Stripes in modern life may trigger migraines and seizures, warn scientists

telegraph ^ | 8 May 2017 | Sarah Knapton,

[DUMBGRUNT]

Stripes are ubiquitous in modern life, from City shirts and barcodes, to Venetian blinds and zebra crossings

...can trigger a neural loop of activity in the brain In severe cases it can lead to epilepsy, but researchers think it might also be responsible for migraines.

[JohnnyP]

“Spellbound” 1945 Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman.

Peck’s character (from wikipedia) “has a peculiar phobia about sets of parallel lines against a white background.”

[DUMBGRUNT]

Note the size of the ankles.

Best to scroll most of the pic off the screen, just be safe.

[bigbob]

True, or a brainectomy. She would ahve been the worst headache in history.

[reg45]

Is she making gang signs with her left hand?

[KarlInOhio]

Those stripes just drag your eyes into the Gates to Hell.

[pigsmith]

Years ago at work there was a new rule that required the black-and-yellow caution tape be applied to certain floor areas and machines. Over one weekend someone went crazy applying caution stickers and tape to my CNC machine. I could not stand near it without that tape triggering the full-blown migraine visual sparkly blind spots, nausea, bleah just thinking about it. It was everywhere - on the floor, all over the machine, near the power switch, everywhere.

So I gradually started peeling off all the offending crap, slowly so no one noticed it disappearing. The tape on the floor was soon too dirty to be seen, and the migraines never came back.

[tumblindice]

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

[golux]

Venetian blinds and zebra crossings...

What's a "zebra crossing?" And how do you make a venetian blind?

[Hardastarboard]

Those stripes induce severe nausea.

[Hardastarboard]

I’m going to hell for this, but note where your eye inevitably ends up if you follow those stripes, and the pattern “at the end of the rainbow”. Ugh

[VietVet876]

Other researchers say you can offset the effects of stripes by combining them with checks.

[tumblindice]

Don't be alarmed, your eyes can't help themselves. Nothing can escape the locus of Hillary's pants stripes and their gravitational pull: light, stray planets, gray matter--nothing.

[princeofdarkness]

“And that’s the fact Jack!” LOL. Bill Murray at his best.

[treetopsandroofs]

“And that’s the fact Jack!” LOL. Bill Murray at his best.

As an almost related aside, do you know who the wildest partier was in the cast of Little House on the Prairie?

Miss Beadle the schoolmarm, who also had a brief fling with Bill Murray.

[Hardastarboard]

Apparently Bill Clinton was able to escape that gravitational pull, repeatedly, lol

[treetopsandroofs]

Apparently Bill Clinton was able to escape that gravitational pull, repeatedly, lol

According to BJ, women were less successful than men at escaping that gravitational pull.

[Albion Wilde]

Gosh, I like their music. Never gave me a headache.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I had to look it up...Who knew?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing

[princeofdarkness]

Interesting. Apparently Charlotte Stewart (who played Miss Beadle) had been married to Tim Considine of My Three Sons.