anxiety with patterns/flashing lights

Happens to me all the time. Busy patterns, headlights at night, certain types of lighting like at Target or worse, Walmart, the television in a dark room.

I'll never discourage you from seeing a doctor if you feel you need to, but my guess is anxiety. Another lovely symptom of anxiety.

Yes all off a sudden I hate looking at lightening and HATE 4th of July now...fireworks mess me all up!

I had the aurora problem for several years, i rarely have it anymore, but strobe lights, police car lights,
and sometimes tail lights on cars at night would cause me to have to pull over, i would be dizzy and nauseous it seemed to pass reasonably quick but was hard to deal with when it started,

I also use to have a crescent moon of refracted light and colors that would pass from the extreme right of
my vision plane all the way around to the left and then disappear, one time i shut my eyes for a second and i could still see the flashing light, i never knew what it was, Peace

Larry ***

Happens to me! I've really worried about it but now seeing so many of us that have anxiety do it, I'm guessing it's anxiety :)

This is all very interesting to me. First of all you have to know that I've suffered with health anxiety/panic attacks most of my life (I'm 67). I was having a problem with my left eye and thought it was a cataract....when I eventually got myself to the ophthamologist found that in fact I have macular degeneration (often associated with age). The main symptom is that is straight lines looking wavy and colors looking faded (yellow often looks pink) as well as a dark spot in my central vision. I am under treatment including shots in my eye (ugh) once a month with no guarantee of improvement but I've also had another issue that's gotten worse since my diagnosis and I wonder if it's because of my condition or more related to my health anxiety, since it seems to go away when I'm occupied with something or more relaxed and not thinking about it(which is rare). I have flashing lights, sometimes in half moon shape,sometimes only one, sometimes more than one and they seem to occur when going from darker rooms out into daylight or from car lights, etc. But alot of times it' just there for a long period of time and it makes me so nervous that I just seem to make it worse. It scares me to death and afraid to go back to eye doc to find out what THAT is. I'd say it was something to do with a migaine coming on but I've never had heaaches. Anyone have these annoying circles of flickering lights in their vision?