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Ask HN: Anyone else get “pixel vision”?

3 pointsby chiefofgxbxlover 4 years ago
I&#x27;ve been a software developer for years, and even prior, as a kid spent many many man-hours in front of a monitor.<p>I&#x27;m wondering from the HN crowd if others experience this self-dubbed &quot;pixel vision&quot;, where when you look at a distance or don&#x27;t focus your eyes on anything particular it seems like there are still RGB pixels twinkling at you. It&#x27;s hard to describe sometimes because it&#x27;s not an in-your-face, immediately-obvious-all-the-time thing. It&#x27;s like a &quot;soft filter&quot; put over the world.

4 comments

throwaway1500over 4 years ago
I&#x27;ve experienced the same thing, especially after many hours staring into a monitor. My guess it may be a neurological thing of the eyes&#x2F;brain adjusting to the ever changing pixel flickering through out the day, similar to after-images and retinal fatigue.
DerDangDerDangover 4 years ago
Sounds like entoptics? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Entoptic_phenomenon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Entoptic_phenomenon</a>
aaron-santosover 4 years ago
Is this a perceptual change similar to the Tetris effect or one I have personally experienced, The Witness effect? Or something else?
theandrewbaileyover 4 years ago
Have you asked an optometrist about it?