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* The shot wobbles wildly, then falls to the floor as the character gets dizzy and falls over.
* The shot goes in and out of focus before losing focus entirely.
* Seeing double (or more): A concerned person asks "[[How Many Fingers?|How many fingers]] am I holding up?" and the injured person answers in a number larger than the one the person's actually holding up.
* The drunken or drugged person tries to focus on something, only to see the item they're focusing on circling before them in multiple images superimposed.
* Using [[Jittercam]], other odd or unusual camera movements and/or edit-cuts, or colored filters to produce a disorienting effect.
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* Parodied in the sketch from ''The [[Mitchell and Webb]] Situation'' where Mitchell is sick and trying to get some bed rest and Webb, in a very old-school [[Obviously Evil]] manner, keeps trying to poison him. At one point we see the room twisting and rocking wildly from Mitchell's point of view, and then in the [[Reveal Shot]], Webb is sitting over him waving a magnifying glass over his eyes.
* Done on ''[[Father Ted]]'' to show Jack's POV, although he's gone far far beyond "about to pass out".
* There's a scene that uses this in the ''[[
* There's a very disturbing series of fade-to-black, fade-back-up Impairment Shots as {{spoiler|a gathering crowd at a New York butcher's kills Jack Harkness over and over again to see him revive}} in the ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day (TV)|Torchwood Miracle Day]]'' episode "Immortal Sins".
* A very effective use in the pilot of ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV)|Once Upon a Time]]'' when Prince Charming is mortally wounded protecting his baby and falls to the ground. We see from his point of view his child escaping just before his vision fades to black.
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* The mission "Boomshine Saigon" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'' starts with Tommy accidentally getting high on "boomshine" when Phil, heavily intoxicated by that stuff, blows his own arm. You must then drive him to a clinic... with the world blurry and the camera wobbling and shaking.
* Flashbangs in ''[[Counter-Strike (Video Game)|Counter-Strike]]'' turn the entire screen white for 5 seconds.
** Many FPS games use this technique for flashbangs. Some games with higher graphical limitations keep the scene at the moment of the flash burnt into the character's retinas (i.e. the player's screen) for a few seconds. Then it gradually fades back to being able to see properly. Apparently, [
** 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.
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* Used liberally by ''Call of Cthulhu: [[Dark Corners of the Earth]]'': your view is blurred whenever you're faced with something terrifying, the screen slowly goes dark as you're injured...
* Many [[First-Person Shooter|first person shooters]], especially those with [[Walk It Off|regenerating health]], use a [[Red Filter of Doom|red filter]] that covers more of the screen the closer you get to death.
* In the ''[[Die Hard]] 2'' part of ''Die Hard Trilogy'', the screen blurs when you get hit, and has a [[Near
* Used terrifyingly in ''[[Batman Arkham Asylum]]'' when {{spoiler|the screen seems to glitch and the game starts again from the beginning cinematic, to show when Batman is under the influence of Scarecrow's fear toxin.}} His {{spoiler|coughing}} gives it away a bit, but it still sends many players into a panic.
** In combat, inmates with stun rods will make the screen fill with static, and inmates with bats or pipes make you see double for a bit if they hit you.
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* 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.
* ''[[Hercules (Disney)|Hercules]]'' has the "[[How Many Fingers?]] do you see" bit, only it's how many ''horns'' Phil has. Herc answers six.
* ''[[Swat Kats (Animation)|Swat Kats]]'' uses the [[Impairment Shot]] in the episode when Turmoil threatens Megakat city with a vertigo weapon.
* The Mayor experiences an unbroken series of [[Impairment Shot|Impairment Shots]] until he's rescued by ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' in "The Bare Facts".
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