Hi
I'm a 17 year old boy, I've been experiencing ghosting for about 8 months, and nobody knows what's wrong with my eyes. It came out of nowhere in the middle of the night. I thought my eyes were tired, and went to sleep hoping that it'll be gone when I wake up. It remained the same, so I went to an ophthalmologist. I changed my prescription but it didn't help. Since then, I've been to more than 8 ophthalmologists (I've even traveled for some), had 4 different glasses, and have done pretty much every exam there is, except for MRI which I'm planning to do in a few weeks. Every single one told me that my eyes were perfectly fine.
The ghosting is much, much worse if I'm sitting in a room with dimmed lights. It's also pretty bad if there are contrasting colors on a screen.
It isn't painful, but it's a major, major nuisance. I've honestly been extremely depressed for the past 8 months. I'm a pretty big gamer and a film buff, so this is affecting my life pretty badly. My grades have also dropped tremendously after this started happening.
Here's an interesting fact I discovered very recently; if I bring any sort of light source right next to my eyes, the ghosting completely goes away. For example, if I turn on the flashlight on my phone and hover it right next to either of my eyes, the ghosting disappears. I'm not sure if this is a widely known thing - which would make me look stupid - but yeah.