Sierra Domb, founder and CEO of the Visual Snow Initiative.Sierra Domb Sierra Domb is the CEO and founder of the Visual Snow Initiative and has visual-snow syndrome. Visual snow recently came to light ...
Many of us are familiar with eye 'floaters' or see odd dots or specks from time to time (ever stood up too quickly and been greeted by a load of silver sparkles? yeah, that) but what about if your ...
When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That's "face pareidolia" and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces ...
Imagine looking at the world through a constant haze of flickering dots, like static on an old box TV. For some people, this isn’t just a fleeting experience, it’s a reality. This condition, known as ...
The first cases of episodic visual snow syndrome, which appears to occur only during a migraine attack, have been reported. The cases provide more understanding of the mechanism behind the syndrome, ...
On an online forum when he was a teenager, Bryan Kohberger, the University of Idaho murder suspect, may have said he experienced a strange visual anomaly. In a series of posts on a forum called ...
One day in 2015, as I was driving to university, my vision went black. My vision returned moments later, but the world didn't look the same after that. It was like a veil was covering my eyes — like I ...
Jessica Taubert receives funding from The Australian Research Council. When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That’s “face ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sierra Domb, founder and CEO of the Visual Snow Initiative, about her journey with visual-snow syndrome — a neurological condition where people ...