I had written out a whole post then my phone refreshed the tab so…guess I’ll make an abbreviated version
do you experience visual snow (eyes open and/or closed) here’s a pic I drew https://imgur.com/a/j1bf3Ph if yes, do you also experience migraines or tinnitus?
do you know of / experience synesthesia? (One sensory experience triggers another - there are many types personally I have auditory tactile, misophonia and mirror touch) https://iep.utm.edu/synesthe/
do you know of aphantasia? can you describe your level of ‘seeing’ https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/
Apparently visual snow is supposed to be ‘rare’ but what does that even mean who is asking whom. I wonder if there is a connection between visual snow and certain levels of aphantasia.
Something that made this post come to fruition is that over the last few months maybe, I’ve noticed light wisps in my periphery mostly when outdoors but not always. I do have visual snow syndrome but this feels different. It almost is like if ‘seeing stars’ and ‘floaters’ had a baby. But it doesn’t feel like it’s in me. It’s not a ton of them and it’s not all the time, but with the small wisps I’ve caught on video it has me wondering.
I’ve also noticed more lights seem to have a halo these days. Different from an astigmatism halo/blur, and doesn’t seem to have any connection to migraines or the like. Light seems to be…brighter?
I’m curious to see what you guys see (and feel) and how senses connect. I’ve always been a bit hypervigilant but with everything in the world these days I’m interested to hear your experiences.
I experience visual snow, open and closed. Have had floaters my whole life, they piss me off... . I often see a bunch of random pixel tetris looking structure when i close and rub on my eyes. I have also experienced throughout my life seeing the air kind of move with a dark ish static specially when i was in my teenage years. I sometimes see a bunch of tiny sparks of light moving and zipping around my vision that leave tiny trails that vanish quickly, I gotta sit still to get a good look at them, they don't move in straight lines so it's almost like I'm seeing my light receptors firing or something. I also see a tiny flash of blue that is very quick when I have "aha!" moments. After I started practicing magick when I would look at a far away light without my glasses I swear I could see mandala like patterns, like the sri yantra, inside of the light ,they changed from day to day. The most trippy and hard to handle one is that when I'm outside in a doctor's office waiting for the appointment for example, when I look at the floor or the wall I see it moving and undulating, patterns that have alot of information and constrast on them like marble causes the effect to be more pronounced, and I am perfectly sober while this is happening. I do experience migraines and tinitus quite often.
I don't know what kind of synesthesia this would be but I have noticed I hear specific sounds in my mind from things that don't make sound, like touching your fingers one by one, or playing with a piece of paper. I will hear a sound when touching two fingers together and then the sound changes if I change which fingers are touching, or, the paper will make a sound from being creased or bent, they registers as instant and spontaneous.
My level of clarity when picturing and envisioning something is dependant on focus and on my third eye's health on a given day, most days with proper focus I can "see" with life like vision.
I don’t see visual snow, but I have personally experienced a few visual hallucinations, such as the edges of letters appearing bright for about 30 minutes after waking up from a Hemi-Sync session! Hope this helps 💛
wow another mind blowing post that gives me releif... I have had the visual snow for ever too. i would describe mine as tiny! prisms floating sparkling all over my field of vision. usually happens when my blood pressure is low and i think my brain may be a little O2 deprived. idk. I also get the random temporary "tinnitus" ringing in an ear mayne 1x/2x per month. Always thought it was just an auditory hair cell dieing. im thinking not now. and yes im hypervigilant as well. i feel clumsy and uncoordinated, yet when i drop shit i can usually snatch it quick before it hits the ground. i have worn glasses since 5th grade, so everything has a starburst to me lol.
Gratitude. love
edit* forgot to ask if anyone can "see between the pixels"? when their eyes are closed/no vision? idk how else to describe it, like its not all black?
I've also only recently become aware of the term visual snow despite having it for years. I saw a post or comment on reddit a month or so about how visual snow is actually a glimpse between the realms. Since then, while meditating with eyes open, I will unfocus them and kind of let the visual snow take over. It's almost like pulling back the curtain, the air absolutely comes alive. I've always felt that the air was "dense" but this method allows me to see it. It does take practice and can cause headaches, so listen to your body and take lots of rest.
Additionally, I've always seen more to the air, not surr how else to describe it. My very first reddit post years ago was asking if others sensed that there was more to the air, or if they could feel it's density. There's always something moving, floating, flashing. Don't follow the wormholes though, I saw someone comment that and never forgot it.
My aphantasia is a level (degree?) one, so when I close my eyes it's like textured black, visual snow. I also use this with the meditation tip I spoke of above. After a while, I'll see eddies and sworls that take on a chartreuse like green, electric blue, deeper blacks. The longer I meditate, the more activity there is. Occasionally, I'll see a being begin to take shape and it always startles me no matter how hard I try. I communicate that hello, I have aphantasia so it's not you that startled me, but just seeing anything in general lol.
With both above I have recently noticed pinholes beginning to appear. Like little pricks of lightoff in the distance. I've also been experiencing the electric blue orb another user posted their artwork of. Mine takes on a more vertical blob like shape, for lack of a better word.
Recently I've been experiencing some visions, or maybe memories? I see these, and this lifetimes memories (the few I've managed to hold on to) in the back or middle of the head, similar to where you get the telepathy tingles. It's less an image and more a knowing, if that makes sense.
Driving at night is a no go, my eyes have been going NUTS but I figured it was time for a new eye exam. The halos, super bright, but also like my eyes are struggling to stay rooted in this dimension.
Thank you for bringing this up! I’m really interested in the wisps you see. I have a couple of permanent floaters but nothing like what you’re describing. They’re only ever in your peripheral vision?
Yes, I have always had “visual snow” but I didn’t know about that term until a few years ago. I’ve always described it on my own as being able to see the air moving, or see energy moving. It’s most intense when looking at the sky.
I have misophonia with very specific mouth sounds. Crunching is a big one… depends on my baseline stress level.
I can see images perfectly clear in my mind’s eye. I can also use my sense of touch there, like I can imagine myself eating a cold apple and I can feel it and see it in waking life detail. This is something I recently discovered because of meditation.
One thing that is interesting is that time is very clearly different in my mind’s eye. If I picture a movement, say I toss an apple onto a table. That movement will happen multiple times, all at once, like echoes, and some of the movements will change slightly. Like my mind is “playing out” all of the possible ways the apple could land. I am really curious if anyone else experiences this because it has been hard to get used to with meditation, but I’ve started to accept it as my mind’s natural way of being.
Very interesting. Do you believe in some way you get to "peer" into the other side and higher dimensions/forces etc. from time to time?