Seeing electric dots out plane window?

Question

Has anyone ever experienced dazzling electric sparkles in the air when looking through an airplane window of a plane in full flight? On two occasions I've experienced this. I describe them as electric sparkles because they look like dots and/or small and yellow squiggly lines moving around, densely packed into every morsel of air outside the window. To me, their movement resembled a tiny pond overcrowded by fish swirving in and out of each other; they could also be described like salmon jumping upriver at spawning season or bilions of fish nipping. Or even like billions of tiny electrical zaps. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this? Is this something in the air, or something to do with my eyes, like how I see white dots sometimes when I sit down or stand up too quickly?

Answer 1

normally I would diagnose this as a partial retinal detachment. I think that the cabin window you are looking out of is acting as a kind of diffraction grating, scattering light. Its not an abnormal phenomena considering the density of the glass