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

Wow these posts are so far from the truth. I have astigmatism and it's not at all like this.

The worst part about astigmatism is the haloes around lights at night.

I have astigmatism and believe me, the vision is blurry but not distorted at all!! The second picture made me nauseous!!😶😑

This is totally NOT accurate so I'm guessing most of the conditions they list here are also not accurate

I have slight astigmatism which is more like seeing through a slight grid, when I am tired.

Nope. I have astigmatism and don't see anything like that.

I don't see with the distortion either. Just blurry.

I have moderate astigmatism and this is nothing like how I see. Mostly things are just blurry and words look like someone got them wet and the ink it starting to bleed

The halos around lights would have been a better example of most people's experience of astigmatism.

I was told I had astigmatism, hadn't noticed, but the glasses which corrected it drove me mad with the distortion.

Astigmatism is much more fun than the regular vision when on hallucinogenics at least

I'm told I have astigmatism in my left eye, but I've never had that problem as shown above. Thanks to daily vitamin E, I have been able to go w/out glasses, except for reading, for decades. This year I started experiencing blurry distance vision and traffic lights that look like Mickey Mouse shapes in red, yellow and green. Glasses have helped.

No. Not at all.

I think it is a very high number.

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.

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.