Wonky Vision

[GMW]

Hi Guys

Wondered if anyone has experienced this too.

I've heard it said that some people just before they have a flashback get tunnel vision. Does anyone else's vision go really weird just before dissociation?

Mine either goes completely white or I see things through a brightly coloured fog. It starts off looking like the floaters you get when you stare at a lightbulb for too long but then multiplies.

I was sat in my therapist's office on Tuesday and we were discussing something that made my heart start racing. Then I was staring at the pattern on the sofa she was sitting on and it started getting brighter and swirling, then the cloudy floaters started spinning in and my tinnitus kicked in I heard myself think 'dissociation?' then she brought me back by asking me a question

My tinnitus goes haywire too and then I feel less like I'm far away... more like I've shrunk and I'm sitting in the back of my skull. This is a relatively severe form of it for me, if it is. Only happens under threat of abandonment or severe anxiety (don't have panic attacks, I dissociate before it gets there). Usually I disconnect emotionally, zone out and go cloudy.

What makes me think maybe it is, maybe it isn't is because I also suffer with low blood pressure. When I faint from that my vision goes white. I kind of think if I were not brought out of the dissociated state quickly, it feels like my vision might go completely.

Is this normal? Or is it more of a physical issue? Or an interplay even?

Thanks

 

[BlueOrange]

I get floaters and tinnitus a lot, but I don't experience changed in my vision (I guess sometimes, it's a bit blurry). Could eye movement or focus changes explain what you're seeing, or could it be something like a hallucination?

 

[Deleted member 40217]

I can totally relate. My eyes begin to blink and twitch right before disassociation. The floaters start and I'm into full blown disassociation. My therapist brings me back and it will take several hours for my vision to fully go back to normal. Good vibes going your way

 

[Killashandra]

tinnitus goes haywire too and then I feel less like I'm far away... more like I've shrunk and I'm sitting in the back of my skull. This is a relatively severe form of it for me, if it is. Only happens under threat of abandonment or severe Anxiety (don't have panic attacks, I dissociate before it gets there). Usually I disconnect emotionally, zone out and go cloudy.

I get wonky vision and what you have described above, however my intergration of alters seems to have diminished my protection and I go full anxiety and panic attacks. One way of making me deal with things I guess..

 

[Journeyman]

Hi Guys

Wondered if anyone has experienced this too.

I've heard it said that some people just before the...

What is "tinnitus"?

 

[7Cs]

What is "tinnitus"?

ringing in your ears.