One of the little visual weirdnesses I've had for years is that I see semi-transparent thingies circulating around in my visual field, often making it difficult for me to focus on whatever it is I'm trying to look at. They're not your typical floaters (which I also get (like everybody else)). Sometimes I think they're kind of neat, in that my hunch--which an ophthalmology student years ago agreed with--was that I was watching blood cells circulating in my eye.
Well, a discussion elsewhere prompted me to look online and see if there's any info on the topic, and I found out that your basic ability to see the dancing of your retinal leukocytes is called
Scheerer's phenomenon. This is something we can all see under the right circumstances, but most of you won't be seeing it all the time as I do! As it turns out, there's at least one discussion board devoted to the topic of
visual snow. Cool! Now, I wonder if I can find info on my other visual oddities, like the part where the world seems to be expanding and contracting as if it were some giant organism breathing...
Edit: Looks like some of the visual snow board (snowboard!) people share other visual weirdnesses of mine which I tend not to think about too much. Some of them get upset about entirely different things, even when they have the same basic sets of symptoms. One person is upset by visual "graininess" at night, while another person is unbothered by it. Second person is so disturbed by "worms in the sky" that they're a bit agoraphobic. It's interesting.
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