E:\LETTERS\spot.txt Record of bright spots There appears to be a correlation between visual artifacts and coming indoors after being outside for some time. By "sparkly" I mean the bit at the fovea that looks like a snippet of the border of a visual migraine. ------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday 21 July 2012 -- 11:30 White oval Sunday, 22 July 12:13 Smaller oval, grew. I see now that they aren't really white, but blue with a yellow border. 16:20 -- about size of sparkly. Thursday, 26 July 2012 During shopping trip without watch -- returned at 12:24. Larger than previous spot, not so big as the first spot. Saturday,28 July 2012 -- 10:30-10:35 Bigger than previous, grew as it faded, definite notch around sparkly spot, blue with yellow border grayed as the spot faded, gray after-image got to "have to know it's there" stage by 10:39 (while I was typing). Faded last next to sparkly spot. By 10:42 noticeable only by trying to read this screen with right eye, and only have to lean a few inches more than usual to puzzle it out. Sunday 29 July 2012 10:20 -- (it was 10:25 when I looked at a clock afterward) Sparkly appeared upon entering church. Bright spot appeared behind sparkly, then moved aside and grew. 12:20 Sparkly appeared upon returning from church. Bright spot appeared soon after -- sort of jagged border and mottled interior compared to before. Over in less than five minute. 30 July 2012 -- 11:20 Upon coming in from hanging up wash. Began with sparkly, bright spot appeared, grew, and faded. 11:50 -- ditto (garden work) 18:17 -- upon returning from walk 31 July 2012 -- 08:44 4 August 2012 -- 11:21 5 August 2012 10:20, upon arriving at church. Still traces at 10:30 12:30, upon coming home. (Approx. half-mile walk each way.) 6 August 2012 11:02 -- on return from riding bike to grocery. Brief. 8 August 2012 15:40 -- after gardening. Brief. 12 August 2012 12:15 -- upon returning from church. No signs on entering church. 13 August 2012 8:40 -- upon rising double lobed as it faded 11:20 -- on returning from walk. 14 August 2012 11:10 -- after bike ride, dim (almost didn't notice) 15 August 2012 11:05 -- after hanging up clothes 19 August 2012 9:49 -- upon arising 10:04 -- a smaller spot 20 August 2012 08:55 -- upon arising 11:32 -- on return from walk 2 September 2012 08:09 -- shortly after being awakened by the sound of a cat throwing up on freshly-cleaned carpet. 4 September 2012 21:00 -- after getting up from reading quietly to give the cat his nine-o'clock treat. 7 September 2012 (Friday) 09:25 -- while touring grist mill =========================================================== L---P----1----+----2-T--+----3----+@10-4----T----5----+----R----r----7--T-+--r Somewhere along the line I realized that the bright spots are angel heads. Not that my cohort used that term when children taught each other that you would see bright spots if you pressed on your eyeballs. (We weren't interested long enough to need a name for it.) 12 September 2012 15:03 24 September 2012 08:17 -- flash while waking sparklies are still frequent 28 September 2012 about 10:00 soon after waking (exhausted yesterday) -- faint, had to look for it after noticing that sparkly hinted at bright spot. 29 September 2012 10:40 -- sparkly tried to give off bright spot. (Could I actually be improving? It's hard to tell artifacts from after-images now.) 7 October 2012 09:22 -- smaller than previous average 16 November 2012 11:20 -- small -- only an enhanced sparkly, but annoying. 11:30 -- still there. 30 November 2012 11:20 -- unusually vigorous sparkly upon returning from walk --------------------------------------------------------- 11 May 2013 10:56 -- Small sparkly upon returning from walk. Short lived.