They'd just appear out of nowhere
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It's bacteria eating your optical nerves
hope theyre having fun
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You sure you don’t have high blood pressure?
I mean, now maybe, lol, but I noticed this as a middle schooler, and I was in pretty good shape back then... and I still have the exact same experience to this day, in the right lighting conditions, if I can just sit or stand still and look at a mostly cloudless sky.
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I have a permanent eye floater. When I get really bored I find suitable things in my field of vision to look back and forth between and play pong with.
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I most commonly see these these when I have a migraine, really bad sneezes, or I flick my eyes or move my head quickly. I've heard it's fine unless you see a bug chunk at the same time as that could be a sign the retina has broken or come loose?
The dots are white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of the retina of the eye.
From the wiki page.
So, yeah, it makes sense that very similar or even just the same effect can be intensified by all those things you mention, they all alter the motion of blood in your eyes.
As to a big chunk moving?
I am not an eye expert, but I would intuitively think that yes, a big splotch moving could be the retina itself moving... but it could also potentially be something like a clot in one of those capillaries breaking loose... which is probably still bad, but maybe not necessarily as bad?
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Always wondered what this was called. I get this often in winter, less during summer. It really puzzled me the first few times it happened, I just figured I was getting diabetes. I have a black tail that follows them so it's even more noticeable then in the picture.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Basically, lighting conditions have to be just right to ... basically, allow you to actually see your own white blood cells, in your own eyes, against the ... background/everything you are seeing.
So my guess would be that in the summer, where you are, the ... ambient light of the sky is too bright, it overwhelms this effect, but in the winter, maybe its mote generally humid, or the light is coming through more atmosphere , at more oblique angles, and is thus less intense.
Though if you are also seeing a... black tail, like... they're followed by a black smear or a motion blur or something... that could be something else?
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Yikes, you're actually seeing that?
I don't know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it'd be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
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It's light refracting through otherwise invisible bacteria on your eyeball.
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Nope but I see these when I'm getting a optical/ocular migraine.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't get ocular migraines so I have never seen something like this. I can see subtle multicolour flashes if I close my eyes and do things like looking around quickly or apply pressure to my eyes. This image reminds me of the flashes I see, but 1000x more intense. Would you describe it like that?
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Yikes, you're actually seeing that?
It doesn't do what I see justice. They are often beautiful. When they first occur it causes a blind spot. The zigzags are a rainbow of shimmering color. They go away after a hour or so and I feel lousy if I don't have a headache. If I do get the headache with it I have to find a dark room and try to sleep.
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I occasionally get them and mine feel more black & white than color, the the jagged shape and the arc around the center of your vision is spot on.
And remember the jagged arc is always in your peripheral vision. You can't look directly at it and study the details because it moves when your eyes do.
This is what I have. I've had them my whole life.
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This is not inside your eye, it's outside out there. Please, do not ignore it and write to your FBI agent immediately
If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
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I had some since childhood and as a child trying to explain these to people lead nowhere, and I just thought I had something nobody else had. Then, years later, the internet came, and some random post like this came, and I went holy shit! It was amazing to finally know what it was and that they really aren't a big deal.
They're not a big deal unless you get a lot of them all of a sudden. Then it's an emergency.
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It's light refracting through otherwise invisible bacteria on your eyeball.
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Pretty sure that's incorrect.
The common type of floater, present in most people's eyes, is due to these degenerative changes of the vitreous.
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Pretty sure I fucked up my eyes from psychedelics even though I didn’t trip more than 5 or so times in my life. I took some golden teachers and I noticed that my glasses felt like they were in the way of my eyes. I took them off and I could legit see. I need glasses to see anything that is 2 feet away from me, all I see are huge masses of colors and blobs without them on since I was about 9. Ever since that trip I see weird shit randomly, especially when I’m nervous, it just swirls and flashes. Eye doctor says nothing is wrong, I’m just seeing floaters. Shits weird.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Lol, HPPD goes brrrrr.
I can't tell you if this is what you're experiencing, but worth a read if you haven't come across the term before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder
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Pretty sure that's incorrect.
The common type of floater, present in most people's eyes, is due to these degenerative changes of the vitreous.
Well, it's what I always heard. But I'll retract my previous comment.
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It doesn't do what I see justice. They are often beautiful. When they first occur it causes a blind spot. The zigzags are a rainbow of shimmering color. They go away after a hour or so and I feel lousy if I don't have a headache. If I do get the headache with it I have to find a dark room and try to sleep.
Sorry to hear that, it sucks
Well at least you get pretty rainbows
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Yeah and it has the best name, Scintillating Scotoma. The first time I experienced one it was terrifying.
Yeah, that names sounds about right for what you're describing
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It doesn't do what I see justice. They are often beautiful. When they first occur it causes a blind spot. The zigzags are a rainbow of shimmering color. They go away after a hour or so and I feel lousy if I don't have a headache. If I do get the headache with it I have to find a dark room and try to sleep.
Wait, there are people who get migraines without the headache‽ I just get the agonizing ocular pressure and occasionally nausea
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Yikes, you're actually seeing that?
That's the shape. But it's constantly oscillating and the colors shifting rapidly.
Vision gets obscured but for me my visual processing/reasoning gets cloudy too. I can still navigate the world but finding a door handle is difficult.
I get sore behind my eyes after and real tired. Happened a few times in the last couple years, anxiety I think.
Youtube mostly has classix migraine aura but this is close enough if you imagine the zigzag image.
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I have a lot of these because I’ve had numerous eye surgeries and they’re ultimately just gunk in the vitreous fluid of the eye. I wish there was a way that they could drain, filter, and replace your vitreous fluid when it gets like mine. Like an eyeball oil change. There’s not though, as far as I know.
A tip: if you suddenly see a ton more of these get it checked out asap, especially if you are very near sighted
This but for tinnitus too please
