Are after images normal?

[sscreamss]

All my life, i've been able to look at something, not even on a bright screen, just things in general, and then look away, and i see a faint 1 or 2 second after image (or visual remembrance, if easier to explain) of what i just saw. Is this normal? Does anyone else see this or am i just tripping myself out? It's not even the normal after images that happen when you look at a bright screen, these are something different.

It seems weird for me to do anything about it now, considering iv'e just started noticing it recently as opposed to not caring about it when i was younger. I also see faint static in the dark, sometimes even in the day if i concentrate on it enough. Normal or not?

[xBansheex]

The second imagery thing is perfectly normal especially so with people who suffer from anxiety, as they feel and notice and see things that someone who's system isn't permanently in High Alert Mode doesn't - and I've been where you are and googled so many different symptoms and, as a result, have been tested above and beyond for various different diseases and conditions and nothing has come of anything apart from iron deficiency, a couple of polyps in my colon, a hiatal hernia and HEALTH ANXIETY!  (I also had a benign heart condition fixed that I had had since birth, but that was long over due since my teens).  AnxiousNoMore is spot on with their advice; I feel you are fixating on different areas of the body that most probably are ticking along quite normally and nicely, because there has been a minor issues that you have happened to notice whilst anxious - people with anxiety, especially health, tend to get carried away on the internet and before you know it you end up convincing yourself that you have every rare disease and condition going and never the "normal" type ailments.  Its horrible and worrying but honestly, I have had it for two and a half years, and from someone who never worried about my health and never visited the Dr, I went through a stage of thinking I had allsorts wrong with me and was never out of the damn place!  I'm still here and alive and healthy apart from many anxiety and stress related niggles :)

[DarPas]

This is actually completely normal. It's one of those things you wouldn't notice until you do one day and then start over analyzing it. I've read the explanations on the brain and it makes sense. The static at night or in the dark is actually light. Sounds crazy but few of us will ever see what it's like to be in complete darkness like the bottom of a coal mine. The image you see after looking away is an imprint from that light into your braid that's kinda burned in per se

[sscreamss]

This comment has made me feel more re assured, although about the after-images, i've read about there being after images from looking at a TV screen, then at a white wall and you'll see a negative (or sometimes positive) afterimage, and that creates the 'burned' imagery, except i have some kind of disorder that, and i quote, "very few people have in the world" and that freaks me out to the point where i can't function, it's that scary to me. And iv'e spoken to some people who say they don't have it, and it makes me think there really is something wrong with my brain or something. Could it just be anxiety? Like iv'e said, i've had it when i was younger too, but thought nothing of it and didn't even think it was strange until a google research has landed me into paranoia that i can't forget about anymore.

[AnxiousNoMore]

What does this mean, did someone diagnose you with a disorder?

i have some kind of disorder that, and i quote, "very few people have in the world"

[sscreamss]

should i really trust google though?

[sscreamss]

No, apparently i do according to a google search.

[AnxiousNoMore]

I am not sure that you answered my last question, so it is not possible for me to figure what the situation is that you are posting about..Did a doctor (who has training in medicine)  diagnose you or did you just diagnose on your own?

Also can you respond on your other post this month where you thought your lungs were not working properly, so we know if you have stopped worrying about that?

[AnxiousNoMore]

My last comment was for sscreamss, in case it was confusing.

[sscreamss]

I meant that i looked up my symptom and i found a condition called palinopsia. It really scared me, so i wanted to get reassurance that i was normal. When i said "apparently i have a condition that very few people have" that's what i meant, because a google search - i read about it - said that i did.

[AnxiousNoMore]

If you Google your "symptoms" long enough you can find a disease and convince yourself that you have it. There is a reason it takes half a dozen years to get through med school and more afterwards to be a specialist, so you can't learn medicine from Google.

This is the second condition you thought you had this month, so it seems you have the type of personality that if you don't stop Googling then you might find some more rare diseases that you think you have. It is ruining your life when you spend so much time thinking you have diseases that you don't have, so if you want to cut down your anxiety, then ending the Googling is the first step forward.

[sscreamss]

i agree with you completely, but how can i not have this condition when the physical evidence was in the video? And plus, no one says that they had it before and i hardly know people that do except my sister, but she's not as paranoid as i am, so i can't keep denying the fact that i have palinopsia or whatever, because there was a video about it, even though i would like to believe i don't, and maybe i don't anyway. Help :(

[AnxiousNoMore]

No, I disagree because there is no physical evidence. All that happened is you just think something is going on then look for a disease that seems to be the same then think you are afflicted with the disease.


Did you know that people sometimes die from cold sores that cause an infection that goes to the brain? A nurse told me her patient died when a thumb tack jab in the finger caused a blood clot that traveled to the brain too. So if you get a cold sore or jab your hand with a thumb tack then get a headache or earache and Google it does that prove you are dying of a brain infection or clot? That  is the same type of "evidence" proof that you are using with  your lungs that you think don't work right or eyesight that is malfunctioning fears.
You can find someone dying of anything on Google but it has nothing to do with you if you are healthy.

You never answered my question about your lung fears. "Also can you respond on your other post this month where you thought your lungs were not working properly, so we know if you have stopped worrying about that?"

[sscreamss]

I haven't completely stopped worrying about my lungs, just been preoccupied with this eye thingy. Google palinopsia and you'll see what i mean.

[AnxiousNoMore]

No thanks. Neither of us are doctors, so it is purposeless. I don't Google brain clots when I get headaches for the same reason.

If you are still concerned you should see a doctor for confirmation because no one here can diagnose you for either your lungs or eye situations that you think have come up this month. If the doctor feels they are real issues then it is best to get treatment early and this is not the place for that..

[sscreamss]

Yeah and are you a counsellor? I was just wondering why there are doctors on this website if no one can "diagnose you" ...

[AnxiousNoMore]

You have to go to the doctor's section if you want a doctor, so I have no idea what your post is about.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Anything to do with memory that works is a good thing, and there are many people with failing memories who wish they could remember something afterwards. Considering you just started analyzing it now, it is not weird that you are noticing what you can see.

If you are still concerned that your vision has a problem then you would have to see a doctor because no one can diagnose you from here.