Update to anyone reading this:
The halos and black spots on the lights went away a couple of months after I started noticing them. My eyesight has been normal for the past 2 and a half years.
I would see a neuro-ophthalmologist. They are the Sherlock Holmes of ophthalmology. Find one near you at www.aao.org or ask the ophthalmologists you've seen to recommend one.
JCH MD
I have the same problem but it only happens for a split second. As soon as I blink my eyes, it will be gone. Unsure if is due to the difference of my eye degree? (One perfect eyesight, one 250). I have went to check with the eye doctors twice (two different professional). They claimed nth wrong with my eyes and ask me to see brain doctor?
I do have same problem - black dots in all lights. I was diagnosed with Cogan dystrophy.
Has anyone given a definitive answer for this? I experienced this yesterday. Today I’m not seeing the black holes. Why would it happen one day but not the next? What causes it?
I see circles of light everywhere there is light. It is not a fuzzy circle like a halo but bright perfect circles of color wherever I see light. It's pretty trippy and kind of beautiful but a distraction when driving. It was caused from a contact lens that was cut incorrectly and damaged the eye. I took Ibuprofen for the pain. By morning the pain is gone and the circles are a bit smaller. I'm hoping by tomorrow to see normal again.
I am 16, slightly nearsighted, and I have never really had any problems with my eyes. I have been under a lot of stress and had a fair share of breakdowns from anxiety the past few months. Twice i have seen what the original poster is describing. One time was a couple months ago after having a few back to back breakdowns. It was night and I looked at the streetlights and they all had perfectly circular tiny black holes inside of them. I could still see the light from the lamps but the black holes were kind of interrupting or in the way of the light. This only happened when my eyes felt funny and my vision was slightly blurred like there was some sort of liquid covering my eye. I blinked and rubbed my eyes after about 8 seconds of seeing the blackness and it went away along with the weird feeling. Now, 2 days ago I was riding my bike outside in the cold for around 5 minutes when I saw the same blackness on the lamps outside again. My eyes water a lot when I ride my bike outside from the wind so I dont know if the two are connected but the blackness only happened during those 2 times. Note that I still have a lot of anxiety and stress and that might also be a factor. The first time I saw the blackness I was absolutely horrified because it was almost blacker than black, like pure black and perfectly circular.
my right has just started doing this!!! i cant find anything online about it...just about floaters, squiggles and halos. I described it the exact same way...like looking at a bunch of eclipses in a row. Its maddening! Mine happened super fast...like over a month time. First it felt like i had something in my eye and i would wipe it alot. Next i noticed my eye would make a weird 'pop' sound when i wiped it...not the normally squishy sound. Everything went blurred and now ive got the eclipses. I cant imagine driving like this.
I have the exact same issue in my right eye plus I also see halos around lights. It all started after a very nasty case of conjunctivitis (ie pink eye). Acording to my eye doctor, the swelling and abrassion to the eye was so severe during the infection that tiny scars were left on the cornea. Aparently these scars are whats causing me to see halos around lights. He said those scars can take up to 6 months to heal, and maybe even up to two years. After I saw him for the last time I started noticing relatively small black spots on top of distant green lights. A month after that I realized the spots were also showing on other light colors (white for example). This triggered me to google again about this issue since ive always thought the black spots were caused by the corneal scars and did not pay that much attention to them, but now im not 100% sure. This seems to be a very rare condition since theres almost no information online... please contact me at m.palou(at)hot/mail.com (the forward slash is not part of the email)
ps. im also a pilot, civilian CFI.