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  2. Flash blindness - Wikipedia

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    Flash blindness is an either temporary or permanent visual impairment during and following exposure of a varying length of time to a light flash of extremely high intensity, such as a nuclear explosion, flash photograph, lightning strike, or extremely bright light, i.e. a searchlight, laser pointer, landing lights or ultraviolet light. [1]

  3. Photopsia - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral (posterior) vitreous detachment occurs when the gel around the eye separates from the retina. This can naturally occur with age. However, if it occurs too rapidly, it can cause photopsia which manifests in flashes and floaters in the vision. Typically, the flashes and floaters go away in a few months.

  4. Red-eye effect - Wikipedia

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    This odd-eyed cat displays red-eye effect of its tapetum lucidum only in its blue eye. In flash photography the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, so much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil. The camera ...

  5. If You’re Seeing Eye Floaters or Flashes, Here’s What to Do ...

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    Floaters drift around your field of vision and dart away when you try to look at them directly, eventually settling at the bottom of your eye and out of your sightline. Floaters appear when the ...

  6. Flicker vertigo - Wikipedia

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    The strobe light effect can cause persons who are vulnerable to flicker vertigo to experience symptoms such as: Become disoriented and/or nauseated; Blink rapidly; Experience rapid eye movements behind closed eyelids; Lose control of fine motor functions; Experience muscle rigidity

  7. Cosmic ray visual phenomena - Wikipedia

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    With regards to the probable cause of the LF, the researchers concluded that nuclei are likely to be the main cause. They based this conclusion off of the finding that in comparison to an "All time" period, an "In LF time window" period saw the nucleus rate increase to about six to seven times larger, while the proton rate only increased by ...

  8. Satellite flare - Wikipedia

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    Satellite flare, also known as satellite glint, is a satellite pass visible to the naked eye as a brief, bright "flare".It is caused by the reflection toward the Earth below of sunlight incident on satellite surfaces such as solar panels and antennas (e.g., synthetic aperture radar).

  9. Your eyes could signal a major health problem - AOL

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    As it turns out, your eyes could be raising some major red flags about your health, according to Dr. Oz The Good Life. From high cholesterol to diabetes, the signals your peepers could be sending ...