MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Spiraly rainbow'y image burned into my vision!?

> You know when you look at a bright light, then look away and can still see the image
> (even more-so if you close your eyes)?
>
> That's what I seen, but this was triangle shapes spiraling outward in a counter
> clockwise direction. It started out small and lower/right of my center of vision. It
> seems to have grown... Probably/mostly faded as I type this post. But it was pretty
> intense at first! (10 minutes later - I can't see it).
>
> This has happened 2 other times before, and that was when I was looking at an LCD
> monitor. One was like a zig-zag in a circle (star with many, many points?), another
> was either lines or squares.
>
> The best way I can describe the colors? Click the link below. But what I could see
> had very sharp and defined shapes.
>
> http://s871.photobucket.com/user/ANNNNNN...?sort=3&o=8
>
> Sorry if you experience any eye bleeding.
>
>
> Has anybody else had anything like this happen?
>
> Those who have experienced this via psychedelics need not reply, but I know I can't
> stop ya.

Sounds like an ocular migraine. I've never had one, but my wife and a friend of mine both get them from time to time.