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<div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">The first time I had one of these, I had just heard some horror stories about detached retinas. I made an emergency trip to our ophthalmologist, who reassured me and then said it was really a circulatory problem, and not a retinal problem. So I left we one worry replaced by another.</p>
<p dir="auto">I don\u2019t perceive any geometric patterns, though. Mine are more like amoebae who have rolled in glitter.</p>
<p dir="auto">--Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 May 2019, at 15:39, Frank Wimberly wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="embedded"><div dir="auto">Also called optical migraines. I experience them as perfect, complex, geometric patterns which scintillate and exhibit various colors. How does that come about from the glop that is my brain or retina or whatever? It's all glop.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div></div></blockquote>
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