It's a rare disorder first described in 1995 that's estimated to affect up to 2% of the population. Studies suggest depression, anxiety, and poor sleep are common side effects. On an online forum when ...

Ever spotted a face gazing back from a cloud or tree trunk? Most folks brush it off as a quirky brain trick called face pareidolia. New findings reveal that people with visual snow syndrome live with ...

When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That’s “face pareidolia” and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces ...

Visual snow is a neurologic condition in which a person’s vision is altered in several ways, chief among them is seeing innumerable small flickering dots where none exist. Researchers have likened the ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sierra Domb, founder and CEO of the Visual Snow Initiative, about her journey with visual-snow syndrome — a neurological condition where people ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Causes of visual snow included mild traumatic brain injury and neurological disease. Symptoms ranged from ...

Visual snow syndrome hits folks with a nonstop sprinkle of tiny flickering dots over their entire view, like old TV static that sticks around day and night. This buzz often teams up with light ...

On an online forum when he was a teenager, Bryan Kohberger, the University of Idaho murder suspect, may have said he experienced a strange visual anomaly. In a series of posts on a forum called ...