I know they are not parasites, but what are they? Strings of dead cells? Dead optical nerve? Any biologists here?
If it’s a persistent pattern, it’s likely to just be variation in the density of the vitreous humor (eye jelly).
Not a biologist but it’s called blue light entoptic phenomenon. Pretty interesting in general.
Wouldn’t these be floaters?
Hmm it says they’re proteins… I wonder how many times magnification it has to be for it to appear the same size as a tree.
It depends on the tree, obviously.
Or how close to your eye to give the perspective of the same size?
“These are small … but the ones out there are far away.”
For anyone too lazy to look:
Some may be individual red blood cells swollen due to osmotic pressure. Others may be chains of red blood cells stuck together; diffraction patterns can be seen around these. Others may be “coagula of the proteins of the vitreous gel, to embryonic remnants, or the condensation round the walls of Cloquet’s canal” that exist in pockets of liquid within the vitreous.
I see that sometimes when I cough or sneeze too hard.
That’s a different phenomenon from the picture. The picture shows a body in the vitreous jelly. The article you linked is a “brain filling in gaps” phenomenon.
Still, very cool article. I had never read about that.
Fascinating
i only ever see these when i look up at the sky
I work at a specialized manufacturer, and we have a light table for inspecting parts. If you look at the table surface you’ll find floaters you didn’t even know about. It’s freaky how many there are.
Oh squiggly line, I see you there in the periphery of my vision
Bro what I tought i was the only one I even went to a lot of doctors and took tons of supplements Tf is it
My eye doctor calls them “floaters”. They’re pretty common from how the Dr talks about them. Dr says come in if there’s suddenly a spike in them. I gather that’s a sign something bad is happening with the eye.
I got hit in the eye (long story short, my cousin learned to throw cards like Gambit and nailed me straight in the eye).
I was seeing flashes so went to an eye doctor, and they warned me of retinal detachment. Aside from the flashes, a sudden increase in floaters is another warning sign.
So he figured out how fo throw the cards, but has pisspoor aim. Yeah I have a cousin who was like that.
I got a sudden spike in floaters… Fun fact: Retinal repair is a lot like spot welding… If you’re spot welding the back of your eye with a laser!
Yeah afaik it’s just normal dead cells but if there’s loads it’s a sign that things are falling apart.
Visual snow syndrome. Yeah, the fussy tv static you also see? Ain’t normal and also part of it. You likely have constant ringing in your ears? Tinnitus is almost always linked with VSS.
That’s a different thing. Floaters are objects in your vitreous humor.
That’s my kind of humor!
I have a plethora of oddities but no static vision (sometimes a buzz in the ear but like a strong buzz, rarely btw). No tinnitus or at least I think so, maybe i am just used
Those tiny tubes are normal to be in your eye but you usually don’t notice them (they are body cells or proteins). Only when you are looking at something bright (eg. a completely white wall) do you see them. If you regularly see them and they dont go away if the room is less well lit then you should get it checked out though.
Blood vessels in your eye
HOW DID YOU TAKE THAT PHOTO
Eyeballcam
I thought I was just weird.
Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you aren’t weird.
Floaters are one thing, but what about the internal electric / static activity you can see, what is that called? I was always way more intrigued by that than some eyeball sludge.
Do you see a reflection of neural activity or something? Just like floaters they’re only visible when looking at larger plain things with 1 colour. They seem projected, and less obvious than the floaters but more common in your whole view.
Did you mean this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
Cheers from me also, always wondered what this was.
Awesome, thanks, exactly that!
Visual snow. I have it too. Really sucks when I want to look at the stars.
I had cataracts done, have tons of floaters. Also makes it almost impossible to follow a golf ball in flight. I used to play, but got fed up not having a clue where I had hit the damned ball.
Do you get diagnosed for that? I am pretty sure I have that. I will talk about it to my optometrist the next visit. I thought that was my vision degrading as I aged, but the intensity of it varies with fatigue, stress and migraines.
Mine disappeared as I got older, like around 25 or so. Now if they or similar visual effects come back it means I need to rush for my migraine pills or I’m in for some serious ass whopping… Don’t know what I did to my old friends to deserve that kind of treatment.
Maybe your vision got worse enough to where you can’t see them well enough anymore
Unlikely, perfect 20/20 vision last check-up (which I did due to said migraines to rule out deteriorating vision as a cause).
Oh wow I used to see those all the time when I was younger but it’s been years lol!
Yet one more victim of climate change
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The first snowfall of this year made me realize the extent to which I have an entire fucking universe within me. Mostly in my eyeballs, apparently. So many white backdrops to highlight them. It was alarming.
Awwww man. I just now realized that my little eye buddies disappeared at some point. Wonder where they went. I hope it was on vacation.
I forgot about them.
Everyone on here talking about theirs going away over time and I’m wondering if I’m supposed to go in for regular scraping as I get older
Think thry never go away but your brain ignores them like it ignores your nose (close one eye)
Mine often become visible to me shortly before experiencing a migraine. Is there a reason for this? I’ve told my doctor, but they didn’t seem to react to this information much, just said it can happen.
Not sure about seeing floaters before migraines, but what you see could be migraine auras. I have them and they affect my field of vision prior to a migraine. I’ll see flashy/persistent “dots” or completely be unable to focus on certain things, like I have a blind spot. Hate it, but it at least gives me time to grab meds before the pain sets in. Usually happens ~20-60 minutes before onset.
Mine look like what’s in the picture, but they’re sparkly. And yeah, sometimes they’re so bad they disrupt my vision, but not always.
Joke’s on you, my nose covers half of my view on both eyes.
Them going away is probably an illusion, probably a result of sensory adaptation.
They’re little bits of debris and fibrous points in the gel matrix of your eye. They don’t go away ever, but they float to a part of your eye you don’t pay as much attention to. They tend to “go away” in people who consistently sleep on the same side. If you’re a back sleeper, or move around a lot, they tend to stick near your macula (your main focal point).
When I run ocular scans on people I can see them drifting around. They’re not a problem unless they’re dense or dark, then they might be blood due to a retinal tear or diabetic retinopathy.
So, in theory, I should be able to get in one of these centrifuges that NASA has, and they’ll all get pushed to one side?
Among other things, yes
I’ve got some childhood trauma associated with those things that always reminds me of the taste and texture of a mouth full of dirt.
So, uh… trigger warning?
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If nobody got me, I know the floaters and searing, incapacitating pain on the sides of my head got me
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