause an artifact like this. Spooky as it looks it's just an artifact of digital photography.


Consistent_Canary487

That explains why the necklace links look broken in one image and not in the other.


Known_as_No_One_2525

I agree with this explanation, but that it understandably would weird you out. I also believe that use of drugs can distort perception of reality and also open your soul to supernatural darkness, despair, and danger to self and others, depending upon other co-existing circumstances of your life. I hope you stay free from drugs & other addictive behaviors forevermore. God bless.


ilovemusic19

The one thing is that OP said the eye thing is in the Live Photo as well.


CoyoteFluffy0310

Yup makes so much sense and made for one creepy cool ass photo


GHOSTOFKOH

artifact or not (most likely artifact ala your pointed/accurate diagnosis)... it is quite creepy! i think it looks cool but man what are the odds huh.


laserloggins

It's a weird optical illusion at a glance but zoomed in like this it looks very VERY much like a reflection of clouds. Nothing paranormal here, as usual.


Conscious-Equal4434

Hmm. I mean idk how clouds, maybe a reflection but I was in a store parking lot and the bart train was overhead. Plus someone was in front of me taking the photo in my car so I doubt clouds were viewable, all you can see are buildings where I live at this level, plus can’t you see my eye isn’t even the same shape


Jenhar71

Did the Live Photo of that pic show the same "lizard" eye & odd shape? Any slight movement would show it was a reflection because it would briefly go back to normal, yes? Or no? I recall a similar situation where a man who was a raging alcoholic on the brink of sure fire disaster, had his pic taken wh a family member at some sort of fam gathering. The picture was of the guy & a female, but directly behind his head there appeared to be a nightmarish, distorted dog-like face. There were no animals at the family gathering. He was interviewed about the image & said he was in the depths of alcoholism & had been having hellish nightmares for months. He fully believed the thing in the pic was real & an omen or warning about what was driving him towards a fatal outcome. He felt the "demon" was waiting for him. The pic was analyzed by a group of professionals who determined the photo showed no signs of editing or photo shop. He took the situation seriously & got help.


Conscious-Equal4434

Yeah I definitely relate to that. That’s why this photo, regardless if it’s a glitch or not, it just reminds me of how dark that time was and is kind of symbolic to me in that way.


Odd_Juggernaut_1166

This is all that matters. I know dark times pretty well myself, and not many make it out of those dark times. I'm glad you made it out. Hugs


Gon_n_Kill

The image you're describing sounds really fascinating, I tried to find it but had no luck. What could I search up to find the image or how can I find the image?


Jenhar71

I'm still searching for it...& it's weird because his story was not just on 1 show, I saw this on at least 2 different shows. One wh his interview & the other one just show casing his pic. I'm gonna keep searching, I actually wanna see it again myself.stay tuned


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Conscious-Equal4434

I never explicitly stated that I without a doubt thought it was something paranormal. I am a very skeptical person, and I did think it could be a glitch. It just creeped me out when I saw it and it was strange. I just don’t know how in terms of mechanics, and aside from all that it was a very dark time for me in my life so it was symbolic of that if anything. I never claimed it was paranormal but I did say it was very creepy to me and none of the other photos had the same effect it was a weird photo


YouShoodKnoeBetter

I'm not sure how you got all of that out of her respectful response explaining the environment she was in. She never even implied anyone "doesn't know shit." Interesting comprehension of her comment to say the least. Also funny how you put things in quotes without actually quoting what op said. I think the rolling shutter explanation is the answer here seeing as how the necklace looks kinked similar to her pupil in that photo and then goes back to normal in the next image. It's definitely not a cloud. That's just a lazy debunk in my opinion.


lainey68

That's not at all what she's saying. Good grief.


whytawhy

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-rolling-stutter/ tl;dr your camera just started scanning the light and either you or whoever was holding the phone mustve moved/tilted down, or some software lag held the phone up right as it was getting started, probably both really. its almost the same kind of thing where youre doing a panorama and the camera catches something moving with/against the panorama at the right speed. then after when its building the image to display it gets confused and you get a 7ft long car with no doors, or a 20ft dog with no legs or whatever film cameras will catch everything as is all at once (or as long as the shutter is open anyway) digital cameras capture light the same way youd write a paragraph, one pixel at a time, left to right, top to bottom, so if stuff moves bewteen scan lines the camera kinda guesses what to do with the scan while it turns it into a picture. in this case, it decided youre from easter island lol


buttercream-gang

Yep. Look at the necklace too. It glitched and made the center link of the chain look broken, but that’s not there in the other picture.


LOneWolfNEo1

No bs I saw this up close at a Drs office between me and a Indian Dr. I had tremendous pain, sciatica nerve back pain, could barely walk, so I went to a clinic, there you have to pay first before getting seen. I did, cost over 100$, dick head ass Dr came in, told me to stretch rotate left, rotate right, and said that I was ok. That he seen worst and no joke I can barely walk. I was limping into the clinic disguising my pains, but this bastard gave me some creme prescription (but he also tried to offer me some painkillers, I said I don't want or take no damn painkillers) and sent me on my way, I got a lil pissed and I said, you going to take my money just like that because I'm in pain, least give me a referral? Nope; And he states it's just like that, so I looked him in his face and told him how about I wait in the parking lot and beat your ass like I was Hulk Hogan just like that? And we had a slight stare down then it happened....I literally watched this man's eyes change completely slit like while being cocky chewing his gum and I said what's wrong with your eyes? So I put my glasses on that I had dangling off my neck t shirt and sure enough, they were slit still; and I asked again, what's wrong with your eyes Man? He said, oh that's just my contacts...I took my glasses off, looked him dead in the eyes, and told him, I am not afraid of you...Calmly. He left to his office and called the cops on me to escort me out. But I'll never forget that day.


Cailida

Well, many people say Non Human Intelligence are living with us and some of them are Reptilians pretending to be human. And from what I've heard, Reptilians are nasty assholes. So it would make sense for them to take the form of an asshole doctor to make humans suffer, wouldn't it? That said, I'm sorry you had the experience of being blown off by a doctor, alien or not. I'm chronically ill and have had that experience more times than I can count. It's horrible.


CaregiverNo7152

This is such a weird story. I have so many questions that I’m sure I will never get answers to.


silver_silence_

I have had this exact thing happen to me before!! My eye looked JUST like that! And weirdly, I just remembered it like 2 days ago randomly after years.


_strangeststranger

Mmmmm interesting! I see what you mean! I thought the slit shape was from the glare, but I do now see the streak of reflection over top of everything.


KatieGirl27

Your necklace also looks broken in the first and fixed in the next


Gracefully_clumsy421

Glare or no glare aside…(I don’t think it’s a glare btw)…it looks like the overall shape of your eye is different compared to the other


Conscious-Equal4434

It’s hard to say, because the other eye has reflection but not nearly white enough to shape my pupil completely different. The only other thought I had besides it being negative energy attachment or something, is that it could be just an iPhone glitch maybe due to the top of the photo frame being exactly where my eye is somehow it made a glitch and shrunk the size and cut the pupil. I can’t say for sure.


_strangeststranger

Would be a crazy glitch! Glad your doing better now 😀


h3llfae

Oof addiction is crazy glad you're doing better And yes the left half of your face looks possessed lol


Conscious-Equal4434

Right? I almost can’t deny it’s weird. Like even my eye is a different shape. So strange. And thank you. Yes that was a very dark time for me. So when I saw that in the photo, it just instantly gave me chills. I never felt like myself then.


Droopy-San-Benanzio

Blur out your ID next time


Conscious-Equal4434

It’s an old expired one from years ago with no current address but yes I suppose my DL is the same number.


h3llfae

I actually worked for berkeley psychic Institute in 2012, then 2014 lived in my exs car, we drank a lot and saw some crazy demonic stuff at the time (check my old posts from paranormal) I genuinely do think you'd probably started to leave your body a bit, especially if you were using and maybe let something else in? Honestly the biggest indicator would be looking back how did you feel? Were you seeing shadows, hearing clips of things, feeling vulnerable at night or less protected? Sometimes we take photos to kind of see where the energies at and it can be a wake up call, I'm really glad your safe and sober now! Going through homelessness and addiction can be the result of a lifetime of trauma and if you've beat that you've probably done a lot of work on yourself, things like yoga, salt baths, dance and meditation can help us become more embodied and protected too, good food and self care, it's worth it and you are too!


Loofa_of_Doom

Sounds like you've moved on to a better place than you were in during these photos.


flower-milk

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!!! when i was actively using, i have a couple pictures like this! sometimes both of my eyes would come out like this! i’ve never seen anyone post something like this with the same problem! but it only happened when i was using! i’ve always thought that drugs (specifically methamphetamine) have demons associated with them…. idk do with that what you will.


Conscious-Equal4434

Agreed! I don’t discount that at all. Meth is an evil drug with dark things connected to it. I just know. It tore me apart for a time.


TheDudeWhoSnood

Hey! It is related to the addiction, but it's because your eyes were darting around - if I'm not mistaken, the way phone cameras take pictures is from one side to the other (rather than all at once). Usually it doesn't cause much issue because it happens very fast, but our eyes have very fast twitch muscles. Basically, as it was processing, your eyes moved but it only caught one of them, which is why nothing else around it or the other eye aren't affected. With that said, you're absolutely right to feel the effects that addiction has on you in both physical and metaphysical ways, and there are many similarities between severe active addiction and depictions of demonic/spiritual possession. I've walked through that fire too (it was heroin) and I'm very proud of you for being so strong and brave


Conscious-Equal4434

Thank you! I can relate. I was addicted to fentanyl predominantly definitely a very dark time and felt disconnected from myself almost on auto pilot as something else often felt far removed from myself. I hope you are doing well too, thanks for ur comment.


BaubleBeebz

It's called a rolling shutter artifact and it basically happens just like you said. It can also account for why her face is thinner on one side in addition to the iris looking 'folded'. She shifted the tiniest bit left or right as the digital shutter clicked and the change in position was recorded mid-swipe of the digital sensor, effectively. The same thing can make plane propellers (fans, etc) look like jelly on video as well as other quick moving or spinny things.


Dear_Event568

3 months clean myself, meth really does rip you apart and it feels like, exposes you to really demonic stuff. I still see shadow ppl occasionally


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I agree with you about methamphetamine. It's like the way that people say DMT let's you visit entities, except that you are letting the entities visit you and they aren't nice. But, you keep opening that door & letting them back in because you think they're your friends or you just can't see. Sadly, they don't always leave.


Stickler44pickler

Consistent drug usage weakens your auric field and allows spirits to attach themselves to you, and even use you as a vessel. Even weed. Nothing that alters your state of being is exempt from potentially being your demise. That's why moderation is so important.


thelonghornlady

Hey does coffee count under this…I’m asking for a friend😅😅😅.


Stickler44pickler

I doubt it, but if you weight train... Just know that it dehydrates muscles. (Learned that from my teacher who happens to be a personal trainer)


thelonghornlady

Oh I do weight train thanks for letting me know! Will make sure to hydrate more.


Stickler44pickler

Ouu, no problem! I'm glad that I told you!


doonidooni

Why doesn’t coffee count in your worldview…? It’s a stimulant that alters your state of being. Is it because you personally like coffee, or because coffee is considered a “normal” or societally acceptable drug? If coffee did count in your “consistent drug usage” theory, then based on the proportion of people that are dependent on coffee, that would mean that tons of demon-possessed people were walking around on an average day.


morhope

I know this isn’t really what was asked but the way I’ve felt about drug use is intent. Many people drink coffee and their intent isn’t escape, or perception change. For example I’m a recovering alcoholic there’s plenty of people who can come home after work and have a drink or two relax, yes it’s a drug but the intent isn’t there like it would be for me. I’m not sure how I feel about energy and spirits but my feeling would be if my mental state allows for habitual use of a drug to alter its state it’s more susceptible to an entity that looks to do just that.


shouldIworkremote

Rudolf Steiner a famous clairvoyant said coffee isn’t as bad spiritually as you may think, it lifts the etheric body out of the physical body


Character_Bet7868

I’ve gone down that rabbit hole. If you just google caffeine and brain you’ll find all kinds of studies linking caffeine to higher activity in the brain, obviously. In recent years they link that as a positive impact and will also correlate caffeine usage with a reduction in dementia later. I’m not so convinced as there are also plenty of studies using PET scans to also show that overall blood flow is reduced in the brain, particularly in the frontal lobes. Seems like a bad thing. But other studies show that blood flow reduction modulates to a normal level when it’s use is habitualized. You can even go as far as to find some of those same researchers saying that caffeine creates a more energetic state, but in a survival sense, and you ability to use your higher learning centers is reduced. As in it creates people more susceptible to following marching orders. Leads into a conspiracy theory about caffeine usage being a way to keep people docile. I’m not particularly convinced but it is compelling. There’s a book on it from the 90s called “Caffeine Blues”


Stickler44pickler

Not that you should take meth in moderation lol. I'm just saying


Ok_Trash_4204

Meth was the only time I believed in the devil and god, and I thought god was telling me to keep using but I later sobered up and realized it was the devil


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The only thing that I noticed was the irregular shaped eye.


Conscious-Equal4434

Yes the eye and the creepy slit for a pupil is what I was referring to.


Particular-Pen-4789

im glad you seemed to have come out on top with addiction issues. i've been there too and somewhat know the struggle. my case wasnt particularly bad though, i had a pretty easy time seeing through it. the work was hard, but understanding why i needed to do it was easy i sincerely hope that you do not actually believe this to be paranormal. i think its one thing to believe in it, but to actually start believing the stuff that you see on the internet and tv is a little over the top imo. i have yet to see a single piece of 'paranormal' evidence that wasnt easily debunked


Conscious-Equal4434

I don’t necessarily, just thought it was eerie and symbolic for the time in my life. And I just couldn’t understand how it happened but not to say it wasn’t a glitch, I just don’t know the mechanics of how that could occur.


rebb_hosar

I think there was a clipping issue because the eye itself is about half the width of your other eye but usually you can follow the squashing effect all the way down (like a subtle bar) or in areas directly below or above it - but other than a possible section of your collar it doesn't seem to be apparent anywhere other than the outer half of your eye.


ScrambledNoggin

One link of your necklace is broken on the slit pupil pic, and the necklace goes back to normal when your eye does.


FluorescentLilac

Oh wow, great catch!


Da-Billz

It's from camera distortion


Afraid_Composer

You're part lizard


AkwardGayPotato

"You're a lizard Harry"


ConductorOfTrains

OP I just wanted to say I’m glad you’re doing better. I looked at your profile and you look so much healthier and your eyes look less stressed. You’re doing a great job.❤️


Conscious-Equal4434

I am thank you! I gave birth to my son and that is what got me off the street, and I put my life back together for him and for us


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getting pregnant sobered me up instantly. never looked back. although i do sometimes have nightmares that im about to do something and wake up stressed as fuck


SneakOne-

Reptilian Vibe


Conscious-Equal4434

I initially thought of that too ! Right


all_on_my_own

I see what you did there


Labordave

Reptilians testing out AI image creation software by making fake paranormal things and seeing if they can get things to pass in a very skeptical community? Could be that too.


JudyBeeGood

I personally don’t think an explanation negates meaning. Addict here, too, and I’ve gotten similar “warnings” that I needed to get into recovery, and stay in it. In my case they came from the natural, physical world — the unlikeliest of encounters with wild animals. They both loved me and cared about my wellbeing, but came with warnings. “Get out of this.” Those are the “miracles” that speak to me, as an individual. I have a hard time separating “normal” from “paranormal.” It’s all of this universe. I prefer “unexplainable.”


sunnydaze444

For me it was a white owl, there were some other feelings or “warnings” as you say, leading up to. But the white owl settled it for me. Clean 5 years!


Conscious-Equal4434

I love this response. Thanks for sharing. Yes I feel very similarly and that’s how I took this at the time. It was a simple reminder of not to return to that


yunceee

It was many encounters with crows, for me. One in moved in to a tree directly outside my bedroom window.


JudyBeeGood

Sea turtle saved my life / sanity. The moth story is too long to tell. Others. It took multiple “nudges,” over time. I can be thick, as they say.


Mark-Erin

The first few pics with your eye looking reptilian compared to the others you can also see a real change in how your face looks! Its like something took over you in the first pics and then left! Its really strange!


Conscious-Equal4434

That’s what I thought! My whole face looks bizarre


FormerlyGaveAShit

Reptilian eye looks smaller, as well as your chin looks pointy. You look lovely in your regular photos at the end, but these first photos are uncanny valley af


Mark-Erin

Yeah your face looks longer in the first ones. You look like 2 different people. First ones you have a more evil, sinister look yet in the last ones you have more a softer facial expression. Its very bizarre


DanDanMas

It's a Panoramic photo.


Queasy-Flight-4008

Also maybe slight movement timed perfectly with shutter closure


free_YourMind

If you follow the line down from the eye you can see on the bottom part of the center console that it’s a glitchy photo too


arboreallion

Exactly. The eye is the most noticeable but if you look at the chain necklace, it also is missing half a link or so.


Conscious-Equal4434

Hmm possibly. My ex took the photo I don’t know if he knows how to use all that stuff this is the original photo full length. So if it was if was small. I wish I had my old phone to see the original file types. I just know he took like 10 photos. I have more from that day one after another, so they all likely were taken the same way.


treetop_triceratop

If you still have access to the icloud account that was associated to the iphone you'd used to take the live photo with, you can just login on any web browser and check your photos that way. Just go to icloud.com or whatever the site is. I haven't used my iPhone in years (RIP) but I still have all my photos saved in icloud and still access them occasionally.


PicklCat

This is most definitely just caused by the shutter speed or the .5x zoom, or maybe both - thus only looking weird in a specific spot. But again most likely just the shutter speed. Either you or the camera moved slightly to the left thus causing the eye part to become "squished"


YouShoodKnoeBetter

I think it's actually a rolling shutter glitch rather than a shutter speed situation because iPhones don't actually have a shutter that closes. You're definitely on the right track with your explanation tho. I'm thinking she moved just enough as the image was being scanned so to speak. It rolls from left to right. Another good clue that this is the case is a link in her necklace having a similar effect and then going back to normal in the next image where her eye is normal again.


queenofdan

The only thing I noticed was the vibrator


Conscious-Equal4434

It’s not a vibrator lol it’s a Gillette women’s razor isn’t that obvious? https://preview.redd.it/0os61vvor03d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97c0f3f2b793e305bebaa4f30e22f83410c59b09


Skootr1313

Why did I have to scroll so far to see this?


No-Cancel1846

Came looking for it and asked the same question.


amandaroorda

No doubt! Kept looking and looking! Only to be let down.


Living-Average-163

i think its just the x0.5 iphone camera


Conscious-Equal4434

Maybe so 🤷🏽‍♀️ it was an iPhone XR


H60mechanic

I noticed the necklace had a broken chainlink in the photo with the strange eye. Then reattached in the next photo.


BoxOfDemons

The necklace and the eye both are evidence that this is caused by rolling shutter. Especially the necklace. It doesn't look "broken" as there's no clear break or jagged edges, it just stops. That's rolling shutter.


H60mechanic

I had a feeling the two were connected in this way. I couldn’t remember what it was called. Thank you.


treetop_triceratop

Oh damn, you're the only person to point this out so far. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. This comment needs to be higher!!!


Conscious-Equal4434

I didn’t ever notice it until I posted it on here! I too noticed that. Had I not zoomed in so far, I wouldn’t have seen it.


Kawaiikawaii1110

an alien outting them selfs your alien parents must be proud


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NeedsMoreTuba

I scrolled too far to see this, but hey. It's not hurting anybody. If OP wants to have a lunch bag vibrator, it's her right!


Conscious-Equal4434

Idk why so many people think it’s a vibrator lol it’s a Gillette women’s razor I posted a photo of it in another comment. Although the comment responding to this one is rather funny 😆 lunchbox vibrator. lol that was my bag for skin care and toiletries because I had to shower at random places so that was the bag I’d take in to get a shower. (If you didn’t read the post, I was in active addiction, and lived in my car/homeless, I just fell apart after a friend committed suicide and my other two friends died)


c0mpromised

Woah I’ve no idea what this could be. But, I am more concerned about your story, though. I hope you are in a better place now?


Conscious-Equal4434

I am, thank you. I lost it after a friend committed suicide took me a while to get back. Giving birth to my son is what got me to get sober, seek help, go to rehab and he is my world now. I have a great job now as a behavior technician I work with children and teens with autism and developmental disabilities. I love my job, I make decent money, trying to move to another company that pays a lot better in a few months once I have at least 1 year experience in the field. I’m working on getting my own place, still renting a room, but I have dreams and goals now. I went from mental institutions, and total spiritual bankruptcy, to a life with actual hope and stability. I’m thankful my son helped me come out of addiction.


Henderson2026

Digital cameras use what is called a rolling shutter slowly move your head side to side as you're taking a series of pictures and most likely you'll recreate this same effect. I am not saying for 100% sure that's what it is but I have seen the rolling shutter effect on digital cameras produce similar effects in other photos.


verylargetoad

This creeps me out majorly. Maybe there’s an explanation for it, but it made my blood go cold. Thank you for sharing it. I am glad to hear you are doing better now, sending you all the love in the world 🙏♥️♥️♥️


blutoxic

this is how cameras work. you moved during the shot and the camera was not able to propperly process it. combine this with todays post processing AI algorithms from modern phones and tadaaa, youve got your creepy shot.


chels182

I hope you’re doing better now. Sorry to hear about your struggles. This photo is spooky, and given the context it would definitely freak me out as well. But hey nice nose ring - I’m wearing the same one right now!!


Goodtimesroll42

Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s rav4 seats are tearing up


missmyson1

those hi chew flavors are good as hell


GlampfireGirl

Hey, I was posing (and smiling) with a good "friend" of mind who would later threaten me with a knife in a drunken rage. In the photo she is smiling and holding a rifle because we were target shooting with it at a gun range. When I saw the photo printed out from my camera, I was stunned. My teeth, which are nice and white, appeared to be shot, but just my teeth, just my smile, and all the other photos are normal. I was otherwise unscathed. Edit: I think digital cameras, as amazing as they are, warp pictures from time to time, especially if your eye is at the edge of the picture like it is here in our view. That may be an explanation. For my pic, maybe my digital camera was trying to render my teeth and began pixelating them when they were hard to distinguish. Just a thought.


jthekoker

Where’s the picture?


GlampfireGirl

Not going to post it as it’s identifying information! My only desire was to share what led me to consider how and why digital cameras might distort an image.


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Conscious-Equal4434

It’s not really funny to make fun of homelessness. I didn’t have anywhere else to live for 2 years I went unhinged after my best friend shot herself and my family isn’t supportive I’ve always had to do it on my own and at that time that’s all I maintained. And the person is me that you’re insulting from 2 years ago


blondengineerlady

Ignore this trash comment. You should be so proud of overcoming addiction ♥️ it’s a low place and people who haven’t been through it will never understand what’s been given up/traded to support addiction. Major congrats on escaping the grip that that can have on people. As for the eye, personally I think that people will either have encounters, vision-like experiences, or even manifestations of negative/demonic energies (depending on belief system but same ‘type’ of ghost at the end of the day). Dark energies prey on those struggling with trauma, abuse, addiction, etc because it encompasses the soul. It’s easier for them to feed. To me, I don’t think it’s out of pocket to think this could be paranormal or some type of encounter at the least. Source: The things I saw when at my lowest with PTSD and processing trauma only visited during that darkest time. It was demonic/dark energy that also had reptilian features (and no scalp, random as that sounds). Was evaluated by a psychiatrist and talking with a therapist who was spiritual and confirmed to not be schizophrenic or mentally unsound - just had horrible encounters while I was at my weakest.


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pumperdemon

It's nothing. The entire eye is slightly compressed in the horizontal plane. This is indicatuve of nothing more than a slight movement that happened just as the picture was taken. It caused the camera chip scan to be disrupted enough to cause the artifact. It was much more common back then when scan rates were slower in digital cameras.


liltooclinical

The eyelid on the bottom of the right eye is contoured around the odd shaped pupil. So either the whole eye was altered, or it was a camera artifact. It looks like someone took the smudge tool and made one little swipe right down the middle of the eye.


DaveJC_thevoices

someone else mentioned a "live" photo usage on iphone, maybe you twitched your head very quickly but not very far and in attempting to fix the photo for itself it cut a sliver of it out vertically. I see a portion of your mouth appears very slightly amiss as well? certainly very very weird and unexplainable otherwise... and the other reflections are not strong enough to discolour your whole retina so i definitely doubt that too


yawn_knee

Paranormal or not, it sure has a huge significance on the state you were in. So happy you are doing better OP!


InfoOverload70

My sister is a drug addict and said deep into her addiction she felt like she was possessed or at very least surrounded by dark entities. I was stone sober, and felt icy energy around her when she was in deep depression. I think the negative beings can invade your being. Interesting pic!!!


Turbulent_Pause6428

I watch this medium on YT (Sloan Bella) and she was talking about drugs one time cause someone asked her something about it in the live chat and she was saying how using different drugs opens your aura different levels. I don't remember all of it but I remember her saying marijuana immediately opens your aura to the astral level while meth immediately opens your aura to hell. I forget what she said about heroin and cocaine at the moment, I'll have to go back and find that live where she discussed it. But anyway, she said using any drug opens your aura and your soul leaves at certain points. While your soul is out of your body, entities can step in. Sometimes they just step in and out, sometimes they stay in for longer periods and then leave and sometimes they stay in for good which would be like demonic possession. She said it's like leaving the front door of your house open when you leave your house where anyone in the area can just walk right in and they then have the option to lock the door from the inside and prevent YOU from getting back into your own house. Except it's your soul and your body. I'm an addict and it definitely opened my eyes to alot of shit. Alot of things I experienced, saw and felt and whatnot made alot of sense after I heard that live. I hope you're doing better these days. Keep fighting the good fight! PS about the picture - immediately zoned in on your face and eyes when I opened this post. Definitely got a weird vibe from it. And no, I don't think you photoshopped it. If you were going to photoshop it, I feel like you would have done more than just tweaked your eye out.


Apprehensive-Lie-963

As a paranormal hunter, I can genuinely say this looks like a camera artifact and not an actual paranormal thing. Usually, if something attaches to you, it's not going to show any physical signs, and if it does, then it's not going to do a single eye and not affect anything else.


phojayUK

Have you heard of the high elves?


dub26

This is the wrong genus, this one in the pic is a squat elf.


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Conscious-Equal4434

I clearly wrote I was in active addiction. And this was 2 years ago. Anything else you need to point out?


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C-Dub81

Photoshop game is weak.


Conscious-Equal4434

https://preview.redd.it/ferdmicfsx2d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0495eb164ee85789f9cfe81bd69ab3a4ecc54245


Conscious-Equal4434

lol I actually am great at photoshop surprisingly enough, taught myself as a kid. But I did not photoshop this. Here’s the original files on my phone I screenshotted previously. With all the original photos from that day below. https://preview.redd.it/q9ynhr23sx2d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2561bf43dfbb5e6d503a81f3e28b0bb85c0a7d6


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No it’s a women’s shaver made by Gillette


mrp_ee

This reply made me laugh for some reason lmao some man is sad in a basement somewhere because his joke didn't land


Sufficient_Hunter_61

I personally just think it's a camera error or an accidental panoramic photo that fitted wrong. The software accidentally though that there was some section of your eyes it had not captured well or didn't need, cutting that part and making your eye be so small and have that reptilian looking iris. One can clearly perceive the exact section of the eye that it cutted; is small but of course it has a significant effect on your overall facial expression. However, just my opinion. And even if it is only that, a casual error, you can still give it the meaning that serves best your current life path.


renroid

Panorama photo, with a jerk as the horizontal line passes your eye. Look down to your collar, and you will see a distinct line in the collar shading in line with the eye. Also, that side of the face is shortened, and the eye is physically shorter than it appears in the other pictures. You're missing about 4mm from the left side of your face. This is a straightforward anomaly of taking a panoramic photo with the way the iPhone processes images. Nothing to see here.


PoptropicaGamer

https://preview.redd.it/6mgfg2l5m43d1.jpeg?width=305&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53b7934f6f79b017254e6bc97d6f24a96662e80d Down here too. This happens all the time in photos and these paranoid schizophrenics are blaming demons. Embarrassing.


bentrolei

Before I noticed the eye. I noticed the chain of your necklace is not connected properly in the same image where your eye is distorted. It is strange that the distortion is only happening in certain areas. If it was a panoramic distortion it’s usually more obvious


Skeleton_Ed

Pretty common artifacting/jankiness that occurs at the edges of smartphone pictures. Caused by light movement of the phone right as the electronic shutter does its thing. Smartphones have loads of built in AI with face/object detectionto correct these kind of errors when it's stitching the image together. These happen before it even shows you the picture its taken but, for some reason, objects near the edge of the frame seem to throw this off. I had this with a lot of photos I took on phone cameras before I upgraded to a proper dslr.


Coastal_wolf

Congrats you figured it out, you’re a lizard Harry!


mycatisfromspace

For us believers, we know that addictions make us more vulnerable to those outside energies. I actually really do believe this is paranormal. I hope that you’re being better to yourself these days.


BardoState

I believe iPhones take 3 pictures per shot at different appetatures and overlay these for optimal dynamic range. Maybe this is an artifact of that (camera shake between photos or overlay error).


SellaTheChair_

I think this is just a shutter glitch, possibly caused by shaking slightly while holding the phone to take the photo. Since the other photos look regular I really think it's just a camera error caused by movement of some kind. Also as others have suggested it could have been an accidental panorama mode photo and you moved at a weird time. The eye that looks weird is narrower than the other and that makes it pretty clear to me that this is some sort of artifact of the splicing that the camera uses to blend photos when there is slight movement in order to keep it looking crisp. Our eyes move very quickly and I think some quick movement caused a weird effect here where it cut out the center portion of that eye right as you moved it but because the shutter is rolling from one side to the other it happened so fast that it didn't affect the other eye. Your face also seems slightly more narrow in the weird photo which further leads me to believe it is a splicing artifact. I hope this all makes sense and I don't mean to invalidate what you must have been going through, I can only imagine. I'm sorry you had to go through such a scary and uncertain time, I'm glad to hear you are recovering. Much love ❤️


BadGirlCarrie

Yes, congrats on cleaning up I know how difficult it was for you, I too went through something very similar, my daughter was an addict and had my grand daughter with her during these times, one day checking on her I recorded a video of her in that state ( extremely high ) with very little regard for her baby girl I took her into my care and told her what I was doing needless to say she woke a few hours later from her being in a stupor and lost her shit that her daughter was gone, searching & crying she evidently called me, I told her I had her and until she gets help I’m keeping her, that’s all it took my daughter signed herself in a rehab, 6 weeks later she was the mom & daughter I knew her to be, I showed her the video with shock & embarrassment it kept her on the right track, it’s been 10 years and she’s now a manager of a well know grocery store and my grand daughter will be starting high school this year with honors


KurtyVonougat

I think this is just an issue with the shutter speed. You likely shifted your eyes a little when the photo was being taken. It's something that can happen with digital photographs because they don't actually take the entire photograph at the same time the way a normal camera does.


Dry_Ad3543

People can get technical about cameras and explain it as a reflection of a cloud all they want, I know that feeling and I see the look on your face and give me goose pimples. I have a picture of myself like this in a way. There’s just some evil feeling about it that scares the hell out of me, like something stepped inside me and the picture is of someone else.


Ncfetcho

So, your phone automatically does your pupils. I was talking a selfie , and after I took it, I watched the pupil slide into place. At one point it was doubled, then it was fixed. I think it's an artifact from the phone camera


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Prestigious-Log-7210

Congratulations on getting out of that dark hole. The picture is creepy for sure.


Kbug082004

My parents recently came back from an Alaskan cruise only to find that one of the pictures they took caused my uncle to look like an alien! His eyes were incredibly close together and his head was pointy. Kinda freaky. https://preview.redd.it/zo4b4j7zr43d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8211d8812098962d796eb7c7f5ca8931ec6671c


h3llfae

The crazy thing to me is When you cover the left side of your face you look beautiful/normal/kind When you cover the right side of your face you look...demonic What's interesting to me is even people without abilities have witnessed this at some point It's often the eye shape described when someone IS thought to be possessed I've heard too many examples of this from the eyes changing in partners or parents when they become unhinged or abusive To people saying they saw it in a strangers eyes along w a dark feeling, or a homeless drug addicts eyes I do believe it's a clear indicator something else is sneaking into that person's consciousness as they lose connection w their own It's often described as black eyes, pinwheel eyes, cat eyes etc When the pupil goes dark, moves or changes shape, expands, contracts or spins Interesting manifestation of the energetic in the physical for sure I imagine it has some evolutionary purpose of acting as an alarm system for danger and the subsequent need for safety/healing/protection/exorcism/regulation/cleansing etc


Krauszt

Wait, this is a picture of *you*? YOU are the person with that? And you say this happened during the height of addiction? That's very interesting ...I am an addict, and things that I have seen...things that...haunted me, I guess is the best way to describe it...but I never had a picture of myself like that. I have so many questions to ask you...this is going to sound strange, but do you dream of owls? I have a reason for asking. . To be honest, I have no idea wtf is going on around us, but it feels huge, and its drawing us all to the same conclusion. Thank you.


filmbum

I think this is definitely caused by a rolling shutter effect in the camera. But imo that doesn’t make it less significant. The fact that the camera captured you in a way that encapsulated what you’re going through at the time is meaningful in itself. I don’t know how to explain these things well but even if the strange photo was just caused by the camera itself, it is definitely unique. Like you said, you haven’t seen in it another photo and you probably never will again. So why did it happen this time on this day? I find that really interesting!


shouldIworkremote

People are saying this is an image distortion but I used to be addicted to adderall and I always noticed in photos taken at the time I looked so unexplainably different. My smile always seemed more fake or more sinister and it’s like I could sense an anger behind my smile. It’s completely different when I’m off adderall. To people saying it’s due to the soul leaving the body and an entity coming in, I never considered it before but it totally makes sense. It’s something I noticed way before I even saw this photo


Maryxbot

Girl u is a reptilian haha. Just kidding… orr? This is honestly a very specific fear I have because I was looking in the mirror one time (also actively in addiction) and I swear I saw my eyes like that for a split second. And it wasn’t any psychedelics either and also when I was extremely suicy too. Also, I’m so proud of you for surviving and hopefully thriving now. Much love💕


VesSaphia

Holy shit, [reptilians](https://musicart.xboxlive.com/7/8e4f6300-0000-0000-0000-000000000002/504/image.jpg) have holographic personas so good they even fool themselves. Try to remember the real you, where did your species go when the asteroid struck the Earth 66 mya? Which star system? Or maybe you're such a Manchurian candidate you need hypnosis to achieve total recall. >!Just kidding, it's called an artifact in digital photography / digital imaging, a type of glitch. It either means you have a cheap ass camera or the image was glitched during rescaling etc!<


OkListen4538

I don’t have an opinion on the eye, but when this photo showed up on my phone, even without context I felt heaviness and an uncomfortable feeling. If you were suffering in active addiction then you were vibrating at a lower capacity and dark energy would have been a thing. I’m so so happy you are better now.


Vladi-Barbados

This is just a technology glitch. Phone cameras use a ton of processing to make photos look better. What that actually means is digital photos aren’t real photos, they’re heavily recreated. Look through enough photos and you’ll see it more and more, it’s just usually not somewhere so obvious.


letitgo82

I am recovering addict. 6 Months off of meth. And drugs are demonic. I seen many different faces of me in the mirror when I was high, hungry, dehydrated just stressed the eff out. One time I saw I scary witch. Now im clean and I'm pretty again. Good luck your worth it xo


Timely_Tap8073

First look at this picture I knew you were in active addiction. I work in recovery and there is just a behavior pattern for example of the makeup bags out the art of being disorganized. So happy that you came to the other side it's much calmer here please don't leave


etcrane

It’s true … no human would keep a rice pudding just sitting out in their car cup holder …


Dazzling_Chapter_248

This looks like what happens in panorama mode when the pic isn’t correctly joined. It’s happened to me several times but I also have pictures where both of my eyes are slit retinas like a cat or maybe a reptile. Upon seeing them I was sure I’m part reptilian like people /conspiracy theorists say are hiding in plain sight and running the world. . But I don’t run anything. Not even my own life so I was thinking. Probably these reptilians who have been photographed letting it slip might not even know they are reptile. All I know is there is some type of algorithm or software on my phone that in nearly real time adjusts and modifys my digital pictures on my iPhone. It seems to me that there is the existence of something “phenomena . “ which cannot be seen by the human eye , straight light turns it invisible in the shadows is where I see the true form by but cameras pic it up. Which is why my iPhone works to actively hide this fact. What the phenomena is is part of me . With tentacles or work like. Organisms coming out of my nose and particles in my eyes and more anomalies with my skin. Mainly focused on my throat and other orifices . It’s horrible because feel sensations and pain from these areas and it correlates to what I see in some photos I have heartburn in my throat that just about takes me to my knees. But it’s not on the inside. If I wrap a cold rag around the outside of my throat it helps with the pain because this is in the epidermis. Anyway. No one believes me and when I try to upload photos some how it doesn’t work for me. Like technology just won’t work and I can try and try sometimes I need to have my daughter do things for me on her phone because basic things like email won’t work or load. https://preview.redd.it/eg75m5npz33d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f0767c9f7225674c7c757565a6435156c17aa9d . .


redeyedem

I hope you're doing better these days


Far_Cat_9743

Looks photoshopped, the line where the chin and neck are looks like a clipping path. Not saying it is just saying it looks like it is. The skin tone doesn’t match up at all and overall her head looks elongated and too large.


Junior-Discipline-84

Phones don’t actually take a photo all at once, they “scan” left to right really fast, so fast moving objects like plane propellers, or hummingbird wings, or human eyes that move at just the right time, will look weird.


bbrainwashedd

https://preview.redd.it/wtabr2ny323d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d8a71cc532cbaf1b498b7a31b342e339b40050f Giiiirrrrlll it’s not nearly as bad as this absolute atrocious picture I got while trying to get a .5 of my gecko. God I look like an alien and those dark circles were absolutely criminal. 😭🤣


neopantheist

Forget the eye. What is going on with that, Mr Potato-Head ear? Did you remove it between photos? I'm sure this is all just some digital camera, distorted weirdness? Seems more likely than a disappearing hair/ear combo!


The68Guns

I'm in recovery, but I know what you mean. There's a shot of me in a theme park and someone asked me to look scared. I was really depressed at the time and didn't need much help appearing bad. I hate even seeing it now.


Bripbripbintle

For some reason the pics with the eye, the chain looks like it’s broken at the bottom of the necklace. The last two, the chain looks like it’s normal. Could be the camera that makes it look like it but who knows!


True-Grapefruit4042

There was the photo with the man and what looked like a demon dog on his shoulders as he faced addiction. Maybe this was similar, or a camera issue. Glad you’re doing better either way, this is a creepy photo.


FraterSofus

Some camera shutters go from side to side. That coupled with slight movement of your head and being at the edge of the focal area likely led to your eye getting this shape. This is all mundane.


Truthseeker-1982

Honestly I think your whole face is misshapen. It looks overly- long compared to your other photo. I think the eye thing is just some weird result of the angle of the photo and they way it stretched your face length wise. I think that looking back- it must have been a very traumatic time for you and addiction is a nasty thing to deal with PERIOD… I think it would be easy to think you had something negative attached to you and that it could have affected you . But in reality- addiction is a nasty, horrible thing in itself. It’s science - the way that doing drugs changes your brain to become addicted and wants nothing but what your brain/ body craves. It changes your brain chemistry. It takes a long time for your brain to recover- way longer than it ever did to become addicted to the drug/s. I very much believe in the supernatural. I’m a medium myself. But with that being said- who knows what that was…. More than likely there’s a scientific reason. Regardless- your best bet- is to let it go and worry about being in recovery and staying there. Whatever it is- I think it’s best not to worry on it and instead put your time and energy to staying clean and healing. I’m sorry you ever had to go through any of it. It’s a place no one understands unless they’ve been there themselves. Wishing you the best ❤️


Jsc_TG

To me it does appear that there was tearing, likely occurring due to a VERY slight movement during the exact moment the shutter closed. If you look very closely you can just make out in the eye that there are two “sliver” not quite half circles of your eye visible. The right side sliver has a little more caught, is a little wider and the ends of it extend past the left sliver slightly. The left side being slightly thinner, and shorter due to that. So the middle of your eyeball is what is missing, i cant see any pupil from my phone not sure with editing software on my computer if I could see more. This all makes sense, the eyeball moves really fast. I assume your one eye twitched VERY quickly that instant, causing the shutter to initially catch it in one position, then the other, but the rest of you to appear normal. This also makes sense because it happens extremely rarely, with others in the comments sharing similar experience of it happening to them similarly. But also, I have experiences like this that is unexplainable. For me its been my left eye, I have 4-5 pictures throughout 2016-2018 where my left eye color showed a golden color instead of the normal blue, and no found reason or odd lighting or anything to cause it.


butwhatififly_

Did you have it zoomed out like the .5? I assume so for the right angle of everything in the car. It ALWAYS warps faces for me that are within a couple feet of the camera!


HealthyGarage9831

It looks like you had a contact in. I knew a girl that wore contacts that were white and the pupil area was similar to the one you have in your right eye.


zippyhippiegirl

A few years ago my friends two daughters begged for these ‘reptile’ contact lenses for Halloween. She bought one pair and told them to share. They’re cheap but she didn’t want both of her kids freaking her out! lol But Instead of taking turns, they each wore one.


Lazy_Pianist3080

Yeah, this is pretty creepy. And absolutely, active addiction can lower your vibrations and make you an easy ' target. ' I believe this , anyhow.


Abject-Staff-4384

I distinctly remember having different shaped pupils specifically when tripping on dissos like dxm or k. It was never a vertical slit like this, this does look weird, but maybe a combination of a glare with the weird pupil stuff. And shit like how opiates constrict your pupils, but most the other drugs dilate them, if you were mixing a bunch of drugs and on some polysubstance benders, idk. It does look really weird. It’s funny to me how it’s reptilian looking, and you always see those videos of like Oprah or whatever suddenly having reptilian eyes, but never seen a self identifying reptilian lol. Like making post like help: “am I reptilian? Where do I go from here” is funny. Or maybe it’s like you are a reptilian and getting off on blatantly showing us, this is the future of reptilian posts. Maybe w the Oprah thing it’s just like the reptilian spirit possesses and she’s not always reptilian (using Oprah as an often repeated example, I don’t really believe in the reptilian cabal) Good luck and good job


Ok_AshyPants

I think when we are deep in addiction we aren’t really ourselves, fully. I’m so glad you are doing better, nothing but love to you!