Is it normal to actually see red when mad?

Is it normal to actually "see red" and get lightheaded when you're PISSED at someone that you had to confront? It's kind of like real-life cartoon where everything slows down & blurs with a red tinge around the edges!

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  • thatchickyouhate

    not really sure about actually seeing red, but everything else - yes, i have experienced that level of anger before.

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  • Happened once.

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  • Avant-Garde

    There have been times where I have been extremely angry. I felt red, my skin was reddish and I felt overheated. However, I do not recall seeing red. It could be that the raised blood pressure effects some component in your eye. Perhaps, you should worry about that and ask an eye doctor. You should really worry even more if during your anger the blood vessels in your eyes begin to rupture.

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    • RoseIsabella

      I get hot and turn red too. Sometimes when I get really angry I get dizzy and have this intoxicated feeling like I'm on some sort of bad trip and I feel out of control. It freaks me out too much so now I just have to get away from what's pissing me off and breathe.

      It wasn't always this way so I don't know what happened to me. But there's a good side to it in that now I don't watch stuff on TV that upsets me and I don't spend much time with people who make me feel this way anymore.

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      • Avant-Garde

        I'm glad that you've find ways to regulate it. I've noticed that my red moments where usually with relatives who were stepping on my last nerve. They are just so infuriating!!! But they infuriate me less because I've stopped visiting the majority of them.

        During those moments, I was dizzy. I felt light headed and I think I would even have headaches. My vocal cords would be practically hoarse by the time that feeling started to kick in. Sometimes, it wouldn't take long for me to get over it but others it took a long time, especially since there would be other things to make me agitated.

        *sigh*

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  • Yeah, if you actually see red then you may want to go to the doctor. It can be a sign of neurological damage.

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    • Who thumbed this down, it's no fucking joke. Seeing color that isn't there can be a sign of the optic nerve being damaged. It is caused through a serious or minor neurological dysfunction, and can trigger during stresses such as anger. I get rage blackouts which are the very pinacle of human anger, you dont see colors at all. GO TO A DOCTOR, it is likely the optic nerve just pinched which is not serious but still go.

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  • WhiteCrow

    F.U.N.
    F is for fire, burn all the buildings!
    U is for uranium, bring out the nukes!
    N is for no survivors!
    Down in the deep blue sea!

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  • shuggy-chan

    It happened to me, only once, but I believe it is actually the "berserker rage" were u lose most if not all control in ur rage. I figure my Irish blood was to blame, but what is ur ethnic background, Nordic blood in there? That be cool, then u could be a Viking berserker

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  • JadedUnknown

    Maybe because you are lightheaded, you think you see red? Sometimes, when I'm running, I see black and red, as in seeing my (eyelids?) and not actually the colors. That also happened when I had this emotional breakdown... at the same time as I was really pissed as well. Do you also feel not real? Like an out of body experience? Or detached?

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