Polyopsia

Polyopsis is a type of visual impairment in which the patient experiences a subjective visual phenomenon: the feeling that objects or contours in space are bifurcating, diverging, moving or taking on bizarre shapes that change their characteristics (size, color). In this case, the patient describes the phenomenon as doubling of objects before the eyes, doubling or doubling of the image, the illusion of objects rotating around their axis or images shifting in depth, their inversion, inversion of perception. Because such phenomena are fickle and elusive, most patients call them “oddities.”

Often patients recognize visual illusions as a disturbance of perception and associate them with an eye disease. Without understanding the causes of symptoms, patients tend to repeat their symptoms in everyday life, which leads to worsening disorders and stress overload. A vicious circle is created that complicates diagnostic