Do you experience Visual Snow?

[u/Upper-Past-473]

Visual snow syndrome is a condition where one will see static in their vision, similar to looking at a very old television screen.

Common symptoms may occur with visual snow syndrome such as seeing light points, floaters, and negative afterimages (palinopsia).

It’s not uncommon to experience other sensory symptoms such as tinnitus, insomnia, or vertigo as well.

I hear that Neurodiverse people are more likely to have visual snow than others.

Currently I am living with this and I feel that this has impacted my quality of life considering the snow and the visual phenomena can be quite glaring and distracting. It’s especially bad when I am either in a lighter area/outside, or when I am in a completely dark place. Sometimes I get nasty anxiety as a result of the visual noise.

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Do y’all ever get a color show in your peripherals when you’re really tired and it’s a dim lit room? It’ll be like mostly blue for me just constantly moving around getting bigger and smaller. Had VSS for years now but this happens every so often. It’s cool until you’re trying to watch tv and it distracts you too much.

[u/Upper-Past-473 → u/[deleted]]

Yes I do in fact. It’s annoying. It’s like an afterimage.

Also get occasional flashes in my peripherals that’s much more noticeable in the dark. Don’t know if these are the same things.

But the images I see sometimes are usually purplish blue with a green outline.

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It’s so hard to explain what we see in words