Re:Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderlan...
by JKCalhoun on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:58PM
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Had auras associated with migraines. Especially when I was younger.
For myself I found that things in my periphery would disappear — like a kind of tunnel vision. As the condition progressed this region that I could not perceive would grow, the tunnel narrow.
I feel like at times it was as though to my mind I simply could not focus or resolve the areas in my periphery. At other times the areas in my periphery seemed to be occluded by arbitrary shapes of light — often flickering or pulsing in a fast cyclic way.
Often the condition could instead be that the place I was looking directly at would suffer the same degradation. Out of focus, not resolvable, maybe overlaid with some sort of light region.
Looking elsewhere showed that the distortion was relative to where my eyes were looking. So if the thing I was looking straight at would not resolve, I could look slightly askance and see it clearly.
When I was younger the condition would soon progress to nausea. Throwing up (even dry heaves) meant the condition was passing and I would be fine in a few minutes.
As I have gotten older the nausea has never returned and the frequency of the auras has become more infrequent.
For myself I found that things in my periphery would disappear — like a kind of tunnel vision. As the condition progressed this region that I could not perceive would grow, the tunnel narrow.
I feel like at times it was as though to my mind I simply could not focus or resolve the areas in my periphery. At other times the areas in my periphery seemed to be occluded by arbitrary shapes of light — often flickering or pulsing in a fast cyclic way.
Often the condition could instead be that the place I was looking directly at would suffer the same degradation. Out of focus, not resolvable, maybe overlaid with some sort of light region.
Looking elsewhere showed that the distortion was relative to where my eyes were looking. So if the thing I was looking straight at would not resolve, I could look slightly askance and see it clearly.
When I was younger the condition would soon progress to nausea. Throwing up (even dry heaves) meant the condition was passing and I would be fine in a few minutes.
As I have gotten older the nausea has never returned and the frequency of the auras has become more infrequent.