weird appearings in da eye ?

[BrainEater]

Hey !!!

Do you know that when you feel physically like you could/would drop because of exhaustion there appear some stars flying around or really glowing / shining white dots which fly in your view?? its not on drugs.. it's just like that but i mean i think it's quite common speaking of seeing stars when passing out??

the other thing i had is when it's bright outside but not too bright and there's a blue sky and i'd look in the sky and i'd see when not moving my eyes little points with "kind of" a texture floating in a direction.... when moving the eyes the tiny points would change direction or disappear, but i could never let them stand still and watch them. also they were transparent.

anyone has experienced such or knows what it is or how it can be eplaind ?? :lol:

PEACE! :weedman:

 

[gammagoblin]

I guess you're describing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow

And yes, I also have it. Always had it since I can remember.

 

[BrainEater]

ahh interesting... well i didn't have it for long... but for me it was more often when it was really bright and not dark.

mmh and the star thing? you know that? the mind preparing for unconsciousness? cuz i mean as you see the stars it's often likely to pass out.

peace!

 

[VerusDeus]

I also have it on bright days only, mostly when I look at the sun to directly.

What exactly do you mean with the star thing? the snow? Because I don't think that has anything to do with the mind preparing for unconsciousness at all.

Also, I think i've had the star thing eversince I fell on my head really hard while skateboarding :lol: I really saw stars after that :retard:

 

[BrainEater]

nono hehe by the star thing i mean more like really shiny white dots moving around in the visual field and by shiny i mean shiny! thats why i chose the word stars for em.

 

[Soulcatcher]

If you mean clusters of brown dots moving around the area where you are not looking, i also have it.. I believe it was something related to a dried out membrane which starts to crackle a bit, it is not permanent.

edit: the easiest way to see them is in a bright room/background.. nothing psychedelic though 8)

 

[Nathaniel]

I've had this as long as i can remember,actually one of the first questions I asked my mother as a child was "what are all these sparkly colored dots flying around in my room?" (right after she had put me to bed and turned the light off,she didn't see 'm and did not have an answer).
Many years later in highschool I met this girl who was into all kinds of spiritual stuff.I talked to her about it and she said it is "pure energy". I don't really bother wat it is any more,I just enjoy the spectacle when I have the time. When I look at it a long time the colours become more alive,and also seem to cluster toghter..moving in clouds and streams...kinda like ink in water

it's beautiful

 

[hippietrhggr]

braineater i know what u are talkin about about the vision thing with the things floating. i have that too but a bit different i would see what u could call a fence but transparent and it was moving away into like a dot. i have had that for my life. and when i was little i thought i had super powers. haha

 

[Brugmansia]

I have that with a dot in my vision, when I try to point my eyes at that grey dot it moves somewhere else to the outer side and it's nearly impossible to get it in the middle of my vision. I'm always trying in vain to follow and catch it, haha.

 

[GOD]

I get them as well .I asked about it and was told that sometimes they come because the fluid in your eyballs is not totaly clear . Other times its because of standing up to fast , like vertigo when you have been smoking and dont have enough sugar in your blood . Or because you have had a knock on the head . If you dont look at them directly , just concentrate on them through the corner of your eye with your mind you can hold them for much longer .

 

[No-Key]

I see this sort of thing all the time.
The visual snow I usually see on bright sunny days, and it looks like a flurry of insects or snow in the clear blue sky.

Other times I see intense variations with colors, but that's almost only when I stretch of open my eyes after meditation.

 

[????????]

I don't like how wikipedia states it as it were some kind of disease. A lot of you have said they see such things since little, me too, in fact I have always liked it. If you stand by a sun lightsource, like the trail of light that enters through a window (in the morning) and look at the beam light and squint a bit you can see it more clearly. The easiest way is seeing through a microscope and getting your eyelashes in between, then you'll see those same things.... what they are?? When little I used to wonder these things, where were they: in the light or in the room? or in my eyes? or my head?

Could they be some sort of noise in our vision?? noise as in like leftovers from the information transmission process.

Also I didn't like that wikipedia gives reasons for it, like taking hallucinogens, that's bullshit I think anyone is able to see these things, if they happen to be in the right circumstances, as people here can attest.

BreainEater, I've seen the stars you talk about. They are like shiny points that appear and disappear very quickly, like shooting stars, and I like them very much. A method of getting them is sneezing really hard with your nose covered

So what the hell is this phenomena??? glitches in the human vision system or something like that?

 

[st.bot.32]

Well you can never really rely on wikipedia. This article is chock full of poor English grammar to begin with and seems pretty amateur.

I've noticed "visual snow" for as long as I can remember. When I was a little kid I asked my dad what all that static was in the dark, and he just thought it was normal. As for those little blobs you see sometimes, they are called floaters, you can look it up on google. I've noticed them all my life as well. I've also seen the little glowing lights, I always thought it was just caused by a lack of oxygen going to the brain, as it happens to me after sudden strenuous exercise, sometimes after sex or standing up too fast. "Seeing stars."

But I've always been very aware of my senses, decades before I took hallucinogens. Joe Sixpack pays no attention to his perception of the world around him and doesn't notice this kind of stuff. I think that LSD, psilocybin just break down certain filters that people have and cause them to be more aware of their senses. And HPPD sounds like a lot more than just seeing visual snow, besides being a pretty rare phenomenon (although really, very under-researched and not to be taken lightly).

Oh yeah just to note, if visual snow becomes really intense and consistent, it can be a sign of macular degeneration which is a serious medical condition that can lead to blindness, but usually happens progressively over a period of years/decades and is genetic (and certainly not triggered by hallucinogens).

 

[Guest]

i also have those little dots that look like they are made of glass, floating around, and sometimes another stuff appears, like cobwebs and strange stuff. i also have visual snow, it is pretty intense when i don't eat properly, like skipping breakfast.
i have had those since i was 12 or 13, so it was before i started experimenting with drugs and entheogens. at first, it bothered me very much, and i always thought it was some kind of disease. then, the doctor said it was stress (i can't belive a doctor, don't know why...perhaps i distrust them because i knew many persons that started studying medicine and can't trust them as well). i still have them, but since i stopped paying attention to it, it almost dissapeared. but i still have two little dots that never dissapear and are connected to one another, like an 8. i call them "chip and dale", as i love those characters (see the pic below)

 

[Dantediv86]

^lol is just that the pressure of the blood that flows through your eyes rises or drops and therefore the nerves react to that so you are basically seing the pulse of your veins. i had it since i can remember and because i suffer from pressure drops i really had quite some a time standing up fast to get htem and then realx and enjoy myself on the sofa almost passing out. yeas you get them every time you are almost passing out or doing drugs or you are hit. once i was attacked by them after a HUGE hit from a joint and they started like i was sinking in polystirene beads, i freaked out of course. but now i'm used to (h)it
never trust a doctor, educate yourself in medicine...

 

[HappyMind]

I have it on bright days.
They look like little tiny bright dots that fall down, almost like some kind of bacteria.
They are round shaped and in the middle less bright then the outside stroke.

 

[Dantediv86]

Xactly!!

 

[ararat]

yeah I know that too. I think everybody has this, more or less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

 

[Psychoid]

I always thought it was little particles of dust on our eyes that we usually dont see but we can notice it in some lighting conditions...

 

[Dantediv86]

nnope i guess it's not a case of floater...that i see only when i use microscopes