Eyes Horror | No Survey

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

Subject D was referred for progressive monocular vision loss. Upon examination, her right cornea was clear, but the anterior chamber appeared… agitated. Aqueous humor samples showed no infectious agents, but under polarized light, the fluid contained myelin-like sheaths that formed and dissolved in real time. Subject D reported that for three nights, she had awakened to find her own eyes in the bathroom mirror looking at her before she arrived . She began wearing an eye mask, but the sensation persisted. “They are seeing through the cloth,” she stated. “And they are hungry.” eyes horror

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. The Journal of Ophthalmic Anomalies (Vol