floaters

namtrahj · 9 months

When I first noticed floaters when I was a kid I thought I had giant bacteria living in my eyeballs.

ModuloN · 9 months

For the longest time I thought floaters were burn scars on my eyeballs from trying to be hardcore and looking at the sun in elementary school.

cynthiadangus · 9 months

I'm currently looking at floaters while looking at floaters.

snackadj · 9 months

So this means I don't actually have the superhuman ability to see amoebas?

kondichael · 9 months

That reminds me of this :/

EDIT:

I'm an eye doc. It's called a vitreous detachment. The vitreous is the jelly that fills up the eye. It breaks down in all of us. Like holding your hand between a flashlight and a wall, your hand casts a shadow. So too does the little chunk of jelly floating around. Stop looking for it. It won't go away (exercise? diet? sorry-lies), but your brain will suppress it. I see mine with white walls/blue skies, etc. FYI-new floaters, flashes of light, curtain in vision, you must immediately be seen to rule out a retinal tear or detachment! Hope this helped - Credit goes to dahuii22.

FancifulUnicorn213 · 9 months

And now they're in my monitor... Is there no sacred ground to seek refuge from these tiny monsters?

Gearhead90 · 9 months

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you there lurking on the periphery of my vision, but when I try to look at 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, its alright. You are forgiven.

the_real_darkrock · 9 months

My teachers used to tell me I couldn't see air. I'd argue with them like crazy, I thought I was the one dude who COULD see it.

sufian88 · 9 months

i'm in medical school just to learn wtf this is

gfail · 9 months

They've got an answer for everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7_al4mrfg

davidh676 · 9 months

Worse than floaters while looking at the sky.

lottrbist · 9 months

Christ I hate those bastards.

wjjeeper · 9 months

I was waiting for the floaters in my vision to clear up so I could see WTF I was supposed to be looking at. Fail.

looksfamiliar · 9 months

i hate these things, vision is covered with them when i look at the sky!

QuickTactical · 9 months

Oh thank fuck, I'm normal.

leaptheman · 9 months

Yep, I have those. But add in a couple dark spots floating around too. Just to complete the set. It sucks, especially for golfing. I consistently lose track of the ball since the minute I search for it in the sky, there are several objects just floating around wherever I look. My friends get frustrated when I inevitably say "no idea where my ball went".

CraigAtSyfy · 9 months

I have these. I hate these.

RainZM · 9 months

Ah damn, I thought I was the only one that had that.

Eofofo · 9 months

How common are these things? Haha because I've never had them nor heard anyone else have them outside of the internet.

NCRider · 9 months

what? i don't see anything?

MissHalcome · 9 months

Uh, this. My eye doctor said to me once: "wow, you do have a lot of floaters." Not very comforting!

[deleted] · 9 months

Don't worry it's just your retinas detaching.

theDeuce · 9 months

I blinked to make it stop on instinct.

Lyeta · 9 months

Mine keep getting worse and worse. I guess it's just one more step towards complete blindness.

Bayoublaster · 9 months

This explains so many UFO sightings!

Purpose2 · 9 months

only got one... and it was horrifying when I first got it...

Glaurunga · 9 months

I have like 20 of these of varying sizes . . . usually i don't notice them

xXxTrollxXx · 9 months

As a kid I always thought it was a worm hole or a tear in the space time continuum that was really far away and moving. I thought if I touched it I would go to another demension

alvaro1991 · 9 months

i have this but i didn't know what they were

uhhlise · 9 months

I thought that I was the only one who could see these.

dizneedave · 9 months

Well, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day painfully aware of mine. You should go think about your tongue for a while.

Kyene · 9 months

You son of bitch.
NOOOO! They won't leave me alone!

SOFA_KING_MONEY · 9 months

WHAT ARE THESE MONSTERS AND WHY DO THEY HAUNT ME!!

PemCorgiSelphie · 9 months

This is floaters, and this is not what I have at all. Everytime I tell an eye doctor or other doctor my problem, they say it's floaters. What I see is PATTERNS, like if you hold up a kaleidoscope, When I look at the sky or at bright things, like snow on a sunny day, or a white house on a sunny day, I see distinct sworly patterns like this but not in color, just in light and darkish hues of blue or white/gray

SensenmanN · 9 months

Is this a very common thing? I have one in the lower left of my vision. I don't really notice it unless it's rather bright, and I'm looking at a light colored surface.

Synux · 9 months

Mine were more thread-like than worm-like but yep, that's close enough. Haven't seen 'em for a few years. Don't miss 'em. Although for a while one was basically dead center on the right eye and I pretended it was a targeting site.

FullyCocked · 9 months

I always thought I was the only one....

livinincalifornia · 9 months

Man, I thought I was the only one.

heart-on · 9 months

These bring back really fond memories.

excommunicated · 9 months

Things are a pain in the ass when you look through a microscope all day.

Neonite · 9 months

As a kid who loved Ocarina Of Time, I thought they were spirits, like you see in Kokiri Forest. I honestly thought everyone saw them.

wauzy · 9 months

I always thought floaters were dust particles that landed on the surface of your eye which caused me to wash my eyes in the shower. It wasn't until I needed retinal re-attachment surgery that I learned what they really were.

zoomsixx · 9 months

I have these. But really bad. They cover my eyesight. I was diagnosed with ocular histoplasmosis. I was told that it could be caused from being around rivers and or bat guano in the midwest. That I actually have a fungus in my eyes. I grew up in Kansas and use to play in caves that had bats, and the cave happened to be close to a river. Sometimes I get blind spots, but they go away after a month or so. I'm only 34. Hoping I won't be blind by 40. Check this out http://www.stlukeseye.com/conditions/histoplasmosis.html

cabbeer · 9 months

I know someone who thinks floaters are cells (molecules) and that they can see them with their eye. They're in university (third year) for nursing.

[deleted] · 9 months

What is this supposed to be?

mowserhatesyou · 9 months

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Smorgo22 · 9 months

How do you get rid of these? Thinking of going in to get my eyes tested!

dreikelvin · 9 months

hey I am not looking at your boobs I'M JUST TRYING ah forget it.

F_A_F · 9 months

Am i the only one that doesn't get these!?!?

hakz · 9 months

I often get dark spots, and a dark flash across the corner of my eye. Annoying as hell

JordanLA · 9 months

I have never had this, not that i remember anyway ...... i want it -_-

beanster · 9 months

Close your eyes and move your eyes around beneath the lids. Works every time for me.

Ashesela · 9 months

Ugh these things are annoying. I also get dark spots in my vision (like one in my left eye just left to my central vision) that are always there but fade unless I'm really tired and then come back full force.

Thomas1122 · 9 months

I honestly thought, it was specks of dust and i was seeing light bend around it (like the double slit experiment). I would often give it as an example. I was so wrong.

BuckyDuster · 9 months

How the heck did you get a picture of that?

[deleted] · 9 months

did anybody else try and unhighlight the image??

sam_big_balls · 9 months

Fucking bane of my life

Hoobleton · 9 months

When I was 13 another 13 year old kid told me they were white blood cells that just chilled on your eyeballs, I didn't believe it at the time and I don't now, but I still don't have a better explanation.

TofuAttack · 9 months

i only noticed these when i was small and sitting on the toilet.

[deleted] · 9 months

i thought it was real... cuz my eyes followed it so perfectly lol

ogre13 · 9 months

Only 3? Lucky. Multiply that by about 50. F***ing HATE floaters.

itsronniek · 9 months

Definitely thought this was from looking at an eclipse in elementary school. Wow.

ZombieAcademy · 9 months

You ever look at a really bright light at night and see the shadow of the blood vessels over your retina? Now you will.

[deleted] · 9 months

I've never had these so I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about.

1337_beat · 9 months

I only see these assholes when I'm in a moving vehicle. Also whats up with seeing a whole bunch of silver/gray dots in my vision sometimes.

[deleted] · 9 months

This would make an awesome screensaver.

vileSpanishiwa · 9 months

These are the bane of my existence

omplatt · 9 months

saw it on tumblr first

callipygian_idealist · 9 months

Add in black spots from scarring, and white flashes racing across my field of vision, and you have my life. Oh, and -4.00 in both eyes.

Nick2the4reaper7 · 9 months

That just fucked my mind. Everytime I went to look at those, they moved....

dfgbfg · 9 months

I remember trying to explain them to my family, and they just thought I was imagining things. You don't know how much relief this makes me feel. XD

3DPipes · 9 months

But when you try to look at them, they go away. :(

MyNameIsChar · 9 months

Fuck you, bro.

tawayokay · 9 months

NOT READING THIS THREAD BECAUSE I'D RATHER REMAIN IGNORANT OF THE POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS I HAVE THAT COULD MAKE ME PERMANENCY BLIND, I'LL BE ON MY WAY.

WatermelonBread · 9 months

When I was a kid I thought they were fireworks from china.

stinkycrow · 9 months

david o'reillys take on it http://vimeo.com/1969730

JustyWayne · 9 months

Reddit always reminds me that I have no unique features.

Petomni · 9 months

Always reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TQs7_22CICI#t=42s

UncleDrunkle · 9 months

What causes that shit? I actually had thema lot as a kid and not anymore.

Not_Invited · 9 months

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THESE WERE BUBBLES. I NEVER QUESTIONED IT. I ALWAYS WANTED THE MYSTERY. GODDAMNIT.

mostexcellentben · 9 months

When I grow up I want to be an eye floaty.

LeRobot · 9 months

Nicely done. I'm fascinated with the way light travels through our eyes. I've tried to reproduce some of the effects we see through our eyes when we squint. Some samples here: http://utamoh.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/with-eyes-almost-closed/ P.S. Am I allowed to link to my own work?

NinjasAreStillCool · 9 months

I have spend a good amount of time learning to control them

wilkinsk · 9 months

MIND=FUCKED

bryanodoule · 9 months

Floaters in my eyes/ wake up in an hotel room

Angry__Jonny · 9 months

Multiply those by 10, that's what my eyes look like.

ostreatus · 9 months

I can finally look directly at them! Oh this is so satisfying.

shematic · 9 months

Semi-interesting factoid: these are the smallest thing you can see with the naked eye (because they are behind the lens).

DCM · 9 months

Here's a good song about chronic floaters

BisforBM · 9 months

Hello friends.

Swinly · 9 months

So... anyone have a floater shaped like a dick?

Jeroin · 9 months

I'm not alone!

scotthowardADTR · 9 months

Oh, Squiggly line.

cutti · 9 months

Floaters in my eyes. Wake up in the hotel room. Cigarettes and lies. I am a child; it's too soon.

Pookah · 9 months

Fuck you. Now I can't help but notice mine.

igotwaaaybaked · 9 months

This while you're baked. Trippy.

TheLongKnightofPizza · 9 months

I never noticed them before, but when I started tripping on mushrooms, I was left with permanently higher contrast vision - now I notice them whenever I have them.

Gills93 · 9 months

I could only see them when i looked into the sky during the day. So I thought i could see stars flying around during the day :S

blazedaze · 9 months

When I first noticed floaters as a kid I thought i could see living things in the air nobody else was capable of.

cwavrek · 9 months

how did they make that .gif though....

[deleted] · 9 months

fuck those dudes! always show up when I have to take a test or do something else that involves visual focus. I keep thinking, I'll look at you directly one time... hasn't happened yet.

woollymammal · 9 months

Am I the only one who does't experience this?

[deleted] · 9 months

I've been waiting years to hear that someone else sees these little eye fairies too!!

Krankenflegel · 9 months

floaters gonna float...

whitesox287 · 9 months

damn, i was looking for poop

LastUsername · 9 months

The worst part about these submissions is that it just reminds me to look at them for weeks later.

krixtia · 9 months

When I first noticed them as a kid I pretended they were the ghosts of dead worms floating up to heaven. lol

Dwarfio · 9 months

I have never seen these in my life and have no idea what anyone is talking about.

argh_minecraft · 9 months

oh god, fuck this.

LocheAndLoad · 9 months

http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/260x260/9398728.jpg

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