Do words bounce?

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I was just thinking back to when I was in school, and I remembered something odd.

Everytime a teacher would write on the white board in red or green markers, the writing seemed to bounce, for lack of a better word, as though it was floating away from the board. It was a little bit like wearing those old, red and blue 3D glasses. It never seemed to happen with other colours that I can recall, just red and green pen.

Other writings, say on paper, weren't a problem, the colours didn't seem to jump out at me then, it only happened when the teacher used the white board.

I never told anyone about it because I was terrified of doctors (still am) and knew I'd get taken to see one if I mentioned it, so I just learnt to deal with it. I found that squinting or blinking very rapidly seemed to help a little, so I kept it to my self.

So, I was wondering; Does/did anyone else experience this, or is it just me?

Usually when i see green or read colored text ( like on a bullitin board, or picture book, or those boards you dive pass on teh thruway) i can usually make the colors jump by moving my head, or making a chewing action ( like chewing, but with no food in my mouth if that makes any sense).

i always thought it was a normal thing though.

Sounds similar to what some dyslexics report, actually. Given many of them can be helped by coloured glasses, I wonder if you don't have some kind of mild dyslexia? (Anyone, is that a comorbid with AS? I know dyspraxia can be.)

I've never experienced this with whiteboards.



This happens to me all the time with digital alarm clocks with red 7-segment LED displays. If I pick the clock up and shake it with my hand, it looks as if the LED displays are 'swimming'. When I shake my head while staring at the clock, it looks as if the displays are breaking apart into pieces. Sometimes they 'bounce' too, for lack of a better word.

Blue and red do this to me! Always wondered why.

Happens to me. Mostly just red.

Checker boards or tiles do it to me too (blackwhiteblackwhite patterns) they seem to dance more than bounce though. Like one color will be out and then the other and then the other one, etc.

"blinds" on windows do this also. They always seem to move though, like even in peripheral vision.

And that scottish print stuff with one color going up and the other color going across and in the middle of the lines of color its a diff. color. W.t.h...is that called?

Patterns basically move around on me.

Last edited by nomnom_hamster on 12 Dec 2007, 7:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't think I have Dyslexia. I was told by the psychologist who confirmed my Asperger's that I have Hyperlexia. I don't think it would be possible for both conditions to exist, would it?

Can anyone hear detect a blue "shadow" surrounding the right side of every object in their sight when they look at something through the right side of each lens on their glasses, and a yellow "shadow" looking at something through the left side of each lens? I've always noticed this since I first started wearing them and have been interested in exactly what type of reflection/refraction is occuring through the lenses to make it appear like such to me(I've taken two seperate college physics courses while earning my degree and never actually analyzed what is going on there, but am still interested).

Has anyone noticed anything like this?

This is so relentlessly common with me; it is actually the reason I have to walk in certain patterns on tiled floors. I'm afraid of slipping on the moving tiles, even though I know they aren't really moving. It's so confusing.

It has to do with how fast the color is perceived by the brain or something like that.
Red and blue on white or black is usually most noticeable. Red on green also.
When magazines print their titles and texts in different colors, I can shake the magazine and the text appears to wobble like jelly.
5t's nothing to be afraid of. I think most people see it that way.
asked my dad about it when I was 5 or something, and he saw it too and said it was due to how the brain processes different colors, but I'm not sure on the details...