Seeing More Blue Lights

I mentioned some time ago that I had been seeing flecks and sparkles of mostly blue and white light and that it appeared to be increasing in frequency.  They started out in my left eye, several feet away from me in my field of view.  Sometimes I would see one, sometimes a few of them over the course of a second.  Not only have the lights gotten closer to me but they have increased in both intensity, size and color.  Blue is now the largest of the different lights that I typically see, with white being second, although there are various colors that appear from time to time.  Sometimes the white ones seem like a glowing translucent liquid undulating in mid-air.  The blue ones started out as flecks but now appear both as orbs, sparkles and most recently larger geometric shapes.

 

Twice within the past few days blue colored lights have appeared seemingly just off the surface of my cheeks, in my lower field of view.  The size of some of them are huge compared to what I've been use to seeing, causing me once to nearly drop a mug full of tea and another time I thought something had jumped on to my chest and reacted by putting my hands on my chest before I'd even realized it.  The last couple looked like large blue rectangle dashboard warning lights in an automobile... blink, blink, blink.  Five years ago I wasn't seeing them at all.  They've gotten much bigger and can startle me now.  They occur more frequently than ever.  It's just an interesting phenomenon, whatever they are. 

Seeing Blue Lights

I have been seeing flecks, sparkles and flashes of light for the past few years.  The intensity has increased a bit over time, but they are mostly small and last for a fraction of a second.  They are often blue, sometimes white.  Sometimes they appear almost as tiny orbs, but mostly like sparkling sand.  I remember when I first started to notice them.  They mostly appeared to my left at first, and at a distance.  Now I see them from time to time on both sides.

They're not what's known as eye floaters - those spots you may sometimes see moving across the surface of your eye that appear within your field of vision.  I've seen those from time to time and they're quite different, being dark grey or black in tone and have a symmetry of movement that can be observed for several minutes and is easily predictable.  These light flashes are different.  They are intense enough that they get my attention every time, forcing me to look at them before I realize that I'm looking, and by then they're gone.  Several friends have told me that they see these kinds of lights occasionally as well.  There's an interesting forum page in Pavlina where people share some possible explanations.

Update: June 2010 - See update in post "More Blue Lights" as these appearances have started to increase for me once again.