Faint Visual Noise

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I'm noticing that sometimes I have the following experience and was wondering if anyone else has also had it, if it's normal/benign, or know what it could possibly be?

The experience is that I will notice faint visual noise. It's like there is a very faint transparent old antenna TV static screen between me and everything I see. Nothing is distorted, so I see everything like it is, but with the static it takes a little effort. Since it's so faint, it's more noticeable with plain uniform backgrounds like a wall. With a white-ish background, the noise is a silvery purple.

Is it something I would be aware of without trying to look for it

It's possible to overlook it if you're distracted or engaged in something, but if you're sitting looking at a wall, it would be a bit obvious that something is different, like the the colors are metaphysically vibrating. I usually distract myself automatically because it's slightly scary at first, but if I engage in it, it's not bad at all and I notice it. It makes understanding colors a little harder. For example, if I wanted to recreate the color of what I'm looking at to represent it in a painting, it would be a minor issue that I would have to figure out how to overcome.

It's made me say that I don't need physics to tell me everything is vibrating. I can see/feel it.

Is it like first thing in the morning when I wake up and for the first 30 seconds or something it looks like I can see movement in things but then everything goes to being solid

It's like I can see the atoms that things are made from or something

Is that like what you mean

I don't think I experience the morning thing, but it's like the second thing plus. It's like I can see everything is made of atoms, but also something else. It's like everything has a spirit and what we visually see is a physical manifestation of something else. Like everything (even the wall) is alive, connected, and has meaning, and I'm only a very small observer of something much greater, but I'm stuck in a physical world that is limited to showing only part of it. The static is like saying, "Don't believe this is it. This is too dead. There's more."

In this setting, if I start to think about other people, I get overwhelmed and shut down. It's too much. So, it almost exclusively happens when I'm alone. In the few instances it has happened when with someone else, I see the aura mentioned in another post. It's too much though. It's overwhelming on it's own level in it's own way.

Last edited by Participant626 on 27 Apr 2025, 11:14 am, edited 1 time in total.

Oh right

I never really give it too much thought after it's settled back down again but I suppose it does appear as though I could put my hand through the wall like a ghost

What you are experiencing is officially termed as "visual snow" or "visual snow syndrome".

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

I know, because I have had it since being a teenager, that of it which I can remember.

Oh that's different to mine then

It looks something like this, the density of the dots varying in intensity, with each individual case/person:

The method is to turn into a waves of probabilities, go through all possible routes at once, interfere with yourself on the way, then collapse on the other side as one definite thing again. The trick is to release each quantum particle from their emergent superstructures first. The hard part is figuring out how to end up in the universe where this one improbability happens. :p

But for real, yes. It kind of does feel like things aren't real like they seem. Like the solid world is wayyyy too simple. Everything is more of an amorphous sea of waves all interacting and nothing is definite or dead. Everything is alive, collective and individual at the same time depending on what system level is of focus.

I may be having one of those spirituality moments now that I review my description, or I'm derealizing autistically lol. It's interesting either way.

No for me it's like everything looks liquidy

Yes!! That!! My lines are longer and more static in place than the blue swirl in that example though, but still...wowwwwwowowowowwwww. Thank you! I'm going to read up on it. Seems like a fun opportunity for some slight self-discovery.

Yay

You are welcome.

Have fun researching it.

Did you ever figure it out, bring it up to a doctor, or anything else that would help you develop some insight on it?



Will do

Yes, I have that. I think people commonly call it "visual snow", but I always have thought of it as grainy like light static over an old TV/movie.