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Small blind spots in vision

I recently posted about my hyper awareness of noticing not blind spots but ''fainter'' areas along the symmetrical areas of each eye. It springs from the optic nerve in a vein like pattern in BOTH eyes in a certain direction. I recently received my retina photos and the doctor pointed out ''I am noticing how where the optic nerve vein(vessel?) runs along is the pattern I reproduced for her is exactly the same, it still picks up light but that fine line is fainter I can't remember why she said it was but something to do with because there's a vein there. I feel really silly now, she said I most defiantly must be pretty paranoid about my eyesight to go to lengths to pick up on that. Should I let this go?

(In the retina photo, the big veins that spring from the optic nerve is the location, I'm not sure if I'm naming it correctly).  
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Than is normal. It's called an entopic phenomena, specifically Perkinje Tree   It is described here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon
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Thankyou, yes that's the pattern. So... if these arteries/vesselsare in your vision are classified as a ''blind area'' like your cup is because they're a obstruction? I read over that ''tree phenomenon'' and yes, where the veins are , with a small point (like a dot on the screen), when it goes ''under'' the location of the veins it seems to vanish although it can be picked up again with a proper amount of flash coming from it but where there is no veins the amount of light needed to stimulate the small dot is easily more noticeable.
the first sentence was jumbled sorry I meant: If the arteries lie over your vision like a obstruction, are they also classified as a ''blind spot'' like your cup is? or do they just have far less ''stimula''.
No the 'blind spot' is always there. Entopic phenomena only occur under certain circumstances and with sufficient attention and awareness of the person of their eye.
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John Hagan was the medical doctor on this forum that answered my pretty ''broad'' question, so he'll do a better job although I think you're talking about the retinal arteries (the big veins), I do understand what you mean by the fine line being less sensitive; which it would be due to the anatomy?
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