These little bastards....

polerix · 6 months

You see the floaters you have your whole life. Want to see your eyeball guts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_W-IXqoxHA

spacergif · 6 months

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

and alternately, that I had eye-worms like that one episode of House

Indigoma · 6 months

Fucking floaters.. Just when you thought you won, they come right back >:(

bacon_cake · 6 months

So who else blinked or squinted after seeing that.

UnknownArchive · 6 months

Anyone seeking more info might also check here:

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
These little bastards... [x-post from /r/funny]	2^coms	1^pt	35^mins	gifs
Everytime I look at the sky...	620^coms	1230^pts	2^mos	pics
Floaters ... don't rub your eyes too hard! (xpost from r/pics) [gif]	53^coms	296^pts	3^mos	woahdude
floaters	78^coms	353^pts	3^mos	gifs
floaters	263^coms	942^pts	3^mos	pics
I wake up to this view every morning.	8^coms	26^pts	7^mos	pics
These fucking things are the bane of my existance....	526^coms	899^pts	11^mos	pics
Who else is tormented by these fucking things?	877^coms	1071^pts	4^mos	pics
Damn eye floaters are getting worse.	36^coms	344^pts	17^dys	funny

source: karmadecay

apathy641 · 6 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shoZNsawvmU&feature=related

acetylsalicylicacid · 6 months

I've spent half an hour trying to focus a microscope before only to realize I was staring at these damn things...

FrontmanKius · 6 months

For some reason I always used to think it was a superpower that allowed me to trace Santa. I was a strange child.

chuck001 · 6 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, 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 all right. You are forgiven. -- Stewie

ziggybiggnutts · 6 months

oh, squiggly line

piranhadub · 6 months

I haven't seen these in a long time, kinda forgot about em. And now here I am blinking my eyes and voila, they were here the whole time

andrewsmith1986 · 6 months

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

[deleted] · 6 months

large expanses of solid colors (especially white and baby blue) be damned

learningphotoshop · 6 months

I thought I was such a bad ass when I first used a microscope, "Come check out all the stuff on my slide".

NunsOnFire · 6 months

Is it weird that I never had floaters?

KINGKRONG · 6 months

They have never been more apparent than this moment . GET OUT OF MY EYEBALLS

BurnRaptor · 6 months

Mine are never lines, just circles.

elliotderp · 6 months

I always try to look at my floaters but they are aways just scooting to the right! Its like a permanent perif that you can't ever look right at!

Kinyin · 6 months

I've been dealing with these for a while. Only an issue with monitors and looking at the sky, for the most part, but considering both are frequent, it's become quite an issue.

TheContrarian2 · 6 months

I have them too and this GIF confused the hell out of me.

RawrCola · 6 months

So many people are freaking out about this. I've never had this before. I was more than confused after just looking at the picture.

OverPaidChimp · 6 months

I see little bubbles not lines

HonziPonzi · 6 months

am I the only one who DOESN'T see these?

spmason11 · 6 months

holy shit!! no one gets me like you do, reddit.

botchok5 · 6 months

I thought my eyes are like a miccroscope and I can see germs

Beakerv16 · 6 months

They are real! O.O

Deddan · 6 months

Does everyone get these? I don't think I've ever had it..

sokka_in_the_library · 6 months

I'm not alone..... :]

austinshootsshows · 6 months

Am I the only fucking person that has never had an eye floater????

Levitatingman · 6 months

what does it mean if you have never seen these? ever?

Samewrai · 6 months

I hate the long ones that look like they're tied in knots. Ruins every nice blue sky moment.

One of mine looks kinda like this: http://imgur.com/ZnA2e

OGrizzle · 6 months

What the fuck are they?

fressh · 6 months

I got to be honest.. I thought these things were Atoms, and I had a secret power to see them. My world was shattered in 6th grade when I learned everyone one else could see them....

johnnydee5 · 6 months

It's Actually completely normal, your veins in your eyes are in front of the lens that sees everything, all the red blood cells absorb the light and are invisible to us, we get the occasional white blood cell that goes through, they reflect blue light, making them visible.. so when we look at the sky we are seeing the white blood cells and the path they are taking in our veins of our eyes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkUwogWzSwk

dxm315 · 6 months

Cause is here: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/what-causes-eye-floaters/

BackslashEcho · 6 months

WAIT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE THIS

kim2892 · 6 months

when I was little and I saw those, I used to tell my mum I see angels. She thought something was mentally wrong with me... sad times

SirCrocodile · 6 months

that is the jizz of a ninja

BantamBasher135 · 6 months

no

NO

This time I downvote you, you motherfuckers!

smileyme · 6 months

Proteins inside your eyes. :-) No microscope needed. http://www.visionweb.com/content/consumers/dev_consumerarticles.jsp?RID=32

ThePiderman · 6 months

THAT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE ONE I HAVE

techh · 6 months

Tried to explain this to my mother when i was a kid. I'm pretty sure she thought i was crazy.

Nathannlax · 6 months

Oh Squiggly Line

XeonProductions · 6 months

Uhhhh... I have these all the time. I thought maybe I had some sort of degenerative eye disease and I'm too afraid to get it checked out.

I really hate getting bad news about my health :-(.

FrostFire626 · 6 months

Finally, confirmation that I'm not insane.

munch112000 · 6 months

They're commonly referred to as "floaters". Your eyes are filled with this jelly like stuff with liquidy goop floating around. These floaters happen when some of that goopy stuff solidifies on the inside membrane of your eye. They break off and float around with the shifting movement of your body. They suck and will be there for the rest of your lives. Theres also times when you can mistake them for the little airbubbles that form over your eye sometimes when you blink

condor85 · 6 months

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

egregious_chag · 6 months

If you hang your head and look straight down, I've found that you can actually focus on them. I was actually able to watch one twist around and change it's perceived shape that way.

tomjenks1 · 6 months

ive had a pretty bad case of floaters since ive been 8 years old. i constantly have 1-2 dozen in my field of view at all times. it doesnt help that every classroom is pure white :(

hluduzit · 6 months

A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

Caesar_Epicus · 6 months

EYE FLOATERS

nemomnemosyne · 6 months

I've got a question I hope someone will be able to answer. I understand these are called floaters and are dust particulates that come in contact with the fluid over your eyes, but I experience something else when I look at the blue sky.

I can only really explain it as a bunch of tiny disorganized moving ''dots''. They don't have a color I can really name with any certainty, and though they're great in number, I can only really focus on one at a time and even then for a very short amount of time. I can't explain how tiny these things I see might be, just that they are almost pinprick if not smaller in size.

Anyone know what the hell this is called?

jdtwins2009 · 6 months

Mushi are real!

Chr1chton · 6 months

These little reposts... Downvote this shit.

Klinefelter · 6 months

So these are called vitreous floaters. The vitreous is the largest section in your eye and basically gives the eye it's large round shape. It's the fluid/gel like material in front of your retina. It is full of hyaluronic acid and collagen. What you are seeing is bundles of collagen (so it's a completely entoptic phenomenom). Your eye is pretty good at filtering out most of these (especially when light hits the floaters perpendicular) but when light at an angle hits these, your eye is not so good at filtering them and you see these floaters.

These are completely normal and almost everyone has them. The only time you should be concerned is if you notice a sudden increase in the amount of floaters you see or if they are accompanied by flashes of light. These can range from a fairly harmless posterior vitreous detachment to serious retinal detachments.

source: iama optometry student

p.s. man it feels good knowing this stuff without looking up wikipedia lol

shzadh · 6 months

Isn't there a clip of family guy about this?

[deleted] · 6 months

I noticed these "floaters" more after I tripped on LSD when I was in high school. I also have one that is a tiny dark spot. I read that you can get them removed.

justjumpit · 6 months

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!!!

awesomeman91 · 6 months

I've never experienced this.

Peekee · 6 months

HOW DID YOU CATCH THEM ON FILM!

MysteryFro · 6 months

I have a ton of shit in my eyes, but when i walk around i pretend its my HUD and imagine different things all over my field of view.

MrsSalmalin · 6 months

They are very annoying when using a microscope. :(

TundraTheMedlabPony · 6 months

They're actually coagulated fluid from the inside of your eye casting shadows on your retina.

The more you know

cyber_dude · 6 months

WAIT! So you mean I'm not a biological superorganism?

[deleted] · 6 months

TRY TO CATCH EM!

hess411 · 6 months

I love that every time this is reposted even the comments seem like reposts.

SippinOnaTallBoy · 6 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, 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 allright. You are forgiven.

LudwigVonMeatwagon · 6 months

You can see them better, and multiple layers of goodness, if you squint your eyes 95.7% shut and stare directly at a light. Crack your eyes just enough to let some of the light through your eyelashes.

candl · 6 months

I have a lot of floaters in my eyes. I remember them ever since I was a kid in elementary school. It's difficult to say whether any of them disappear over time. The bigger ones I had for years. Some fraction of them moved a bit to the side of my eyes so they are not as annoying as they used to be.

Most of the floaters I have are not as transparent as the one in the gif animation. (Although I have a few of these too). They have a lot of dots, circles, lines that are inside of them. I made a very simplified version in PS (In reality they are more complex) http://i40.tinypic.com/sxoi3d.jpg The circles seen inside look more of less like this (depending on the floater, they are more blurred, or more detailed): http://i44.tinypic.com/29opbif.jpg

As a matter of fact the circles seem to be almost everywhere, but most of them are in the background, so they are barely visible, whatever the fluid in the eyes is, it's made of it.

Fun fact I noticed: If you have very moist eyes, especially if you were crying you can squint your eyes (Actually, doing it woth one eye works best, just keep the other one closed) and look at a light source. By adjusting your eyelid you can try to catch more focus, and the tears in your eyes can act as a magnifying glass. Often times I can manage to get a good look at the circles http://i44.tinypic.com/29opbif.jpg. It's quite creepy, they are floating everywhere etc.

KD87 · 6 months

Fuck dude! This is awesome! I really really thought I was the only one and didn't bother telling anyone about it thinking they would think I was weird or stupid. I used to think I was able to see tiny water molecules on the periphery of my vision (I'm 24 now). I know there are too many posts on here, but thank you so much for this post. I read some of the other replies by people with links on what they actually are and stuff. haha.. Nice start to the evening on reddit.:)

jms3r · 6 months

erm... what is this supposed to be?

MikeTheInfidel · 6 months

This GIF is pretty ingenious. My eyes actually tracked them like they were really in my eye.

cum_on_qwerty · 6 months

These are called Entoptic phenomena.

Also, this may interest some people who are curious about relationships between entoptic phenomena, art, and shamanism.

DulcisLuna · 6 months

I stared at each one of them for a full fucking minute. Those were some damn satisfying minutes.

KrNy · 6 months

Okay... so i've been reading for a while now... Can't find what it ACTUALLY is...

I use to be able to see them whenever I wanted to... When I was like 10ish.

Now I don't see them anymore... or cant remember how to do it.

Anyone else also use to do the... "make the lights streak" game?

I would squint my eyes while in the car (back seat... not that it matters... i was a kid)... Then every light I passed by would "streak"... dunno if thats the right word. But like think of tron motorcycles... Having the tail and what not... I could make a bunch of lights all follow one point... if that makes sense...

I can still do it with lights... cant see the squiggleys nemore..

iGotChubs4You · 6 months

Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid...

supabilly · 6 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7_al4mrfg Relevant Family Guy joke

henrythegentlecreep · 6 months

HOLY SHIT i thought i was the only one, my mind has been blown

PATATAMOUS · 6 months

OMFG I'M NOT ALONE!

tazcel · 6 months

Relevant: these are called eye floaters.
Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/eye-floaters/DS01036 Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters

They are known to be deadly - 99% of the ppl affected die within 70-80 years at most. some of them much earlier...

cmatt010 · 6 months

Am I the only one who has no clue what the fuck this is? I've never seen squiggly lines? Explain?

Sprozz · 6 months

When I explain these to people they think Im insane.

xsparkyx · 6 months

"Oh squiggly lines in my eye"-Stewie Griffin

Kmartrules · 6 months

I have these really badly that they can affect my vision, I have about 5 of the "big" ones like this image and then a lot of space between them is just sort of hazy like a lot of small ones. Really sucks.

DamnSpamFilter · 6 months

i love reposts. i actually do

theStalker411 · 6 months

You see this too?I thought I was the only one.

moistrubber · 6 months

How the hell did you take that photo?

funny

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