Nope but I see these when I’m getting a optical migraine.
They'd just appear out of nowhere
Submitted 5 weeks ago by rkcurio@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Yikes, you’re actually seeing that?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
untorquer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah and it has the best name, Scintillating Scotoma. The first time I experienced one it was terrifying.
Zink@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
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.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
banazir@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Well, yes and no. It’s kind of an area you can’t see, but it’s there. Also, it starts as a small dot and them starts expanding/moving. It’s also flashing, kind of like static noise on an old TV. Luckily those things usually last like 15 minutes or so. Still, not a fun experience.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
My ocular migraines always come with a pretty strong headache. Last week I had my first one without the headache. Very difficult to try to concentrate when you cannot see.
Also when I get both types of migraines, I can’t remember names or do any sort of math.
I typically get a song or something stuck in my head and cannot let it go while I have the headache, it sucks.
the_elder@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Glad I’m not the only one! I had one a bit ago that was weird. If my right eye could see my right hand but my left eye couldn’t, it felt disconnected from me. Like it was someone else’s hand. Once my vision came back I still couldn’t read for about 2 hours without sounding out each word. Migraines can be wildly scary sometimes.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I had one once, a decade ago, no pain, but mine was black and white squares, some had x’s in them, it looked like some unholly mix of Apple and Xwindows just righ there in my vision in just about that overall shape you displayed. I also felt SUPER disconnected at the time. My wife and I were picking stuff up at storage, I just ignored it, got what i needed from storage and it went away in less than 5 minutes. I was thankful to not have the oft associated headache
nomy@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I just ignored it, got what i needed from storage
This is the most American Male statement I’ve ever seen. You probably had a fucking stroke or something bro, dang. Good luck out there, try to take care of yourself.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I had this a few times when I was working an extremely stressful job. Changed jobs and voila! No more ocular migraines. Mine was more silvery and blue than red but otherwise your pic looks just like it.
LyD@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
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. Would you describe what you see before an ocular migraine like that, but 1000x more intense?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
It is called a scintillating scotoma or ocular migraine. Scintillating is accurate; this clear crescent shows up in your vision and It is rippling with rainbow fringes. It starts off as a point somewhere in your vision, slowly expanding into a visible crescent that continues to expand. After about half an hour the crescent expands beyond your field of vision (FOV). For me it is paired with a loopy slightly lightheaded feeling that goes away with a whoosh once it leaves my FOV.
They are often triggered by bright light and may be correlated with migraines. I’ve had three of these happen but never had a migraine headache afaik.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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 complete unable to navigate. I’ve pulled over while driving more than once and waited it out.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
YO that’s a gnarly aura!
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Same. Took me a while to figure out what it is cause I never get headaches.
kinther@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
First time I had one of these I was so stressed out. I thought I was about to have a stroke.
murray_TAPEDTS@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same! I was on a road trip in Ireland and it came out of nowhere. Freaked me out. I’d never had one until a few months after my first bout with COVID. Now I get them but usually only if I’ve not been drinking enough water for a few days, and ONLY when I stand up. It’s preceded by a weird sort of throbbing where it feels like sound is turned down in time with my heartbeat.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I’ve seen that exact same shit. Well not exactly, but as you describe elsewhere, shimmery. No pain whatsoever, just that strange visual artifact
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I read if you see lightning bolts you should go to the doctor immediately.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Do you happen to have astigmatism or relatively poor vision, by chance?
I used to get these every month or so since I was like 10 until a few years ago, when I finally pulled the trigger and got LASIK. Have not experienced one since, which is a Godsend given that they would usually last for an hour or two and be accompanied by a gnarly headache which would otherwise render me useless.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m a little far sighted with perhaps a slight stigmatism. Mine are triggered by the seasons as far as I can tell. I get them mainly when the pollen drops in the spring and when the mold comes in the fall. They were particularly bad last year but some years they are just a minor annoyance.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Real life needs better writing
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’re not a big deal unless you get a lot of them all of a sudden. Then it’s an emergency.
Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
i got a floater in my eye
gigachad@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
The Germans calk them "flying mosquito's"
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
In Australia we call them eye snags
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Beats “miodesopsia” from my language
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
This is not inside your eye, it’s outside out there. Please, do not ignore it and write to your FBI agent immediately
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Is that from Welcome to Nightvale?
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Congratulations! You are getting older. They are called eye floaters and most people have them in some compacity. I notice them mostly when looking at the blue sky on a sunny day.
untorquer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve seen these since at least the time i developed long term memory as a small child.
pyre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
if they’re only dots yours might be the blue field entoptic phenomenon which is different. they’re just blood cells flowing before your retina and it’s totally normal.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You can also see the individual white blood cells flowing through the vessels your eyes this way. It’s actually really neat. It’s called the Blue Field Entoptic Phenomenon.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
How did you take the screenshot?
Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
He sneezed and farted at the same time
Deathgl0be@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Honestly the worst feeling only thing comparable would be dropping the soap.
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
No, that’s a screenshart. A screenshot is taken by blowing your nose when you have a sinus infection.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Burpsnart reference?
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Not this again
random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I got few permanent ones.
When I was a kid I played geologist and crushed rocks with a large iron hammer. Few of the metal splinters that ended in eyeballs left a mark that is still visible today when I look at the sky.
Not actually floaters, I know.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I got one or two from looking at the sun for no reason when I was a kid
god I was dumb
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
You can still be dumb if you wanted to!
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
What was your high score? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTEGOI9Leys
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That is some exemplary “silver linings” shit
Youth should be a motivational speaker or something
Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Hopefully you had your eyes checked just to be sure.
It’s likely just a glass body part which is normal sadly.
But also could be something with the nerves , no panic just a thing my wife got similiar stuff and gets checked yearly to be safe.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve had it checked out and it’s fine, thanks. That’s good advice.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Slightly different but similar and related:
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I didn’t realise these were white blood cells. Thanks for the read.
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I believe this is another related, simililar, yet technically different phenomenon, with different causal mechanisms, but yes, lets keep adding to the list, lol.
Also, brb, you’ll never believe this, apparently my pizza delivery guy’s name is ‘Hiro Protagonist’, he’s almost here, and I gotta ask him what is up with that name.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Visual snow is different, it’s constant and looks more like tv static or film grain, fun stuff, not.
MBech@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Nope, you’re the only person ever to have seen this weird stuff. It’s probably a sign that you’re about to die.
ch00f@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Eyeworms. Villagers get them from touching raw meat then rubbing their eyes. It’s only a matter of time before the worms burrow into your brain. Then you shit yourself and die in a most embarassing way.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Fun fact, this is because your vitreous humour is shrinking and as it shrinks bits of it congeal into little protein strings. They’re called floaters, but some people laugh whenever I say that for some reason.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They are my little worm friends
They’re always with me :3
wulrus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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 …
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Luouth@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Having an astigmatism that changes really frequently means I notice these more obviously within months of changing my prescription. Fuck these things!
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Yes, since as long as I can remember. Welcome to the alien hive mind comrade! /s
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Squiggly line in my eye, fluid.
I see you there, lurking on the periphery of my vision.
But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.
Are you shy squiggly line?
Why only when I ignore you do you return to the center of my eye?
Oh squiggly line, it’s alright, you are forgiven.
ValarieLenin@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Honestly haven’t seen em in years…
sploder@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
jve@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Samsy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Eye-Tapeworms better see a doctor.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Like all of us?
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s bacteria eating your optical nerves
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
It’s light refracting through otherwise invisible bacteria on your eyeball.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
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
RacerX@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Everytime I see this warning, I become hyper aware of every single one and it freaks me out.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
If it makes you feel any better you’ll know when it happens, they increase by a lot. If they increase noticeably you should get it checked out but if it increases so substantially that you’re like man what the hell is going on then you need emergency care, basically, but also you can’t really miss it?
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
There actually is. I have looked into it before because I have a lot of floaters, but have never had surgery. The risk and downtime with the surgery is pretty high, so it’s usually not recommended.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Someone in my family had a double retinal detachment and the surgeon asked if he wanted his floaters removed while they were in there putting things back together. It’s apparently possible because he has no more floaters.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This but for tinnitus too please
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I know someone who got a vitrectomy for his eye floaters, and I’ve been considering doing the same when I can afford it