Bjurven

Hi I am an ophtalmologist myself. I have experienced blue dots in my vision since about 4 years. They seem to be similar to what many other people here describe. They are "LED-light" blue. They suddenly appear and disappear so rapidly that it can be hard to remember/notice where they were in the visual field or how many they were. They seem to come at just any time and they are not related to headache or stress. Maybe they come more often in relaxed states, but I am not sure about that. These blue dots are definetily not "floaters", floaters represents things floating around in whitin the eye's vitreous cavity, e.g in vitreous detachment. These blue dots are not similar classical visual phenomena in migraine, and I do not have migraine. I have no illnesses, such epilepy that also kan cause powerful sparks. An occipital epilepsy's visual phenomenas are also usually described a little bit differently. The scientific explanation to these experienced dots must be some kind of spontaneous signaling from either the retina, the optic nerve, the chiasm, the optic tracts or the brain. So far I have not managed find the description or explanation of these blue dots in standard books of ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology or by looking for studies/published studies. If someone has, please drop the reference. I have had my retina and visual fields examined to make sure that there is no obvious pathology in my visual pathways. I also checked my blood pressure. Everything is ok. I don't know why these blue dots show up and I have not had any MRI brain scan (which I sometimes have had thoughts about having done... just in case). However, it is comforting and calming to me to find that by googling chats like this one many other, seemingly healthy, people seem to have had the same blue dot experience for years, sometimes for decades - and they are still being alive and seem to be going strong. So my best guess is that seeing blue dots represents a benign visual phenomena. /Björn, Sweden