I get them infrequently, with mostly visual symptoms and little or no pain. For me, the aura looks like a wavy pattern of light off to one side of my vision and only in one eye. It often happens after an evening workout on a day that's been particularly stressful.

There's no numbness, weakness, confusion, or loss of coordination. It's just the altered vision and it predictably happens within an hour of de-stressing. All I can do it down some advil and wait it out.

I've seen my doctor about this, and she's confident that they are in fact occular migraines. It's still disconcerting though.