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Kaleidoscope eye vision9/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Hmmm.Īnd let’s not forget those rare Mantis shrimp swimming the ocean with twelve color receptors. It made me wonder, can you fathom living visual life even more dazzling than a tetrachromat as a pentachromat as many birds and butterflies? It would be stunning, fleeting, temporary in the manufactured brilliance of boy bands with images similar to a head injury–hard to ignore with lasting fragmentation. ![]() I found her interview published in New York compelling. To see colors within other colors sounds incredible. ![]() With four cones, you’re in concert with CSNY, The Beatles, or of course, the legendary trippy band, Led Zeppelin.Īccording to Concetta Antico, a lady lives in San Diego who was clinically tested and proved to have a fourth cone, this brilliance can be a bit…distracting. How many guitars, I mean photoreceptors are enough? Would you opt for a fourth cone, to be a tetrachromat? Would you want as many types of light receptors as possible? You could take your sensation from dull to brilliant. For those perceiving the visual world with two cones, you’re like The Black Keys or the White Stripes, still jamming but a distinct sensory difference. Perhaps others with three cones would prefer bands like The Police or Muse. For once, I’ll liken my cones to another three member group, Nirvana. The dichromats out there have two functioning types of cones–which is usually referred to as color blindness monochromats perceive light one-dimensionally.Ĭone analysis can be tedious. I fall into that category, so I’m a trichromat. The prevalent number of cone type photoreceptors in a human eye is three, trichromacy. By analyzing the spectra of cone wavelength absorption our visual system determines color. Otherwise the cones activate and do well in high light like when the band performs energetically and resplendent pyrotechnics or lasers or spotlights flash yet you still track the dancing lead singer. Rods react in low light conditions like when you wait in a just-darkened arena for a concert and your eyes adjust, trying to determine if the band is walking on stage yet. They’re photoreceptors, the cells in our retinas processing light into signals for our visual system. Is it possible this could be hereditary? Neither of them had any kids, but they have an older brother.Rods and cones, all of our eyes contain them. After having similar symptoms, my other cousin, his older sister, who is in her mid-60s, just had surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor. ROACH: My cousin was in his mid-40s when he died of a brain tumor, over 10 years ago. As an internist, I would take the opportunity to make sure your risk for developing blockages in the arteries is as low as it can be, including a review of blood pressure, smoking, cholesterol, diet, exercise and stress.ĭEAR DR. If the eye doctor has done a complete exam and found nothing, that’s a good sign. Perhaps that is similar to what you are calling “kaleidoscope vision.” Many people will describe a “jagged” or “shimmering” appearance, making the diagnosis of migraine aura more likely. Some people can develop migraine aura without headache. The eye doctor said it’s nothing to worry about.ĭear Reader: Sudden changes in vision in a 70-year-old man should raise the concern about a blockage in the arteries to the eye however, the pattern you are describing sounds most likely to me to be a migraine aura. I spoke with two internists, and both suggested I see an eye specialist. It does not hinder my eyesight other than being very annoying. It started about five years ago, when I was 65. ROACH: Periodically, I suffer from kaleidoscope vision where my peripheral vision in the extreme right or left eye appears that I am looking through broken glass. ![]()
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