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Visual Anomalies
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Also known as: atypical visual disturbances · vision changes · abnormal visual perception · visual distortions · optical disturbances · flickering · double vision
Your Body Is Speaking
Flashes of light at the edge of your visual field. Floating shapes that move when you follow them. Sparks that flare up and vanish. Your eyes are showing you something that isn't there — at least not in physical space. You know that nothing is glowing, nothing is floating, nothing is flashing. And yet you see it.
Ophthalmology recognises various causes for such phenomena — vitreous opacities, retinal changes, circulatory disturbances, migraine auras. All of this is real and deserves investigation. But one question remains, one that is rarely asked: why now? Why these eyes? Why is your visual system showing you something you cannot make sense of?
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