

The second looks like little embers flying everywhere. The first and more common is similar to when you look ahead at a road and see the heat waves coming off only much closer. “ I have two different types of visual disturbances. “ Sometimes I’ll have blurred vision, or I’ll see stars – think the Christmas star come and go, or sometimes my depth perception goes flat and I may smack myself.” – Patricia E.ġ4. “ I have vestibular migraine and when I have an episode, it really feels like I wear dirty glasses! The ‘images’ are not clear, there black spots sometimes and looking at something can hurt deep inside my head because it feels like I have to really concentrate to see things clearly.” – Jessica R.ġ3. Then I got black and white zigzags covering the outer half of my vision. “I didn’t get visual disturbances until I was pregnant. It’s quite unnerving, but have since been told it’s called palinopsia.” – Lottie A.ġ1. If a hand moves in front of my face, I see the hand and then four or five outlines of the hand trailing behind. “ The only way I can describe my worst aura is similar to when you drag a mouse across a computer screen, and you get a little trail behind it of faint cursors. They start around my peripheral vision and work their way inwards.” – Liz F.ġ0. All of this happens in the span of about 20 minutes.” – Stephanie V. Usually, the pain hits after my vision returns to normal. Then, as the dark spot dissipates, I see what looks like an ever-expanding kaleidoscope until it expands beyond my peripheral vision.
#Kaleidoscope in peripheral vision license
Or, if I’m driving, I’ll won’t be able to see all of the letters and numbers on the license plate on car in front of me. For example, if I’m reading words on a page, I won’t be able to see a word or two. “ Typically, I get ocular migraines that are preceded by a dark spot in the middle of my line of sight. I also get dots of just black areas.” – Allégra E.H.Ĩ. “It looks like tunnel vision, my peripheral vision is blurred. I get these four to five times a week, and they can last for weeks.” – Monica Y.ħ. The pain at that point feels like red hot ice picks stabbing me in the head. If I don’t take mitigating action at this point, the multicolored flashing lights move to the center of my vision and look like a kaleidoscope. Then I get rings of flashing light around my periphery. “ First, my vision gets blurry, like looking through frosted glass. Little black snake-like things that move into and out of my vision.” – Jessie H.E.Ħ. “ Like a trail when something moves in front of me but also I see – I call them snakes – in my vision. It looks very similar to this only with brighter colors.” – Regina K.J.

It will take about 30 minutes for it to move and to go completely away. I cannot see much else through or around the vibrating zigzag cycle, and I usually have that searing left temple pain. It morphs its shape as it moves from one eye’s visual field to the other… until it is completely gone. Every so often, I will get a very strange vibrating zigzag cycle shape filled with all different colors. When this happens, the searing pain in my left temple can be immediate or can take up to a day to occur. “ Most of the time, I get a pinpoint of bright light or multiple pinpoints of light that look like fireworks. “ Once I was having lunch with a couple of coworkers and suddenly the head of one of them started to ‘melt.’ It was so frightening and bizarre… That was the first time and it happened a few times after that.” – Claudia G.ģ. “When a migraine is starting for me I see what only can be described as purple fluffy caterpillars wandering across my vision and lights look like stars.” – Emily E.Ģ. Here’s what our community shared with us:ġ.
