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The general shape is the same as in these pictures for me, and it expands in the typical way and direction, but for me it's like shards of broken glass strobing various colours. When I first got migraines I didn't even realise I was seeing them. The first sign something was wrong was when I was watch the TV and suddenly it was hard to understand what the actors were saying. When I focussed, I realised that it was because I couldn't see their mouths!

Unfortunately, nearly two decades on, smaller weird visual artefacts are now just daily life and I seem to be very sensitive to glare (and I break into a cold sweat pretty often because that's how an aura looks when it starts). I only get a few migraines a year, but they seem to have rearranged the furniture in my brain a bit.

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I'm the same here. I freak out every time I see a small dot of glare in my vision. Worse yet, I have floaters in my eyes, which often look like the start of a migraine since they obscure some of the vision — this is especially noticeable when reading text on a computer screen.

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Yeah, I get that too. Fortunately the floaters are per eye, so I can eliminate them as a migraine thing using a sequence of winks. This looks in no way peculiar to people around me.