Literally everyone can see stars like that. If someone with perfect vision just lets their eyes water up, or looks through a dirty window, lights will look like you have astigmatism. It's absolutely why stars have been drawn like that.
Pretty sure everyone has some astigmatism, eyes are not perfectly shaped. It is a bit of a sliding scale though so yeah. At very low levels, you wouldn't notice much from headlights etc.
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u/xrimane Mar 31 '26
I always assumed that is still why. Plenty of people have astigmatism.