Floaters.

[JR77]

Does anyone ever see these? I think they are called "floaters" - but when it is really bright out you look straight ahead and it looks like little cells floating around...like a circle with a dot inside it. I have seen them my whole life - and I always thought that they were actual cells...I was curious and very stoned the other day and did some searching online and a lot of other people see them, too! Weird!!!

[savagepossum]

i've seen many floaters :)

[gabee42ee]

i thought floaters or floaties as i like to call them were those nasty pieces of food that come from backwash ... gross

[affasd]

sometimes ive seen like little white dots floating around

[pabloescobar209]

I see floaters sometimes but mine look like a cluster of worms

[cygnustaxt]

yeah i always see them.

[GHoSToKeR]

Yeah, they're weird huh? What exactly are they?

[rebgirl420]

haha its the shadow people!

[Bree1978]

There are actually two things you are talking about. Sometimes you can actually see dust particles floating around in a stream of light. The other is 'seeing stars'. This happens when you get up too fast and your blood sugar is low (dizziness accompanies stars). It can happen when you get hit in the head as well....remember the cartoons caricatures having birds or stars flying around thier heads after getting hurt?
Mine look like worms sometimes too. Sometimes just dots of light.

And I always call unchewed food in drinks floaties...yuck.

:jointsmile: Bree

[Plastic Jesus]

um... i think they have to do with the optical fluid in your eye. I was recently diagnosed with glaucoma.... I have had many eye dr visits latley

[partcleguy]

Yeah, I've seen them too. If you look at a bright purple light (I did it at one of those science exhibits at a museum) you can see hundreds of them. Apparently they're embryonic remnants floating in the fluid of your eye. Presumably from dead cells/forming cells.

Floater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters)

[rebgirl420]

um... i think they have to do with the optical fluid in your eye. I was recently diagnosed with glaucoma.... I have had many eye dr visits latley

You really have glaucoma..or is that your excuse? haha ;)

[Plastic Jesus]

I really do Reb. I have had one Laser surgery already and have another on Thursday, other eye!

[Bree1978]

Here is another infomative site about floaters, seeing stars. Eye Floaters and Seeing Spots in the Eye - AllAboutVision.com (http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloats.htm)

Good Luck Plastic Jesus, with your next surgery.
Bree

[rebgirl420]

I really do Reb. I have had one Laser surgery already and have another on Thursday, other eye!

ohhh hun, im sorry! I hope you get well soon after the surgery!

[Diary of a Madman]

thats so strange.....I've seen them my whole life and assumed if I told anyone else that I could see microscope vision they would punch me in the dick. I can see them really good outside looking at blue sky.

And everyone knows a floater is a turd that has boiancy and wont flush......sorry ladies.

[smoke it]

if i squint my eyes i see them

[JR77]

And everyone knows a floater is a turd that has boiancy and wont flush......sorry ladies.

GROSS!!! You guys always crack me up - I can't believe there is actually a name for the food pieces floating around in a drink!

[rebgirl420]

OMG thats so icky!

[robert42]

got one in my toilet right now

[halfassedjediknight]

in high school there was this narc that would walk all floaty like.

we called him floater.

but i know what your talking about with the eyes.

[4gan2ja0]

yeah i know what you mean, i thought i was always alone seeing them

[O' Cannabis]

Sometimes i see those when I close my eyes. It's pretty trippy sometimes they go like green and red and stuff.

[Skink]

I used to get them a lot but,,, I think it was Blood Preasure related... I have my BP in control and don't see'em anymore...

[dejarah]

i thought floaters were poop...uh that floats

[Skink]

i thought floaters were poop...uh that floats

No,,,Floaters are tampons...

[rebgirl420]

Ive never called a tampon a floater....maybe a cotton menace but thats it

[halfassedjediknight]

I used to get them a lot but,,, I think it was Blood Preasure related... I have my BP in control and don't see'em anymore...

i wonder if this is so.

i have hypertension that isnt in control. but i still havnt noticed them as much.

[halfassedjediknight]

i call tampons plugs or corks

[josh_nvrrt]

dude i see them things daily its weird

[rebgirl420]

luckily my pill prevents all of that nonsence. Nothing is worse than an angry woman on her period..

[Skink]

Im a plumber,,,trust me they are floaterz...

[rebgirl420]

hahahahahaha ohhhhhhh that would suck!

[Skink]

i wonder if this is so.

i have hypertension that isnt in control. but i still havnt noticed them as much.

When my BP was high I got them uncontrolable annoying...

[halfassedjediknight]

When my BP was high I got them uncontrolable annoying...

man thats bogus.

im glad i dont get them that badly. I just get red and breath like a beast or something.

[Kid Dynamite]

i always thought a floater was a poo that wont stay down...


shows what i know...

[BabyFacedAbortion]

I see them all the time, but I also wear contacts (non-stop) and have extremely bad allergies. My nerves in my eyes are also cork-screw instead of branched, so I have a lot of potential causes lol