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		cjenken on Feb 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How convolutional neural networks see the world What I find interesting is that the auras that I get as a precursor to my migraines don't look far off from those images. If you were to take a C shaped slice and overlay it onto video and then animated the color you would pretty much have it. It would be interesting to see if they were connected somehow...

mej10 on Feb 1, 2016 | [–]

Sounds like you are describing "scintillating scotoma", if you wanted a name for that visual distortion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma

Synaesthesia on Feb 1, 2016 | | [–]

That's interesting, it also resembles the patterns I see on LSD or 2C-B

Johnythree on Feb 1, 2016 | [–]

Yes, same here!

I get the vivid flickering lights occasionally (in a C shaped slice as you describe), but luckily don't get the headaches.

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