Visual snow poll

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I just want to highlight this term from the thread on light sensitivity because I have visual snow and I am curious. How common is this in this community?

Hopefully I added enough poll options. It should give us an idea, regardless. I added "in the past" because I wonder if it ever goes away for anyone. Self-explanatory - I wonder if anyone experiences it intermittently. I have been consistently aware my whole life. When I was really little I told my Mom that I see static everywhere (I was thinking of our old-time tv set in comparison).

I started a thread about visual snow and other similar issues here as well: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt152564.html

Not to distract from poll or discussion here.

I remember asking some people on another site about it and most people didn't experience it. Surprised me as I assumed it was typical.

Oops - sorry for the duplicate! Huh - well, if no one minds - let's see what another thread brings - is that okay?

That thread is two years old, and this one is fine. I wasn't trying to say "You duplicated my thread." I was offering the link because I thought it might be informative for you. I am sorry about the miscommunication.

I remember when I first read about visual snow. It was some sort of "aha-moment" for me. I then suddenly realised why I, throughout my life, had asked people if it's raining outside when it clearly (to everyone else) wasn't. I experience visual snow when looking at dark backgrounds or whatever it's called (trees for example). I also experience "floaters" sometimes (link here) when looking at bright backgrounds.

I never thought anything about it until a few days ago while reading an old post. I thought it was normal, apparently not. It is far worse in the dark. Kinda like a light show. To answer the question "yes".

I only experience in under bright lighting conditions. It makes reading difficult to impossible.

For anyone curious as to what visual snow looks like:

http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e2 ... ex_en.html

I've never read about it with that particular name but I feel like I've experienced it.

Say I'm look straight do you see grainy light patterns like light TV static, along with cool little loopy loop light circles.

ALSO QUESTION I NEED ANSWERED.. When sitting in a classroom with fluorescent last lights does anyone see waves of light like water would make? I need to know it I'm crazy hah...

No worries It wasn't you - I just manage to confuse things up - that's just me. I wasn't really worried - just trying to be polite and I was unsure if I breached a site policy. Thank you I appreciate the thought and the link!

Well, I don't know if it reassures you , but I do see those waves as well.

TV static - especially the "old time" tv static that I think is rare now to have stations that are nothing but static (does that happen at all anymore?) describes it well for me. I find it worst on a light or bright background. Driving - and particularly as a passenger passively looking out the window - is very pronounced. That being said, it is there regardless of the background - just most pronounced in the cases I mentioned - which includes backdrops like walls. I wondered for a while if I could actually see molecules or electrons or something - just trying to explain it experientially. It is funny, as I am thinking now, because it is not static as in still or stationary, but active static - I just realized the different senses of the word and I am easily distracted by words

I thought this was normal.
I don't see it all the time and usually it is mild enough that I can just go about my day, which led me to believe that I was probably always seeing it and just kinda get used to it, kinda like a smell in a room fades after a while. Does it tend to go away for any of you, or is it just a constant thing? about the only time it gets really bad is during migraines. During those, I tend to get a full blown technicolor light show, not just a bit of mild static.

Only time it ever happens to me is when I look at a bright light for a few seconds too many.

It is always there and when I was younger I was extremely bothered by it, made me depressed.

What about staring at a white wall? That always gives me blue and yellow blobs that dance and contract and expand, almost like spreading oil slicks. And static on top of it.

Nope.
Or at least so far as I'm aware, nope. Looked at the pictures linked to, but most of them just looked like crummy picture quality to me... the sort of things that cameras consistently get wrong, which bothers me.
I see pretty clearly at night.
Don't do so well during the day, especially in bright sunlight. If I'm not wearing my sunglasses then just about any light-source will leave coloured smears on my retinas.
... And then of course there is the dirt that gets on my glasses. Double-edged sword there. I have to take them off to clean them, but that necessitates shutting my eyes so I don't get blinded. v_v; ... They always need cleaning. Always. I can't ever get them clean enough.