I can't remember if there was ever a time when I couldn't see them: The endless, colourful tiny flickering dots that clouded my vision whether it was daytime or not but became much more vivid and distracting during nighttime. It had caused me many sleepless night during my child years as to my then imagination, they felt very lifelike and interactive, sometimes morphing into frightening shapes and forms with the worst thing of all being that no one besides me could experience it.

Eventually, my brain developed to passively ignore them. They are still there as always, but I only notice them the instance I decide to think of it, kind of similar to breathing. We breathe all the time but normally only notice the inhaling and exhaling of air when we consciously think to. The funny thing is I thought this was how everyone saw the world until I started asking people out of curiosity and they all gave me that unbelieving 'this guy is nuts' look.


After searching online, I came across something called Visual Snow, a rare syndrome whose description almost matches what I experience and is alleged to affect 2% of the human population. Though, I'm still not 100% convinced if it's the same thing.