Aura Eye Symptoms – Have You Seen THIS?!
Migraine aura can be a lot of things, but aura eye symptoms, or specifically visual disturbances, are what most people think of when they think of migraine aura.
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These visual auras typically last only a few minutes, and come right before the headache phase of the attack (if there is a headache phase – see migraine headache aura).
But these aura eye symptoms can vary drastically from person to person. Here are some of the types of aura that migraineurs have described, from Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within:
- Uniform flashes of light
- bubbles
- clouds
- splotches
- specks
- dots
- zig zags
- crosses
- herringbone patterns
- geometric shapes (polygons, rectangles, triangles, etc)
- arcs
- fortification patterns
- angled or star-shaped sphere
- curved shapes
- circles
- spiderwebs
- lattices
- veinlike shapes
- nets
- checkerboards
- grids
- tunnels
- spirals
- kaleidoscope shapes
- mosaics
This is a very simplified and incomplete list. For one thing, patterns may be a combination of the above.
It should also be noted that these hallucinations may be moving. Most often they will grow over the course of a few minutes. The hallucinations may also move with your eye movement.
Also, there are complex hallucinations, such as seeing numbers and letters, or even animals, people, and imaginary creatures.
There are also changes in perception that go far beyond these kind of aura eye symptoms – such as the perception that things are closer or father away than they appear.
We’re only starting to understand why these migraine auras take place. A part of the answer is the cortical spreading depression, a spreading storm of lower activity and hyperactivity that tends to be a part of the migraine chain-reaction. When the storm reaching parts of your brain that relate to vision, at least some of these types of aura eye symptoms occur.
These disturbances are telling us more and more about what migraine is. But in the mean time, the answer for most people is to treat migraine as a whole.
If you have new symptoms, or your symptoms change, that’s the time to talk to your doctor. Although these aura eye symptoms may be an indication of migraine, they may also be related to other conditions.
Be sure to talk to your doctor who knows your medical history, and give her as much detail about your symptoms as you can.
Have you experienced any of the above disturbances? Or some not listed? Tell us about them!
27 June 2012 @ 9:41 pm
I get a jagged-edged, undulating flashing circle that starts as a speck and then grows. I’m tipped off it’s about to happen when I look at a face and can’t see half of it. It lasts thirty minutes and then the headache starts. I can even see this aura with my eyes closed in a dark room.
Strong and lasting deja vu is sometimes a warning sign as well, the day before. The sensation will last over several moments. I’ve also had the odd sensation that I was coexisting side-by-side with a dream world that would reveal itself if I opened a door or could “notice” well enough. That one freaked me out until I realized it was a neurological symptom of migraine.
13 February 2016 @ 8:27 pm
That’s what I always got, only now I still have the visual disturbances but the headache is nowhere near as strong. Sometimes I’ve even had visual disturbances following only a mild headache. I find it strange but am delighted that I rarely have a full blown migraine anymore. I have to be careful of flashing lights and bright lights such as visiting the dentist. I wear sunglasses in summer and have flux installed on my computer. Controlling the light I am exposed to cuts down on migraines in my case. Maybe it’s all related somehow.
29 May 2017 @ 6:14 pm
I get the auras but at the same time I also get the tunnel vision. So I lose my perepherual as well as people’s faces.
Sometimes a headache comes with (most of the time) and then sometimes I only get the visual.
It is very disorientatung to say the very least.
I’ve also had troubles (most of my life with bright lights and pupil diolation).
M pupils don’t react like they should at most times.
If it’s too bright I can’t even open my eyes and in the dark they don’t get as big as most.
It really sucks ass.
Glad to know it’s not just stroke symproms. Lol
7 October 2020 @ 6:30 am
How long do your vision affected?
28 June 2012 @ 9:34 am
I sometimes have flashes of little stars. But more often I have the “Alice in Wonderland” feeling of either being too big or too small (supposedly Lewis Carroll suffered from migraines so perhaps he had experienced this). Kind of goes along with the change in perception: things being too close or too far away.
5 September 2013 @ 12:42 pm
Katrina-I have temporal lobe epilepsy with symptoms exactly as you describe. I have migraine aura’s as well. Please have the perception/distortion symptoms checked out! As if in a dream state, comes on in an instant, too big/small, too close/far away, too loud/quiet. It is rather unnerving. Good luck to you!
28 June 2012 @ 9:44 am
Ever since I was a very young child, I get visual aura with about 10% of my migraines. It starts with a tiny “blind spot,” which when I realize that it means aura is starting, makes me feel quite anxious and depressed (I call this “down the rabbit hole;” I think Lewis Carroll might have experienced the same thing?) This begins to flicker, very intensely, as bright as the light from arc welding. The edges have very sharp points that undulate and flash and grow. Gradually the shape spreads and changes, sometimes C-shaped, but also can be round, oval or geometric. As it grows, the central area is grey-out, blurred and “empty.” This is present whether my eyes are closed or open, whether the room is dark or light. Eventually, after 30 minutes or longer the bright flashing jagged patterns spread to the edge of my visual field and I’m left feeling wiped out, almost like I’ve been to a workout (but not in a good way), and my vision is dazzled and strange. The migraine then follows.
9 January 2013 @ 3:27 am
This is my aura described exactly. when you first see the dot, you star to panic, have cold sweats and a sense of dread because you know what is to follow.
25 August 2017 @ 8:35 am
Exact same symptoms as described here! My aura just passed and I’m exhausted! Sometimes pain follows but not always.
I’m not sure the cause or my triggers. Thankfully, this doesn’t happen frequently! One a year sometimes two. But when it happens, I get anxious because I know what’s coming and I need to take something and get in a dark room.
18 January 2016 @ 12:20 pm
Hi, this is exactly what I get, mine usually last about 20 mins and I’ve had it about 6 times, first one was in July 2015. So I’m averaging 1 a month. What do you do about it? Is there any treatment? Thanks in advance.
8 November 2016 @ 12:16 pm
What’s always worked for me is taking children’s motrin. Adult motrin in pill form works too, but childrens motrin activates faster since it’s liquid
28 August 2017 @ 11:50 pm
BC powder works too!
7 September 2017 @ 9:38 am
I have found that if I take 2 extra strength Tylenol anytime during the visual aura I will not feel the pain of the migraine. However if I don’t take the Tylenol in time and the pain starts there is not a drug I have tried that will stop it. And I found out that some of my migraines are caused by dehydration. I was drinking a lot of fluids (sodas, tea) but not water and once I started drinking water the migraines went from one a week to one every 6 months (and those were from cricks in my neck).
30 July 2019 @ 6:38 pm
Today I experienced the jagged “C” which appeared only in the left eye. It was bright like a welding torch and even had some yellow in it. It has been three years since I last experienced something like this. It lasted 30 minutes and slowly made its way to the periphery of my left eye. It’s quite warm today (30 degrees celsius) and I just finished eating a pizza when it happened. `I sat quietly for 30 minutes and then it went away.
28 August 2017 @ 11:54 pm
Thank you Claire.
You have described it perfectly. Except The migraine is just a bruised feeling on the top right side of my brain that only hurt when I cough, sneeze or bend over to pick something up.
2 March 2018 @ 4:54 pm
A spoke to my neurologist told about coughing and then feeling the pressure of a headache because of this, my neurologist order CT head scan. He mentioned the headache sensation after coughing can be signs of an aneurism…scary!!
16 January 2018 @ 5:06 pm
I’m so glad others are having the same thing as I am it’s very scary, I would get them once or twice a year but yesterday and today have been the strangest. I started with one yesterday afternoon and after it went away I got lucky and didn’t get a migraine with that then not even 10 minutes later I got another one the bright C shape or oval sharp edged what I like to call squiggle or strobe light affect and again no migraine because I knew it was coming so I took Tylenol which worked . Then today I got two of them back to back, it’s got me scared has anyone had them back to back for two days straight?
1 March 2018 @ 5:34 am
I also het these started only last year i had one all year no follimg headache.
But this year i have had this happen 3 times in 2 weeks, all times have had a folling migraine. Its sooo scarey i last 2 times i have had a panic attack during ????
10 June 2018 @ 7:50 pm
I am here looking for information about this C shape with the squiggles. Usually happens when I have been out of cannabis for over 24 hours. I do not get migraines, so I do not think it is related to that. I just want to know what it is? And why it happens? It Is Scary and makes it very hard to SEE. It is always in the left eye and nothing makes it go away! NOTHING…it just finally does.
29 June 2012 @ 6:28 am
just recovering from yet another migraine. yes, i do see this type of visual disturbance…
30 June 2012 @ 8:11 pm
I have the aura BEFORE I get the migraine, and sometimes during it gets worse. Makes the nausea worse as it messes with my equilibrium.
30 June 2012 @ 8:31 pm
ryt now recovering yet another migraine…..really its too painful….:'(
6 July 2012 @ 11:27 am
I have zig zig, colorful lightening, black spots tunneling inward, and cloudy vision ‘aura’ 30 minutes to an hour prior to immobility, wishing I can just “sleep it off.” Sometimes have a tingling on one side of my face and head. Always left eye pain in my temple with every heartbeat. At least I know it’s time to prepare the ice pacs, meds, get still, quiet, and in a cold dark room.Tried almost every med available in the past 30 years. Mine last sometimes 2 to 3 days even on beta blocker and topamax. Once the vomiting starts, off to the hospital! It’s discouraging to come home from the hospital and STILL have the headache. When the migraine pain is gone I am left feeling like I have a hangover. Botox injections helped in mid ’90’s every 3 months. My neurologist has just turned me over to pain management now.
6 July 2012 @ 3:06 pm
When I get migraines, I get flashing lights in the centre of my vision that starts off small and get’s bigger, It is usually in my right eye only and once the vision returns that’s when the pain arrives. Just before I get the visual aura I get the feeling that my arms are not part of my body – a very strange feeling.
Very occasionally when I am experiencing the visual aura I get tingling and numbness that spreads, once was from the tip of my nose to my throat, I thought I was having some sort of stroke then!, but I have also experienced it in my finger tips going from one finger to the next.
It would be interesting to know what causes the tingling.
13 July 2017 @ 9:40 am
This is what happens to me. I get the zig zag lines in one eye, then seem to kind of lose vision all together. Then the tinigling almost numbing feeling starts in my finger tip and moves all the way up into my face and sometimes throat! I have noticed if I start drinking water when that is happening it helps. And I take a piece of ice and put it in my hand…try to calm myself because it freaks me out! But I wish I could stop it as soon as a feel/ see the eye thing! What do you do to help?
1 August 2012 @ 10:27 am
When I was a baby (while still in the cradle) I used to see a cascade of multicoloured stars falling down like a waterfall. I thought this was “normal” (I didn’t have the headaches then) until my teenager days when the nausea, vomiting and headaches started and the auras changed to golden zig-zags, blind spots and a half visual field filled with water. During adulthood it changed to a moving pattern, faces changing into other faces or geometric figures changing into other geometric figures. I still have them particularly when lying in bed and they get worse when I close my eyes (I have horizontal nistagmus when lying on my back). Now that I’m older : ( and experiencing abdominal auras and paresthesia, I sort of “miss” the eye symptoms 😮
1 August 2012 @ 10:51 am
I get a single small psychedelic coloured zig zag , like the symbol for a lightning flash, that gradually splits into several more zig zags, that grow and move in a floating fashion in my peripheral vision, gradually covering all but a small dot of vision in the centre of my eye. Sometimes in one eye only, sometimes both, and visible with eyes both shut and open.
They reach a peak after about 15 -25 minutes, then disappear slowly. Once they are completely gone the headache starts immediately.
I’ve had the zig zag aura on it’s own for about 15 years, but only began having the headaches as well about 6 months ago.
14 April 2014 @ 6:57 pm
I am starting to get an odd zig zag lightening arch. It lasted about 15 minutes. This has happened at least twice in the last month. I see it when I close my eyes. Then it fades. I do not have a headache at these occurrences.
I saw that you too had this for 15 years before getting headaches.
My question is; do you make an appointment with a regular medical doctor or the optometrist?
Thank you.
15 April 2014 @ 10:16 pm
I know you didn’t ask me, Dawn, but migraine is a neurological condition: You would want to make an appointment with your primary care doctor to 1) make sure it’s nothing else, especially if you’re older, and, 2) they can be a decent front line to getting you treatment, or establish a medical history. Good luck!
16 June 2014 @ 1:11 pm
Dawn-I have the same exact symptoms and have had these for about 15 years as well. No headache, and I usually feel fine afterwards even though it is an unnerving experience! One learns to live with them and mine are very sporadic…sometimes more than one a week, sometimes only one every 2 months. No clue as to what triggers them.
12 April 2016 @ 5:39 pm
I get the same. It is actually pretty cool, but has always annoyed me. I am glad that I know other people are experiencing this as well. It is annoying when you can’t work or see when going on, but sometimes I just try to enjoy the cool colors. Usually takes about 15 minutes to pass. I will try to see if it is related to a headache. Never thought of that before.
18 May 2017 @ 5:12 pm
I’ve had a few throughout my life. I’m 20. And first time I got one I was watching a distorted video on my phone in bed and it started with both eyes. Ended up thinking I was going blind haha. I don’t get migraines or anything like everybody mentioned above. I do get the feeling randomly especially if I’m talking to someone , they will grow and it seems as tho they are gigantic.. Real hard to have a conversation when they are like that and occasionally get the feeling where I’m really big.
The closest thing I can describe these aura migraines are an acid trip. Except acid doesn’t make me not be able to see haha. Its annoying because if your driving you have to pull over till it passes and your just sitting there halfway blind on the side of the road “trippin” out …..as I’m writing this that’s exactly what I’m doing haha .
30 July 2015 @ 4:53 pm
Dawn I have just had the same.. It went straight to the doctors. She wanted me to go to the emergancy department. I didn’t go I’m hoping that it’s nothing to serious.
I have had a dull headache at the front of my head now. That started after the gold zig zags.
Fingers crossed mine is a one off.. If not does anyone know if there are certain triggers ??
Kind regards
Clare
12 August 2017 @ 1:50 am
I get the peripheral vision loss with white bright star flaahing sign then headache starts had a ct scan with and without contrast they cant find a reason for it very few times if its bad enough i will have a small seizure not often doc put me on pills for migrain spent 3 days in hospital
29 August 2017 @ 12:08 am
Stress! My wife kneeds the stop between my shoulder blades just right of the spine. I didnt have an episode for 10 yrs. Her arthritis makes it difficult for her to really push down. I rely on a door jam or lay on the ground with a lime or tennis ball at the target point.
Spend the money for a good message. You deserve it!
5 August 2012 @ 1:08 am
My usual aura is a flashing light like small firecrackers exploding in front of my eyes. Sometimes blue-violet blobs when I am in a dark place. I also had a few episodes with negative scotoma (the blurred part being in squares). I also have seen checkerboards; doors rolling out like carpets! My earliest recollection of auras when I was a teenager were rounded lights like the stars on van Gogh’s Starry Night. I did not tell anybody because I was afraid they might think me weird.
8 November 2012 @ 12:13 am
I get a big aura in the middle of my eyesight and then the migraine, which will last for more than a few hours. My doctor told me to take Ibuprofen as soon as it starts but it just has no affect. Sometimes I go to sleep for about 4-5 hours and hope it has gone away. It seems to work most of the time but not always. I am only 23 and it is a big nuisance for me I don’t know what to do.
10 November 2012 @ 11:02 am
Kevin, it sounds like you need to be referred to a doctor that understands that migraines are different from headaches!
13 November 2012 @ 1:53 am
I have had this twice in the last month I am under an enormous amount off stress. This is the perfect image which is hard to describe to anyone. Could anyone tell me a little more to help me
Thankyou
29 November 2012 @ 12:41 pm
Mine unfortunately is persistent visual Aura – Patterns aren’t pretty or colored – purely “visual snow” similar to what you might see on an old B&W TV with poor reception. Have been battling this for 5+ years with a team of specialists. Testing (to date) picks up nothing abnormal. Visual acuity, particularly at night is awful. Migraines that I get appear to be independent of the aura – get migraines on average 2x a month.
17 December 2012 @ 1:16 pm
I’m lucky in that I have very mild migraines in terms of pain. However, my visual problems are sometimes bad enough that I can’t drive to work or have trouble walking without holding onto something. If I can close my eyes, I feel nearly normal. If I can’t, I never know if I can trust what I see. Are the lights really flickering? Are things really scampering across the walls and floors? Did I really see a hippo in our woods? (turned out that last one was definitely a hallucination, thank goodness.)
19 December 2012 @ 11:34 am
I see a spinning translucent circle a couple of hours before I begin to feel the onset of a migraine. I used to have about 2 migraines a week but in the past year it has diminished to 2 a month. I am not sure why – I have been trying a number of different approaches.
2 January 2013 @ 3:32 pm
Mine are zig zag patterns that start as a very small strobe-like pattern. The zig zag lightning eventually covers all of my vision and then the headache pain starts. Usually this aura last 30 minutes or so. Sometimes I don’t get a headache after the aura, but don’t usually chance it and almost always take meds at the first sign of aura. Hopefully some day they’ll find a cure for the aura.
7 January 2013 @ 11:01 pm
My neurologist started sending me to a Pain Clinic due to chronic migraines back in July. His botox treatments didn’t work any longer. The Pain Clinic first tried Myobloc injections and a Cervical Faucet Block due to disc injuries. The migraines continued. He added Percocet 10/325 mg. 3 times a day as needed. It helped, but migraines and vomiting continue at least three days a week. I have a neck injury from a car wreck with a lot of neck pain and muscle spasms the dr. believes could be starting the headaches. I told him I thought it was stress and weather changes causing them. Last week he changed my meds to methodone twice daily(I hate that – makes me sleepy.) At onset of migraine, spray SUBSYS 200 mcg under my tongue. IT WORKS!! Headaches gone within minutes!!! No quessiness, no vomiting, no ice pacs, going to bed in total darkness and quiet. I think I’ve found my cure for migraine with aura.
11 April 2017 @ 4:37 pm
Hi Debra. My daughter just experienced these frightening eye symptoms yesterday and it was so scary. Could you tell me what is SUBSYS spray mcg and how or where to get it? Thanks so much..Rebecca
16 January 2013 @ 10:37 am
I haven’t had an Aura in 19 weeks now with a self help treatment that I created. If interested, e-mail me…Barry in Pa.
19 January 2016 @ 5:36 am
Hi Barry, how do I contact u
Regards nicole
13 October 2013 @ 2:22 am
I get what looks like small bubbles like when you blow bubbles and they travel up just like a floating bubble. I usually get a full symptom migraine every 4-6 weeks but will have half a dozen or more silent migraines each month with just the bubbles or sometimes just the bubbles and nausea. Wish I knew more about why this happens
10 November 2013 @ 10:53 am
I’m a 47 year old male and I’ve had 2 of these ocular auras, but never any migraine involvement. The first was about 3 years ago while standing in my living room talking to a friend. The only way I can describe it is a kind of “electric ribbon” thats in a curved semi-circle. The colors are amazing, almost like they’re produced by a prism. And they’re moving, kind of tightly like an electrical arc. Its still visible when I close my eyes. The whole thing slowly moves out of my field of vision, to the left, until its gone. At the time I thought I was having a stroke. The most recent occurance was about 20 minutes ago. I had no other symptoms other than anxiety (I unlocked my apartment door in case I had to call an ambulance lol), and it seemed as if my stomach was a little upset afterwards…
15 September 2015 @ 3:30 pm
That is EXACTLY what I experienced, for the first time less than a week ago while traveling, and twice now since I have been home. I am trying to figure out a trigger to them, but so far no rhyme or reason. The first time was after a big day at Lake Tahoe in the sun, hiking, peddleboating, but I was relaxed and happy, waiting for my dinner at a restaurant. By the end of the meal the circle of light was so bright I couldn’t drive back to the hotel, and my boyfriend had to lead me to my bed because I really couldn’t see at all. The next time hit me randomly while chopping some vegetables in my kitchen, and the last time was upon waking. Each episode lasted about a half hour, with no headache/migraine, just a feeling of dread, and exhaustion afterwards. I wish there was more information out there!
25 July 2016 @ 2:40 pm
Mark, I have exactly the same problem…funny lighting jagged
or sometimes just curved lines of mult colored funny geometric
shapes…almost always start at the edges of my vision move
inward slowly, I usually feel dizzy also and a bit anxious (but
I seem to have an anxious to worrysome personality that I
work very hard to control) Im 62, worked all my life as a
science/math teacher, now work at IU, never really had a problem
till about 8 years ago. They are getting worse BUT I think I have
a cause. Food chemical additives such as MSG, Sorbates, all
nitrate and sulfate compound that our wonderfully corrupt
food industry puts in our food so it will keep for years and only
because they are greedy bastards that want all the money they
can make. However, these attack follow eating out most
of the time, the resturants will NOT tell you if they use preservatives
they always say ‘oh no’ we ‘never use that’ but they buy stuff
from vendors that do. Also, mine last 15 minutes to one hour,
and drinking tons of water helps. Fight hard to eliminate
food additives and good luck, Cody
6 December 2017 @ 1:19 am
You’ve described the symptoms I experienced last night. This was the first time I have ever had this. I used to suffer from migraines years ago (mainly stress induced!) with occasional aura, but never with such clear & vivid colours & shapes. Very unnerving! But thankfully, it passed within 15 minutes & occurred when I was just settling down to sleep & no migraine occurred, thankfully.
It’s now morning & I have no after effects. It’s comforting to know other people have experienced it too, with no serious implications.
15 January 2014 @ 2:50 pm
I’m a 44-year old male that just had an experience very similar to what Mark described (11/1013 @ 10:53am post). My occurrence began about an hour ago while I was driving back to the office from picking up lunch and continued until I returned to my desk and subsided when I was half done with eating. I’ve never had this occur before and i don’t have a migraine. I’ve previously had migraines but they have never been accompanied with visual aura. Anyone know what this could mean? Any input would be helfpul. Thank you. -Erik
19 January 2014 @ 12:46 pm
Erik,
These Auras are mostly benign & last between 20-30 minutes. I’ve had them for over 14 years & never get a headache from them. Had a Cat Scan & EEG & nothing wrong was found by my Neuro. I suggest check on the triggers that can cause the Aura. Mine is chocolate & there are other triggers that give me a problem, like bright/flickering lights, so I wear sunglasses in those instances. Facebook has a few Migraine Aura groups, if you would like to join, let me know….Barry
24 February 2014 @ 5:55 pm
Barry T.,
Thank you for the response and information. I will pay attention to triggers that cause this; I had another shorter one Saturday during a meeting (yes, work on Saturday; not usual) after eating a few low sugar animal crackers that my colleague offered.
I will look into what ingredients are in these type of animal crackers.
Thanks again for the information.
Erik
15 February 2014 @ 9:37 am
I have been having these for about a year now, typically it starts as the zigzag lines, which grow and fill in until my entire visual area is covered. I see the world through a “smokey piece of glass” for 10-20 minutes and then it subsides. There is never any pain while it is happening, occassionaly a headache when it is over. Kind of scares me a bit but the Dr keeps telling me they are nothing to worry about, so they’re something I have learned to live with,
22 May 2014 @ 7:52 am
I have all these symptoms in my right eye lasting only about 5 minutes. I have sparkles in the form of an arch. I have a blind spot that starts out small and gets larger then fades away. I havent heard anyone mention dizziness yet. My right eye does its own thing causing me to feel dizzy.
26 May 2014 @ 9:08 am
I belong to 3 groups that have tons of people who suffer from these Auras, which are usually benign. If you would like to join these groups, contact me with your full name & I can add you to the group. My email is: nucleuscontour1@hotmail.com
19 July 2014 @ 9:26 pm
I’m having one right now as I write, the second of my life. The first one scared me and I went to an eye doctor who had a long fancy name for it and said it was classified as a stroke of the eye but isn’t a stroke as we know it in that these are nothing to be concerned about. They normally last 30 minutes and then go away. I’m about 15 minutes into this one and was sick of it about 14 minutes ago.
9 August 2014 @ 9:01 am
I’ve been getting this off and on for the last year. I never get the actual headache part though. I guess I’m lucky. It seems to happen at random and starts out very small then grows and takes up almost all of my vision. I get very dizzy from it. The worst part is when it happens as I’m driving
9 August 2014 @ 8:20 pm
I get these also. Join this Facebook group, as it will help….https://www.facebook.com/groups/105695646363/
18 September 2014 @ 10:00 pm
Never had a headache in my entire life, but see these aura arch. Never have any warning, but also never have any other negative effects . I realize that I do not have my full vision. Seems that clear late summer and early fall weather make mine show more. Ragweed? golden rod time ? Eyes checked every 6 months now due to a detached retina 20 years ago . Nothing found sense.
20 September 2014 @ 10:47 am
Sometimes, out of nowhere, my left eye starts to slowly fog up until nearly everything gets blocked from that eye. I can still make out some shapes from the furthermost left corner of the eye, but everything else is indistinguishable. After about four or so minutes, my eyesight slowly starts to come back again until it’s completely back to normal. I’ve been keeping track of what happens every time one of these ‘attacks’ occur, and there doesn’t seem to be any sort of accompanying migraines, nor even any similarities between the situations under which the attacks occur. I’m seventeen years old, I’ve had bad eyesight since about 13 years of age, and started wearing glasses since four or so years ago (except I may have stopped wearing them for about 5 months now since I lost my glasses and have been terrified of telling my dad about it) but it doesn’t make any sense since these attacks started occurring around one whole year after I started wearing glasses, and there doesn’t seem to be any recognizable pattern to the frequency of them.
20 September 2014 @ 3:12 pm
Not until I joined the Facebook group did I realize how many people experienced these. I knew tons of ” headache” migraine sufferers, but not ocular. I had my first official one about 20 years ago after a glass of wine. Scared the ___ out of me. They didn’t return for another 10 years, when they became pretty consistent. Now, when stress levels are high, or I may sleep in my contacts, or spend too much time at the computer, or sleep too much or not enough. ..or eat too many sulfites…. or go from one extreme temp to another. .. so many factors can contribute. .. it is prime for it to happen. I get a sense it’s coming on, as so many others do. It’s like a switch was turned on, a subtle change. .. and then I see one of two things..a small black and white fissure, angular. .. not real bothersome, just big enough to be annoying. Or I will see a small fuzzy patch, almost like a mirage on a road up ahead on a hot day… no defined sides. Small enough to just be annoying and make you look away to catch the words you are missing while reading. Either way, they both continue growing, pulsating, with sharp angular sides of black and white triangles, flashing opposite colors as they move along their perimeter undulating back aka forth. Sometimes it reminds me of an “Open all night” neon sign. The area within this shape, normally a large C becomes fuzzy, smoky, like visual white noise, and sometimes grows to take up half of my visual plane. I feel light headed, sometimes “drunk-ish”, disconnected from my body slightly. .. but no headache, per se. In the past I had been prescribed Imitrex, but hated the way it made my heart race, as I was already prone to anxiety. A friend told me too increase the caffeine. I did, this does help. So does moving around, getting up and getting the blood flowing to the head. Neck bends, aligning my back on a chair (twisting), even getting outside to a cooler or warmer climate. They last a shorter time than they used to, and they’re not add worrisome.
I do remember, and the posts above reminded me, that when I was a child I used to “see” colored balls floating above my crib and bed. I thought all children did, and even used to refer to them to my mother… as if she saw them too. I bet they were ocular migraines. I also remember being very young and often experiencing the rabbit hole syndrome while reading. .. where things, the book, other furniture in the room, etc became very far away and amazingly close (just Micro millimeters away) at the same time. Time seemed to stop, there was no sound almost a church quiet. My vision would flip from seeing things so up close to then as if I was staring at everything down a long, long hallway. Things grew small in perception, but their size never changed. I remember reflecting on this dichotomy. I loved the feeling when it came over me… which lasted about as long as my adult ocular migraines do now.
Thank you for letting me share.
22 September 2014 @ 11:43 am
My ocular migraines started when I was 56 years old at the culmination of the most extremely stressed two weeks of my life. I had just split with a boyfriend with whom I’d been living for two years, my daughter had to undergo removal of her colon after a long battle with ulcerative colitis, my brother had a stroke and was diagnosed with stomach cancer, my lifelong best friend died from melanoma, and I switched jobs! All within that 2 weeks. While reading, the words started to become blurred. The next thing I knew I had jagged lights parading across my vision. This lasted about 15 minutes and scared the ____out of me as someone else commented! I’ve had them ever since and they’re very sporadic….sometimes several in a month, sometimes every few months and I can’t pinpoint anything that causes them except, I guess, stress!!
Although migraines do run in my family, I had never even had a headache in my entire life so I was quite surprised to be diagnosed with migraine. It is very seldom that a headache accompanies the aura and when it does it is very slight. Thank God.
18 November 2014 @ 10:07 am
I do get migraines, but not too often. I also get the same hallucination much more frequently. I never realized that these could possibly be migraines, I just thought I took one too many hits of LSD in my rave days! The more I read on these Auras, the more I am convinced. My hallucination is often while driving during bright days. I have been sensitive to sunlight since puberty. It is really beautiful, and I will often pull over just to enjoy it. It’s a tunnel of fast moving colored bubbles. It feels like I am moving through a secret wormhole. I do recall getting a migraine after a few of these, but I never thought they were related.
18 November 2014 @ 10:24 am
Also wanted to offer my personal “cure” for migraines. When I get a migraine, it comes out of nowhere and literally knocks me to the floor. Luckily this doesn’t happen often. I have whoever is near get me two excedrin for migraine quick release tablets, and I take a couple of hits from a joint or a bowl. As soon as I smoke, it’s like it makes the medicine kick in or something, and I can feel the pressure release immediately. I don’t know why it works, I figured it out in desperation. I don’t usually smoke pot these days. I am 37, and stopped doing recreational drugs in my late 20’s. I will not hesitate to smoke however if I get a migraine, and/ or nausea, it just works so fast and so well!
18 November 2014 @ 3:01 pm
I just had an ocular experience. I began to feel sick and very dizzy. Pain almost immedately on the left temple. Went to lie down and it felt like I was hallucenating. I saw images and shapes spinning and waves. My head began to feel very heavy. Then I saw something like when you look through a micoscope. Large rocks with a tube in them. Like what you see when looking at organs or something. Flashes too. All while my eyes where closed. The spinning feeling stopped about 25 minutes in. Now my headache is in full on mode. Came here as I have never had something like this happen and wanted to find out if others have had this experience as well.
30 July 2015 @ 1:21 pm
I’ve been having auras for the past 2 months every single day and I’m living hell. What you described is exactly what I experienced a few days ago. Luckily for me I was on zopiclone where I felt quite relaxed and was totally amazed by what i was seeing. It felt like I was in an organic tube with all these colors and rock shapes. I also witness a tunnel style when I close my eyes, sometimes I see pictures of anything, landscapes, random people faces. With my eyes opened I can see an abstract zigzag, or some white spots. It’s terrible as they are often mixed with terrible pressure on my forehead or temples…
But yeah, I saw this organic tube, but I actually really enjoyed it! (I was in my bed chilling without any stress)
5 January 2015 @ 2:15 pm
Hello. I am a 13 years old girl and that thing with me started, when I was just turned 12. It happens, when I haven’t had enough sleep, or when I’m very tired. It starts out as a little spot in my eyesight, and it grows into this bigger circle filled with triangles. That’s when the headache strikes. In time it turns into multiple “lines” in the edges of my eyesight, still filled with triangles. It is so annoying, and usually it happens to me in school. If it happens at school, I tell a teacher, and he sends me home, and I go to sleep. After I sleep, the triangles are gone, but my head still hurts, if I tilt my head down, or if I shake my head. I’m sorry for the long text, (hopefully you understand what’s wrong with me) but I’m really thankful if you read it. Please, could you tell a child what should I do? 🙁 is there a medicine to relieve it, or something? Thank you.
30 July 2015 @ 1:23 pm
Hi there, you need to see a doctor and explain what’s going on. Use the words Migraines and Aura. Some medicines can help but it’s all relative to you. There’s no magical treatment and for your age the doctor has to be prudent.
17 February 2018 @ 10:25 pm
It happened when I turned 12 too! Hoping I wasn’t the only one- I see weird flashes of pulsing light that grow bigger and move when I turn my head. Or sometimes its these weird geometrical shapes that glide in my vision Its very strange!
16 February 2015 @ 1:27 pm
I call these episodes I don’t get a headache before or after. It starts out as a small blurred spot. It does not move when I move my eyes. When I shut my eyes it is still there. It happens to left field of view. This blurred spot is the size of a thumbnail on a fully extended arm. It grows untill it is as large as my entire left field of view, as it grows it gets less dense untill it goes away it is oval with jagged lines that have colors in them. This takes about 20 minutes. They have been happening for about three years about every three months, untill recently I have had one each week 6 out of 7 weeks now. I have had several MRI’s under the care of a neurologist he found a small tumer near brain stem but says it is not related t issue. The tumor is not growing so we are monitoring it. We accidentally found tumor looking for answer to my vision issue. Have had many test’s with no answers. My neurologist is very well respected I am told by many he’s one of the best. Does any one have any thoughts or have same issue. Thanks
17 February 2015 @ 8:57 am
David…Join this group on Facebook & post what you did here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/229020277110681/
20 February 2015 @ 4:04 pm
Last night I experienced what I can only explain as a kaleidoscope pattern with flashing intermittent lights. I was in my bed and looked at the curtains which were covered in these swirling patterns and lights. They also seemed to be much further away than what they actually are. I turned and looked at the wall and it did the same there as well. Kind of freaked me out a bit as I had been asleep and I couldn’t figure out if I was awake or dreaming this! I had no headache. I have experienced one visual migraine a number of years ago but not as alarming as this one. Does this sound normal?
23 February 2015 @ 9:18 am
Gilliam B.,
People do get these. Why don’t you join the Ocular Migraine group on Facebook & post there as well? The link there is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105695646363/
23 February 2015 @ 9:34 am
Gillian B. There are lots of people who have had very similar experiences, including my self. I have had 15 over three years. Mine happen between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm most of them around 10:00am. The frequency for me has gone to one a week lately. I went to a neurologist from the beginning. My blood pressure has been high for a few months so family doctor put me on blood pressure medicine 10 days ago. I saw neurologist three days ago for yearly check up for an unrelated issue and talked to him. He thinks high blood pressure has caused mine to be more frequent. He said blood vessel contraction and expansion cause migraine conditions. I will let you know if the frequency of my ocular migraines (never had a headache) go down, if so I would say blood pressure has something to do with mine and maybe a lot of other people. Most everyone thinks we all need to let our family doctors know whats going on. You might feel comfort as I did by reading other peoples post’s and that you are not alone. Best of luck.
2 March 2015 @ 2:59 am
To Debie,
I have the exact same thing. I had same ocular symptoms. I’ve had them since I was a teen. Seven years ago the sever migrains started and for a 1 yr 1/2 I had them every day until finally they found that Botox worked. I still have days when extremely strong ones come through but at least the other days are managed. Been doing Botox since. When the bad ones come through I vomit, have blurred vision, awful balance, flashing, spots, patterns, shapes and a light that moves in and out as if it were a camera trying to focus. The funny thing is it wasn’t until this year that I realized that this wasn’t normal. I thought everyone including those who don’t get migraines had these auras. I had never discussed them with anyone! They are very annoying and keep me from sleeping.
2 March 2015 @ 5:47 am
Debra, I used to have the exact same symptoms as you. Haven’t had a single full blown migraine now in three years. I would always get the earning signs before a migraine would start then would be out for a few hours to a few days at a time. I saw at least 6 different doctors, all who gave me different medications from vasodialators to just straight heavy pain meds. NOT A SINGLE ONE ever tried anything different than medication. Then one day while I was in the U.S.N as a corpsman, a U.S.N. Chief working in OPMAN saw me walking by his office and called me in. He said that he had heard about how my problem from my roommate and said that his wife suffered from the same thing for more than 40 years until she had had enough and started to try other ways to get better. She went to a chiropractor who told her to go have a full spinal xray then come back and see him. It worked for her. It worked for me. Turns out when I had somehow knocked one of the disks in my neck out of place and was getting the auras, headaches and everything else because the muscles attached to the disks were constantly trying to center it again so one side was always being worked and the other not at all. I had the xray done, went back and saw the chiropractor and he showed me exactly which disk was out of place. He adjusted/realigned my spine and within an hour my headache started to go away. He explained that because it had been out of place for so long, out might take awhile for it to be corrected so I went back every two weeks. It was only $50.00 here and I was tired of all the meds so I agreed. After three to five months, no more headaches. I have only had one full blown headache since then and I immediately any back for a few more sessions. That was about three years ago, no more headaches, no more meds and no more chiropractor. Look into it.
14 March 2015 @ 10:37 pm
I have had this Arch of Triangles vision for many years, never followed by a headache or anything negative. When I researched it as a vision it is actually called “The Arch Of Triangles”. The picture depicted this at the top is correct, except the actual vision is more detailed and there is a separate vision in each triangle all of which are in motion.
This has always been a sign of a coming major change in my life.
20 March 2015 @ 5:16 am
I get relatively small, swirling balls of bright, non-coloured light raining down all around me that only last about 30 seconds to a minute at most and usually I can snap myself out of it.
13 April 2015 @ 2:50 am
Had my very first aura migraine last night,started with a very stiff neck,then the side on V shape zig zag colourful pattern started,to be fair i didn’t really know what to make of it at first,rubbed my eyes,still there…then a little bit of worry came over me as i watched it grow in size & spead across my eye sight.
And yes to be fair was concerned that i was having a stroke,but there was nothing else happening to me,so i sat watching & waiting..it spread out to the left of my vision and dissappeared,no headache,nothing..
I had never heard of a aura migraine till now.
Hopefully that’s it,a one off,i guess time will tell.
21 April 2015 @ 3:50 pm
I found some other pages on the web that discuss the zig zag pattern and they call it kaleidoscope eye. They say that it can be benign but to get checked by your doctor just to be safe. I have recently discovered that eating cucumbers, even one piece, causes it for me. So no more of that tasty vegetable for me.
21 April 2015 @ 6:04 pm
I know what you going through, as I have had Auras for over 15 years year & know some triggers. I belong to a group that really helped me. Ocular Migraines
14 June 2016 @ 8:16 pm
Hi Jonathan. Your comment of what happened to your is what has happened to me. I have been eating cucumbers for a week. I could not hardly believe it when read your comment. I have never had the prisms like a z shape before. And I have never ate so many cucumbers straight before either. Thanks for your comment
23 May 2015 @ 8:49 pm
I am 48 yrs old and have had migraines my entire life. Today, I experienced my first ocular disturbance. While lying in bed, watching morning news, I began to see a semi circle of zig zag lightning and the center of circle was blurred. The kind of blurring used to hide faces or offensive scenes on TV. I was worried, but it resolved in about an hour and so far no headache. I then found this site online. Hope I never experience this again.
24 May 2015 @ 5:55 am
Cyndi,
I have good info on Auras, as I’ve had these for over 15 years. Contact me….Barry
15 June 2015 @ 2:46 pm
I was looking up some symptoms I have and ended up on this website. About 6 years ago I slipped in the shower and hit my head. Ever since I feel this pressure in my head like it’s pushing out and put of nowhere I get this black curtain in my right eye closing towards the left. I get really dizzy and my whole body feels numb and tingly. I got an mri done back then when it started but everything came out ok. Went to an eye doctor and the same thing. Ok. I have headaches pretty much every day but the eye effect has dropped significantly. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with migraines but I do get these horrible headaches from time to time
5 July 2015 @ 1:54 pm
I have those all the time but mine don’t have color mine are all black misty looking and there circled kind of but I’m only like 14 is that right being almost 14 years old and having these symptoms
8 July 2015 @ 1:01 pm
Perfect grids, curved grids, grids with red dots, cats, bright light blank white flashes in one eye, loose tangle of “string” in center sight of same eye with flashes
30 July 2015 @ 1:40 pm
I’ve been having these migraines for over 2 months now. Every single day from the morning till I go to sleep. I can’t work normally. In addition my job is to stay in front of screen the whole day and it makes it really worse.
Symptoms:
– Eyes opened :
.abstract transparent zig zag in my right eyes
.white dots appearing from nowhere
.cloudy vision
.grey spot in the right eye
– Eyes closed :
.Tunnel vision like stargate being in a wormhole
.Feeling of being in an organic tube with plenty of colors and rock shapes
.Hundreds of blues spots
.Random pictures : unknown people faces, landscapes
I haven’t felt myself since it started 2 months ago. I have huge pressures on the temples or forehead, my eyes get very sour or painful like I haven’t slept for days. I often get totally spaced out where I can’t talk to people and I lose perception of my environment. I got feelings of pin and needles all over my arms or my face. I feel my muscles very tensed of my hips and my biceps to a point where it does hurt. Also want to vomit. Feelings of numbness all over my head.
Take all these symptoms and make a random cocktail (every day is a new day :D) of these and that’s what my life is every day.
What helps at the moment is having zopiclone. I’m supposed to take it to sleep but I found it more usefull to have it when a crisis begin and I feel ok for several hours but it only hides the problem. It also makes me feel like very diminished in term of concentration but at least I don’t suffer even if I’m still poor at doing my job. Been to the doctor for 6 weeks now, went to an optician, got directed to a neuro-ophtalmologist and an orthoptist we’ll see what they’ll have to say.
Medicines that didn’t work on me:
– citalopram (made it 10 times worse)
– propranolol (no effect)
– promethazine (no effect)
– Ibuprofen / Paracetamol (no effect)
Good luck to all of you my friends!
31 July 2015 @ 10:27 am
Would you be interested in sharing your story on a group on Ocular Migraines that I and many others belong to, as they can profit from your experiences. Let me know….
20 August 2015 @ 7:21 am
I just had one of these a few minutes ago driving into work. I haven’t had one in a few months. Just wanted to share what mine look like. Mine starts out as only a couple multicolored triangular shapes. More of these shapes appear until they make a complete”c” shape. The “c” starts increasing in size until it disappears. I am blind only where the triangles are. I get them in only one eye. If it’s my left eye, it’s “c” shape but when in my right eye, it’s a reverse “c” shape. I haven’t had a headache afterword yet. They usually last about 20-30 minutes.
20 August 2015 @ 3:00 pm
Steve,
You got the Typical Ocular Migraine. I belong to a FB group that has a lot of people who also suffer from these Migraines, some with or without headaches. If interested in a link, let me know…Barry in Pa.
22 September 2015 @ 9:14 am
I’ve had occular migraines for over 10 years. About 3 years ago I had my first reall scary episode where it seemed as if my eyes went crossed. I asked the people around me if they looked crossed and was told no. Also, 1/2 of my mouth and tongue went tingly then numb. This lasted around a minute. It has happened twice more since then and this morning it felt like it was going to happen while I was driving in to work but it didn’t. I felt a weird pressure like sensation around my eye area and it seemed like things were farther away than they really were but didn’t get an aura or the crossed eyes vision. It’s very disconcerting while it’s happening and usually leaves me feeling wiped out for a few hours.
28 September 2015 @ 12:04 pm
For about a year now I sometimes have an aura that is shaped in an arc. Along the arc are triangles. Every other one is upside down. Every other one is BLACK . Every other one is BRIGHT WHITE. When I close my eyes it is still there. It can last several hours. Gets worse as time goes by. Sometimes it interferes so much with my eye sight that I am afraid to drive. There is never a headache. At first I thought it was related to a lot of time spent on a computer. But then realized that at times I can work all day on a computer and it does not happen.
30 September 2015 @ 7:10 pm
For the past two weeks, I have been seeing a wavy, geometric grid type pattern when I first wake up. It starts out as a few, and it encompasses my field of vision. I can still see other objects, but the patterns are still seen upon whatever I look at. This occurs for about one minute, then it fades away. I am worried about it, as I don’t know why it’s happening. I haven’t been having migraine headaches, but I do have a history of heart problems. I’ve also been under a little more stress lately than I typically have to deal with.
16 November 2015 @ 5:27 am
I get them also. Have had them for a while, sometimes nothing for quite a while and then a couple in a few weeks. Try this, as soon as you know it’s gonna happen. You can tell when your vision gets weird. Take 2 aspirin, put under tongue and see if that doesn’t help. Doesn’t always get rid of Aura, but I don’t have any bad headaches after, And if you catch it quick enough you might even stop aura or make it a lot more mild. But a dark room helps when aura is happening. Certain lights trigger it also, I’ve noticed, especially these led lights. JUst relax, no reason to get anxious, it will pass.
14 December 2015 @ 6:21 pm
I have had hypnogogic images for my entire life. Intense geometric, mosaic, Kalaidescopic, spirals, visionary sequences. And more recently blue blobs and yellow blobs, usually blue lights that are small and bright but that can become the big blue blob. Sometimes I will feel agitated and “boxed in” and that’s when I have trouble judging distances. Also I have extreme sadness. Sometimes the whole thing will start with a palpitation that lasts for about ten to thirty seconds. Sometimes it can start with a combination of palpitations and a sudden extreme headache that seems to come out of nowhere. Plus I always have headaches – always 24/7 – 365 or 366 days a year. But there are cycles within that. Sometimes it takes a while to observe how it happens. If you have them everyday sometimes you can try to adjust your meds so that they will down play the effects of the aura. The aura can be worse than the headache… especially the agitation “boxed in” sensation. For me that usually last for about twenty to forty minutes and sometimes I don’t notice it until it starts to subside.
30 December 2015 @ 3:51 pm
i havesuffered from migrianes and viusal auras for 30 years now aND JUST RECENTLY my doc got me onto using oxygen when headaches bad.. it is very helplfulinstopping them.. for a while..but only one tool in my list of things to help and make it so i can cope with life at all..oxygen use is 5ltres per minute for a 1/2 hour…10 litres per minute for 1/2 oxygenates teh whole body… almost everyday i have headaches and migrianes 2 or 3 times a week that can last for up to 3 days at worst… and afterwards i cant remeber what i was doing it is an endless cycle of pain and lying in dark room and so on.. not much done..i use disprin forte(asprin and codiene) + immigran spray+ oxygen for treatment..
30 December 2015 @ 4:30 pm
I get squiggly lines that block out part of my vision. I also sometimes get a funny taste in my mouth.
21 January 2016 @ 2:12 pm
I started out 19 months ago with an ocular incident. I thought I was having a stroke!!! I’ve been to several different doctors and not much help. No one knows what to do . My vision had never returned to normal . It’s blurry on and off . I see patterns all the time !!! Red and green lights are blurry! I have 2 appointments next month to see if anything new and to try to understand what happened!! Changed my life forever!
3 March 2018 @ 2:02 pm
I’ve had migraines since age 21. I’m 63 now. I’ve always seen the lightening bolts to the left upper corner of my left eye, numbness to my fingers and mouth. Pain after until recently. I had what seemed to be a migraine and sinus headache at the same time. So painful. The next evening I started seein a fine red veil of small dots on everything I looked at! They changed to other “trippy” designs and then I was shaking and cold. I lay down and got to sleep, but another night has gone by and I still have the teeny evenly spaced floaters like a screen on a door when looking at anything and even when my eyes are closed. My ears are ringing loudly. Sugar is normal and so is BP. At this point, I’m not sure to see a neurologist or ophthalmologist. I do have my appt. with my regular doctor this week. Anyone else ever get permanent auras after a particularly bad string of migraines?
26 January 2016 @ 10:49 am
Im 14 year old male, I see it all stars, lines, dots, and clouds but after wards i loose vision and cant walk and to make it worse i get a headace. How dose it happen? btw i just got done with P.E. and about to eat lunch.
26 January 2016 @ 7:43 pm
No headache. Just a strange geometry looking, hypnotic like spot of color that stays with me. If I close my eyes its still there. If I focus on it, its ever changing with colors and sometimes looks like pinwheel movements or electicity. I believe the computers and|or TV is weponized or something going on in the O-zOne.
7 March 2016 @ 8:02 pm
I have suffered from Migraine since I was 5 years old, although I only get about two or so a year now and I did go a period in my life from 15 to 27 where I didnt get any.(strange I know)
I get this exact zigzag as in the picture above after blury mixed up vision first, The flashing zigzags are usually on my right side but occasionally on my left, Afer the zigzags finish about 5 to 10 mins I get a throbing headache that can last up to 3 days getting milder each day but can start throbing again if I bend down for any reason.
About 2 years ago i read on some site to take a level teaspoon of salt in warm water, (i use Hymalain Salt) and I can tell you the migrane is shortened incredably and there is only the slightest hint of a headace afterwards, Its fantastic, No more laying down in a dark space for hours on end.
31 March 2016 @ 7:13 am
hey, I’ve never spoken about this as I always couldn’t put it to words, or begin to describe the things I’d see every night and throughout the days…I didn’t sleep a night until I was 12years old. Every night it felt like I couldn’t switch my mind off, or make it stop. I’d close my eyes and see more than I could ever explain or describe. More than with my eyes open. More than just this world. Now I’m 28 and it being a daily/nightly part of myself I guess I’ve lived with forever. I close my eyes and see everything. Every colour there ever was or could possibly be, all rapidly vibrating in microscopic geometric prisms, in every sense and dimension. From every perspective and magnified to the point of seeing in overwhelming detail every particle of air inside and out. Every particle consists of a kaleidoscopic hive of geometric prisms with how I can only explain as every single possible colour beyond any spectrum imaginable disected into microscopic portions, broken down to fragments of raw light, as if the origin of light itself, to a point moving like cogs and a giant multi dimensional sphere of endless breathtaking clockwork mechanisms made up of all of the above in every shape, colour, dimension, angle, movement (extremely fast and terrifyingly slow motion at the same time?) to the point of zooming into a fragment spec of a zillionth of what any of this is and seeing thousands of numbers, again in a multi perspective, dimensional and complete weightless sense. A void of absolutely everything and so much more, though somehow it makes sense. Like dissecting layers to the point of these insane numbers, with the numbers are shapes or Unknown (to me) letters/numbers than I’ve never seen before. This part is pretty…to describe it is super unjust…it’s like you’re inside a computer screen? But way deeper than that…way way deeper and higher, total disconnection from the body, I can see behind my eyeballs and the curvature of their lenses. It’s terrifying and beautiful. When consciousness somehow tugs, whenever it decides to, it’s like a melodic optic wormhole rapid zoom out/travel backwards from all you’ve delved into. Every layer, colour, shape and all there ever was or could be. Like a bungee cord retracts and pulls you back out, with your eyes and sight facing foward, like you’re being sucked out and are watching ahead(if senses and directional matter exist) like when you ride a train that’s traveling the opposite direction but you’re sat facing the ‘wrong way’ like you’re traveling light years and seeing every last drop of detail. Sometimes it stops and sort of suspends you in a void of whatever place you’re suspended in. You get a feeling that you (you’re body or eyes or self or whatever it/you is) completely stop, still. A feeling of floating in a void. Totally weightless directionless and motionless yet the cogs and geometric shapes slowly keep moving, in extreme slow and gentle motion. Then they start to morph and form faces/objects/landscapes/scenes/ting molecules of everything that could ever be or ever was. It’s like a deep understanding or breakdown of every realm and everything in it and beyond. Faces of unknown people/creatures/other worldly ‘things’ moving, expressions change. It’s slow or rapid. Sometimes so fast you feel like you’re dying…I can only put to those words, not that I’d know death. Often with that voices enter. Noises. Sounds. They are both excruciatingly deafening and unnervingly silent at the same time. So loud you can’t escape it yet you can’t even hear it?! Voices of senseless noise. Not a language because there’s no sound but it’s all you can hear. The noises aren’t human or from matter. Those I can’t explain. Through all of this my eyes are wide open but feel closed, I only realise or am conscious when a feel a huge thud to the heart, like someone punches you with huge force or like an adrenalin shot to the heart. You remember to breathe and that breathing is a ‘thing’ everything disperses but is still there now appearing as tiny dots. Coloured ones and ones of pure light. All above and around. It’s exhausting and feels like you’ve being venturing for lifetimes. Amidst these visuals I always had this other strange occurrence, every single night the room around me would get rapidly terrifyingly huge and giant, and then the extreme opposite. Ting and microscopic. Far away and so distorted. A perception kinda thing. It would do this so uncontrollably you fear it won’t stop. It keeps you in the big, close, giant room for time and then spits the room round to the far away tiny microscopic suffercating sensation. From slow and long to violently fast and rapid. I remember the worst times was always when it would switch between the two in milliseconds. My heart felt like it was exploding. That’s when I’d run from my bed and to my old dog and dad, not knowing how or what to describe so I’d say I was having a bad dream. I’d curl up, cover my ears and head and try to shake it out of me. It never would. Nothing made it go, it just stopped whenever it did. There was a texture thing too. A big ball that was sickeningly smooth and of vile perfection and it would rapidly morph into the roughest most hideously sickeningly violent texture. Again switching. I could feel and taste it. Hear it. So loud and so quiet. Every sense feeling every sensation of absolute nothingness and the nothingness of every possible thing…but all in my head. Or eyes. Or around me. It was everywhere and nowhere never and forever. There was no escape and I never ever spoke to another being about it. Until writing this.
I didn’t sleep until I was 12yeats old because this happened to me every single night. I wasn’t scared of the dark because these things would be all around me( the colours and stuff aside from the room perspective stuff) I would walk around in it. I so vividly remember and can still see now, I’d walk around in the pitch black house at night, but I wasn’t seeing the house or wherever I was, I started walking in what I could see. Following and exploring in it. I was never afraid of the dark because I’d be safe in the colours and tunnels. I guess I started playing with/in them because if I tried to fight it, the room thing would happen and that was the dark place for me. The illusion of ‘this’ world. It started happening to me in the day times, at school, if ever my mind wandered, which was most of the time. My parents thought I was just a sleepwalker and had terrible sleep problems and blamed sugar or my hyperactive mind. I was always so aware and in control when I played in the dimensions and realms with the colours. I trusted them and used to call ‘them’ my friends. I let them guide me, I just wandered inside them. Super aware of it. It became my playtime. I don’t remember them stopping but apparently at 12 I slept my first night sleep. So I rarely get the room perspective thing now, sometimes I do but it doesn’t scare me necessarily. However I see everything else. All the time. I can focus it and ‘try’ to see more. It keeps me awake every night. If I close my eyes it’s all I see. It never stops. It never ‘goes away’ it’s always all around me. I feel it forever. It’s exhausting and until now I kinda figured it’s just what’s behind everyone’s darkness and closed eyes…I guess not.
The strangest part for me is reading about it, which I just did right now for the first time ever in my life as I’m back at my parents house and something mush have triggered my mind into awareness of it and also curiosity of that strange thing that used to keep me awake relentlessly as a kid, so I’ve never ever had a headache in my life. Nothing. Ever. No migraine. Not even a headache…if anyone has any…thing?? That could help me understand what this thing is that happenes, or is a part of me, I’m down to hear it. It’s all I see. I can’t stop it, I can sometimes control how deep to go with it, but it’s not me. Or you. Or anything we know
Thanks for reading
Villa
28 January 2020 @ 10:01 pm
Wanted to respond to your comment. Its been so long since you posted and you may not see this. So very interesting. I have had similar experiences and different ones. I can relate somewhat. Would love to talk with you if ever possible. Mine today at work (has done it before and had to quit a job because of it). All of a sudden out of nowhere my eyes grew dim. This happened rather quickly. Dimmer and dimmer, foggy. Then everything I was trying to see was not able to see. Mercury like floating from the front of eyes to the side. It was like moving mercury and was silver. Moving quicker and again and again. The longer it went on (even for like 20 minutes or more) the less I could see what was there. Like on a computer or even the register at work as a cashier.. what I was supposed to see got very dim and foggy. The silver mercury like substance took over.. Made me feel very weird, kind of maybe drugged. Ive not done any drugs so don’t really know anything like that. Finally it gets where I cant see and will lose balance if I try to move. Another incident I was sick with something for a long time. My whole body went crazy in every way. I was under stress. I went to the computer and what I was trying to read, I could not. The letters or the numbers were disappearing right before my eyes…backwards. One letter after a nother..it just vanished like it was being deleted. It was crazy and scary. I would share more with you if I ever get in touch. Take care and I hope you are doing alright……
17 April 2016 @ 4:19 am
Just had one. It started with the prism like zigzag spinning pattern. It lasted 15 minutes followed by a dull headache on the left side of my right eye at the start of my eyebrow. Not much pain though. Only a feelling of dread. Thought it was eye strain but I have also been consuming hot chocolate and rocky road ice cream. Could chocolate be my trigger also? I did notice several days ago, a slight imbalance while standing.
I’m going to test it these next few days with by consuming the same amount of chocolate as I consumed before today’s episode. Btw, I’ve only started experiencing these auras in the past few months. I thought I was having a stroke also the first time it happened.
20 May 2016 @ 1:10 am
Just experienced this.
I basically had a creepy nightmare, woke up from it seeing red like a light was shone in my eyes and simultaneously saw a giant rainbow spinning zigzag pattern (which at first I could’ve sworn was my covers moving on their own/a giant spider) and now the left side of my forehead, right around my eyebrow hurts.
What weirds me out is that I dont think I’ve ever had a migraine (that I know of).
19 June 2016 @ 4:01 am
Weird, its 4am and i got here by googling: woke up from a nightmare and when i close my eye it’s like a kaleidescope lol.. never had a migraine either..barely any small headache at that our was skinning too and flashing
2 June 2016 @ 7:23 pm
I get some at list three times a week and sometimes I feel drowsy also my eye leads get to heavy asif there is to much pressure is like one second is blury and then not or I tend to get zig zags but in the shape of a backwards C in the right side of my eye or sometimes I see like little tiny bubbles all pressed together and is like their moving on the upper left side of my eye please state your advice.
17 June 2016 @ 9:32 am
Hate to throw a monkey wrench into all of the confusion, but..I’ve had a headache for a month straight. About 15 minutes ago I started seeing these electric rainbow zig zaggy things in both of my eyes – it’s driving me mental! I’ve had migraines for the past 23 years and never experienced any visual disturbances. Anyone have a clue what’s going on? Do I have a brain tumor? Am I about to have a stroke? Is my brain trying to lighten my stress load by to putting on a light show so I’ll feel better? ?????
20 June 2016 @ 9:45 am
Hello Mindy,
You should see a doctor but bear in mind that auras may change during a lifetime and that’s probably what’s happenning, so enjoy the “light dhow” 😬
20 June 2016 @ 9:46 am
Hello Mindy,
You should see a doctor but bear in mind that auras may change during a lifetime and that’s probably what’s happenning, so enjoy the “light show” 😬
18 August 2016 @ 3:22 pm
Not making a joke of the situation at all, but I appreciated your comment about your brain putting on a light show for you. I’ve had two of these “episodes” in the past three days. They are scary. I used to have migraines about 10 years ago, but haven’t had them since then. This came out of the blue, but I did have the same lunch both days. Very strange. I hope it stops. Even though I love the tacos I had, I’ll give them up for life if it makes this ‘electric rainbow’ & subsequent headache bs go away.
26 June 2016 @ 1:50 pm
I’m glad to find this site thought I was alone. I get what I call waving flags starting from one eye but moving across to both eyes. Never get headache doc said its called a silent migraine? I just go lay down in a dark room & it goes away in about 20 min. Now for the last week I see a sphere shape in my right eye. Going to call eye doc tomorrow . People r telling me with this latest sphere shape my optic nerve might be separating or something. I’ll know more when I see eye doctor. Anyway it’s amazing to find so many people on here that have weird eye problems like I do. 🙂
5 July 2016 @ 10:07 pm
I’ve been very lucky in regards to painful migraines in that I have only had one. I remember this migraine very clearly: I was 16 and it was the day of Prince Charles & Lady Diana’s wedding. This massive headache popped up out of nowhere and suddenly I was puking my guts out. I fell asleep immediately afterwards and slept for six hours straight. The aural migraines started right after I turned 40. These auras are like waterfalls that are blocking my vision and I know the migraine is about to start because I can only see half of a face. Lately though, I have started seeing stars, little twinkly silver stars that fall all around me. Beautiful actually, but they only last about 30 seconds. No pain as of yet, thank God and Aleve. I pop two of them at the first sigh of trouble. Good luck everyone!
23 July 2016 @ 9:18 pm
I had colored auras which precipitated migraine headaches but now I have clear auras which do not cause migraine headaches. Does anyone know what causes these auras which last 20 minutes?
29 July 2016 @ 8:55 pm
I had this “aura” happen to me today. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. It lasted a while…maybe 30 to 45 minutes but there was no migraine to follow. My husband has had this happen to me so he told me that he was told there it is also an indication of a “mini-seizure” as if that was a “comforting” explanation or something. Now, I think I may want to get this checked out because I’ve never had it before (I’m 57) and there was no migraine following it. Last thing I need in my life at this moment, I can assure you.
30 August 2016 @ 5:50 am
My husband complained of seeing a red straight line through his vision yesterday which then gradually went black and faded away. it lasted about 5minutes. I remember he had this once before about 5 years ago. I am worried as he does not want to go to the doctors !! I have read all you comments and no one mentions a straight line as an aura. He did not get a headache after this . Can anyone advise please .
4 October 2016 @ 8:48 pm
One way I can tell I am about to get a migraine is that the color of my eyes turn green, and gets brighter green as it goes on. Anyone else have this? I thought I was crazy the first time I noticed it, but it happens EVERY time. It’s the weirdest thing….
10 October 2016 @ 11:16 am
I started seeing jagged black and ‘glass’ rings about a year and a half ago. It only lasts for about 30 minutes. It starts out small. So small, I think to myself “Hmm. That seems a little blurry.” But now it doesn’t take me long to realize ‘IT’ is beginning to happen. The jagged rings eventually get bigger and tend to hang out on the right side. I see these ‘rings’ with my eyes opened or closed. I’ve had people say it’s the beginning stages of a migraine. But that’s just it. I don’t have a migraine afterwards. Just a dull frontal head ache that I think comes from having to focus so hard through the visual distraction.
25 October 2016 @ 2:19 pm
CURE???!!!!
Just last night as I was experiencing the blind spot and colored sparkly line I tried moving my eyes side to side to the far left and right and then up and down and then around in circles first clock wise and then counter clock wise quickly. I didn’t move my head just my eyes.
I immediately noticed that the some muscles of my right eye were very sore. Something I didn’t feel when I didn’t move my eyes or only moved them normally. My left eye was perfectly fine.
The other thing I noticed was that the colored flashing line in shape of a C that normally takes 20 to 30 minutes to slowly move across my vision had changed. It had moved much farther in the the 30 seconds I had moved my eyes as far as it would in 10 minutes and it was softer and colors less intense.
So I moved my eyes again right and left 10 times up and down 10 times upper left to lower right 10 times upper right to lower left 10 times clockwise 10 times and counter clockwise 10 times all with my eyes open laying down staring at the ceiling not focusing on anything or moving my head. My vision was almost totally back to normal! I did it a bit more and my vision was completely normal! 😀
I still got the mild headache but perhaps had I done the eye movements when I first noticed the blind spot perhaps I wouldn’t have gotten any headache at all.
Here is what I do for the pain and it is very effective.
1. Learn to not fear your Migraine. The more you fear the more you stress out when you know one is coming on the more pain you will experience.
2. Think of your Migraine as a message from your body. It is letting you know you are probably over stressing your self out over some issue that really isn’t all that important or not treating yourself well by not getting enough sleep or food or rest or time for your self.
3. Think of your Migraine as a free pass for the day to put aside and not think about anything or anyone that might be stressing you out.
Pain Relief:
4. Give yourself an ice cream headache. This has been shown to shorten or prevent pain. Do it as soon as you can before you feel the pain from the Migraine.
5. Relaxation is your friend. Take a warm shower to help relax all your muscles.
6. Lay down in a quite dimly lit room.
7. Get a bag of ice or frozen peas or corn and place it right were the pain is when it starts. Place a damp cloth on your face first then the back of ice or frozen peas or corn. Or even a dry cloth. If the cold from the frozen stuff is too much remove the bag and wait just a bit and put it back on spot again. The cold will help block the pain signals and cut down the pain you feel by 95% or more. It gives you control over the pain. 🙂
8. Alternative to ice and my favorite is using a blow dryer on low that has a cool button. I know it sounds crazy but the hmm of the dryer has a soothing affect and the warm breeze on my face where the pain is and alternating between warm and cool when I press the cold or cool button really take the pain away about as good as ice does. I also warm up my hands and feet and blow air on the sides of my neck. I do this while imagining I am laying on a warm beach and air from the drying is just a warm wind. I start this well before I feel any pain. Hold the dryer a few feet away from your face. WARNING!!!! DO NOT FALL ASLEEP WITH THE DRYER ON OR PLUGGED IN. IT CAN CATCH YOUR BED OR CLOTHING ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. OK this last one may offend some peoples sensibilities but we are talking about helping with pain from a Migraine and what you can do to help ease it. It is a known fact that sexual arousal lessens the intensity of pain. Seeing as you want to relax in a quite room you may or may not want a partner on this one.
10. Caffeine: Drink a can of caffeinated soda. A cola is better especially if you pour it in a glass and use a fork to quickly stir it so it become flat. Caffeine helps lower the blood pressure in the head and the non bubbly cola sooth the stomach.
I hope someone finds my information and suggestions helpful. 🙂
DESCRIPTION OF MY MIGRAINES:
I get the typical blind spot followed by line of multi colored sparkly flashing line that grows from that blind spot into a thin C shape and slowly moves across my vision till it reaches the edge and goes away followed by usually a mild head ache though when I was younger I had horrible pain and nausea.
6 November 2016 @ 5:19 am
I get it on the sides of both eyes or at least one eye a somewhat rounded white and darker pulsating light and can’t focus on anything I’m looking at. I have had food poisoing a few times in the past and this has come with it.
19 November 2016 @ 9:40 am
I get that as well
2 December 2016 @ 2:09 pm
I am extremely new to the world of migraines, I am 39 and just started experiencing them 3 months ago and just had my first one where there was what looked spider webs in my vision. It moved with my vision and it pulsed. A little freaked out, I don’t have insurance and was just wondering g if this is worth the cost of an emergency room visit to have it checked out. The migraine that accompanied the spider Web vision was the worst one I have had and it also caused vomiting. Any words of wisdom?…..
13 December 2016 @ 5:21 pm
i have had migraines now for 35 years …. most days will start with some form of a headache …. if it gets worse and often does i start seeing light cascading off everything shiny … wherever there is light there is long sheets of light coming off…. and i also get very blurry vision, cant drive while its happening…i have also seen transparent balls floating in the air that are not there….. i have 2-3 migraines a fortnight and headaches every other day…. i have no life just pain to pain…and i also think there is another world parallel to the one we are in that i can see and feel when m,y migraines are really bad…. i have this feeling that i am in someone elses body on another plane…bit like a multiverse! had one come on yesterday while out ….. had to be driven home was in so much pain…and now its still there.(lvl 7)… i have a level chart for how bad it is… anything under 8 is a headache anything over is migraine…. 10+ being vomiting, shitting and pissing all at once … yes it has happened.. i take in combination disprin forte ( codeine aspirin based) and immigran nasal spray , and oxygen bottle 5ltres per hour for 30 minutes. and also use medical marijuana to help relieve symptoms..and the usual dark room no sound no touching and no moving till it eases! i also have sever intolerances to many foods so it is a never ending battle ….
25 December 2016 @ 6:49 am
An occasional migraine sufferer, I’m one of those that experiences the blind spots (50% of the time) and jagged zigzags (every time), before the migraine – seen eyes open or closed. BTW: the proper term in “scintillating scotoma” – what a cool sounding name that for most of us is a bringer of bad news. Migraine that comes soon after often seems to be worst behind both eyes.
Not claiming it’s a cure but what works for me: first a big drink of water (1 full big glass – don’t cheat, the whole glass, also room temp – never cold, never hot, never with ice), relax in a cool dark[ish] place, avoid bright sunlight, 10 – 20 deep slow breaths (sounds funny but also pause a few seconds after the exhale).
During scitoma: 2 tabs neurofen plus (ibuproefen + codeine) taken – I bite the pills to break (not crush though) them, and despite warnings take them only with water (not with food – makes it less effective and slower to act) – this helps me in the severity the inevitable migraine a lot less lesser and often I can skip the next bit.
During migraine (if too slow or above tabs not taken in time): ‘cataflam’ (diclofenac potassium) which is actually a muscle relaxant. One of my doctors put me on this, he said ‘being a muscle relaxant it shouldn’t work with migraines but he has had more than a few patients respond well – but he admitted a few didn’t respond so it’s not the magic cure-all.’ – guess I’m one of the lucky ones. Again suggestion is to take with/after food but once again I ignore that. (Sometimes I do indeed throw up 5 – 10 mins after taking that tab, but even seems to work better than no pill or pill-with-food. Usually with the pill I’m going to be OK by the next morning (even when taken late at night) – and off to be as soon as feasible; without the tab I’m out for 3+ days).
Anyway, above works for me – but as always check with your own doc on those pills mentioned above (often need scripts anyway).
Once again remember: ALWAYS check before trying third party / strangers advice. I’m no doctor plus I know nothing about you, others may be less honest.
27 December 2016 @ 11:00 am
I am 84 years old and have had these symtems for 21 years. I have been fortunate to not have migraine pain with this.i will discuss this with anyone wanting information or encouragement.
31 December 2016 @ 1:54 pm
I am 19 years old and have been experiencing this random aura-like symptom for about 5 years. They auras are moving zig-zags that obstruct my focus and I lose my peripheral and short distance focusing. Most times the symptoms launch into a headache (mild or a migraine). The aura usually lasts around 30 minutes, and the head ache another 30 minutes. I drink water, pull a hat over my head, and lay down on the coach until it passes. If I have medicine on hand, or I need to get somewhere, I take 1 Excedrin. 15-30 minutes later the symptoms slowly stop.
I am unsure why I get these auras…so I am focusing on changing my diet and charting the recurring events (diet, sleep, environment) before symptoms appear. I hope this helps.
9 January 2017 @ 12:49 am
I suddingly started suffering from this Wavey electric Lines Eye storm (WELES) at age 68 which was two years ago. My GP sent me to a Neurologist who diagnosed migraine albeit no headaches.
Within the past two years I have noticed this only happens if I eat chocolate. Yesterday for the first time I had an WELES accompanied by a slight headache. I wonder why this has suddenly developed in my old age and why it o. Happens with milk chocolate and not Dark.
19 January 2017 @ 1:41 pm
I just had these “Bent triangle lights” (as shown in the picture above) this is the first time I’ve exspiranced them, I have a history of migraines, however when this appeared,
I didn’t even have a headache in the slightest. Could this mean some other condition is involved? This freaked me out, it lasted almost 10 minutes.
It was in the right eye, grew bigger sliding fully off to the right and finally dissappearing.
If anyone has any insight let me know thanks.
9 February 2017 @ 8:12 pm
Hi There, I never get a headache just a feeling of one you can barely feel.
It started some years ago whilst driving. First of all I lost part of my vision, then came the Feeling, next came the Tingling in my left hand fingers, next the left side of my tongue numbing feeling. Now if I look ahead at ten o’clock (left eye) l get a sparkle about size of a pencil lead and the same with the right eye at 2 o’clock. I feel funny in the stomache and get zigzags flashing for about an hour or so. The feeling I get stays with me most of the day now. My doctor put me on Celebrex 500 mg when needed. But like you guys out there I’d like it too stop.
Brian
19 February 2017 @ 8:15 pm
Every so often i see multicolored shapes in the corner of my right eye. This has occurred a couple times a month for the last several months. I also have hypothyroidism (not sure of the eye afflictions that causes, starts with ‘optha-‘ something.
23 February 2017 @ 11:31 am
I’ve taken this for the first time it’s frightening can you help
4 March 2017 @ 10:22 am
I get these in the spring and the fall, but I don’t get much of a headache with them. They typically last for hours…from 5 to 8 hours or so. Mine are like a marquee…triangles arranged in a large C shape with internal flashing lights that move similarly to a marquee, covering the entire vision field of one eye. The beginning (the top) of the C is usually larger and looks like a snake head. This interferes with my vision and makes it very hard to work. None of my doctors have said they know what it is or what to do about it. They usually laugh when I describe it. What kind of doctor do I need to go to in order to get help?
16 March 2017 @ 9:08 am
I experienced Acute Optic Neuropathy in my right eye which left me with pretty much no sight in that eye. I am now seeing geometric swirling in my left eye which severley restricts my vision. There is no headache associated with it. Has anyone else ever had this occurance?
3 April 2017 @ 11:23 am
I get them, but with no headaches, What’s that mean?
16 April 2017 @ 9:19 pm
I usee to think i was psychic or something. It was more fun than tge truth.. Auras. Ive had them since i suffered pre eclampsia with my first child 10 years ago. I see stars, swirls, balls of light, colored orbs, and sometimes, a complete “white tear” in my vision. My new dr has me trying trokendi bc lately the eye twitching and headaches that accompany the disturbances have been annoying and i am unhappily overweight as well. Im hoping to restrict my appetite
25 April 2017 @ 11:19 am
I am amazed that, with all these posts, I haven’t read any that share my symptom of dysphasia/aphasia. I have had migraines for about 6 years. They started late in life, after I stopped taking an anti-estrogen medicine due to a previous cancer. I FIRMLY believe that a lot of migraines are, in some way, hormone related. I have a LONG story and explanation about why I believe that.
Over the 6 years or so, I have had many, many episodes, and they vary considerably. My very first aura was while driving, and 1/2 of the car in front of my turned into a Kaleidoscope-type image. It was like puzzle pieces that were the same color as the car, and some of them had chrome, but it was like a Picasso. The weird thing about the images is that I cannot look DIRECTLY at them. They are always a bit “off,” and moving my eye just makes the distortion move. I had NO headache this time. I got to work and googled it and said “Oh, migraine, weird.”
It was a long time before I had another, and they got closer and closer together until I was having up to 3 per day. One thing that started me back on track was the discovery I was very low on vitamin D. One is supposed to have 30-100 (whatever units), but some say that we should have 70 to support neurological heath. Anyway, I had 15. I supplemented and things got a little better quickly.
Each episode was different. I ended up getting the 3-day, gut wrenching, ice pack, head tucked between couch cushions, unrelenting pain. Of course, our doctors don’t want to give pain meds. RIDICULOUS. I’ve also had many episodes without headache. These days, I have a headache EVERY DAY, but that is just another aspect because it is tolerable or treatable after all the odd stuff.
My visual aura these days is always the jagged, multi-color, prism or mirror type that is often depicted online. It grows and morphs and then slides away and collapses in about 20 minutes. It makes anything “behind” it disappear. I see half of people’s faces, or I can see one of my hands but not the other. SO odd.
But the worse is when I have stroke-like symptoms. I can read words, but don’t understand them individually or together. I sometimes slur my words. I have one type of episode in which I can’t speak properly. I THINK I am fine. I’ve had my visual aura and it’s gone, and I’m left with a moderate headache. I being to talk and it’s just garbled words. Real words mixed up and making no sense, or garbled letters not really making words. I sound drunk. THIS is my big problem because I HAVE to work and I work in a very audience-centric, public setting. I carry a written notice I can hand to someone (like a policeman or someone I work with) to read in case this happens (because I have no way to explain myself). I have had it happen during work a couple of times, but timing worked out so I wasn’t “caught” because I didn’t have to speak. I’m dreading the day I must admit the problem. I feel I will be fired, although it only lasts about 20 minutes (it’s just another type of aura).
19 November 2017 @ 7:38 am
Have you checked out for TIA’s with your doc . .?
7 May 2017 @ 12:16 am
Hello,
I put on sunglasses and looked up at the sun, and it reflected back these small white spots that looked biometric/fingerprint like in both eyes, mainly the retinas. I never knew I had those, My vision has been blurry off and on. I did have dark circles under my eyes. This all started after receiving the influenza vaccine.
Thank you
Psalm 23
11 May 2017 @ 2:30 pm
i often see bubbles around the air and sometimes fading white spots
4 June 2017 @ 6:07 pm
I’ve had migraines for 35 years and now in seeing auras all the time with no headache .i cant stand this much longer
14 June 2017 @ 6:06 am
I’m having an episode at this very moment…can barely see the computer screen…starts as a small visual disturbance…usually right eye first…appears as an vibrating coloured electrical aura which spreads untill my whole visual field is affected…have to lie down in the dark to let it pass…checked my blood sugar: normal…drinking water and eating a tomato helps (yes, i know it is strange)…very awkward when it happens at work…started when i was 45 on the work floor…7-14 episodes per year…had my brain MRI scanned but thank God no brain tumor…luckily i worked in nursing homes so i could lie down on a bed…episode lasts 20 – 30 minutes… employers would not keep me because of this…every year since then a new employer…i am now 57 and gave up the work thing…but it remains highly frustrating because of unknown cause…
15 June 2017 @ 12:31 am
The first time this ever happened, I thought I was losing my mind and so did my family. Mine start out as little tiny looking lightning bolts that are all colors and very shiny like tin foil and bounce all around when it starts happening, my vision blurs and I feel very nauseated and then usually within 15 minutes, Mr. Migraine appears. One the migraine shows up, the visual disturbances lessen and eventually disappear. I’ve had migraines for over 22 years, but not on a regular basis. The aura didn’t start until about a year ago and that was why I was s freaked out. Now when it starts, I know I need to get meds in me and lay down. That’s great if I am at home, but if I am in public, I just have to close my eyes and hope someone is with me or I have to call someone to pick me up. It’s scary because they come on so fast, but it is also like a warning system. I know I have about 15 minutes before everything gets bad.
18 June 2017 @ 10:16 am
I have had this crazy eye feeling for many years.. I don’t know when it will come on me.. I just had an episode… that aura appears (not any color.. just fuzzy) and if I was to read, for example the newspaper some of the letters or a whole word would be blocked out..or if I look at someones face one of their eyes would be fuzzy to me..like almost blocked out.. can’t make it out…(hard to describe) I had it once when I was driving in the car.. luckily I wasn’t far from home.. In my younger days(I am 75) I used to get Migraine headaches..but don’t get them when this eye feeling comes on.. maybe stress.. I don’t know… all I know is that it is scary when you have it happen.. Usually I lay down for 5 or 10 minutes and then it goes away. It makes you feel like you are on something.. but I don’t take drugs or any medication. It makes you feel kind of spacey when you get the eye episode (or as they call it Ocular Migraine)..
26 June 2017 @ 7:27 am
Hello everyone.
20 years ago Christmas eve, suddenly I couldn’t see clearly. Immediate onset of extreme Blurry Vision, lack of orientation , confusion, totally disoriented, then Crash !
I hit this guy and girl he had just fixed his car, and me in a heavy Van,
hit his left front wheel breaking it in two . They were most likely hurt, however they didn’t know it, neither did I. You get hit by a truck, anything with momentum, you just got hurt. You have 4 years in the state of florida to take that to court. Never take someone’s property.
Take the insurance money or leave it alone. [my attorney’s opinion on that, which so far I have adopted.]
The Frontal Lobe Migraine
It’s always something new. This was right out of the box with red ribbons that fate filled Christmas.
This particular event, settled into what the Neurologist called a Frontal Lobe Migraine. The first symptoms appear as horizontal pressure lines going from left to right , right to left on the forehead. A frown,
One pressure loaded Frown, next electric barb wire patterns horizontal right to left in the eye, and blurred vision, and disorientation to the surroundings. [Not Vertigo, thank G-d, blessed be he.]
If you are driving your car, and you get this, the probability that you will
have a collision with anything around you, is pretty good. 99% you crash
every time.
However the good news, is that after all these years, I get the symptoms, not all of them, and I don’t crash if driving at any speed.
However be that as it may, I have discovered in that, accurate depth perceptions are frighteningly adversely affected.
UGH. That always equals the Crash.
I have almost, at 80 miles per hour and that happens on the 95 in traffic, a rear end hit, no one , not anyone walks away from that collision. Ask your State Trooper on that. He will tell you at that speed, it is death doom and destruction. Go ahead. Ask. I got a perfect lovely lecture from a Palm Beach County Sherrif on that. I was tailgating that day, 84 miles per hour, right on the bumper of a Suv full of people, they traveling at 80. That was Bad. I know. The officer was in a private car right behind me. He cut huge break on that ticket for me, I thanked him later for stopping me.
I am 71 years old. I was 70 when I got that Ticket, yet I haven’t had a reportable accident in 30 years.
Close scary calls, oh yah, . There is G-d, blessed be he who protects you from me, and me from you, while we drive.
Learn rapidly from your migraine, how it starts, any disorientation? faulty depth perceptions? You have to be driving to really notice the smallest of effects of it, and often times, you are in grave danger when driving and you get hit with your first one. You will crash hard.
Be careful, migraines let us know we are alive, so suck it up, adapt, and adjust, and you will drive safe.
I would be careful of the Migraine meds. The VA gave some to me, and after a couple of days, I said no to the stuff.
Damn the Migraine, full speed ahead.
So, learn your symptoms, what type of migraine you have, then you can adjust your life around it. They are a road block in our life, so learn how to go around them without drowning.
I am doing that very thing right now.
I got a full spread of Lightning barb wire flashes filling my right eye.
Go figure that. In the meantime, the left will adjust it’s peripheral visions , it’s depth perceptions , ect to compensate. Have pirates patch
when that happens, and then learn to drive with one on.
No worries mate, we can all make a full recovery.
How is the question, so keep searching.
Mine come and go, and just, lucky me, are a nuisance in my day.
No pain associated with this type. Frontal Lobe Migrain.
Event my doctor, and the neurologist said , if you are going to have migrains, these are the most favorlable ones you can have.
Meanwhile the rule for driving is such.
Don’t hit anything with your car. Never hit a Police Car, and take the ticket, don’t argue with the officer about it. Save that for your court appearance, or your Attorney and remember to be thankful.
You didn’t crash.
Shalom .
Charles.
1 July 2017 @ 4:38 pm
Has been happening for year st least. Happens randomly sometimes 4 days in a row. Sometimes once a week sometimes once every few months. It’s like sea horses and it may lady from 5 min to 30 min or so. After gone my vision is fine. Never have headaches with it.
3 July 2017 @ 9:25 pm
I am 64 years old. First one started when I was 19. It starts as a zig-zag pattern in the middle of my vision, which is stable, but then starts moving, and slowly gets bigger and bigger, until all I can see is coloufrul twirling zig-zags, eyes closed even. Then it slowly moves to the left or right (I have had it in both eyes but rather think it’s in my head and not my eyes) filling my outer vision with the twirling zig-zag lights until it finally fades away after about 25 minutes. Sometimes when one is fading, another one starts up. I am totally exhausted and drained after that, and frightened by them. Was totally freaked out by it, but it went away quite soon. Next attack was at 26 – the day after my birthday. Thought then there was seriously something wrong and went to the ER, by which time the symptoms had gone, but they couldn’t find anything and suggested I cut down on my sugar. I did completely – I lost 10 kilos in 4 months, and weighed 51 kilos at the end – that was nice. Next attack when I was pregnant with my daughter at 34, had them constantly for 4 months, like 3 a week. Now, I must say, I think all these episodes are due to stress. When I look back, whenever it happens, I’m aways under great stress. I did not want another baby, as my first born boy was such a terrible experience, I swore I would never do it again, but the inevitable happened. Of course, now I’m so glad of it, and had only one hour of labour to boot and beautiful granddaughter from her . Since then, I have had bouts of this, always under stress. Lately, it has got worse. My sister had been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer, which had spread to the lungs, the bones, and lately the brain. All treatments have failed, including a shunt put into her brain down to her stomach, to drain away the fluids. It has not helped anyway, and she is bedridden now and been given maybe 8 months to live – so sad – she is my little sister, the worst of it being we live in different countries, so I can’t even be there for her. Since 3 months ago when I found out, I have been suffering these attacks more and more frequently.
25 July 2017 @ 7:02 pm
Yeah I’ve had these things for years. I wake up with them from time to time. They don’t bother me much, and I don’t get headaches with them. They last around twenty minutes. But the visuals are very intense with hallucinations. They only happen at night. I have never taken drugs but imagine this is a very similar feeling. I was always curious about why this would happen. Thanks for helping me find the answer.
27 July 2017 @ 11:44 am
I was having some very bad Migraines. While I was at work I started seeing prisms in my right eye. Within a few minutes my vision faded in that eye and then went dark for another few minutes. Gradually my vision returned also within minutes. I went home and suffered a Migraine that night and woke up with tenderness and a bruise and swelling under my eye. I haven’t had that happen since, but I get worried now if I get a prism that leads to a really bad Migraine. My mother suffered through them and she later in life had complications with tumors and my father died from an aneurysm. Probably nothing to do with my situation but I still wonder.
30 July 2017 @ 2:11 pm
I started having a spiral light in my right eye a month ago.
It is all the time.
8 August 2017 @ 10:15 am
If you haven’t had a dilated eye exam in a while it might be worth getting one. I had a spiral light in my right eye that was pretty constant. A dilated eye exam revealed an ocular melanoma tumor at the back of my eye. Not trying to alarm, but it might be good to have it checked out.
4 August 2017 @ 10:40 pm
Hi!
I have just started to get the wavy lines around the far outside edge of my eyes with a dull headache following, well the other day I was driving home and it happened but then I started to notice that letters were missing from words on the street signs and as hard as I tried to find, them they would disappear, this lasted for about 5 minutes. That is so strange..Is it still considered a migraine? I had only ever had 3 migraines in my life and just as recently as June 2017, they started up again but are not as severe as they 27 yrs + ago.
19 November 2017 @ 7:32 am
I would get the reviewed by your doctor, as a nurse I would advise that
5 August 2017 @ 5:26 pm
I see like crystal triangles shimmering in an arc usually in one corner of vision. Usually right bottom side of vision with the top points of the triangles facing outward and the bases linked together. Sometimes flashes of light can trigger them, television or worse a strong light like led or even florescent bulb lights! Defiantly lack of sleep seems to make you feel more vulnerable, I go straight to bed as soon as I get any symptoms. I have experimented and could see it was in both eyes, so must be brain not eyes. I have had the crystalline arcs actually form a full circle, and worse than this totally blind with whiteout! Just talking about it, gives me the geebies.
5 August 2017 @ 5:43 pm
Forgot to mention what helps besides sleep, is I drink a big glass of water before I go to sleep! These two things have helped with stopping it going to worse stage, and for scientific benefits, I have back and neck injures!
3 September 2017 @ 10:43 pm
Steps involved in incident:
• Put up with this problem for the last year or so, and cannot seem to track down a solution.
• Starts off with vision being fine and cannot see anything wrong but I can somehow feel the aura is about to start. My head feels weird, slightly disoriented.
• Aura starts as a tiny blurry dot just outside of focused area in middle of vision.
• Over a period of a few minutes the dot will transform into a small L shaped blurry aura with flickering colorful contents within its border.
• As aura gets larger it transforms into the shape of a C with same contents as the L shaped aura just larger.
• As aura increases in size, it shifts to the left towards my peripheral vision area. Once it is in this area, my entire peripheral (about 50% of the left side of my vision) has been consumed by this aura and I cannot see anything beyond it. Afterwards it disappears completely and my normal vision returns like nothing happened, except a bit of pressure in my forehead above one of my eyes.
• Sometimes the aura goes left as described, sometimes it goes right, just mirrored and shifts towards my peripheral vision on right side.
• From start to finish the event takes approximately 20 – 25 min to go away.
• During the entire process and afterwards, there is no headache pain involved.
• If I have my eyes open/closed it doesn’t matter I can see the aura although it shows up better in my vision on light colored background.
• Majority of the time it has start at work between lunch and mid afternoon break. I get the same aura at home but not as frequently.
• I am not sure if it is relatable, but I have had multiple times when my vision is working fine and all of a sudden my vision acts like I am cross-eyed. Friends claim my eyes look fine even though I see crap.
• I noticed when the aura gets large enough to look at its contents, I am able to see objects inside like colored squares, triangles, lines flickering. In my situation, the “flickering†is not truly accurate. They are just objects passing through the focal point so quickly they are giving off a bit of their shape and color which in misinterpreted as “flickering of lightsâ€.
• I have learned through meditative techniques and breathing exercises that if you relax your brain, breath calmly, and focus on the flickering, the objects can be manipulated. They remind me of the old televisions that had a horizontal and vertical alignment adjustment know where the screen started to “rollâ€. If you relax and just focus on these things, they can be manipulated to the point where you can slow down the objects, to a stop if you wish, and even control the direction they are going.
• Possible causes? Not sure, but I don’t know if it is coincidence or not, but days where I drink a bunch of coffee, there’s a good chance shortly after It will cause the aura to start. Funny considering, I drink energy drinks which have much higher doses of caffeine and doesn’t bother me half as much compared to coffee. But this is all based on my assumption that caffeine is a trigger for me but I am not sure yet.
15 September 2017 @ 3:29 am
I sow these zigzag lines only two times .the first started about 4 month ago and lasted for 20 min. I was so worried that I was going to loss my vision then it stopped and headache started. Then in the past month I started to see floaters in my left eye but my eye doctor said my retina is fine i it is just dry. Nowadays I see I see a black spot that look like letter C when I look up ward in my right eye. Please help me. Sorry if my English writing is not correct that is because I am not native English speaker
16 September 2017 @ 6:03 am
Nerve Impingements.
Vertebral Structures Failing via falling down, Lifting heavy weights, Auto Crashes, Centurion bicycle riding crashes, water Skiing, Snow Skiing accidents hitting your head getting into the car or out, hitting that other open cabinet kitchen door right on the end of it because you were bent over looking on the floor cabinet and came back up after finding what it was, and forgot the cabinet door right above you was still open.
OUCH !
Everyone is looking for reasons, and as I get electronic lightning bolts coming straight across the middle of the eye, both eyes at the same time, so intense I might add, I am thankful so far as it’s been, since
1993, diagnosed with Ischemic Frontal Lobe Migraine, so intense, if driving the car and this happened, I would have to stop the car as soon as safely as I could. UGH! It’s really more scary then that.
Sometimes my vision drops out. It becomes an absolute ongoing blurriness. Both eyes are not able to focus on anything at all.
Now I’m talk-in huh.
Chiropractic, Gentle Manipulations with a Sports oriented trained Dr.,
he or she should have special degrees on that, or a Certified Advanced Activator Technique Dr, and I have both.
You should find yours out.
I am 71 and have had all those pit-Falls I listed above and more.
I have been hit by a car riding the race bike, I have crashed and broken the right side Back Bone, no one does that except maybe in Foot Ball, I have run into a car riding my race bike into the back of a car suddenly stopped in the highway, and broke the left Glenoid in a marvelous way catapulting to the ground at twice the speed like someone grabbed me by the arm and hurled me over their shoulder to the pavement below.
You all have similar injuries that just possibly, caused these on going Migrain Headaches of various kinds and Pain and arual sensations in various degrees.
This is my summation, a different viewpoint on a complex medical mystery, Migrain’s, throwing it out here for all to read and then to say in the end,
“Think Different”
~Charles Evergreen~
“think of the forest without the trees”
16 September 2017 @ 6:31 am
Charles again,
I left out fist fighting and blows to the face and head.
If you are going to fight, take out the senses first.
Eyes , Nose, ever get hit in the nose? no matter the size of your
opponent, he or she will be absolutely stunned , at least for a moment,
where they are incredibly vulnerable.
I left out an auto accident that at over 110 mph, that’s 177.0278kph,
117Kph. The car dived 60 feet down the end of a road which was under construction, then hit the base of a 60 ft high sand pile and rolled up and over it, and then hit another one behind it, and rolled over that one.
My head hurt, and I didn’t wake up until the next morning in a hospital room. Ugh. Me dad was there looking at me nose to nose and asked me if I was all right. ” Yah, sure dad, ah, where am I ?
If that is you, as it is I myself, we must not discount not even the slightest blows to the head.
The Officer of the law standing guard over me, a criminal infraction driving while intoxicated, later dropped for Favored US Government Purposes and Treatment, said if you think his head looks bad, you should see the auto’s steering wheel.
Ok. Great stories to be told, and in closing, thinking I escaped all those physical trauma incidents from the smallest to the greatest, is not true .
I didn’t. I just thought I had.
Don’t discount any one physical traumatic event. Not one Mental Trauma event either.
Once an injury gets into the subconscious Mind, that mind will run with that 7/24 . It is relentless. It is suicidal in that it doesn’t differentiate between good nor bad, health or illness, life or death.
It will run a tape loop on it till we live well or perish unhealthy. The Subconscious mind is separate entity, our very enemy if programed with disease. It will see to it we suffer.
So, the wonderful good news is the antitheses of subconscious doom, destruction and death in the end, is true.
Never ever run a fatal Tape loop. This means I am to change my way of thinking and what it is I continually set my mind to especialy from
disease to good health.
It’s actually a choice I can make.
Please, have a great day, in the Storm, or in the Calm, make it a “Great One”
Remember to say the Serenity Prayer.
G-d, grant me the wisdom to accept the things I cannot change,
the wisdom to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
G-d blessed be he, has promised whomever should ask for Wisdom, he will give it abundantly, pressed down, a hundred fold.
Love to all, and All to Love.
The Love that does no harm to a neighbor.
CE.
“ThinkOfTheForestWithoutTheTrees”
21 September 2017 @ 1:02 pm
I get these weird images in my right eye from time to time. It’s actually kinda like the pic above but more of a colorful static. It starts in a small area kind of like a blind spot and slowly grows. Sometimes it’s only half the field of vision of that eye and at least once it grew to encompass the entire field of vision of that eye like a tunnel slowly constricting. It was alarming the first time it happened – I thought I would pass out but never did. I have found that consuming either water or Gatorade and washing my face helps. After about 20 minutes of drinking liquid it’s pretty much gone. The only thing I can think of is this may be a symptom of dehydration.
8 October 2017 @ 9:45 pm
I’ve never seen anyone describe mine. I have waves that are purple and blue, flickering quickly maybe 10-20 vibrations per second, arranged in like a rectangular arrangement like a maze with only right angles. Sometimes the lines and angles are not there, just flickers of purple over my vision. They come in from the outer edges and move toward the center and fade out. But it happens over and over, each wave taking over before the first one is completely faded out. Each wave lasting about 2-3 maybe 4 seconds.
I also get a lot of audio – tinnitus and low debilitating roaring like a giant overwhelming subwoofer playing a continuous, loud rumbling semi truck idling inside my head.
14 October 2017 @ 11:07 pm
I was in the car heading to a ice cream place and I stepped out of the car and my eye had bubbles at the bottom I was getting scared but after five min it was gone then I got a head ache
17 November 2017 @ 2:34 pm
I see a large herringbone pattern w a man working next to it when I’m near asleep and a noise comes around, door slamming, car goes by, it is VERY real, almost as if I’m seeing a secret experiment. it looks like one as he has on a smock and appears to have instruments. The pattern is right behind him as a wall.
19 November 2017 @ 7:26 am
I had a huge ear infection in 94 left me with nose and ear and mind hallucinations smelling smoke hearing church bells people talking, and whilst they have settled I’m left with smelling beautiful scents or and not for a long time foul rotting smells, but the last year I wake I know I’m awake to white swirling smoke, but just once this manifested as a chandelier I sat up in bed as it past me and swept my hand through it, I don’t have migraine! Some said the spirits are playing with me, I’ve no idea
11 December 2017 @ 7:36 pm
Zigzagging lines started in the sides of both eyes in black and white and when I closed my eyes, they were in color of red white and blue. It lasted 20 minutes and i felt nauseous. It just came over me while watching tv
13 December 2017 @ 6:40 am
I get the zig-zag pattern in a long chain and it’s in colors and it moves like waves. Starts out small and condensed then as it continues waving it gets larger and moves out of my line of vision. I’m having one right now as I write this. I have neuroendcrine cancer and noticed it a couple months after being diagnosed. I am on octreotide injections every 21 days and though it doesn’t indicate vision issues as a side effect, ya never know.
17 February 2018 @ 10:22 pm
Every day I see these strange geometrical shapes glide in front of my vision and move when I move my eyes. Also I have bright, blinding flashes of light that appear from time to time. Its very frustrating. ;-; When I feel my head start to pound, I escape to a dark and quiet room when possible- but most of the time it happens at school or on the bus. Shutting my eyes barely helps but I do that in class and get in trouble for not paying attention. I don’t feel nausea most of the time ( its very rare ) . I do get neck pains, throbbing in my head and behind my eyes a lot. When I told my friend about it, she told me it might be a migraine. Deciding to do more research I discovered that most of the symptoms fit me… It`s not enjoyable… :C
22 February 2018 @ 6:17 pm
I get these ocular/kaleidoscope visions. They only last for around 10-15 minutes and then go.
I do have a sore neck and shoulders so wonder if this could contribute.
I’ve heard wine, chocolate and cheese can cause this so have been cutting back.
I have enough water and get enough sleep and exercise regularly.
Does anyone have any other suggestions as to why these occur?
It is so frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 March 2018 @ 10:09 pm
Came to this site after Mr Google brought me here.
I’ve had Migraines on and off since I was in my early teens.
I get the visual disturbances with the jagged glistening blurriness revolving a clear blind spot.
The visual impact is normally the first sign of Migraine onset.
Lately my Migraines have been more severe than usual.
Usually I can simply take a couple of paracetamol and wait the 20 minutes for my vision to clear.
Keep medicated throughout the day, and I’m over it.
Lately, I find the next day or so, I suffer residual affects.
I had one of these yesterday, and today apart from sensitivity to brightness, my vision is particularly vivid. Colours and brightness are quite brilliant. I also find that my ‘micro gazes’ drift so that an image I am looking at one second has to be reacquired momentarily because my eye-brain context has been lost.
This is particularly hard on reading as I cannot focus the ‘current word/phrase’ within the centre of my vision and keep it there. It takes a great deal of effort to recap and relocate the point I was at in the text.
Does anyone else experience this?
22 March 2018 @ 11:13 am
I have experienced this kaleidoscope vision once last year. I have just yesterday seen rainbow colours and right now had a jagged silver flashing, numbness in my left arm and must admit, a little confusion, which I believe is due to anxiety. I become very anxious under these circumstances as I feel as if I have no control. It has gone now, having lasted about 10 long minutes. No headache, but pain in my lower jaw and still pins and needles in my left arm. It’s very unsettling.
10 April 2018 @ 8:22 pm
Never heard of Aura Eye Symptom until I googled what I was seeing. It starts with a bright light in the middle of my eyes, then as it slowly expands it becomes a bright ribbon that that rotates like a barbar shop pole. It is narrow but just keeps expanding outward until it reaches my outer vision then slowly fades away. I never have any pain, but sometimes I feel a little pressure behind my eyes. I told all this to 2 separate eye doctors, they didn’t seem to concern about it and suggest that because I’m diabetic that the cause was because my sugar was low.
15 April 2018 @ 9:41 pm
Has anyone ever had constant neon color splotches? Our son has since he was young. He can’t remember ever not having this problem. He has migraines. The neuro ophthalmologist thought he would be an interesting research project.
27 April 2018 @ 5:07 pm
I get a partial looking through a screen window effect. It only lasts a portion of a second or so it seems to me, so I cannot stop and “look” at it. I get no headaches. The looking through a screen window seems to appear if I am doing close work. I have fuchs dystrophy, and I wonder if that is part of it. This has only been happening for the last few months.
6 May 2018 @ 6:26 pm
That picture with the red, blue, and yellow points, is exactly what I saw again today. I seem to have this along with the half faces of people in the room,and bubbles in my vision line . If I handle a couple of ice cubes I haven’t got a headache. Everything just faded off after about 10 minutes, and then I had a bowel movement…I was great after that!
How strange this is…I’m going to keep looking up info on this
12 May 2018 @ 3:35 pm
I get these moving color flashing/pulsating arcs in my vision usually on the edge of my vision but not peripheral (happening as I write this). They last sometimes up to 15 minutes but I do not have migraine headaches.
29 May 2018 @ 9:28 am
I did have a stroke 6 years ago in 2012 .This did leave me with homonymous hemianopia to this day where i have lost 50% of field vision in both of my eyes .Up to then i never use to have aura vision .But over the last 3 years i have had the zig zag lines aura vision to a point where my full vision is very blur and distorted .If i relaxed and took deep breaths through my mouth and breath out slowly through my nose ,the attacks did not last too long about 10 minutes .I use to get 1 or 2 attacks most months ,but have known i have not had for a period of 3 months sometimes .Why i am writing this is because i have not had a Aura attacks for nine months now ,What am i doing different .The only thing i can put it down too i was under my doctor for hyprotension ,taking tablets since my stroke in 2012 .But because my heart rate was a little fast my Dr also put me on beta blockers 9 months ago ,since that time i take these with my blood pressure tablets and junior asprins ,my blood pressure has been good ,my heart rate has been steady, good and have not had even one Aura attack since .
15 September 2018 @ 10:02 am
I am 77 years old. The migraines started once a week in High school. They began with a curved snake like aura with dots in them similar to what a DNA chain looks like. The migraines stopped when I got married but and did not come back for over 2o years and then very seldom. My daughter is a chiropractor and she was able to stop them for months on end. Then In Oct. of 2017 I had open heart surgery. The migraines began again but they were much different. I saw colored flashing lights similar to lightning bolts, the headaches were violent. I heard voices coming from the walls, hallucinations and smells that prevented me from eating. I was told it was due to the anesthesia. and they did stop after a month. However, it is 11 months since the operation and the migraines continued the first 4 months I had them once a day during my time at rehabilitation facilities and then when at home. I have at least two a week now but The aura that warns me of an on coming migraine is totally different. It starts with a rotating circle then elongates and becomes cloud like causing blindness in one eye to occur. Then I get a severe headache. I have had a brain scan and MRI which showed no tumor and normal deterioration for my age. I take Butalbital/acetaminophine/caf. tabs which seem to shorten the time and severity of the headache that follows. I continue to have my neck adjusted as that seems to have helped with the frequency of the headaches. I try to avoid the triggers. Bright Lights, etc. Has anyone else been effected by open heart surgery?
1 February 2019 @ 4:05 am
All the comments describing your symptoms make me feel so much better. I can’t really remember not seeing patterns and shapes with my eyes long before I knew what an Aura was. I thought everybody’s vision worked like that and it was just left over energy that showed up behind our eyelids like when a flash from a camara goes off in your face and you can’t see because if the flashbulb effect. Mine really started getting bad when I was 12 and started to get monthly periods. They became regular and cyclic happening around 6 times a month. The with the “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” I can remember experiencing as young as 7. My father and sister suffered as well. The pain is always over my left eye. The only thing that used to help was cold shakes, a dark, quiet room, and a fan or air conditioner. The headache have become less painful over the years, but the frequency has still remained the same as does the zig-zag or little lightening bolts as I used to describe them when I was little. I also used to get auditory hallucinations when I was younger. I used to hear this hissing sound in my ears, then see the auras, then came the pain nausea, and vomiting. The visual auras have not changed either. I also get the kind that start very tiny in the center with very cool colors, and grow evenly in a circle pattern until they are bigger than my field of vision, then repeat the exact same way starting tiny again. With the geometric pattern, shapes would just fly all over my visual field. With the Alice in wonderland, Which I don’t get anymore, I mostly was taken out of my body and felt as if I was too big for my bed room, often feeling like I was myself and also someone else at the same time but a giant version of myself always in my doorway of my bedroom actually feeling the size of myself be big and be regular back in bed at the same time. It was so strange. I would try to explain it to my mother who was a nurse. She would say that I was just having a bad dream and not to over think it. Since being on Topromax, my headaches have been almost eliminated I’d say like 90%, and the ones I do have are much milder. Sorry so long.
27 April 2019 @ 3:53 pm
I’m a retired 70 year old white male. In great physical condition. I run 5 miles a day, don’t smoke or drink and eat as best I can. I have been experiencing most of these symptoms for 30 + years. Seldom ever a headache or sickness of the stomach. It used to happen regardless of if I was a work or at home. I could never really identify a trigger. Still happens. For the last couple of weeks twice a day. At first it WAS scary. But I now know what to expect. And it is still inconvenient. In that I need to pull over the car when I’m driving or postpone attending any events. But, after all of these years, it still hasn’t killed me. I DO have a symptom not mentioned (I think.) And that is, During the aura, I can’t form complete sentences when trying to speak and I can’t understand words that I am trying to read. IE: Newspaper headlines, or text on a computer screen.
What DOES work for me is glucose. If I consume a dose of glucose when I first sense the aura, then the duration of the symptoms is shortened considerably. If however I don’t have access to a dose of glucose, I’m pretty much toast for the next 24 hours. My brain is burned and I’m useless for anything. I buy glucose at Walgreen’s or Walmart. It comes in a roll of flavored tables, or a little bottle of liquid or even a little package which contains a gel. My primary care physician tells me he thinks I’m doing the right thing.
28 April 2019 @ 6:05 pm
Does anyone here have evidence that this is hereditary ? As in, have your grandparents or parents had this ? How about brothers, sisters or cousins ? Children or grand kids ? I’m curious as to if it runs in families.
5 June 2019 @ 2:28 pm
I have been having these (so-called) migraine ‘Scintillating’ Scatomas for decades, since I was about 50 years of age.
At first I was scared, then I was intrigued by their Beautiful fluorescent moving colors. I have never in 20 years had a migraine with them. My experience with them has been mysterious and exciting without fear. I wonder how such Brilliant Moving Colors can be so feared just because medical science has labeled them as a Medical condition?
Again, as others have said in their comments, this phenomenon occurs internally and in the absence of external ambient light!
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9 July 2019 @ 3:56 pm
I’ve had these all my life since i was 18, im now 56. last for 30 minutes. start out as a small dot and grow to the outer part of my filed of vision till gone. zig zag bright lights. i get a sense of doom going through it. in my 30s it progressed to twitching all over, anxiety attack then in late 40s heart arrhythmia. doctors thought i had MS but was ruled out. some how it effects my autonomic system. I have figured three big triggers. dark chocolate, caffeine and alcohol. earlier in my years i would have maybe 3 a week. now i haven’t had them in 3 years. I’m on a calcium channel blocker which seem to help. I still get the disturbances that spread not in the eye but the feeling of twitching or bug crawling sensation that starts in one part of my body and spreads (like in the aura in your vision except its on the arm, or stomach or leg. it doesn’t hurt just annoying. this spreading sometimes effect the heart rhythm (that part is scary as anything been to er twice for this). ive been to some of the best neurologist, cardiologist and its an electrical disturbance of idiopathic origin . the one thing if i have the eye aura after words it feels pretty good like someone cleaned all the cobwebs out of my head and my brain is very sharp and a sense that my brain had a tune up or supper charged, clarity, super memory..hard to explain. they find it very interesting.
11 January 2020 @ 12:41 pm
I found I could manipulate my ocular aura vision. During my last episode, I noticed that if I looked indirectly into my computer display as if to allow the display’s illuminating light to shine on my stationary oracular images (which were primarily random lines and curves seen in about 33% of my right peripheral vision) then a new rotating image of various geometric images in a clear pattern emerged. They would go if I looked away; the stationary lines and curves would return and remain stagnet. I’d turn back to look at the display and sure enough triangles, squares, circles, and such rotating around, laid out as if those figures were on the circumfrance of a circle and then rotated. I turned away and could see no geometric figures. It was so NOT RANDOM it SCARED me. I began to think those shapes were begin generated by my monitors. Because they were intelligent shapes and not random lines and curves from some biological phenomenon, I thought someone has PROGRAMMED the electricity or the monitor light to oscillate at a frequency to trigger something in me. ARE WE being controlled subliminally! Don’t PANIC; RUN! Hence, I’m doing some research to see if I can account for such phenomenon. How can intelligent geometric figures of various shapes only appear in the illumination of display monitors? If I played with the frequency would I be able to see through people’s clothing, read messages transmitted between Russia and China? (This lasted for about 20 minutes but I was at call center so I could not experiment as much as I hoped.) Anyone else notice this or found ways to manipulate what you see?
16 April 2020 @ 7:37 pm
Hello, today I had the first Aura (?) ever. It was zig zagged and was like 180 degrees of a circle. There were about 7 zigs,zags and it was contained by lines. The lines had three colors, yellow white and blue. It started just to the right of my focus. As it occurred it became larger. After about fifteen minutes it was gone. It was in both eyes and there was nothing else. No headache at all. I am 77 years old and stopped having headaches in my mid sixties. Last year I came down with Shingles. It started in my right ear, progressed across my head, down my nose, made a U turn and went into my eye. Since then I have had some headaches, none what I would describe as migraine. I am on an anti viral medication for the rest of my life to keep from losing my vision. The Shingles have caused many adverse reactions, I wonder if this Aura is the latest.
26 February 2021 @ 9:30 am
Yes, I have talked to the eye doctor. She said that I was under a lot of stress and what I was see was a “Cornea Migraine.” It looked like I was looking through a princess cut diamond. With every cut bringing a cascade of different colors. I do not usually get headaches with this symptom. But it happened more frequently after having salmonella poisoning and being very dehydrated.
15 October 2021 @ 3:16 pm
When I was young I’d occasionally notice blind spots — I had all but forgotten about them until I started reading the comments. I’ve had two scary aural experiences since I turned 50. Both times I was walking across a room and was like someone set off a flashbulb in front of my eye. Totally blind in the center of my vision field, surrounded by a pool of glowy, green, squiggly ripples. I remember it being blinding but, oddly, I can’t remember if it affected both eyes. No headache. Mine are triggered by my neck and are not debilitating — they just grind on for days.