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Texhnolyze is the only show I know of with an exaggerated but otherwise fairly accurate portrayal.
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just get prescribed diamox, clonazepam, or lamotrigine to treat your visual snow.
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Retard. You solve it by stopping whatever you're doing to strain your central nervous system. Too much caffeine, not enough sleep, lack of certain nutrients, whatever else might be doing it. You don't need meds to treat it.
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When I was younger I developed a distressing idiopathic eye problem that was ultimately temporary but caused me to obsessively pay attention to entoptic phenomena in general.

I obviously can't experience other visual snow-haver's subjective experiences but I developed visual snow during the episode I described above (which lasted a couple years).

While I definitely did have some sort of eye issue at some point, a lot of my follow-on issues including the visual snow ended up just being anxiety-induced body OCD. Your visual system is actually quite a noisy sensor, especially in the dark. Your brain typically filters out this noise and only presents you with the semantically meaningful visual content. But it's possible to hyperfixate on the spurious components of that signal and actually break that mechanism by paying too much attention to it. It's similar to how listening to your own tinnitus makes it worse.

You need to remove stressors from your life, stop using drugs, get on a healthy sleep schedule, and just accept that experiencing sensor noise in your visual and auditory systems is normal and not necessarily pathological. Ignore it, make peace with it, stop paying attention to entoptic phenomena, and enjoy your brief time on this earth, noisy as it may be.



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