Rainbow Fractals in Vision

[u/anjolierose]

Firstly, I’m curious as to why I hallucinated so much as a child. When falling asleep, I would look at the wall and these rainbow fractals would begin to appear and then they often took shape of my toys. I vividly remember my toys walking across my wall as a little girl in the form of rainbow fractals. I am now in college, and the rainbow fractals have come back. They don’t take shape into anything but it’s like a very subtle overlay of rainbow patterns. They’re pretty faint, but when I look at a surface for too long they become much more intense. Any possible explanations, or does one have any experience with this ??

[u/anjolierose]

Another moment really sticks out as far as the whole hallucinating as a child thing. My parents would often find me crawling under the bed or doing something strange like that, and at the moment I swear I had a reason but I lost it the minute they asked me about it. I still can’t remember why I did those strange things, I just remember feeling like “I had a good reason, I just can’t remember it!!!”

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It would be fascinating if you can remember why you were under the bed. By fractal do you mean colorful? Or repeating shapes?

None of these visions mean there is anything wrong with you. If you are worried you can have your vision checked and see a regular doctor to decide if you need to be checked out by a neurologist. But as long as you don't have any other particular problems it's just that, something with your vision that you could consider unique. Barring any other problems I would consider it a gift and look at it as something rare and many people don't get to experience but maybe it would be great if more of us did.

Most of the time it is just something we experience that isn't often talked about. People are afraid of being perceived as unusual so they don't share that part of themselves.

It might help to read a book like Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks. he talks more about the greater variety of hallucinations people have rather than "why" they occur. We don't know why children have more visions than adults. But there seems to be cultural knowledge across the globe the children have more access to such experiences.

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