tffisthis Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 Does anyone else get pretty bad floaters. If you don’t know what they are they are the little lines or dots when you look at bright lights the sky or blank white backgrounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoc Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Floaters are very common. I had them when I was young before I discovered drugs. I'd check with an eye doctor. At the very least he/she can tell you if the floaters you're experiencing are caused by something physical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tffisthis Posted March 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 4:25 PM, hope1 said: I do did they appear as soon as you got hppd or did they develop over time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Soon as I got it which was while I was tripping. It was as though my vision was a pristine pane of glass that was shot with a BB gun leaving the fragments suspended and mobile as I moved my eyes. If the brain is able to filter out noise in the visual field then the ability for this filtering system to work properly has been compromised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tffisthis Posted March 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 On 3/19/2020 at 10:21 PM, hope1 said: Soon as I got it which was while I was tripping. It was as though my vision was a pristine pane of glass that was shot with a BB gun leaving the fragments suspended and mobile as I moved my eyes. If the brain is able to filter out noise in the visual field then the ability for this filtering system to work properly has been compromised. And have you ever seen a eye doctor about your floaters if so what did he say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 That they were seen in one eye but not the other. I think psychedelics destroyed the visual noise filtering function of my brain allowing me to see floaters which otherwise would have been ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 Before HPPD I only noticed floaters in really bright situations on white backgrounds, like a bright morning after a snowstorm, and I would usually only notice one. After HPPD I noticed at least 20 of them constantly. I went to an eye doctor a week after onset, because I knew what floaters were and knew that a sudden onset can be a sign of retinal tears that can cause blindness. I didn't know anything about HPPD, and I thought that the substances I had ingested had caused physical damage to my eyes what with the floaters and other visual symptoms. When I went to the eye doctor I was told that I did indeed have floaters, but not an unusual amount for an average person, and there was no sign of retinal tearing, and that some people notice them more, and I should wear sunglasses to stop them from bothering me. Almost two years later I still see them constantly even in a dimly lit room. Most of my other symptoms such as afterimages shimmering surfaces, and breathing walls faded over the first year to a point where I notice them extremely rarely, but this one sticks with me. I think that @hope1 is correct that the filtering of this visual noise information in the brain has been compromised somehow. I count myself very lucky that this is my only major lingering symptom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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