Who else is tormented by these fucking things?

mnp · 10 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

MesaDixon · 10 months

What torments me is how you got the camera in your eye to take that picture.

dirtyworms · 10 months

I catch myself trying to follow them, then I feel like a dog chasing its tail

GreatBabu · 10 months

Floaters? Yes. I have one dead center in one eye. Reading anything with a white background is distracting as all hell.

gurrgg · 10 months

I like them. Mine frequently look like targeting reticles.

laika57 · 10 months

Usually only when I am reminded they exist. Then I can't stop seeing them for days. Thank you.

clawdeeuhh · 10 months

Oh squiggly line in my eye

nogswarth · 10 months

See one in corner of eye. Try to look at it. THAT SHIT WHOOSHES OUT OF SIGHT. FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

UrbanDEV · 10 months

No, but I do have this

OneDecisiveStare · 10 months

god! they have a name! i only see these when I'm trying to look in a microscope.

Supergooseberry · 10 months

I pretend they're my friends and we go on adventures together

aghrivaine · 10 months

Once after an Aikido class where we had a long bit of meditation at the end, one of the other students and I were talking. he said he found it hard to concentrate with the sound of other people breathing. I said I found it hard to concentrate because I'd see floaters with my eyes open and looking at the white canvas of the floor. He looks at me like I'm nuts. i'm all "Floaters? Little speckly things, you see, when you're looking into a bright light or something?" blank stares.

For years, I'm thinking I've just got some weird mutation.

Now I know.

GreenHero · 10 months

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

We need to start a support group.

iceteababy · 10 months

Never once had them. Not sure why but never experienced their torment.

nolanearl · 10 months

Oh my god! Seriously, I thought I was the only one, like I was going blind or something. Tried to explain it to others before to no avail. Thank you so much reddit.

Mike07P · 10 months

You can shoot them with a laser. 1:12

sp4ce · 10 months

i remember being 5 or 6 and trying to describe these to my dad and he thought i was tripping on acid

Okanekure · 10 months

ahhh floaters damn things come out in sunlight.

a_not_so_clever_name · 10 months

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the peripheral of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.

Throwitawayson · 10 months

I noticed mine while on LSD, the rest is history.

ginandsoda · 10 months

I couldn't see anything at first because I thought those were my floaters!

sjrenard · 10 months

i started getting these really bad a year ago and they've progressively increased. I saw an eye doctor last summer to check if there was retina detachment...she said no. But I'm going back this week for another check with a different doctor just in case since they seem to be getting more visible...a bit nervous...wish me luck!

bobothetractor · 10 months

I have them too. What is more aggrevating is seeing my heart beat in my right eye. It matches my pulse and when i am worked up can get really fucking annoying. Eye doc says there is shit all you can do about it, as the eyeball is resting against an artery.

enochrabbit · 10 months

I haven't enjoyed a blue sky since I was a young teenager.

rumpel4skinOU · 10 months

Did anyone else think that these things were bacteria that happened across your pupil?

syntheticprosthetic · 10 months

When I was a wee lad, I used to think that I had extremely keen vision and that I was seeing things on the atomic level.

ipompa · 10 months

TIL im not the only one

dudz2888 · 10 months

WTH I thought those were just normal!

r0ckarong · 10 months

OMG I always thought they were on the outside and just swam around in the thin film of liquid on the eyeball that's why they always went away when I blinked or wiped. Now I will have to live with the idea that they are INSIDE MY GOD DAMN EYES FOREVER ... I need a scalpel or something.

Dokomon · 10 months

i love when im bored trying to follow them with my eye, yet its impossible

Oatybar · 10 months

I've never had these per se, but for my whole life I've been able to summon a bouncing CBS logo in my peripheral vision.

ArachnaTroll · 10 months

Sometimes they tell me to burn things...

nickateen · 10 months

I named mine Quado.

80G · 10 months

Came into the thread looking for a fix, left disappointed...

deepblueXIX · 10 months

Made me think of this. http://www.livevideo.com/video/16327CBD71094E06B7AD69FBCC58E41C/stewie-griffin-squiggly-line.aspx

sorry if it's a repost.

DeweyFat · 10 months

How the fuck did you take a picture of them?

pabst504 · 10 months

Ever sents I saw a house episode with a kid who had worms in his eyes i have never looked the same at my eye worms

poorly_timed_chicken · 10 months

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid;. I see you there lurking on the periphery of my vision.

rossanita1964 · 10 months

How did you take a picture of that???

SlothVision · 10 months

I have vitritis so yes they are annoying. I have so many is like I live in a world of jellyfish that don't want me to look at them.

hdcs · 10 months

I have swerved to avoid them while driving. I am a menace.

Manicmonkey666 · 10 months

I generally get them when i look up at the sky, not too often though. Always thought they were bacteria on my eye or something when i was little. And how the hell was this picture taken?

Givants · 10 months

So what are they??

r_slash · 10 months

On a serious note:

If you notice a sudden increase in the number of eye floaters, contact an eye specialist immediately — especially if you also see flashes of light or lose your peripheral vision. These can be symptoms of a retinal tear or a retinal detachment, which requires prompt attention.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/eye-floaters/DS01036

centurijon · 10 months

Tormented? No.

I play games with them.

Try to get them to "land" on a persons head. It's harder than lunar lander!

Or trying to work them around maze-like obstacles in my view.

My friend, floaters are not there to displease you; in fact they are there to give you some respite from the dull tedium that is your life.

bluegender03 · 10 months

I was fine until you reminded me of them. Thanks.

QuestionSleep · 10 months

When I was little I told my eye doctor that I had the ghosts of worms in my eye.

He thought I was nuts.

sevenseal · 10 months

can't find original topic, but http://i.imgur.com/TDFOe.png

gunny16 · 10 months

relevant

Teggert · 10 months

WHOA, how the FUCK did you manage to take a picture of them??!?!!!

tven12 · 10 months

FUCKING NOW I AM THANKS YA DICK

ElmertheAwesome · 10 months

Oh, squiggly thing in my eye!

[deleted] · 10 months

I am. I hate them with all of my guts and my liver.

autumnus · 10 months

I never got floaters until I was shot in the eye by a BB gun. Now I get them all the time :(

Deformed_Crab · 10 months

I've had this since I was little. I remember trying to catch them when I was like 5.

[deleted] · 10 months

I have MS and get them a lot! Sometimes I get swarms of them.

thecross · 10 months

I started getting floaters when I was about 15, I rarely notice them unless I am looking at something very bright with low contrast. They move around slightly and change shape occasionally. I've never had eye surgery and I don't have a need for glasses, yet.

jagermeister88 · 10 months

sloppybro · 10 months

It kinda looks like it says "sex".

Luminair · 10 months

Wow, I've been trying to articulate what the floaters I see look like to my girlfriend for years. Rad!

mustturd · 10 months

heres an article http://www.prlog.org/10036336-mouches-volantes-eye-floaters-as-shining-structure-of-consciousness.html

Im_more_ignorant · 10 months

Does this only happen to people with contacts, or something? I never see these.

UCF2005 · 10 months

OH MY GOD!!! I AM NOT ALONE!!! I am so happy right now! These things drive me crazy

lilhortse · 10 months

oh thank god there are others.. every god damn day.

fcoury · 10 months

TIL I am normal

[deleted] · 10 months

I have lots of visual snow, day or night. I had no idea this even existed, the optician I mentioned it to looked a bit like I'd made a pass at him whilst wearing a beard made out of bubbles. I swear it's from this awful monitor I used when I was 19 or so, like the dust patterns are burned into my retinas. I also sport some delightful hypnagogia of an evening, so it may be related.

sci-mind · 10 months

Can be a sign of macular degeneration. Not a big chance, but worth seeing your eye doc if they are really bad.

[deleted] · 10 months

THANKS FOR REMINDING ME.

FantomEx · 10 months

They bug me most when I'm coding and they float down right in front of what I'm trying to read or write. Migraine auras are worse though, I can't read at all during one of those episodes.

baconautics · 10 months

I have extremely bad floaters, so bad that they effect my vision adversely. In 2009 I required a vitrectomy on my left eye to remove my vitreous humour and I will likely require one on my right eye soon.

SeaCowFarmer · 10 months

i talked to an eye doctor about these, and apparently its only the gel on the inside of your eye coagulating, sometimes it can be retinal detachment, meaning you're going blind. if you have had them forever however they are probably not that.

at_the_beach · 10 months

They're like girls. As soon as I look at them they run away.

Greenkeeper · 10 months

How. How did you. Picture. How. Jesus. How.

Or0ku_Saki · 10 months

I had not idea this was something that other people had. I've had them since I was a kid. Mine looks like a circle within a circle (akin to a "bullseye"). Interesting. When I was younger I would waste time trying to float them to just the right spot, then train my eye not to move or flinch. The things we did before internet, and cable television.

farfigneugan · 10 months

How did you get a picture of those?!

Axoren · 10 months

WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE?! I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DIRECTLY LOOK AT THEM, LET ALONE CATCH THEM ON CAMERA!

SatyrMex · 10 months

I had floaters before it was cool. /hipster

x-soldierside-x · 10 months

I knew exactly what it was when I saw the picture...and my immediate thought was: "...OTHER PEOPLE CAN SEE THIS STUFF TOO?! I'M NOT CRAZY!!!"

kubes · 10 months

Those are just the young. Just wait until they're mature and burrow their way out.

KenOfAllTrades · 10 months

How in the hell did you get pictures of it?

Oxxide · 10 months

THANK GOD IT ISNT JUST ME.

Garthenius · 10 months

Yeah I used to be freaked out about these things; as a kid I thought they were angels, turns out they're just proteins.

Mc_Zee · 10 months

How the hell did you photograph them!?!?

Stunod7 · 10 months

First off, I've had them clouding my entire vision, both eyes, for as long as I can remember.

To everyone saying things like "ZOMG IM NOT ALONE!!!!" or "TIL what these are!!" what the fuck is wrong with you? Do you not know how to use Google? Or not know how to formulate a proper search query? Even if you search for "shit in my eyes" you'll find the answer.

stfuasshat · 10 months

Relevant!

"Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven." -Stewie

FrankCraft · 10 months

When I was little I was convinced i had microscopic vision as a superpower because I could see these things.

dsarola · 10 months

oh squiggly line in my eye

why when I look at you do you run and hide

oh squiggly line

bikevalente · 10 months

Yes! Though when I was young and unaware of what they were, I thought I was seeing "germs' and therefore had a "super power" that had to be kept secret.

Wrongcaptcha · 10 months

Floaters.....The equivalent of dead pixels in my vision.

ShoggothKnight · 10 months

I remember my high school physics professor talked about these one day in class and showed us how to see them at will. It was the first time I'd ever noticed them. I don't remember what the trick was though, I think it involved shining a light into your eye.

kneenar · 10 months

Sometimes I notice a weird displacement in my vision, usually when I'm outside in the sun for a long time (hah). It looks sort of like ripples in water. Creeps me out.

random314 · 10 months

Well I wasn't before, but I am now. fucker.

GeeksWifey · 10 months

I'm not the only one??? I've mentioned this to a number of people and they all looked at me like I was nuts!!!

tehCreator · 10 months

Reginald Barclay claims to have this problem when being transported.

Hammythepirate · 10 months

Yay, now I don't have to slip this casually into my next doctors visit.

astareus · 10 months

Floaters in my eyes, wake up in a hotel room...

noradrenaline · 10 months

According to my optician, my eyes are full of hundreds of the things, rather than the normal one or two. I feel your pain, so very much.

jungletek · 10 months

Random bits of proteins floating in the vitreous fluid of the eye. That's why they don't stay in place and are near impossible to look at directly, they're inside your eye.

It's the same effect you get when you rotate a container of fluid around its vertical axis: the container rotates while the fluid moves a little bit with the initial rotation, but not nearly as much as the containing vessel.

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