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A method of [[Painting the Medium]].

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In Volume 9 of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ran was nearly drowned after being drugged. She assumed that her savior was Shinichi {It was him, as Conan, before the whole [[Improbable Antidote]] incident. This also occurs whenever anyone in the anime goes back and forth when they were being shrunk by [[Fountain of Youth|Apotoxin]] or going back with Baigar. with funky colors and blurred outlines. The manga has a negative version of the outlines and is either black or white, besides when Shinichi first became Conan.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''Match of the Millennium'' - when Yugi's trying to concentrate just long enough to draw a card while the pressure of the shadow game overwhelms him.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' does a manga version of this at one point, to indicate the extent to which Itachi is going blind. The target of his focus is little more than a darkened blur.

* ''[[The Covenant]]'' does a blink-awake when Caleb hits his head on the edge of the lap pool and nearly drowns.

* Several, both from the [[POV Cam]] and external in ''[[Film/Face Off|Face Off]]'' mostly as Castor!Archer tries to keep his [[Sanity Slippage]] from wearing his enemy's face from overwhelming him.

* In ''[[North by Northwest]]'', Cary Grant's character is force-fed a bottle of whiskey and put behind the wheel of a car - as he makes a getaway we see the road from his seeing-double perspective, curving and going straight at the same time.

* In ''[[The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games]]'', the camera takes on Katniss's perspective many times as she runs through the woods. One scene has the camera swaying in and out of focus to represent Katniss hallucinating.

* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' used a sort of smoky [[Hit Flash]] in "Oh Oh Oh It's Magic" to show what it looks like to a dead person when Ned touches them a second time.

* Cordelia gets the blurry version on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' when she is cursed with blindness (the curse takes some time to ramp up).

* An odd, external-to-the-impaired version happens to Gary on ''[[Early Edition]]'' when an old T-man suckerpunches him. The shot goes out of focus as Gary slips unconscious to the ground.

* Done briefly in the ''[[The West Wing|West Wing]]'' episode "Commencement," when {{spoiler|Zoey's drink has been drugged}}, in a rare example of POV camera-trickery for that show.

* In video games, this can appear as an [[Interface Screw]], usually when coupled with a "confusion" Standard Status Effect.

* Also done in some Flight Sims. If you pull too tight a turn, the screen goes red or black as you black out under the G-forces.

** Also, the screen appears blurry whenever your character is drunk.

** Appropriately enough, the screen goes {{spoiler|red, and veins appear across the camera}} whenever Jack gets hit with {{spoiler|Atlas' "Code Yellow" mind control command.}}

** Some flight games do this as well; a notable example was the ''Descent'' series' flash missiles, which whited out your screen for five seconds.

* In ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', this happens when you get knocked upside the head or injected with a dizzy-causing serum.

* The effects of Malaria in ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' result in a yellow border with little cell-looking things and everything going out of focus. A similar effect happens if you sprint for too long.

* The drunk effect in [[Grand Theft Auto IV|GTA IV]] are similar to those mentioned for ''[[Fable]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'' above. Niko will occasionally also fall over.

* On a recent episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', a pig Dale rents to hunt truffles eats something that [[Mushroom Samba|is definitely ''not'' a truffle]], and as it blacks out it sees Dale turning different colors.

* The title character in ''[[Pinocchio]]'' gets sick from too much cigar smoke while playing pool and sees the eight ball all wavy and out of focus. It even seems to blink at him.

* Jun's monster scent-hound Shirshu experiences this when Katara waterbends it a face full of perfume on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.

** In Season 2, we get one when Zuko goes into his [[Angst Coma]].

* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', this trope is used after Jack runs face-first into a candy-cane-striped pole.

** Similarly used in ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' when Victor runs into a tree.

** In another episode, "Homer's Odyssey", there is a point-of-view shot of the kids looking down at an exhausted Homer. Maggie pokes at his eyes and the image is doubled for a moment.

* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', Kirby's POV blinks open and gains focus as he wakes up after his freak-out by the waterfall.

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