Visual snow -Please let me turn the television off already- - General

I get snow and floaters 24/7. Years of MDMA abuse I think.

I get floaters pretty damn bad. They really irritate the fuck out of me. It gets kindof old seeing like six or seven little shapes shoot across your vision every time you look at something different. I also get the visual snow in really dark areas, and that doesn't irritate me as much as the floaters.

I fucking love the starburst effect its like bloom [editline]3rd December 2010[/editline] When I close my eyes I see blackness, But I also see swirling colours and random flickering little multicolored dots everywhere, does any body else get this or is there something wrong with my eyes

[QUOTE=FlashFireSix;26465503]I fucking love the starburst effect its like bloom [editline]3rd December 2010[/editline] When I close my eyes I see blackness, But I also see swirling colours and random flickering little multicolored dots everywhere, does any body else get this or is there something wrong with my eyes[/QUOTE] That would be visual snow. Try closing and opening your eyes in a dark room, if nothing changes, then you will also see those flickering colors in the dark

[QUOTE=Kaelnukem;20464433] Floaters [img_thumb]http://en.bloguru.com/PSP/Vendors/04661/2007/0466120071002102131.png[/img_thumb] [/QUOTE] Wait, you mean it's not normal to get those? :ohdear:

I have Tinnitus, sucks.

I've never seen a floater, I don't get star-bursts from ceiling incandescents that aren't covered, and I only get static in a lot of darkness. [editline]3rd December 2010[/editline] To be honest, a lot of people are probably just being over-analytical and paranoid.

When I am bored I watch my floaters :0 I literally get distracted for minutes at a time with those things.

I have that in my left eye :saddowns: Can't read anything after about 10 seconds of using solely my left eye, even with blinking

I used to get colorful floaters when I was a kid, my parents thought i was going insane. Now i occasionally get really faint normal ones. Glad to see its not because I'm crazy.

[QUOTE=Craptasket;20464606]If you want insane visual snow, close your eyes and gently push your thumb into the side of your eye in the eye socket, watch the fireworks, open your eyes after too.[/QUOTE] I used to do that until I saw what looked like a circuit board pattern, and when I opened my eyes my vision took a minute to come back. Good times.

Snow, Floaters, Lens flare, Trouble reading, yeah... That describes me perfectly.

[QUOTE=DaFreshLemon;26467743]That would be visual snow. Try closing and opening your eyes in a dark room, if nothing changes, then you will also see those flickering colors in the dark[/QUOTE] I do, when I tried to explain it to people I sounded like a madman though, thanks for clearing up a lifelong problem

I sometimes see very delicate static when my eyes are tired.

I have all of them. The floaters aren't bad though. The starbursts things are pretty recent, like maybe a month or two ago. I used to only see that when I squinted, but now I see it on focused sources of lights, like candles, flash lights/lamps, and really bad from reflected light. Don't really get it with fluorescent light though. And the snow thing, I dunno if this is it, but at night, everything looks grainy, and when I focus on somebody, especially in a dark room with a light source behind them, everything else goes darker and fussier. I've been meaning to go to the eye doctors at some point.

[QUOTE=FordLord;26440518]Sorry for the bump, but has any one found a way to reduce visual snow? It is starting to get very annoying because it makes it so that I can't see much in the dark. It is really bad when there is a difference in light. For instance, if I try to look at something over the top of my monitor right now, there is so much visual snow above it that I can't make out anything. A similar thing happens when driving at night.[/QUOTE] There's a private medical organisation that does research, I don't know for sure anymore but I think it was almost entirely funded by donations. But yeah, it's a bit low on the priority list. You won't die from it and it isn't prohibiting from doing anything. Next to hitting your toes to shit at night cause you can't see anything. So all in all you have to wait like 10 years I think. Edit: Also I was curious about one thing [img]http://www.goedkooplicht.nl/images/p003_1_00.jpg[/img] I space the fuck out when this things are near broken, you won't see it being broken but I see a kind of ''wavering'' light. Is everyone having that with such lights?

Starbursts are so annoying Floaters are common the static is hard to notice unless i really concentratw

I only get floaters on occasion. One time I was in science class looking through a microscope when a floater came across my vision. I swore to my lab partner that something was moving.

I only get mild static in the darkness (Has to be nearly pitch black, where you can still just about make out objects). I don't get Floaters or Stabursts though. (Though if I squint I sometimes get a Starburst like effect.)

It's really cool watching through the eyes with like 3000+ ISO at nights.

I get all of these to some degree. I've always had them, though, and got used to it, though Starbursts are still annoying.

I have a bit of that, and it's stronger at night. I'm certain it's because we spend all our time looking at the LCD screens, though it could be worse; we could still be staring at CRTs.

I get massive visual snow at night, during the day I'm fine though. [editline]21st October 2013[/editline] Actually thinking about it, I get mild visual snow even in daylight, I barely notice it unless I concentrate though.