How come when you squint at a bright light, light beams seem to appear on the top and bottom of the source?

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How come when you squint at a bright light, light beams seem to appear on the top and bottom of the source?

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No Reddit! Not again! Someone posted a photoshopped picture of a streetlight with diffraction spikes and people were commenting about how cool it looked and how it looked like looking at lights through a rain covered window. I was sitting there in total confusion, because ALL lights look like that to me! It can be a television or a fish tank bulb, all light sources have the spikes going in all directions. I always assumed that everyone saw light like that. Well Reddit thanks for ruining my idea of me having perfect vision.

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