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why the fuck am i getting psychedelic visuals in my ordinary visual field with my eyes open
@hikari perhaps as in scintillating scotoma?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
It often gets (confusingly) referred to by various other names.
I've been having these for years, happy to discuss if this seems to be what you're experiencing.
@geraldew fascinating… i doubt it was this, but it's interesting information, so it's appreciated
@hikari I'd certainly wished I already knew about it _before_ it happened the first time.
However I'm lucky that back in the 1980s I'd read extensively about how the visual-brain system works so I somewhat figured out what was happening.