front of my eyes 24/7. Day, night, lights on, lights off? I've been dying to know why my eyes do that for years and years.
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Hmmm, could be different things.  \n\nGenerally flashes can be one whole thing.  One way this happens is when blood is rushing out of the head to other parts of the body(Like when someone is about to faint).  Standing up really fast after sitting a long while you can see dots of light floating around like a cartoon character would see stars after getting hit on the head with a mallet.\n\n"Floaters" can be a whole other.  Whenever you stare at bright light, temporarily part of your vision will "turn off" to protect itself.  Then you'll have a little black spot(or a while spot in the dark) floating around like bug.  Sometimes they can be permanent(in extreme cases, like staring at a solar eclipse), but usually for other medical reasons.\n\nThose are just examples, but there are lots of reasons why you can see odd things in your vision.  For example, I have strabismus(crossed eyes).  When an eye tries to jerk to one side really fast I sometimes see a black splotch in my vision for a second.  I've been told that's because the fast jerk is pulling the optic nerve on the back of my eye.  And the splotch is the back of the nerve on the retina(the "movie screen" part of your eye).\n\nWell, these are just examples.  But yea, go see a doctor.  I bet insurance would cover it and you won't lose anything.  Even if you've had this problem for years, it could get worse.  You never know.\n\n(Just if anyone was curious: I did have crossed eyes, but I had surgery to correct it cosmetically.  However, crossed eyes are not caused by the eye muscles being defective but by a lack of control of them.  It is more of a palsy because eye training can't completely "fix" the problem.  Cutting the muscle to weaken them does mask the "jerky" control, thereby giving cosmetically straight eyes.)
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Sounds like migraines to me.\nI have them,but I have very severe daily ones. I'm on preventative medication, as well as weekly injections in my head to numb the pain. I have to wear sunglasses inside most of the time, because of such a severe sensitivity to light. I see zig zaggy lines all the time, I see colours, spinning colours, dots, and neon lights flashing. I also get horrible headaches, left side numbness, dissyness and nausea.\n\nBut most people just have to take an advil and go to sleep in a dark room. Some people find ice helps.\nHeres some information for you!\nCheck it out and go see a doctor. Get a catscan to make sure everything's ok.
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No wonder your name is jerk...S.A.D. seasonal affective disorder...duh...read the question before you answer....as far as the answer, it depends on how far up north you live...I moved my whole family to Florida to escape the dark dense cold weather in darkness of the North...use the light as much as you can and keep your chin up...
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I believe its because the photoreceptors and optic nerve are still being stimulated, similar to how your eyes get from a camera flash. The question is, how long does it last and can you still see these flashes at night or in a dark room?
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I have had that problem.  I asked my optometrist about it once.  They told me that it is normal.  It's a combination of a couple of factors:\n1.  Your eyes are trying to accomodate for the lack of light by adjusting to the dark.  This causes your pupils to dialate, which causes blood to flow more rapidly through your eyes, which over-stimulates the optic nerves.\n\n2.  Minor visual hallucination:  Your brain is trying to fill the void with images, trying to make sense of the newly-limited input filtering in.
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it's probably not a disease but something we all experience sometimes. It sounds like"floaters", bits of stuff inside the eyeball that we see. Sometimes we see them more in bright sunlight. Go to an eye Dr. if you have a great deal of floaters. Usually nothing at all to worry about.
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you've strained your eye muscles. what have you been looking at? this can also happen during r.e.m. sleep if your dreaming really hard and your eyes are going crazy. watch someone sleep they eyes move around slightly under the lids yours may have went crazy and starting spinning.
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I see them too in the dark.. and I have 20/20 vision so I don't think there is anything wrong with you unless it becomes prominate.\n\n\nAsk your family doctor it couldn't hurt. \n\nI always thought it was for this reason...... your eyes are made up of rods and cones that pick up light and color\n\nI see this as being similar to pixles on a tv\n\nour eyes have pixles so to say, and in the dark for our eyes to create the image, you get light and dark pixilation... just my opinion...\n\nwhen it's really dark I see static, not just black..... I know exactly what your talking about\n\n\nyour the first person who has ever said this
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Twitchy eye is quite funny, like being tickled. It happens when you're tired or stressed, and you think everyone else can see your eye having a little fit, but they can't. I don't know how old you are, but your blurred vision could be 'silent migraine'. This can start in children and as they grow up, the headaches follow. It could also be staring at a computer screen! Have your eyes checked. :-)
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I think you need to see a doctor.  It could be a nerve issue or muscle or both, since the nerves and muscles work together.  An opthomologist is who you want to see.
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The bulb could be getting ready to burn out.\n\nOr the street light could be "cycling". Sometimes, a streetlight is installed in a bad location. When it gets dark at night, the light comes on, but the light from the bulb is reflected back to the photocell. The photocell senses the light and thinks it's daytime again, so it shuts off the light. When the light shuts off, the photocell senses that it's dark again and turns the light back on. Then it keeps cycling on and off. Each cycle lasts about a minute or two depending on the manufacturer of the photocell. This usually happens with the streelight is near a shiny marble wall or a building window.
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Im not sure if head trauma can cause this later on in life , but I do know that one is usually born with this condition. I have two family members which have suffered from this and I myself have what is known as a "lazy-eye" and all of us have been born with this eye condition. However, there are corrective measures as well as surgeries and it's too bad this little darling wasnt given the chance at having one.
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could be lots of reasons, you need to seek a physician, or a optometrist could be eye strain? i have daily headaches due to high blood pressure. any way go to the Dr. could be the symptom of something serious! good luck!
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Make sure the light is not shining in your face....I'm more concerned with fact that the light gets hot...make sure that you have a good lamp that does not pose a fire hazard and put it on the other side of the room so it is not shining in your eyes...who cares if anyone gives you the business about sleeping with a light on...many people do it....take care
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it might be serious or might just be tiredness or brain working toomuch! the big problem hope is not could be colour deficiency in the eye theses are a few types of signs. no need to be alarmed. just relax and have a check with ur doctor.\n\ncheers\nGood Question!
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I have floaters. It has something to do with your retina. Should you start noticing many more just out of the blue, blurring vision, peripheral vision fading or blasts of bright light in your vision then you should get to a doctor quick b/c that could mean that your retina is detaching. Look it up in the search engine for more info.
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I don't know, but here's my guess: your screen refreshes itself all the time, so it's like a super-fast strobe light.  I think that the peripheral vision thing has to do with how often your eyes capture and process images from directly in front as compared to peripheral, and how much energy goes into processing them.  Basically, your brain cares more about the information it's getting from the front, so it's more throughly processed.  Perifpheral vision is basically just warning you about general movement, so the super-fast blinking of the computer monitor registers more.  Or else it may have something to do with the wavelength of light that's emitted somehow.  I doubt that's right, and I'm not sure it even makes sense, but that's my guess.\n\nPS. It doesn't work with my LCD display.