If you are reading this and notice, for even a moment, that your pupil does not contract symmetrically, or that your mirror image blinks a millisecond too late, close your eyes immediately.
The Journal of Ophthalmic Anomalies (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Submitted by: Dr. Elara Vance, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neuro-Ophthalmology, St. Jude’s Hospital eyes horror
We do not yet understand what triggers the transition from host to vessel. We do not know why the subjects’ final corneal impressions show a second, smaller face superimposed over their own. However, we have noted a disturbing commonality in the pre-morbid notes of all six patients: each had, in the weeks prior, spent an unusual amount of time looking at their own reflection in dim light. If you are reading this and notice, for
Seek a darkened room. Wait for the sensation of weight behind your retinas to subside. If it does not—if you begin to hear that rustling sound—then understand that you are no longer the observer. Elara Vance, M
You are the observed.
Subject A presented with complaints of "a shadow in the periphery." Standard slit-lamp examination was unremarkable. However, during a dark-room pupillometry test, the subject’s left pupil exhibited an asynchronous, rhythmic dilation—a "searching" motion—independent of the right. When asked to follow the examiner’s finger, Subject A’s eyes moved correctly, but the patient whispered, “I don’t mean to alarm you, doctor, but the reflection in your glasses isn’t you.” Fundoscopic photography later revealed faint, branching dendrites on the retina that were not present in the previous day’s imaging.