I finally figured out why I hate high-def TV and HDR photos and all that. Check out the flickr HDR search here for what I mean.
It, *especially* HDR, mimics my migraine aura and nightmare coloring perfectly. Looking at HDR pictures, especially clouds, is like submerging myself into some kind of nightmare I can’t wake up from or shoving my eyes face-first into a migraine with no protection.
My eyes don’t work like that. I just don’t *see* like that. When things get that vivid and sharp and dynamic and full and fat and swollen with color and pixels, it’s a migraine and it’s going to be a hell of one, or I’m asleep and can’t wake myself up. Things shouldn’t move like, shouldn’t be that… sharp and extra-dimensional and vibrating with sheer fullness and gaaaaaaaaaaah.
It makes me feel like someone is stabbing my brain through my eyelids or vibrating my brain instead my skull or… I don’t even know. I can’t describe it. It’s like someone fills my brain with a chalkboard and pours liquid nails down it and amps it in my brain.
April 16, 2009 at 8:25 pm
That made my eyes burn a little. o.o;
April 20, 2009 at 7:14 am
Yeah, some of those are a little hard on my eyes, but they’re kind of pretty too. I don’t get migraines, though, so I can’t possibly relate. Sorry you have to deal with that.
I’m glad to see you blogging again. I’ve been checking in periodically, and wondering how you were.