I think something in my brain has short-circuited.
Over the last few days, I’ve been feeling lightheaded, dizzy, and sort of disconnected from reality. It comes and goes. I’ve also been having strange anomalies in my vision… colors appear brighter than normal.
Easily the strangest thing was around 11:00pm on Thursday night. I was at a client’s office attempting to force a server to reboot. After failing (again) I noticed that one of the other tenants on the floor was moving out, and that the landlord was renovating the office. The office has a magnificent eighth-story view of Madison, so I tried to sneak in to admire it.
I didn’t have a flashlight with me, so I waited until my vision adjusted to the dark, then flipped open my phone. It gave me a dim, but acceptable, view of where I was going. The large main screen was facing away from me, but the smaller outside screen looked directly at me. As I moved the phone around to get my bearings, I was more than a little surprised to see that the small screen was leaving trailers in my vision. These weren’t the usual afterimages we all see when an oncoming car doesn’t dim its headlights–I could swing the phone around, then watch the screen’s streak of light catch up to where I stopped moving it.
I’m sort of confused right now, so I’m not really even sure if this post makes sense.