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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.
Artist's depiction of a scintillating scotoma, exhibiting a flashing visual pattern similar to dazzle camouflage used during WWI.. Scintillating scotoma is a common visual aura that was first described by 19th-century physician Hubert Airy (1838–1903).
Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes (LF), also known as Astronaut's Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts outside the magnetosphere of the Earth, such as during the Apollo program.
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The dots are usually black/gray on a white background and gray/white on a black background; however, they can also be transparent, white flashing, or colored. Presence of at least 2 additional visual symptoms of the 4 following categories: i. Palinopsia. At least 1 of the following: afterimages or trailing of moving objects. ii.
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]
Reddish tint to vision; Photopsia – brief flashes of light in the peripheral vision [2] Small vitreous hemorrhage often manifests itself as "floaters." A moderate case will often result in dark streaks in the vision, while dense vitreous hemorrhage can significantly inhibit vision. [3]
The first two sort of floaters may collect over the fovea (the center of vision), and therefore be more visible, when a person is lying on his or her back looking upwards. Blue field entoptic phenomenon has the appearance of tiny bright dots moving rapidly along squiggly lines in the visual field.