brigdh: grison-in-labs: sans–seraph:
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brigdh:
grison-in-labs:
sans–seraph:
I’ve definitely started seeing things lately and that’s fucking alarming, but googling hallucinations says most “normal” hallucinations are complex, like, things. People. Animals. Things.
I just kinda get… wiggly spots. Like the backdrop my vision is being projected on got poked or ruffled in a breeze. The things I see are the things I’m supposed to be seeing, just… off. I once thought the cat was under my blanket because it was shifting like something was crawling around under it. Sometimes I see angry scribbles (you know, when a cartoon character is angry, and the artist puts a little scribble over their head? yeah…) that I mistake for spiders.
Apparently that all but shouts migraine, but I don’t get headaches often, and they’re never really that bad. When I do get headaches, they’re easy to dismiss as “I need more coffee!” headaches.
Yeah, most of what we think of when we think hallucinations are probably fuckups happening in the brain between sensory response pathways and other, more socially or emotionally relevant shit. This ain’t that. (Obligatory “the brain is not a camera” comment here, I guess.)
This smells like you’ve got something weird happening either at the level of your eye itself–have you been to a optometrist lately?–or within the optical processing pathway itself. Weird.
Anyone in my feeds know more about human brains?
Are they similar to the little moving dots and lines that are common after you’ve rubbed your eyes or walked into a very brightly lit room? A sudden abundance of these “floaters” or random flashes of light could be a symptom of your retina detaching, which is painless and so you don’t get a lot of other symptoms at first. I’d recommend seeing an eye doctor to make sure it’s not that, since it’ll eventually lead to blindness if untreated, and that would be bad!
I used to get ocular migraines, which had no headache at all but were just bouts of weird light hallucinations– phantom trails like I’d looked at a bright light, spots in my vision where I couldn’t focus, weird diagonal stair-step lines of brightly-colored sparkles like Christmas lights. It was weird and eerie, and in my case, happened when I’d sustained hard falls with rotational force. (Roller derby.)
I never did see a doctor; they stopped happening once I stopped subjecting myself to that kind of rotational force (certain falling drills my coach loved making us do….
My younger sister had one once, though, and her insurance paid for her to go see an eye doctor to make sure it wasn’t a detaching retina, so. That’s a good idea.
But don’t freak out, it might just be ocular migraines or something. Just. Get that looked at.
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brigdh:
grison-in-labs:
sans–seraph:
I’ve definitely started seeing things lately and that’s fucking alarming, but googling hallucinations says most “normal” hallucinations are complex, like, things. People. Animals. Things.
I just kinda get… wiggly spots. Like the backdrop my vision is being projected on got poked or ruffled in a breeze. The things I see are the things I’m supposed to be seeing, just… off. I once thought the cat was under my blanket because it was shifting like something was crawling around under it. Sometimes I see angry scribbles (you know, when a cartoon character is angry, and the artist puts a little scribble over their head? yeah…) that I mistake for spiders.
Apparently that all but shouts migraine, but I don’t get headaches often, and they’re never really that bad. When I do get headaches, they’re easy to dismiss as “I need more coffee!” headaches.
Yeah, most of what we think of when we think hallucinations are probably fuckups happening in the brain between sensory response pathways and other, more socially or emotionally relevant shit. This ain’t that. (Obligatory “the brain is not a camera” comment here, I guess.)
This smells like you’ve got something weird happening either at the level of your eye itself–have you been to a optometrist lately?–or within the optical processing pathway itself. Weird.
Anyone in my feeds know more about human brains?
Are they similar to the little moving dots and lines that are common after you’ve rubbed your eyes or walked into a very brightly lit room? A sudden abundance of these “floaters” or random flashes of light could be a symptom of your retina detaching, which is painless and so you don’t get a lot of other symptoms at first. I’d recommend seeing an eye doctor to make sure it’s not that, since it’ll eventually lead to blindness if untreated, and that would be bad!
I used to get ocular migraines, which had no headache at all but were just bouts of weird light hallucinations– phantom trails like I’d looked at a bright light, spots in my vision where I couldn’t focus, weird diagonal stair-step lines of brightly-colored sparkles like Christmas lights. It was weird and eerie, and in my case, happened when I’d sustained hard falls with rotational force. (Roller derby.)
I never did see a doctor; they stopped happening once I stopped subjecting myself to that kind of rotational force (certain falling drills my coach loved making us do….
My younger sister had one once, though, and her insurance paid for her to go see an eye doctor to make sure it wasn’t a detaching retina, so. That’s a good idea.
But don’t freak out, it might just be ocular migraines or something. Just. Get that looked at.
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