BRYAN KOBERGER and VISUAL SNOW

  PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF VISUAL SNOW AND HOW THEY MIGHT HAVE IMPACTED BRYAN KOBERGER"S CARRYINNG OUT THE CRIME

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   Visual snow: A Neurological disorder characterized by visual 

disturbances that occupy the sufferer's visual field. Most people

diagnosed with this condition report seeing lots of tiny dots in 

their visual field. It is almost like the eyes are constantly

"overreacting" to sensory or sensory overload.

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SYMPTOMOLOGY OF VISUAL SNOW

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 Results: High rates of anxiety, depression, depersonalization, 

fatigue, and other dissociative features; all of which decrease

the suffer's overall quality of life.

  Other common symptoms of visual snow are photophobia,

poor night vision, migraines, dizziness, difficulty concentrating,

and ringing in the ears.

  Due to the poor night vision, some sufferers are "night blind",

and cannot and do not drive at night under any circumstances.

  In addition, poor night visions makes it quite difficult to read road 

signs in the darkness.

 Also noted, among common findings, is difficulty sleeping, and the

loss of potential sleep. 

  **Of note, Visual snow happens, and continues to happen even if

your eyes are closed.**

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VISUAL SNOW AND CO-MORBIDITIES

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  Often co-morbid with increased anxiety, dyslexia, autism

spectrum disorder, and migraines

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DEPERSONALIZATION ASPECT OF VISUAL SNOW

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  One of the most consistent feature of Visual Snow is feeling

that one is detached from their physical body, diminished

agency, depersonalization, derealization, and struggling, at times, 

to know the difference between what in the world is "real", and 

what's artificial. There can be a big discrepancy between 

perception and reality. Essentially, Visual.Snow, is a brain/ mental 

processing central information disorder.

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How did VISUAL SNOW EFFECT BRYAN KOHBERGER, specifically?

1. As young as 17, into his 18th years of life, there is online 

evidence of Bryan's being diagnosed with visual snow. In 

particular, he at the same age, was in a forum that was specifically

related to visual snow and was interacting with the community on

nearly a daily basis. He used the forum to ask questions of other

sufferers, and to state his own observations of himself upon being 

diagnosed.

2. "night blindness": Those with visual snow report to have

difficulty driving at any time. Most specifically at night. The more 

lighting, from stoplights and street signs, the more difficult it 

would have been for Bryan to see properly/easily. This may or may 

not have to do with the route home that Bryan opted to take,

which was a more secluded route, with few lights, even on the

sides of highways. Incidentally, this may also be WHY Bryan 

dropped the knife sheath, accidentally, at the crime scene.

It is very possible, with his impaired vision in particular,

he very well may not have noticed that he dropped it at all.

3. When he entered the home, Bryan, to commit this crime,

he was also working his way around the house, which would

have been mostly dark with everyone in bed. His poor vision would 

have merely made it more challenging for Bryan to see well,

it wouldn't exclude him from the capability of committing this 

crime, however.

4. Bryan's visual snow side effects appeared to interfere with

his own assessment of his quality of life. He has a decade long, 

factually known, history of both depression, anxiety, and

depersonalization, poor coping skills. His "shortcomings", as he 

perceived them, were all bc of the visual snow; whether

that is true or untrue, only Bryan could/would know.

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CONCLUSIONS:

1. Bryan has a documented, decade long history of VS

2, Bryan has struggled with "night blindness"

3. Bryan has struggled with sensitivity to light

4. Bryan suffered from migraines in conjunction with VS

5. Bryan self-reported as depressed, anxious, and a sense of

depersonalization; feeling surreal, not in his own body, as a side

effect of VS.

6. The drive/course he navigated to get to 1122 King Road,

would have, particularly on the way there, been very difficult

for someone with VS. Again, when he returned home, he took a 

longer, less-lit up route home. Likely, too, as a result of his VS.