I don't find it that very desciptive of how it is to experience an aura. I think a more precise description would be to imagine looking at a very colourfull patcwork under stong sunlight for a minute or two. The aura acts like the "after-image" on your retina being superimposed on what you see. It is kind of there and not there at the same time, and not something stationary you can focus on. Another peculiar phenomenom is that your periferal vision just vanishes at the same time. It does not go black, it just does no longer exist. It is like the way you cannot see what is behind your head, but you do not see your head as a black obstacle, that part of the world is just simply not seen.

Me. I have so much myopia that I cant really read without glasses or even recognice nyself in the mirror without them (obviously i know that its me but i cant see it)

I wonder how a dyslexic person would see the second one...

"Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven."

as someone that has this one... i'm not sure if the inset is the full color, or the skewed one

I am trying to imagine what nothing looks like.

or when i let my friends try on my glasses. "HoW cAn YoU sEe WiTh ThEse??"

I have astigmatisms in both my eyes and I don't have the distorted, just blurry. That photo is still not blurry enough for me when I don't have my glasses on lol

For all the people saying that this is cute, maybe it adds nice aesthetic to one picture, but would you really want live you life seeing this the entire time??

I have this and it gets worse if i'm tired or have a fibro flare up. Looking at anything with close stripes is a nightmare and really hurts my head and eyes. Sometimes the edges of things look like they have faint motion lines like you would see in a cartoon when something is drawn to look like it's shaking.

That makes me sad. :/

One of my friends has this and that's why he always wear black and white outfits only, otherwise he could look ridiculous to other people.

I met a guy who had this. He said he took drugs once and thought he might have seen colour, but it was impossible for anyone to confirm it.

Thank you for including this. My husband lives with this and a lot of folks think it is not real. Yes, it is quite real and this has been his whole world for his entire life.

It's like walking through life in a Humphrey Bogart film so sad :(

Sheldon kind of explained it perfectly. The things that bother him sensory wise is like an itchy sweater on your brain that you can't scratch and can't ignore.

I have visual snow (found out after talking to my eye doctor this year and she said it was my brain and not my eyes). Mine doesn't quite look like that, think an out of tune tube TV. Where you can see the show and the color but there is static everywhere. It makes it really hard to see in the dark too. If you're curious about it look it up, it's crazy how uncommon it is.

You get so tired in your head.....

I heard that this is not a disease and people with synesthesia are good in certain tests of memory.

It's not like that though... (don't have it but I know about it). It's just that they don't notice/remember the subtle differences that make a face stand out from others.

I have visual snow, and I guess it's different for everyone because the first two pictures with the ripples I don't see, but the third picture it pretty much what I see.

sheesh I didn't realise this was a thing, I thought I was just broken

Easy to remove these days

Not saying that it would be cool to always see like this, but the first picture actually looks nice.

More like Glaucoma that wasn't controlled and killed that person's peripheral vision. I was diagnosed with it over 20 years ago and other than being nearsighted, I see fine.