Anyone experienced “sparkling” or “kaleidoscope-like” dysphotopsia?

Does the kaleidoscope feature you are discussing have like jagged edges?

@chrispie cannot detect jagged edges but that's an interesting question. does your question imply some capsule bag issue?

No I am sorry it does not. Mine is like a Kaleidoscope like you mentioned. It would begin at one place in my eye and slowly travel around the whole eye before it was done. While it is happening it is an array of all pastel colors moving like a kaleisdoscope, the shape like v's going in different directions, up and down, but remains uniform until it has finished the whole eye. It is like looking through crystal. I was told at Kelloge eye center near UofM in Michigan, that it was a type of migraine headaches without the pain.

I also have this. My eye doctor to close each eye independently when it was happening in order to determine if it was my eyes or my brain. Basically it is a migraine with aura and no headache. Mine usually last about 30 minutes.

It is also called acephalgic or silent migraine. You need to take it seriously. My daughter has a version where she gets stroke-like symptoms. Her doctor said she should go to the ER when that occurs.

I get sparkles when I move from dim into bright light. Asked optometrist but he didn't have any answers.

I had cataract surgery and for years now have had periferal sparkling of mostly left eye.worsr morning when I get up.For months I had kaleidescope pattern but that gone.Some doctors don't get it so I drew it with colored markers to show them.

@brenda1944 Appreciate you sharing, thank you! How many months did the kaleidoscope effect persist? In your surgery, was femto laser involved?

@chrispie As someone else mentioned, this is called a visual migrane. My wife and I both experience these fairly often. They are common. Usually last about 10 minutes and start off very tiny and slowly spread to encompass much of the vision field. As far as I can tell it is in the brain, not the eye. I have been getting them for 30 years or so. Maybe one a month then none for several months. Has nothing to do with headaches, in fact I never get headaches at all. No doctor has ever said it is anything dangerous. A strange affliction of humans.

Crossette, The first time I had experienced this, it happened when I was working as a cashier checking people out of the store. It really did frighten me because I had a detached retina when I was about 20 years old.
I had Retina surgery at the Kelloge Eye Center and this was before they used Laser. Dr. Cox from UofM did my surgery. It astounded other's as the surgery went very well, and I kept most of my vision with no need for glasses.
When ever my eyes were examined by all doctor's in all fields, they were also amazed with the surgery. Dr. Cox ended up traveling the world doing eye surgery with Doctor's without boarders.
I went back to that office over this new experience. When I told them what was going on, the doctor took a pen and paper and drew zigzag lines. Then asked, is it shaped like this and look like Crystal? Yes, Exactly! That is when the two doctor's told me that I had a type of migraine. No eye doctor's have ever challanged that, and I have seen a retina doctor every year, once a year.
I do not get a headache when this happens. It had not happened for quite a few years until I recently had cataract surgery a year ago December. Then it happened again twice. I did not refer to it being dangerous.
If anything it is a minor disturbance, as mine lasts about twenty minutes to 1/2 hour. What I shared concerning this was told to me by Professionals in the field of Opthalmolgy. It is called an Aura Migraine.