[tom2123]

Does anyone get these? Like flashes of light, blue sparkles or dots, colored spots, etc?

[MobiusPsyche]

I do but for me they're related to migraines.

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Yeah I do - plus blurred vision, seeing heat, and occasionally losing the ability to process what Im seeing. (Like losing the ability to read, or to understand numbers or money).

[tom2123]

Thanks guys

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by tom2123

Does anyone get these? Like flashes of light, blue sparkles or dots, colored spots, etc?

my flashes of light, blue sparkles, dots spots are part of my having MS and migraines medication problems and psychosis (visual hallucinations) usually contacting my treatment providers and adjusting my medications take care of this problem for me.

my dissociative visual disturbances are things like seeing things and knowing whats real but feeling as if they are farther away or closer to me than they really are. seeing things that are really around me but not connecting that they are there. like knowing that coffee table is right there but end up stubbing my toe on it anyway because my mind was not fully aware and making a judgement of distance. knowing the floor is a flat surface but ....feeling... like it is tilting to one side or another. knowing the windows are stationary but.... feeling... like they are moving, warping in and out of shape like circus mirror does to objects.

my suggestion is if this continues bothering you, contact your treatment providers. they can assess whether this problem is a neurological\physical mental or normal problem for you and get you treated for it so that it doesnt continue happening for you.

[finding_my_way]

i would consider getting your eyes checked if you haven't. sometimes it can be how your brain and eyes process/see light or could be something else like potential retinal detachment or another eye issue.

i have floaters in my eyes and sometimes also see things out of the corners of my eyes, lights, what i think are things (shadows) moving (sometimes think it's my cat when it's not), and other random things.

but i'd have your eyes checked just in case it is something else and not dissociation related.

[thephilosopher6]

Sometimes when I have panic attacks I see weird stuff similar to what you have described. Also, I remember I had a really bad panic attack one time while smoking weed and it looked like strobe lights were going off in my vision. It freaked me out and I literally hid under my covers and closed my eyes.

[cheshiregrins]

I do! I get these sparkles/flashes in my peripheral vision. I thought it was from the Topamax I was taking but I just upped my dose and it has been gone for awhile, so it's really not related to that after all. What it is, is when I'm experiencing hyperarousal when I'm triggered. It's really crazy! (And I have had my eyes checked recently and they're totally fine.)

[flockpride]

Migraines. Sometimes only ocular with no head pain.

[peaches100]

The visual problem I have is that I don't notice obvious things in my visual environment that normal people do. For example, I can sit and talk to someone for 1 hour, and then go away and have no idea what they were wearing. I can go to someone's house several times and still not remember exactly how to get there. I sometimes don't notice familiar faces if I don't see them in the same environment I am used to seeing them. I can walk past object and sometimes people and not realize they were even there.

I have had my eyes checked, and there is nothing wrong with my actual vision. It's some kind of awareness problem. It gets much worse when I get triggered or am under stress...

On the flip side, I work as an Editor, and I can focus and concentrate on minute details and catch almost all errors when I am doing that. (But then I don't notice anything else around me.)

[TrailRunner14]

Originally Posted by peaches100

The visual problem I have is that I don't notice obvious things in my visual environment that normal people do. For example, I can sit and talk to someone for 1 hour, and then go away and have no idea what they were wearing. I can go to someone's house several times and still not remember exactly how to get there. I sometimes don't notice familiar faces if I don't see them in the same environment I am used to seeing them. I can walk past object and sometimes people and not realize they were even there.

I have experienced all of these. I'm not sure if it has to do with being triggered or not.

I am extremely directionally challenged, even sometimes when it's been to places that I have been before. If I'm going somewhere I've not been before, I'll put the address in the navigation system of my car and follow that. I still usually get into a panic and think it's wrong, and that results in me getting lost anyway! Yikes!! Actually I was going to drop something off in a friend's mailbox last week. I've been there several times, and dropped things off before. There are 2 entrances to her neighborhood... I couldn't remember which one it was. When I figured that out, I couldn't remember which house it was. Finally, I was her van in the driveway. That kind of shook me up. It WAS an "off" day that day. I do remember that.

Remembering people's clothes.. Unless it's something really out there... no. I have a hard time remembering what I wore yesterday.

Faces.. I have a really hard time with that too, if they are not in their normal "place" and out of the element I usually see them in. I'll see someone out in public and have an anxious argument with myself whether it's that person or not. I usually try to dodge the person because I can't decide if it's them or not. If they see me first and call my name, then I know it's them. It's not that way with everybody. I'm not sure what the factor is that determines it.

I've also gone into places that I've been several times and saw a door and questioned myself if it had always been there.

[finding_my_way]

Originally Posted by TrailRunner14

I have experienced all of these. I'm not sure if it has to do with being triggered or not.

I am extremely directionally challenged, even sometimes when it's been to places that I have been before. If I'm going somewhere I've not been before, I'll put the address in the navigation system of my car and follow that. I still usually get into a panic and think it's wrong, and that results in me getting lost anyway! Yikes!! Actually I was going to drop something off in a friend's mailbox last week. I've been there several times, and dropped things off before. There are 2 entrances to her neighborhood... I couldn't remember which one it was. When I figured that out, I couldn't remember which house it was. Finally, I was her van in the driveway. That kind of shook me up. It WAS an "off" day that day. I do remember that.

Remembering people's clothes.. Unless it's something really out there... no. I have a hard time remembering what I wore yesterday.

Faces.. I have a really hard time with that too, if they are not in their normal "place" and out of the element I usually see them in. I'll see someone out in public and have an anxious argument with myself whether it's that person or not. I usually try to dodge the person because I can't decide if it's them or not. If they see me first and call my name, then I know it's them. It's not that way with everybody. I'm not sure what the factor is that determines it.

I've also gone into places that I've been several times and saw a door and questioned myself if it had always been there.

i wonder if some of this is actually normal though maybe sometimes mixed with dissociation. surely most people cannot remember minute details? lol

i can relate to the face and clothes thing as well. but i'm not good with details like that clothes wise anyway. when i have panic or anxiety issues and lose someone i am with when out in public, people's faces blend together and i dissociate, so it causes more issues, and i have a hard time figuring out who is who out of all the people and who i am supposed to be looking for. it is really scary.

there was a time years ago someone recognized me, and i had no idea who they were. i think i might have met them once or twice but never figured out where. but that was times i had severe dissociation issues as well, so i can see why that would happen...and i don't remember people unless i talk to them a lot.

i have met several neighbors around my new place..i recognize their faces but no idea what their names are, yet they remember me.....maybe cuz i'm still 'new' and they have lived here for years though.

it's just like parts of my brain turn off or something, and connecting things just gets lost.

[TrailRunner14]

Originally Posted by tom2123

Does anyone get these? Like flashes of light, blue sparkles or dots, colored spots, etc?

I have seen these.

Sometimes I'm really stressed and trying to deal with what's going on in my head. I sit down, do the relaxed breathing exercises and totally clear my mind. Anything that tries to come to my thought I push down, and just breathe and try and not be.

That's when I see those flashes and lights. It's like they are stars really going past me. Usually, I experience flashes of images that I don't understand. Pictures and images, and I'm not sure what they are. There have been times that I've experienced very vivid images that were almost prophetic to what was going on in my life and what I was looking for an answer for.

Forgive me if that sounds too "deep" but I did want to answer you honestly. I have experienced those flashes of light and stars.