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For the past year and a half I have been seeing flashes of some sort at random times. They occur anywhere and originate from outside aimed from the sky, most of the time they flash like lightning. The only thing wrong with the thought that it's lightning is the fact that 90% of the time when I look outside to investigate it will be sunny with barely any clouds in the sky and there's no sound to it. I've seen it happen both in my peripherals and in direct so I know it's not retinal tearing. But when it happens it's like someone has a large spotlight and flashes it once through the windows, most of the time like I said it seems as though it's coming from the direction of the sky. There have been two of them only out of the 10 or 15 times that this has happened that were different. The first was when I was at my friends house watching him play a game and suddenly a great blood-red light filled the room through the window, and all of them are only for maybe a half second if that, I asked if he saw it and both him and his little brother thought I was messing with them. The second one that was different occurred yesterday, I was trying to sleep in my sunroom so there are windows all around, it was around 11:00 pm and suddenly instead of one quick flash it is about five flashes that are in about the same amount of time I quickly looked around for a car or something of the sort but found none. I was wanting to know if either a. Anyone has any ideas on what this is or b. if someone else has this happening too.

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Are you schizophrenic?

Do you take drugs that cause hallucinations?

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@Raymond Jesse,

Go to an ophthalmologist and get your eyes checked. Eye floaters can be the sign of some pretty serious things: http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/benign-eye-floaters

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@jespah,

Jes, they said it was "coming from the sky's direction", which means it is not their eyes - it's their mind, e.g drugs or mental conditions causing hallucinations.

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@jespah,

I'll agree with what Jespah said.. I've had eye floaters for twenty five to thirty years, but they are in the context of my eye conditions. They can be quite serious, in contrast to my own eye mess, that is at a rather steady state, so far, but they could be a new indicator. I still take them seriously.

I strongly advise, via my bias from experience, that you see an actual ophthalmologist and not your local optometrist at the mall. I could hardly recommend this too much.

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@ossobuco,

Just tell me,

Why are you ignoring the part where they say "seems like it's coming from the sky", then say "NOPE, IT'S THE EYE, EVEN THOUGH THE PROBLEM IS COMING FROM A DIRECTION THAT IS UNRELATED TO THE EYE".

Do you guys have no doubts that it's an eye thing? Not a mind thing? Unless the sky is triggering an eye malfunction, because of some weird blue and red chemistry **** all reaction from some mysterious eye disease affecting them, it's hallucination.

Please answer my drug questions, OP. We all here are confused and left with conjecture. We need more info.

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@Raymond Jesse,

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Floaters/Pages/causes.aspx

http://www.geteyesmart.org/eyesmart/diseases/floaters-flashes/index.cfm

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@Butrflynet,

Do those links say anything about "the flashes may seem like they are coming from the sky"?

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@One Eyed Mind,

You ******* idiot.

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@ossobuco,

Hey now, nobody on this thread knows who is correct.

So how can anyone know someone to be an idiot?

Especially when they doubt their own claims?

And I am the only one who is basing my ideas off of the OP's statements, instead of saying "THEREFORE EYE FLOATER".

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@One Eyed Mind,

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In some cases, the vitreous humour remains attached to parts of the retina and tears the retina as it pulls away. If the retina tears, blood that escapes into the vitreous humour can cause a shower of floaters all at once. You may also see flashes of bright, white light in your field of vision that look similar to lightning streaks

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@Butrflynet,

The OP said red light.

The OP also said it seemed like it was coming from the sky.

What does this have to do with the description you've given me?

The OP said it was sunny.

The sky is blue.

The opposite of blue is red.

OP saw a red light.

There have been cases where the brain backfired on itself and created backward functions.

Coincidence?

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@Butrflynet,

I've been there. I had four retinal tears.

Why are you all listening to this petunia?

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@One Eyed Mind,

He said a lot more than that.

If his eyesight is at all important to him, he will go to an eye specialist to rule out eye diseases and injuries.

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most of the time they flash like lightning. The only thing wrong with the thought that it's lightning is the fact that 90% of the time when I look outside to investigate it will be sunny with barely any clouds in the sky and there's no sound to it.

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@Butrflynet,

Well, that's fine. Anything to reduce the reasons why they are experiencing this.

My point is why you guys are so quick to say "EYE FLOATER", just because you are biased towards the OP's experience, when NONE OF YOU SAID "red light", or "coming from the sky".

Don't you think that's at least remotely silly? OP said it was red light - so perhaps it's a worse problem than yours, who knows.

I just like to make sure, instead of jumping to conclusions. Sue me, and stop being so haste. Jesus Christ you monkeys.

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@One Eyed Mind,

What is silly is the op not going to an eye specialist to get checked out.

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@Butrflynet,

I never said "don't listen to their ideas; listen to mine".

All I said was, "perhaps it's this, or that as well", and instead of being assholes committing to your own ideas, we could have discussed about it, because let's be honest, everyone in this thread that's given an answer has given it IN SPITE of it not saying ANYTHING about "red light", which is telling us something deeper is involved in the OP's experience, and it's important for us as a community to understand that.

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I suppose I'll mention the guy at the eyeglasses place that creamed at me to go to his back room and (film, or something, it was skanky). That was when I had the blown eye and further episodes and things were relatively fixed by the second surgeon. There would be, past the first one, four more surgeries.

I happen to be insurance poor.
I could have sued the first guy.

Not my way.

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@ossobuco,

What putz would down me for that?

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@ossobuco,

Down voters never have reasons for down voting, else they'd post instead, rather than laughing manically while hitting a button that is based on the bipartisan scam, self-appointing their right/wrong laundry list.

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