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Why do beams of light go up and down from a TV when I look at it?

What I mean is, when looking at a TV, the old ones not flat screens, I get light looking as though it is going out of the TV and upwards and also it is coming out of the bottom of the TV.

This also happens when looking at streetlights, kind of like the childrens drawings of the circular Sun and the rectangular beams of light stretching out.

Also, these 'beams' don't go on for too long, can't gauage the distance because it seems to be realative. The light also is the same colour as ones that are on the TV screen.

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JimL status says:

Since the streaks of light are of the same color as the tv, they are of the same light emitted by the tv.  Something in the optical path between the tv (or streetlight, etc.) and your retina(s) at the back of your eye(s) is causing some diffusion of the light.  This could be in your eye(s); on the surface of your eyes; or on your glasses, if you wear any. 

Obtain a little, bright, LED flashlight or keyfob light and in a dark room look at it from several feet away.  Do you see a point of light or a vertical line/streak of it?   Try these tests.

1. Close one eye then the other--does the effect change or go away and come back?

2. If your have glasses, hold them in front of one eye, one glass lens at a time, and rotate it.  Does the pattern rotate with the glasses or not?  Is it associated with a particular lens, or with a particular one of your eyes?  If with the glasses, the glass lens is scratched or improperly made.

3. Vertical diffusion would generally indicate that there is one or more horizontal scratches or streaks somewhere in the optical path.  Are your glasses scratched in this way?  Might you have scratched your cornea (the surface of your eye)?

4. There are also conditions within the eye (floaters, etc.) that could result in this effect, again by scattering the light on the way to the retina.

I'd suggest you have an eye doctor have a look at you, just to be safe.

 

 

 

 

 

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posted on 2010-06-18 20:34:18 | Report abuse


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