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[senoritafish]

Ok, so what just happened to my eyes? I was sitting here at work reading on my screen and I started noticing this little distortion in the middle of my viewing area. At first I thought it was some kind of floater, because I have some permanent ones that never go away - my optometrist told me as you get older you lose fluid inside the membrane in your eyeball, and it begins crinkling a little, like a plastic bag filled with air, but losing some pressure inside over time. Then I noticed this had a kind of shimmer to it, and it was slowly expanding. It started bothering me to read. Then it expanded enough that it seemed "C" shaped, and the shimmer was caused by kind of a shifting geometric moire pattern. I tried closing my eyes one at a time and both; I could still see it. It gradually expanded and moved off to the left, into my peripheral vision, so it no longer interfered with what I looked at straight ahead, until it was just at the edge of my visual field. Then it finally disappeared, and I can see fine now.

This all took place over the course of an hour. I was wondering if I was going to be able to drive home, or if I was going to have to call and wake runsamuck up to come and get me. Eyestrain? Migraine (didn't hurt or anything though)? Hallucinating?

Jeez, that was weird.

Comments

[nugatorytm.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you were dehydrated at the time?

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Don't think so, I keep a water bottle on my desk. Really strange.

[onnas-baka-gaki.livejournal.com]

Hope you're okay now!

I have a ridiculously large amount of floaters and yes, more than when I was younger. Sometimes I can't tell if there's a flying insect buzzing my head or a damned floater.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it went away and didn't hurt or anything. Just kind of disorienting.

The floaters don't bother me too much unless I'm looking at something that's flat white for awhile.