Green, Red and Blue

I had forgotten that as a child, lying in bed at night in the dark of my room, I used to see little dots of different colours.  Green, red, blue....tiny little dots.  They would only appear in the dark, would be more pronounced if I closed my eyes and even more pronounced if I shut my eyes as tight as I possibly could.  I would lie in bed, close my eyes and see these dots wondering what they were and being mesmerized by them.  Was it space?  Where did the colours come from given the fact that my eyes were closed?  Eventually I would fall asleep.

I had forgotten about these dots until a recent evening when I spent a few minutes with my daughter putting her to bed, kissing and hugging her goodnight.  She started talking to me about the difficulties she sometimes has falling asleep due to her imagination running wild about us being killed or robbed.  About coyotes.  She also mentioned that she saw dots.  When I asked her to describe them they were small, colourful and more vivid when her eyes were closed.  They were green, red and blue.  She wondered what they were.  I did not have an answer to that question.  I thought of googling it.  Nah.  I didn't need the answer.

That night, lying in my bed, I closed my eyes tightly and saw them again.

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