Odd Visual Perception

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Wireframe pictures of cubes would suddenly "invert", as if they had been rotated about precisely 180 degrees on a plane perpendicular to the page. It was as if the flipping of the image would somehow define it's structure in my mind better.

I've actually just drawn the same image on a piece of paper in front of me, and got the same effect. This time I found I had to think about it quite hard though. Weird.

I have Aspergers and have always been a creative visual type, and I have a very high IQ. But two years ago, I suddenly started to percieve images, such as words and pictures in three dimensions, like I am wearing 3D glasses. It was very sudden, where I sort of noticed it a couple times but I thought it was just a typical optical illusion where contrasting colors stick out. But then I saw it everywhere.

It is sometimes stronger than othere times. Sometimes it is really obvious, sometimes not. Some images I see it in stronger than others. Sometimes I try to pin down what exact criteria are required and I thought it was brightly colored contrasting colors, because they do it more than anything else(especially advertisements), but lots of times even black and white photos do it. It seems more like the individual image is the most important.

I have gotten used to it now, though sometimes when its real strong its kindof neat. But within the past few weeks something else randomly started. I have started to see movement in pictures and objects. Especially with patterns or complexity. I will look at a picture of trees for example, and it will look like the leaves are flowing and shifting. Sometimes I will look at an object and it will look like it is getting farther away or closer, or moving in relation to other things. But when I find the edge of the object and focus on it, the perceptions stops.

I don't know if these things have to do with aspergers or not, but they obviously are psychological in nature (its not my eyes). I am not crazy. I've never had hallucinations of voices or things that weren't there (I'm not sure if the perceptions I have count as hallucinations or not). I am actually relatively normal, and most people would be very surprised if I told them I was autistic--I am a bit "eccentric" but have good social skills (My brothers call me Kramer). I guess what makes me the most different is my thought processes, not very linear. I recently started taking adderol and stratera, and its really annoying how linear my thoughts have become. But I still percieve images the same way.

Does anyone know anything about this, or had wierd perceptions like these?

This sounds like Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, Irlen lenses can correct the problem and reduce dizziness etc.