About a week or so ago, I started to experience a bright and glaring flash of light when I’m meditating or trying to sleep. My eyes are shut when this happens in a completely dark room. It catches me offguard and is painful enough I open my eyes. It takes up my whole field of vision and is quite different from ‘sparkles’ experienced when standing up too fast. The flash of light is similar to when somebody turns your bedroom light on unexpectedly or when you’re driving through a windy mountain road at night in the middle of nowhere when some asshole heading the other direction with his high beams on comes around the corner and blinds you for a couple seconds.
I don’t know if this is a neurological/ophthalmological issue, spiritual issue, or something else. Looking for insight. Thanks for your time
I’ve had phosphenes. They typically appear as closed eye visuals in the form of patterns and spots of muted purples, greens, and blues with deep meditation producing images such as the all-seeing eye. This is different. It’s obnoxiously bright in comparison and no darkness can be seen. It honestly is like I’m seeing an extremely bright headlight
I read that article earlier. It’s not a pin prick or a spot. I’m familiar with various visual disturbance conditions as they go hand-in-hand with my rare and incurable visual snow (blue field entopic phenomenon, floaters, trailing, palinopsia, glares, halos, starbursts, etcetera). You didn’t need to be condescending nor assume that I was too lazy to do any research prior to asking here. I’ve spoken to neurologists and ophthalmologists regarding the visual snow who stated whatever I’m seeing isn’t coming from my eye, but from my brain. There’s barely any medical research on it and the only thing medical professionals say is, “Well, that sucks. Nothing we can do.” This is a new type of visual disturbance and I asked here out of a last-ditch effort since I could only find one anecdotal experience from another visual snow sufferer describing the exact same light.
I know what you mean! It’s not like spot of light that we get when I watch too long a light.
Sometime when I closemy eyes, everything is “dark” and from no where I’m blinded by a light that flash like the sun, and it disapear as fast as it came!
But I dont know what it is
That’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s the same. This is extremely jarring and has happened more when I’m trying to sleep. I recognize when it is about to start the same way someone might have a thought mid-way after tripping before hitting the ground.
This has happened to me with a huge explosion of white light going off in my mind, for me it announced the presence of Lucifer the torch of knowledge and light. Amazingly it happened at 3:21 am and woke me up three nights in a row.
