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Participant _43 Vision explanation
I started seeing a white spotlight, a silver globe, and tears, in my vision.
I would see them sitting in my chair at night where I watch TV in the dark. They would light up my eye. It was like a show going on with them all moving around. It would last for anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. And then they kind of just went away.
I was not having great feelings when the visions were occurring. I was processing a sisters “illness”. For me it was “grief” related. Once I realized that she’s a Buddhist, and she wasn’t upset about it, then I don’t get to be upset about it either. That’s how I kind of processed it.
Participant _60 Vision explanation
Initially, I saw little 3D speech bubbles for about 6 months. They then changed into smudges for a couple months, like someone trying to erase something. Then they became electronic waves which have been around for a long time. These luminous wriggly snakes that twist and turn incessantly. They are exhausting and frustrating to deal with—just a lot of lines, multiplying from hundreds to thousands, tiring me out most of the time.
This has been happening for three or four years now. At first, I thought it was due to epilepsy medication, but stopping the medication only made my brain more active. They say losing your sight strengthens other senses; while my hearing hasn’t improved, my memory has dramatically sharpened. Why do I get these electronic visions? Perhaps it’s because I taught computing, and still use computers often. I believe my experience with technology has shaped these hallucinations.
Whenever my vision changes, everything worsens tenfold. There’s a chair in my backyard where I go to find peace and look at my garden’s green and blue hues.