You know that game UI thing where a glow or ring will highlight something you can (or should) interact with?
I just read a chapter of a book where a character’s visual migraine aura does that. It doesn’t seem to have happened before, but he just sort of takes it in stride.
(It would be nice if mine worked that way.)
By “takes it in stride,” of course, I mean he figures wow, that’s really useful, now I need to lie down until the flashing lights move out of view and I can actually see clearly again, instead of “WTF HOW IS MY VISUAL MIGRAINE TALKING TO ME?????”
In response to someone asking which book:
The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman. It’s the middle book in the sequel trilogy he’s writing to His Dark Materials. The character is one who was introduced in the previous book. He makes a comparison between the lights of the migraine aura and the lights of the Aurora borealis, which I expect is going to turn out to be important eventually.
At the time I read an article where Pullman mentions getting them himself, and decided to use the idea with one of his characters.
At the time the first book was out, I mean.