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I went to the eye doctor today to ask him about my flickering vision which is driving me ABSOLUTELY F***ING INSANE! and he put those obnoxious droplets in my eyes to get them to dilate so he could look in them.

I forgot about that, sadly, and I just heard a jet flying loudly outside and I decided to see if it was an F-16 because they're cool. So I whip the curtain open and BOOM look right into the sun. My eyes are still burning.

But there is a point to this thread.

I realized that when I did that the light looked exactly like HDR. Conclusion? HDR in games currently reflects how an eye behaves under the influence of eye-dilating droplets.
 
HDR IRL? Orly?

EDIT: All internet acronym posts ftw.
 
I've had those eyedrops, they are annoying as hell.

What, exactly, is flickering vision?
 
i nearly died after getting those.

They gave me glasses to block out the sun so i could drive home that day. But in alabama in the summer, it's pretty hot. And my car doesn't have a/c, so i was driving down the highway with the windows down doing about 80mph, when BAM! my glasses fly off and the world goes instantly white. So very very carefully maneuver my car to the shoulder and stop and find my glasses in the back. Then drive home with the windows up sweating like nobody's business.
 
Once I was working outside in the summer for 4 hours in ~90 deg .F weather, and the heat got to me and made me really dizzy, and then I was looking at the trees and everything looked really bright and fuzzy. Real-life blooming effects!

...Then I saw my old physics teacher and I figured I was hallucinating, but my physics teacher really was there :O.

I never take off the eye-dilation glasses though because I get paranoid that I'll be permanently blinded.
 
What, exactly, is flickering vision?
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You know when you look at a light and look away, you get an impression on your vision? I get that for everything, and it sort of flashes....it's hard to describe. Think of turning your monitor down to 60 hz. That's how it feels to me right now for pretty much everything. It gets worse if I'm just sitting looking at something like my computer screen. Motion is good.
 
xcellerate said:
i nearly died after getting those.

They gave me glasses to block out the sun so i could drive home that day. But in alabama in the summer, it's pretty hot. And my car doesn't have a/c, so i was driving down the highway with the windows down doing about 80mph, when BAM! my glasses fly off and the world goes instantly white. So very very carefully maneuver my car to the shoulder and stop and find my glasses in the back. Then drive home with the windows up sweating like nobody's business.
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I'm sorry I know this is an almost died story but I am laughing SO hard right now that I had to post about it.

I just imagined it in my mind and it's hillarious.
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
I'm sorry I know this is an almost died story but I am laughing SO hard right now that I had to post about it.

I just imagined it in my mind and it's hillarious.
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Ahaha, me too :)
 
dfc05 said:
Once I was working outside in the summer for 4 hours in ~90 deg .F weather, and the heat got to me and made me really dizzy, and then I was looking at the trees and everything looked really bright and fuzzy. Real-life blooming effects!

...Then I saw my old physics teacher and I figured I was hallucinating, but my physics teacher really was there :O.

I never take off the eye-dilation glasses though because I get paranoid that I'll be permanently blinded.
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Ahaha small world.

I marshalled for a full day at one of my leagues' tournament paintball events. It just happened to be one of the hottest days recorded in the south of UK, with absolutely no wind or shade on the 2 fields..

In between games (sure they lasted 5 mins max, but considering there were 20-30 teams and each team played 8 games across 2 fields..hard work) we had to physically pour a bottle of water over our heads to keep us from passing out.

And yeah, at the end of the day when i sat down taking my gear off (shirt, kevlar-like body vest and jersey ontop, along with a head sock, headband/sandana and a visor that youve been wearing since 9am), my sight just went...well...****ed. Dizzyness etc kicked in, ive never been so freaked out as it wouldnt go away until the evening!
Never doing anything like that again...
 
MiccyNarc said:
Come back in 2 weeks to see if I have a tumor.
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A friend of mine discovered he had a tumor after an Eye test. Sorry, I don't want to scare you or anything. My friend has recovered from it and he was lucky to get the eye test, otherwise he wouldn't of known until it did permanent damage.

Good luck anyway, I hope it isn't anything serious.
 
Mutley said:
A friend of mine discovered he had a tumor after an Eye test. Sorry, I don't want to scare you or anything. My friend has recovered from it and he was lucky to get the eye test, otherwise he wouldn't of known until it did permanent damage.

Good luck anyway, I hope it isn't anything serious.
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Did he have symptoms? Headaches? Seizures? Anything?

I'm scared mommy hold me :(
 
ríomhaire said:
*hug*
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*fabulous group hug!* :burp:

Yeah, I've gotten those eyedrops before... gives me a huge headache, and it's usually recommended NOT to look at any bright lights for an hour or so.
 
On the topic of eye problems, my right eye is twitching on and off. Not always, but when it is it's for hours at a time, sometimes all day. Pretty sure it's just on account of staring at the screen too much, but if this is a tumor thing I'd like my hug now please :(
 
Bad^Hat said:
On the topic of eye problems, my right eye is twitching on and off. Not always, but when it is it's for hours at a time, sometimes all day. Pretty sure it's just on account of staring at the screen too much, but if this is a tumor thing I'd like my hug now please :(
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I get that too. It doesn't happen often but when it does it's so SO annoying because you cant make it stop.

Even if I HOLD the eyelid in between my fingers and like SQUEEZE it painfully, it STILL twitches while I'm doing it. Thinking/concentrating hard/distracting myself/ closing eyes doesnt work either, just gotta wait the hour or two it takes for it to stop.

Luckily it never has happened in public xD
 
That happens to me when I'm tired, my eye twitches obnoxiously.

But here's mr. Hat's hug anyway

*hug*
 
My eay twitches sometime when I'm tired
*continues hug*
 
I get occasional temporary ten-second blindness.

But not for a while now. I talked to my optician about it and I have a notebook ready to record it when it does.
 
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