They'd just appear out of nowhere
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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
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How did you take the screenshot?
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How did you take the screenshot?
He sneezed and farted at the same time
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He sneezed and farted at the same time
Burpsnart reference?
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Sorry to hear that, it sucks
Well at least you get pretty rainbows
Its a pretty rainbow that is forever at the edge of your vision. You can't look directly at it.
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He sneezed and farted at the same time
Honestly the worst feeling only thing comparable would be dropping the soap.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That is some exemplary "silver linings" shit
You should be a motivational speaker or something
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Honestly the worst feeling only thing comparable would be dropping the soap.
In thw prison shower
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]No I've seen what you describe. What I see when I'm having one is most often a shimmering electric zigzag. Sometimes it take different shapes and the colors vary. Its always at the edge of my vision and moves when I move my eye. Its better to close your eyes when they are happening. At least for me. I have had them in both eyes at once and its really freaky since normally I only get them in one eye at a time. They don't merge well and the combined blind spots have rendered me almost completely unable to navigate. I've pulled over while driving more than once and waited it out.
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Seen them for decades, but thought it's best to keep them a secret. Until Family Guy just casually mentioned them like they were no big deal! Not as crazy as I thought, after all ...
