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Occasional white light flash in my peripheral vision

I am seeing an intermittant flash of white light in my left peripheral vision that looks like a moving circle or C.  I can see it with my eye open or closed and it seems to be worse at times.  Sometimes I don't notice it, but if I am in a dark ambient environment, I can sometimes see it flash every few seconds.  Sometimes I don't notice it at all.  I am 47 y.o. and it just started a few months ago.  Any ideas?
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Please excuse the craziness. Not sure what happened with the text in the post. It looks like it put random parts of sentences in different places. Hope you can understand it.
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My condition is similar to many of those described here. I began seeing light orbs about 2 years ago. It started with me seeing what looked like a tiny, blue laser pointer sized point of light that moved slowly down the wall (I was in a dark room at the time). I closed my eyes and it looked like several flashlight beams moving around, like I was seeing light through my eyelids. Then the light became for stationary but spinning orbs of light with a dark spot in each of their centers, kind of like the way a ceiling light cover has. They stayed stayed stationary just above my central vision for about 4 days. At this time  to see an extremelythe lights appeared to be in both eyes. The four lights began migrating upward out of my vision until they were gone. Before that happened however, I began to see an extremely bright light in my left peripheral vision, so bright that I thought I could see my shadow on the wall. The lights went away but were back in a couple of weeks but seemed to be only in my right eye. Now, if I barely look down, I see 3 - 4 white orbs, some on the side periphery and some in the top periphery. I have seen more than one eye doctor and both found nothing different in my retinas, according to my history.
This is the interesting part. I have had no vision in my right eye since 1992 due to diabetic retinopathy. The vitreous was replaced by silicone oil to try to keep they newly reattached retina. Once the oil was removed, a saline based viscous liquid was introduced. The retina detached again in a couple of months, so no vision in that eye. The left eye has had so much laser that I have very little peripheral vision left and have a very small field of vision.
Do you think this could be neurological? Any help is appreciated.
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Occasional white light flash in my peripheral vision, I am seeing this to my left eye only..any of you going thru something spiritual changes or doing meditation whrn it started. I might think this is the reason as am meditating a lot in which usually eyeballs have imp roll..
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This has been posted a long time a go, i hope the right people will get my comment. I started having this also. Very bright light and sometimes shadows.
I found this thread here and just after i found this: http://www.livestrong.com/article/202005-what-causes-flashes-in-the-outer-corner-of-the-eye/
which sounds a bit scary but also calmly confronting and logical.

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Noticed some white flashes about 2 weeks ago in my peripheral, followed by an onset of floaters.  Went to the ophthalmologist, who after examining quickly sent me to the vitreous surgeon for what he saw as a retina tear.  The surgeon performed a laser burn on the spot.  I am still seeing roughly the same floaters and occasional white flash afterward, which he said will persist for a while.  Will go back in a week for followup.
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Noticed some white flashes about 2 weeks ago in my peripheral, followed by an onset of floaters.  Went to the ophthalmologist, who after examining quickly sent me to the vitreous surgeon for what he saw as a retina tear.  The surgeon performed a laser burn on the spot.  I am still seeing roughly the same floaters and occasional white flash afterward, which he said will persist for a while.  Will go back in a week for followup.
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