Sensory: Do NTs experience this?

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When I look at the floor when I am tired or have done something physical, - the floor may seem to "breathe", colored tiles may change size or ripple and the surface of the road (asphalt) may "move" like slowly streaming lava.

I have had many other odd phemomenas of that kind, such as loss of body-sensation, proprieceptive "disturbances", moments of delayed sensory integration and things like that, - and my psychologist says, that it is typical of Aspergers, - but as he is an asperger-enthusiast (and maybe even aspie himself), I should like to know, if NT´s have experiences like that too.

When I've physically exerted myself or am unwell/weak/faint, I "see stars", those silvery streaks across field of vision for a few minutes.
Also, under same conditions, I may see small blurry spot wherever I look, with the single "shimmering" spot moving along with my gaze.

Do you also get or did you go through a period when you got migraines?

Yeah I'm pretty sure when you get tired enough that kind of thing gets commonplace.

I am not sure, that I understand. (English is not my native language).
NT? The psychologist doesn´t think so. I will be taken through a test battery this month.

Yes, I have had the "breathing tile" hallucination. It's actually quite common on LSD. I think in some extreme states the normal correction your brain does to account for the slight movement of your own breathing doesn't occur; so the tile appears to move because you are moving slightly each time you breathe.

Ok. Thanks.

Duplicate post. Damn mobile.

Yup, I can attest to NTs being able to experience those kinds of illusions. Generally not very often, though...mostly in moments of tiredness or boredom or when I've been staring at something a while. Illusions of motion are especially common after I've been staring at a moving thing and then stare at something stationary. The stationary thing will appear to move in the opposite sense that the moving thing was. Another common one for me is when something (usually upholstery of some sort) decorated with some kind of highly repetitive pattern creates a magic-eye illusion where it suddenly seems to have depth. (If we NTs couldn't experience such distortions of our sensory perception, Magic Eye wouldn't have ever caught on.)

I've experienced this illusion when tired. I've never been diagnosed with any mental health disorder and my friends can attest to the fact that I'm completely "sane", yet I also get various strange sensory/visual phenomena. I'm not an NT, though.