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I Found Out I Have a Weird Brain Condition That Makes Everything Look Static

2026-02-12 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about Visual Snow Syndrome that apparently I had my whole life Here's why some of you may have it too Links: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637794v1.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.25.614880v2.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.17.444460v1.full.pdf More brain videos: https://youtu.be/zdUK1gbvQuQ https://youtu.be/ftbRDLmq5RA https://youtu.be/OlnioeAtloY #visualsnow #vision #humanbrain 0:00 Static in my eyes, what about you? 1:40 Visual Snow Syndrome - here's what it is 4:55 Studies: here's what scientists think is happening 6:00 Bizarre effects 7:48 Emotions and arousal 9:15 Unanswered questions and why this is important 10:40 What this tells us about the brain Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com  doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117413119. Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@GhastlyH 2026-02-13

Today I learned not everyone sees static in the dark.

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@Purrito_o7 2026-02-12

You need to go into your menu settings and increase your refresh rate.

2.5k 80 replies
@Vienna3080 2026-02-11

Yea my whole life I have had visual snow syndrome and just assumed everyone else had it

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@cptsalek 2026-02-11

I see static all the time. When I close my eyes it even becomes colored, creating patterns and stuff. Intensity increases with the brightness of my surroundings. Thanks for pointing out tremors, I recently developed one but thought that it might be due to my prescription.

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@Deatarus51 2026-02-13

I'm a videographer. I see noise patterns akin to digital camera noise in low light, and when I close my eyes. I never thought anything of it because "well, that's how cameras work, makes sense my eyes are the same."

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@GideonWells 2026-02-13

I realized it wasn't normal in the first grade when I got in a small fight with my teacher over not being able to see air, which is what I thought the static was.

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@whatdamath 2026-02-13

Based on the comments, looks like there is way MORE than 2% that have this. Thanks for all the cool personal stories!

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@eclipseslayer98 2026-02-16

The amount of medical discoveries that start with, "We dismissed the symptoms people were describing for decades as inconsequential, but recent findings suggest that what they were suffering from is real." is kinda disturbing.

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@wheredoigo1420 2026-02-21

I have this as well, as a kid I discovered if I focused on a single point in the 'static' in the dark it would cause a burst of intense neon coloured circles that seemed to only be in white, magenta, green and black... yes, NEON BLACK LIGHT. It's like a hallucination because I can't see these colours in the real world. I believe this is the phosphenes but it's one hell of a lightshow!

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@jumpingSpiders 2026-02-20

When I was younger I used to see full on fireworks-like shows when I close my eyes to sleep, they looked like those never-ending fractal videos, they were quite distracting and made it difficult to fall asleep but I never told anyone because I thought it was normal to have. Luckily I very rarely have them now.

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