Talk:Bucha effect

"... a Dr. Bucha ..."

Will any "Dr. Bucha" do? Do they come in six-packs? Is this article the figment of someone's imagination? I've flown in helicopters a bit, both as a passenger and as pilot-in-command, with a clear bubble canopy and at times without sunglasses on, and I've never noticed any such effect. The only references to the effect seem to be the search engine echo chamber, all pointing back to this article. —Quicksilver^{T @} 02:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know who the Bucha guy is but the effect described is familiar to me. I have found that when I am in a car, or riding a motorcycle, and sunlight flashes rhythmically because it is being interrupted by trees, that I start to lose useful consciousness. On several occasions I have been tested for epilepsy with flashing lights, but this never caused me any difficulty. As recently as a few months ago I've had to pull my motorcycle off the road because of this effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timothy Campbell (talk • contribs) 19:50, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is this hoax/myth?

I searched psychological databases for "bucha effect" and also for author "Bucha". None was found. I can't find anymore information neither. So this makes me suspect that this might be a purely hoax. If not, please provide some reliable sources! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.1.22.12 (talk) 11:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. I found a couple of reasonably-reliable sources on Google Books and added them to the article, but they're both talking about the effect in the context of non-lethal weapons. It'd be great to find some confirmation in medical literature. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:15, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have this problem so it's not a myth. I experience bad discomfort for example when driving in a car and the sun shines through the trees (causing a lot of flickering), or at concerts where stroboscopes are used. And it's only a certain frequency interval that is causing it. Anyway I found another article named Flicker vertigo that seem to describe the same, I added merge templates to the two articles. /Cygnus78 (talk) 16:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Working in a neurophysiology department and performing strobe lighting photic stimulation on a regular basis with EEG recordings, and having experienced it myself and on many of my co-workers, we've never experienced this. Just my tuppence though 92.0.137.108 (talk) 00:48, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not a myth, but it is massively exaggerated here, and in numerous weird conspiracy theory sites. Most importantly, they all imply that it affects everyone; this is not true. Aviation medicine reports that it is in fact extremely rare. The article should be merged with flicker vertigo, which is its proper technical name. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 12:53, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]