I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 4, but in the past ten years I’ve been experiencing floaters: bits of retina flesh that float in your eye, appearing like worms or threads, obscuring your vision. A couple of years ago it was so bad my vision was completely blurred, and I rushed (with the help of a friend) to my optometrist to see if I had a torn retina (a high possibility for myopic people). He said don’t worry about it; it happens with age, and given my poor vision, I’m more susceptible to floaters.
You might me able to see them if you close your eyes, or when you’re looking at a a cloudless sky or something with one colour, like a wall.
Here are some floater resources:
- Definitions of floaters on the Web
- The Floater Web: dedicated to informing visitors about floaters.
- Floaters Illustrated: a complete analysis of my floaters. I’ve tried to reproduce what I actually see. They have a gallery of pictures that users have submitted that try to depict what floaters look like.
- FAQ about Floaters
For some reason any time I think about my eyes I feel claustrophobic.
I have a floater that’s sort of down to the right of my field of vision, but I have to be looking at something dark then bright to see it, and it goes away after a second or so. Still, I hate it and punching it doesn’t seem to help, though it makes me feel better.
Having Floaters is like having a built-in video game in your eyes: you can move your eyes around to manipulate the floaters’ direction. I often try to make them collide, causing violent explosions.
That’d BE an interesting video game: Floaters. Maybe I’ll look into doing something in Flash.
I have a light brown dot that’s always there, regardless of what I’m looking at. It’s been there ever since I can remember. If I focus on an object, it still seems to move ever so slightly. Do you think it might be cancer?
So you guys would all just have no use for drugs, you are seeing things all the time anyway?
> you are seeing things all the time anyway
Yup. I often refer to them as UFOs, too: “There’s a lot of UFOs flying around today.”
I’ve had one prominant floater in my left eye for as long as I can remember.. and one day, the strangest thought went through my head. ‘I will never be alone, I always have this spot in my eye’.
lol, just thought I’d share.