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Ask HN: Anyone else get “pixel vision”?

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I've been a software developer for years, and even prior, as a kid spent many many man-hours in front of a monitor.

I'm wondering from the HN crowd if others experience this self-dubbed "pixel vision", where when you look at a distance or don't focus your eyes on anything particular it seems like there are still RGB pixels twinkling at you. It's hard to describe sometimes because it's not an in-your-face, immediately-obvious-all-the-time thing. It's like a "soft filter" put over the world.

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I've experienced the same thing, especially after many hours staring into a monitor. My guess it may be a neurological thing of the eyes/brain adjusting to the ever changing pixel flickering through out the day, similar to after-images and retinal fatigue.

Is this a perceptual change similar to the Tetris effect or one I have personally experienced, The Witness effect? Or something else?

Have you asked an optometrist about it?

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