Makes me feel better knowing other people have visual snow.
Its probably those old tvs that done did it.
When I go to bed, my eyes fill with visual snow and crazy blobby colors. Also if I look at a wall or something it can start to get all wavy like I was on mushrooms.
I have visual snow and also tinnitus (tinnitus isn't related to seeing things though)
I experience the grain all the time, even if it's in daylight.
When I experience a phosphene, it's kind of like a bunch of blurry fireworks with all sorts of colors.
[QUOTE=Gum100;51005294]I've recently started getting ocular migraines occasionally. For those who don't have them, it starts as a small blind spot, which grows into what looks like a slightly larger jagged tear in your vision, filled with static. Mostly just irritating, as I don't often get the headache that accompanies it.[/QUOTE]
I always get those, except they do go into straight normal migraines as well. Always sucks.
At least with those I know to expect it so as soon as I get the tear I just pop a shitload of ibuprofen and I usually end up fine
I see ghosts of anything that I've been looking at that has some form of contrast. 24/7.
EG I look at a car that is red. I now see a thick outlined version of that car for about 30 secs to 5 mins.
Its annoying as fuck. It often stops me from being able to drive.
I've had visual snow since I can remember. It's always been there. I thought it was what everyone saw until recently.
what about the purple dots
I didn't have visual snow until I had dabbled a bit in psychedelics, but it hasn't affected me really. I also get these strange sort of blurred halos around objects when I'm tired; It's like if you were to take the object and smear it across your vision a few times. It can get annoying (especially if I'm trying to read subtitles on movies, which it completely prevents) but it and other visual anomalies I experience haven't as of yet severely hampered my way of life.
I had blind spots and I didn't know it was a migraine for the longest time. I saw doctors and even mentioned the headaches I get afterwards and they kept saying they were floaters. In high school, I was prescribed eye drops that had to be taken every two hours, and I had to cut out of most classes for two weeks IIRC. They happened more in my childhood, less often in high school, and now they're rare into adulthood. But the headaches are much more violent. Last year I was at work and started noticing the blind spots and my coworkers were completely taken aback. One of my bosses said "Ah, classic migraine" and I was like "Oh fuck off" because I thought he was minimizing my pain. Then I search online to find out that a classic migraine is an actual classification for migraines with visual precursors.
after reading through this thread i am starting to think that i may have been having migraines for the last year or so, much of the symptoms seem to explain several things i have been noticing
i've never experienced the second one
The freakiest shit with vision is still temporary blindness from exhaustion or getting up too fast.
Witnessing your field of vision drastically decrease until you see nothing but black for a few seconds is fucking weird.
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Also I thought everyone had visual snow ? I've never seen a flat color in my life because there's always a bit of noise disrupting it. Especially on pitch black or white surfaces (standing in complete darkness also makes it really prominent).
Reading through this thread makes me feel lucky the only visual impairment I have is a severe nearsightedness. :v:
I've never experienced these blind spots or auras people are talking about, and I almost never see visual snow.
The visual stuff rarely happens buts its a plus really, you get them before the headache and nausea kick in so if you're quick with taking a triptan the migraine never really starts.
In my experience, taking a triptan early preferably with a nasal spray or injection, makes all the difference in the world.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;51006998]A migraine [B]is[/B] a headache. A really bad ome. Most people who get migraines don't have visual disturbances.[/QUOTE]
Migraines vary a lot from person to person. Some people are lucky and only get a dull pain. I've occasionally been lucky enough to get those, but usually whenever I have a migraine it's like an icepick in my brain. The only difference I can tell is that the painful ones seem to be preceded by an aura.
I've had my first migraine 8 years ago. I was freaking the fuck out because I thought I was going blind but over the years you learn how to deal with it. At its worst for me I had one every month but since I've been taking a bit more care of myself (mostly sleeping more) I've had one maybe once a year. Plus I discovered that I could sleep through migraines to pretty much skip it (since I get auras beforehand I can prep for it). I still feel incredibly weak and exhausted afterwards as I usually would but at least I don't feel the pain and nausea that way.
Anyone else get a weird rippling spot/tunnelling when looking at a clear sky for a few seconds? It's so specific, only blue sky, that I have no idea what it is. Doesn't happen with other bright surfaces and sunglasses seem to prevent it.
[QUOTE=Gum100;51005294]I've recently started getting ocular migraines occasionally. For those who don't have them, it starts as a small blind spot, which grows into what looks like a slightly larger jagged tear in your vision, filled with static. Mostly just irritating, as I don't often get the headache that accompanies it.[/QUOTE]
I suffer from this and I find that a good meal and healthy dose of water and possibly a ibuprofen does trick. I mostly get ocular migraines when I am dehydrated or lacking a meal. Also, sensitivity to light can also trigger them so I recommend wearing sunglasses when going out on a bright day.
Yeah, it's usually a mix of stress, dehydration, hunger and lack of sleep that can trigger it.
Very interesting, I always wanted to find out what caused those geometric shapes (Phosphenes) but never really looked into it. As a kid, I would close my eyes and put a very light pressure on both with my fingers, and over a few minutes would let the shapes take form and just build and build. It was crazy - like some kind of insane screensaver where I was moving through this constantly shifting landscape of fractal patterns and starfields and geometric objects pulsating around me. And when you finally let off and your eyesight returns to normal, everything has this odd sepia tone about it.
Well, don't know if that was causing any harm but 20+ years later and now I'm 30 with still perfect eyesight haha. It's awesome finally having an answer to what that all is - as a kid I was sure this was only happening to me, no one seemed to know of it or talk about it. Neat!
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;51004992]i've been slowly figuring out that i have exploding head syndrome, but it wasn't the sound that made me realize that but the flashes of light. while lying in bed and drifting into sleep, i occasionally see what looks like a bright light flashed onto my closed eyelids and hear a fairly loud popping sound, like someone popped a plastic bag.[/QUOTE]
Never realized there's a word for that. I don't get the flashes, but sometimes just as I'm about to fall asleep I hear a very loud noise that usually sounds like an electric discharge, but sometimes it's just a random noise such as, as you said, a balloon or something popping
I've only ever had the exploding head thing happen to me once while i was walking in the hall in high school and everyone just looked at me when i stopped and stood there wondering what fuck just happened
I used to get visual snow a lot when I was in 11th grade. It looked like it was snowing all the time. I did drugs though so I thought it was because of that
[QUOTE=EpikEnvy2.0;51005003]Normally whenever I press my eyes too hard I see something like a giant cluster of stars that sort of breaks off. Eventually it looks like I'm flying through space (which a ten year old me would use for great amusement)
I really wish they talked more about visual snow. It's the most annoying thing for me - anything beyond four feet looks like a blizzard.[/QUOTE]
do you use drugs? you might have hppd
[QUOTE=josm;51010045]I've had visual snow since I can remember. It's always been there. I thought it was what everyone saw until recently.[/QUOTE]
I talked to my gf recently about this phenomenon. She doesn't have this visual noise at all and for me it's pretty extreme at night but it's easy to ignore.
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;51007902]I see visual snow really easy just by closing my eyes, strange she didnt mention that because the pitch blackness really helps it show up.
[b]Has anyone noticed how when you close one eye it kinda turns off more than displaying blackness. You don't really see anything, idk if that's just me though.[/b][/QUOTE]
that's incredibly good observation
[QUOTE=The Salmon;51023591]that's incredibly good observation[/QUOTE]
Likely your brain prioritizing the information it knows it can use
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I had a severe car accident at 8 that left me with crippling migraines that would feel like getting flat out stabbed above the eye with a rusty knife. I couldn't do anything when I got those and light was the most common trigger I had. If there was bright lights or strong flashes, almost sure thing I'd have one.
I took acid, or lsd at some point. Never had one since. I have no idea of the connection but that's what happened.
My dad has always had pretty bad migraines (i.e. if he knows one is coming he'll have to call in sick or get a taxi home and crash). My own experiences aren't as bad though, I get scintillating scotoma from everything from a growing mildly sparkly blind spot to a spiky rainbow tear in spacetime, which then grows and grows and goes away, all without any pain -- but I know within an hour or so the actual headache part of it hits. Headache is painful but not so bad I can't drive, but ALWAYS afterwards my brain feels bruised, and moving my head a little makes it feel like it is banging around in my head -- weird as fuck.
I'm 99% sure the ones I get are triggered by dehydration and sleep deprivation, easy to see them coming and anywhere from not getting them in a year to multiple in a month (I'm stupid sometimes when it comes to drinking water).
When I have low blood pressue and do something like get up from lying down suddenly, my entire vision turns black and only returns slowly.
[QUOTE=Gum100;51005294]I've recently started getting ocular migraines occasionally. For those who don't have them, it starts as a small blind spot, which grows into what looks like a slightly larger jagged tear in your vision, filled with static. Mostly just irritating, as I don't often get the headache that accompanies it.[/QUOTE]
When i get migraines, i see a blob of static out of the corner of my eye. It sucks dick.
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