I have visual snow. I see clouds of color, flashes that tend to form patterns, and sometimes vague images forming, rotating patterns, or cyclical geometrical state changes that tend to loop.
Sometimes there is profound grain, sometimes not. One thing has changed, I used to get streams of lines moving from right to left across my whole field of vision, even after opening my eyes. It would take around a second and a half to reach the other side, and happened roughly every 4 seconds. It wasn't bright white, but more of a dark brownish-yellow color. Also will occasionally have my whole vision fill with bright white-blue dots that learn slight trails and move around like termites or fireflies in my vision, then recede. This also, rarely happens anymore, but the former was noticeable after waking.
Probably have a heart defect or some kind of aneurysm. Gadolinium contrast MRI(3T) showed no such thing though.
Nolan Hall
Is this common? It seems that quite a few people on this thread have it.
Joshua Anderson
I don't know. It wasn't when I first realized it wasn't how other people saw, for whatever ability I have to figure actual prevalence based on that (more or less none).
There is a small incidence of people reading the description and confusing normal visual noise when they're relying more heavily on their rod cells, for visual snow. And ignoring trails, exaggerated positive / negative afterimages, appearance of rotating patterns in the center visual field on viewing a bright monochromatic surface at a given distance. Some lighting is outright disorienting because everything of high contrast leaves a long trail behind it, but is also separated into steps. Ears ringing, etc.
Low precision PET studies show hypermetabolism in the left lingual gyrus and right anterior cerebellum, relative to controls.
It does appear to be becoming more common. My grandmother developed it in her 80's and described it as the walls having billions of tiny holes. My father had something similar. I do not remember if I developed it or always had it. Digital over the air TV being rolled out correlates with this time table, though probably spending some time in a faraday cage could kind of rule this out.
Matthew Roberts
He literally said the same thing for his speech on the Avenged Sevenfold - Exist song
Jayden Powell
sometimes I see weird, swirling patterns
sometimes i see what appears to be little blobs (like amoebas or something) moving around.
it's really disturbing and freaks me out, so i don't like to look at it. so i always keep my room pitch dark and always fall asleep as quickly as possible.
Leo Allen
>being enraged instead of amused by his pretentiousness You just gotta learn to chill, user.
Ryder Anderson
I see this image
Xavier Green
Not shit inactivly. I still have a great imagination tho and I create the weirdest machines and objects while I'm falling asleep. Sometimes shit can get kind of morbid and I'll be like tearing apart someone's spinal cord or ear canal if I cant help it
John White
When I close my eyes all I see is the inside of a nigger's bottom.
