How many of us can see "floaters"?

ayePALINDROMEeye · 12 days

I thought everyone had them?

Geothst · 12 days

When I was in middle school I got something in my eye during class and my teacher refused to let me go to the nurse to wash my eye out. The debris scratched my cornea and I had to wear an eye patch for weeks. I saw a scar across my vision that looked a lot like the GIF for a long time. It was everywhere I looked. It eventually healed over time.

zephyr21 · 12 days

Anyone ever see black floaters?

BagOnuts · 12 days

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.

Rommel79 · 12 days

I can and it sucks.

prettycoolbro · 12 days

For some people, like myself, floaters are not just a mere nuisance - they are a life-altering disease. I see hundreds of floaters in cascading layers every waking hour of my life. There is finally a name for this disease: Degenerative Vitreous Syndrome. After being ignored for years by the medical community, doctors and researches are finally taking notice. Now there is even a charity organization dedicated to this cause. Check it out here - http://oneclearvision.org/

New studies have indicated that many people would rather have HIV or take years off their life than suffer daily from DVS. That's not a joke. The number one symptom, after blurred vision of course, is depression. Many of you might not understand, but severe floaters can sap the life out of you.

LucidDream_ · 12 days

I've always thought that I had super vision and could see germs.

CrimsonChamorro · 12 days

we all float down here

chardson · 12 days

I see them less than once a month. I like trying to toss them high enough so I can actually focus on them.

Thennn · 12 days

HEY! does anyone else see little glowing moving dots when they do something that requires some sort of exertion like taking a mad shit? Little glowing moving dots, as in "seeing stars"? or do i have cancer?

das_baus · 12 days

After have LASIK performed on both of my eyes, a large amount of collagen fibrin were dislodged and float around in the vitreous cavity of my eye. I see what is in that pic, but by about x10 at any given time. It has severely effected my life and takes the joy out of almost everything.

Papa_Fisticuffs · 12 days

I suffered a detached retina one time that caused maybe a hundred or so to appear in my left eye. Now that it's been repaired the floaters are basically gone, but I get faint flashes of light to the rythym of my heartbeat when I'm in a dimly lit room.

sg92i · 12 days

I get floaters from my chronic migraines. You think that's bad you should see some of the other crazy visual disturbances I get from them after my TBI. You remember how passive matrix color screens would get horizontal lines of screwed up pixels if you drop an old laptop? My sight does that now. The "brightness" will also randomly start strobing as if someone keeps changing a gamma setting in a game, only IRL. Then there's the flashes of light... I was laying in bed, in a room of total darkness and all of a sudden it looked like a nuclear bomb detonated to my left and I saw a giant flash of light. But it's all in my head.

kapherine · 12 days

I see it in the gif...but not in real life. I feel like I'm missing out. I don't know what y'all are talking about. :(

pantsants · 12 days

Once in biology class we were asked to look through a microscope and draw what we saw. I didn't see anything except these floaters in my eyes, so I thought that was what we were supposed to be looking at. I spent a long time sketching them nicely, but in the end my bio teacher gave me a C on that lab report. She was a bitch.

0A- · 12 days

From the thumnail, I expected a piece of poo moving up and down in a murky swimming pool....uh.....but yes, I also can see those wierd squiggly things.

LouisTheCat · 12 days

On top of floaters, when I stare into the sky I see small things "swimming". They are very small, move really fast but for very short lengths. Any ideas? Seen them my entire life.

RenoSingapore · 12 days

I see these fuckers all the time, annoying as all hell. They are cells that detach from the inside lining of the eye and just float freely in the jelly like interior of the eye. They can be brought about by an infection in the eye (pink eye) or you can just be naturally born with them. At least that is what I can remember from what the eye doc told me years ago (can't remember word for word but that's the just of it). Either way they suck donkey balls.

tommy667 · 12 days

I recently had PRK where they shoot you in the face with lasers. Anyways they reshape/remove thin layer of your eye and bam removing a lifetime of floaters as well

Tatious · 12 days

All. The. Damn. Time.

panickingman55 · 12 days

This made me want to adjust the microscope...

destroyer713 · 12 days

Onset floaters in middle aged folks can usually be attributed to the vitreous solidifying and pulling away from the back of the eye.

If you suddenly develop them it is a good idea to see an eye doctor just to have it evaluated. As we age the vitreous can pull away from the retina at the back of the eye. This is called a posterior vitreous detachment. Sometimes when this happens the vitreous pulls the retina with it and this is called a retinal detachment. A retinal detachment shows as a curtain or a partial blacking out of your vision and needs to be treated as an emergency situation if you value your vision.

While a posterior vitreous detachment is almost always benign it can also be a precursor to to a retinal detachment, hence the suggestion that it is a good idea to have your eyes checked by a doctor. If you develop floaters, get to know a qualified eye doctor. Even if you have perfect vision its always a good idea to get your eyes checked every couple of years.

I have floaters as well as pigmentary glaucoma. I see an eye doctor every 6 months.

SpaseCace · 12 days

BRAIN WORMS

red321red321 · 12 days

i love how i'm never the only one on reddit no matter what

eman462 · 12 days

what I really want to ask is that while rubbing your eyes for a while do you see a circle like thing withe a hole in the middle that changes color and moves around ( this happens while you are rubbing your eyes)

sexrockandroll · 12 days

I see these whenever I kind of try to look for them.

moyerxx · 12 days

thank god for reddit, because this whole time i thought i had worms in my eyeballs

glitchcannon · 12 days

OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THEM?? I always thought I had scratched my eye as a child and was fucked for the rest of my life. Thank you reddit for making me feel like a normal human being.

NoNotHimAgain · 12 days

My floaters looked exactly like Snooki and The Situation. I no longer have eyes.

BoomerDoomer · 12 days

I always wondered how many other people could see these. I kind of like them.

Showercapper · 12 days

I see them too damnit

iwffe · 12 days

If u look up down left then right like a cross it will give short term releif.... You are welcome

ElderBowlsV · 12 days

the other day i went to pee in my friends bathroom and saw one. this one was brown though..

Jesse_J · 12 days

If you see a shower of floaters and spots though you should seek medical attention immediately. That could mean that the vitreous is pulling away from your retina or that the retina itself is becoming dislodged from the inner back of the eye. Google 'vitreous detachment'.

JamersonRosenburg · 12 days

I see them. When i eat magic mushrooms, I see them WAAAAY more clearly for the following weeks. I wonder if its because of the pupil dilation that takes place during the high.

yourafagyourafag · 12 days

Every time I take a shit.

Anaract · 12 days

I've had the exact same floaters all my life. I don't know if everyone is that way.

skm0525 · 12 days

I remember the exact moment I realized that this didn't happen to everyone.... me and my friends were having a conversation about relatable quirks we deal with in life circa middle school, and I was like "yeah omg do you guys ever get those little lines in your eyes?? i love when you like look really fast in one direction and they speed up and then when you squint they get all defined!!" The conversation just ended and everyone just stared at me until one kid was just like "no." .. commence even further middle school uncomfortableness

bandit69 · 12 days

I have a LOT of them due to a partially detached retina. It amazes me that with all of the medical advances, there's really nothing that they can do about this.

Note: Apparently, they can drain the eye fluid and replace it with a saline solution, but that's really not a very good alternative.

StewieBanana · 12 days

So seriously, what the fuck are those things?

Kalypso_ · 12 days

I do but I also have little black dots that float around there as well. When I get bored or tipsy I watch them. I have also learned how to fling them around Hehe.

ziggy_fapps · 12 days

When I was a little kid, I thought I had the ability to see invisible worm aliens floating around in the air. I was pretty disappointed when I found out many years later hat it was just my eyes fucking with me. Fuck you, eyes.

thehangoverer · 12 days

I see those and millions of tiny dots when it's dark and you know how you close one eye and open the other like camera 1 and 2 from Waynes world I can do that with both my eyes open and also have my have a lazy eye on command and sleep with my eyes open

abraxasnl · 12 days

I have it too, but what is it? Scarred cornea? Does it go away? Can Lasik fix it? Enough questions for today, and I already know the answer: fucking google it. Today is lazy day though. My god is it hot in this town.

Morgzillas · 12 days

I see them all the damn time, mostly they look like little bubbles. I also have a fairly large/unmoving spot, about a centimeter round. It looks like constant moving oil inside of it, transparent, I've had it for about 6 months now. I have NO idea how I got it or what it is. Woke up one morning and it looked like an area full of moving tiny black specs, a week later, the transparent oil.

SirKrimzon · 12 days

Can someone please explain to me what this is scientifically? Ive been trying to find an answer all my life.

McStabYou · 12 days

GAH! I THOUGH THOSE WHERE REAL!!

acd238 · 12 days

Funny story actually. Once when I was younger I had play-date at a playground with a close friend and we were having a merry time. As the day progressed I found myself looking up at the clear, halcyon sky and noticed small "worm-like" creatures floating around in my vision. This intrigued so much that I couldn't even be bothered to look down at the slide I was about to run into. I fractured my shin. I didn't even get to go get the ice cream I'd been promised earlier.

Atheiholic · 12 days

Doesn't everybody see floaters? I named mine

vseules · 12 days

I get these whenever I look into the blue sky. I tried explaining what they were to some coworkers but they didn't get it. Does anyone have the medical name for these?

Bplus_Asian · 12 days

Well, maybe i'll look over here!

I'll go over here!

you_lose_ · 12 days

I see them all the time but what are they?

DropShotter · 12 days

I tried describing these to my wife and she didnt know wtf I was talking about. i see them evert day and sometimes its all i can focus on. Thanks making me not feel insane reddit. You're the best

Dat_Karmavore · 12 days

"Like this if you've ever seen these little things"

These kinds of posts are stupid.

sassy_lion · 12 days

I've had them since I was a little kid. I never knew what they were and they never really bothered me.

I panicked the fuck out though the time I saw the House episode where the kid had worms in his eyes because it seemed like the shots inside the kid's eye were just like my fucking floaters.

wren42 · 12 days

Yep. Not only that, I have a perpetual uniform transparent field of flickering "static" or tiny starbursts that has never been diagnosed. Anyone else experience that?

Rios5 · 12 days

Holy shit! I thought I was the only person who saw these things! I thought they were microbes or bacteria.. Also they showed up Best when my eyes were unfocused and I didn't have my glasses on.

MisterMarijuana · 12 days

I first notice them when I was 4, and when I tried explaining it, everyone acted like I was crazy... It was the 'Family Guy' episode that made me realize that others see it too.

radamesort · 12 days

I see these and also have Blue field entoptic phenomenon

mysticrudnin · 12 days

Related: How many of you guys see everything with a "static" (like on a tv) glaze?

I've learned I'm not the only one, but few people talk about it or mention it, so I feel it might be rare.

Locutus-of-Borg · 12 days

I see dead people.

pygarthepillager · 12 days

Since I was a kid. I just thought it was some kind of useless super power...

TheMythicalBeast · 12 days

YES! I would always play games with them when I was in the back seat of cars. For example, i'd try to make them hit the ground then back to the sky without hitting a building or tree. I was strange....very strange....

ogicex · 12 days

It's epithelial tissue that has "sluffed" off the inner eye. It floats around until it gets removed from the eye. More will continue to break away as time goes on. It's normal. You're not dying. Yet.

optimusxrae · 12 days

I made the mistake of looking at all the links in the comments.

slapmesilly69 · 12 days

Holy fuck!!!! I didn't know other people had these! I thought my eyes were goin bad!

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