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+ But what makes me curious is that every "black light" I've ever seen
+ has a peculiar quality to it that I never see in any other kind of
+ illumination. Hard to describe but it looks very specular, somewhat
+ like laser illumination of normal surfaces, and it always looks a little
+ fuzzy, possibly as if it were out of focus. When I ask other people if
+ they perceive anything like this, they look at me funny.

Ultraviolet radiation causes the lens of the eye to flouresce.
This would produce a diffuse illumination of the entire retinal image,
but the effect would probably be more of a soft-focus effect,
(sharp edges with a fuzzy overlay) rather than out and out blurring.

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