rkcurioThey'd just appear out of nowhere
Gradually_AdjustingReal life needs better writing
i got a floater in my eye
SonotsugipaaBeats “miodesopsia” from my language
The Germans calk them "flying mosquito's"
In Australia we call them eye snags
I had some since childhood and as a child trying to explain these to people lead nowhere, and I just thought I had something nobody else had. Then, years later, the internet came, and some random post like this came, and I went holy shit! It was amazing to finally know what it was and that they really aren’t a big deal.
They’re not a big deal unless you get a lot of them all of a sudden. Then it’s an emergency.
LuouthHaving an astigmatism that changes really frequently means I notice these more obviously within months of changing my prescription. Fuck these things!
wait does it mean my prescription needs changing? i dont know if i read that right
Near-sightedness makes you more likely to notice them, but I don't think it's a serious sign of anything unless you're seeing them so much that it's a problem. They're always there in healthy eyes, your brain just tunes them out most of the time. I would assume that changes in the way your eye focusses - either because of a change in the actual eye like the person above describes or because of a change in the prescription of glasses changing the light that enters your eye - just makes it more likely for your brain to not tune them out because they suddenly look a bit different to what your brain got used to
This! Thanks a lot for the explanation. My optician spouse explained it like to me too
For some reason this comment is what made me finally realise that I haven't seen floaters since I stopped needing glasses
Huh … I never noticed that I stopped noticing my floaters after getting glasses. When you have something like that for decades, you stop actively seeing those things.
SamsyEye-Tapeworms better see a doctor.
That’d be more likely filariasis, an infection caused by a subgroup of nematodes, like roundworms.
Tapeworms are entirely different animals and I don’t think they’d survive in the eyes.
Of course, they don’t look like that because you can see the actual worm moving around the eyeball of that were the case.
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I was just making bad jokes, but thx for the facts.
This is not inside your eye, it’s outside out there. Please, do not ignore it and write to your FBI agent immediately
CileTheSaneIf you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
Is that from Welcome to Nightvale?
Eyeworms. Villagers get them from touching raw meat then rubbing their eyes. It’s only a matter of time before the worms burrow into your brain. Then you shit yourself and die in a most embarassing way.
At least I won’t have to deal with the mess.
That sounds right. No wonder I’ve been repeatedly shitting myself everywhere I go…
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I have a lot of these because I’ve had numerous eye surgeries and they’re ultimately just gunk in the vitreous fluid of the eye. I wish there was a way that they could drain, filter, and replace your vitreous fluid when it gets like mine. Like an eyeball oil change. There’s not though, as far as I know.
A tip: if you suddenly see a ton more of these get it checked out asap, especially if you are very near sighted
Everytime I see this warning, I become hyper aware of every single one and it freaks me out.
If it makes you feel any better you’ll know when it happens, they increase by a lot. If they increase noticeably you should get it checked out but if it increases so substantially that you’re like man what the hell is going on then you need emergency care, basically, but also you can’t really miss it?
TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾I know someone who got a vitrectomy for his eye floaters, and I’ve been considering doing the same when I can afford it
There actually is. I have looked into it before because I have a lot of floaters, but have never had surgery. The risk and downtime with the surgery is pretty high, so it’s usually not recommended.
caseyweedermanThis but for tinnitus too please
Someone in my family had a double retinal detachment and the surgeon asked if he wanted his floaters removed while they were in there putting things back together. It’s apparently possible because he has no more floaters.
KokeshIt’s bacteria eating your optical nerves
hope theyre having fun :D
sp3ctr4lSlightly different but similar and related:
I believe this is another related, simililar, yet technically different phenomenon, with different causal mechanisms, but yes, lets keep adding to the list, lol.
Also, brb, you’ll never believe this, apparently my pizza delivery guy’s name is ‘Hiro Protagonist’, he’s almost here, and I gotta ask him what is up with that name.
MinnesotaGoddamdude he has your pizza. he’s a fucking hero don’t you forget it
Visual snow is different, it’s constant and looks more like tv static or film grain, fun stuff, not.
I didn’t realise these were white blood cells. Thanks for the read.
Always wondered what this was called. 8 get this often in winter, less during summer. Really puzzled me the first few times it happened, I just figured I was getting diabetes.
Basically, lighting conditions have to be just right to … basically, allow you to actually see your own white blood cells, in your own eyes, against the … background/everything you are seeing.
So my guess would be that in the summer, where you are, the … ambient light of the sky is too bright, it overwhelms this effect, but in the winter, maybe its mote generally humid, or the light is coming through more atmosphere , at morr oblique angles, and is thus less intense.
I most commonly see these these when I have a migraine, really bad sneezes, or I flick my eyes or move my head quickly. I’ve heard it’s fine unless you see a bug chunk at the same time as that could be a sign the retina has broken or come loose?
The dots are white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of the retina of the eye.
From the wiki page.
So, yeah, it makes sense that very similar or even just the same effect can be intensified by all those things you mention, they all alter the motion of blood in your eyes.
As to a big chunk moving?
I am not an eye expert, but I would intuitively think that yes, a big splotch moving could be the retina itself moving… but it could also potentially be something like a clot in one of those capillaries breaking loose… which is probably still bad, but maybe not necessarily as bad?
You sure you don’t have high blood pressure?
I mean, now maybe, lol, but I noticed this as a middle schooler, and I was in pretty good shape back then… and I still have the exact same experience to this day, in the right lighting conditions, if I can just sit or stand still and look at a mostly cloudless sky.
Random_Character_AI got few permanent ones.
When I was a kid I played geologist and crushed rocks with a large iron hammer. Few of the metal splinters that ended in eyeballs left a mark that is still visible today when I look at the sky.
Not actually floaters, I know.
I got one or two from looking at the sun for no reason when I was a kid
god I was dumb
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You can still be dumb if you wanted to!
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Nope but I see these when I’m getting a optical migraine.
Yikes, you’re actually seeing that?
Yeah and it has the best name, Scintillating Scotoma. The first time I experienced one it was terrifying.
Yeah, that names sounds about right for what you’re describing
I occasionally get them and mine feel more black & white than color, the the jagged shape and the arc around the center of your vision is spot on.
And remember the jagged arc is always in your peripheral vision. You can’t look directly at it and study the details because it moves when your eyes do.
This is what I have. I’ve had them my whole life.
banazirWell, yes and no. It’s kind of an area you can’t see, but it’s there. Also, it starts as a small dot and them starts expanding/moving. It’s also flashing, kind of like static noise on an old TV. Luckily those things usually last like 15 minutes or so. Still, not a fun experience.
NovalingI don’t know what it was like when my sister was young, but I also got occular migraines as a kid, and it’d be like a static spot in my vision where things just disappear behind it. Once that static appeared, I only had 10-20 mins or so before an awful headache would set off, and I ended up needing meds for it. They went away after 13 though.
Yeah I get those every once in awhile, it starts with a blurry spot in the middle of my vision (like if I'm reading something, half of the word is blurred out no matter where I look) then half an hour later it goes away but is replaced with a migraine that lasts a few hours. Taking a bunch of ibuprofen helps. I've noticed it usually happens when I overexert myself without drinking enough water. Also seems to happen more in cold weather, like maybe it's something about breathing cold dry air. Luckily it's not chronic, it only happens once a year or so, but often enough to recognize the pattern.