5 Insane Things Hiding Just Outside Of Human Perception

1. You Can (Almost) See People Glow in the Dark

Bioluminescence is a fairly rare trait in most animals. Humans are no different. Japanese scientists in 2009 captured the first images of humans giving off bioluminescent light. This light is basically a byproduct of human body’s metabolic processes. What happens is that cell respiration in our body creates free radicals, which then react with proteins and lipids, the molecules that result then react with chemicals in our body called fluorophores and get rid of a tiny amount of photons. The bioluminescence comes in amounts 1,000 times which are too faint for the human eye to pick up.