They'd just appear out of nowhere

https://lemmy.world/post/34625763

Slightly different but similar and related:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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.