async It's like vieweing 10.000 trees in the distant forest at once and getting super annoyed by lines going into the distance moving up and down when you walk.
For me I've had this effect before but thankfully have always experienced it in a really GOOD context "that was not forced", like when my eyes are feeling particularly nice on some day and I can both see this AND completely be able to process it in a relaxed state. That's the best feeling ever and it feels like what ideal vision truly should be like for me.
When I don't see this my brain usually just doesn't process the whole thing and just goes more tunnel vision, so when my field of view has expanded THAT much, it's actually a really good sign for me and screens will usually start looking a lot better too. Not sure if I would call this version of an expanded field of vision "2D" because usually, stuff looks way more 3D at these times with super enhanced depth perception, in contrast to my more frequently occurring "handicapped" tunnel vision state where I can tell stuff looks flatter than it should and it's hard to process depth.
Irlen spectral filters are really effective for me in inducing this "really good feeling, more 3D version" of the "intensely high information density" feeling in real life/outdoors contexts.
On the other hand, using bad screens like mini-LED makes it likely for this feeling to go away and my field of vision (even off of the computer) to start getting more and more constrained the more I use a bad screen.
async Tbh I wouldn't be suprised if a rather large percentage here at some point did drugs, had a mild brain injury, a mild autoimmune issue after covid, or has asperger / adhd.
I won't say much here but I caught a very rare, serious autoimmune disease over a decade ago, it's been gone for years now but has obviously had long lasting residual effects and yeah is probably the reason behind a lot of this for me. I have never done drugs. I also don't have autism or aspergers at all but I do have adhd.
Skimmed the articles you linked and yep I definitely have a higher temporal perception "by default" lol, flicker fusion is certainly much higher for me than it is in other people.
I also totally agree with the idea of strobe therapy as long as someone doesn't have problems looking at it, and the strobe light is "visible" and not trying to hide itself —
Brcause I don't have epilepsy at all, I swear that staring straight at e.g. that one linked YouTube video with the intense black and white flash actually felt relaxing to me and made my vision feel better & smoother (less jittery motion blur when turning my head for example) after watching it. Visible flashing like strobe lights actually help me, but invisible flashing like PWM hurts me.