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When I was younger i asked my eye doc and he said something about it being the result of the light-sensitive rods and cones in your retina becoming momentarily overwhelmed by an immediate influx of light, causing "spots".
I've also heard thought it can be the result of burns in the retna.
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What you are seeing are commonly called "floaters." Everybody has them. They're nothing to worry about, unless you happen to notice them increasing in number. Originally posted by wiki:
Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's normally transparent vitreous humour[1]. They may be of embryonic origin or acquired due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour or retina[1]. The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia, or less commonly as myiodeopsia, myiodesopsia, or myodeopsia[1]. When observed subjectively, floaters are entoptic phenomena characterized by shadow-like shapes which appear singly or together with several others in one's field of vision. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, that float slowly before one's eyes.
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Originally posted by elraido:
what you are seeing are images of light burnt into your eyes. (ie looking at the sun or other bright light)
no. they're called "floaters." I dunno about organisms, but there are definitely little particles of dust and stuff that get in your eye and float around on the fluid on the eye.
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Now I feel 100% better thinking back that I asked my 2nd grade teacher about it and she looked at me funny..  Always wondered what they were.
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Originally posted by klavender:
Are there micro organisms living on your eyeball? I swear I can see them sometimes. Mainly when I first wake up and my eyes are still focusing I think I see little ameoba looking things moving around. Am I crazy?
I see the same things, I just thought it was all the acid I dropped in the 70's.
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I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm flying at around 30,000 feet (IN AN AIRPLANE DERR) I see them more often.
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Prenatal thingamajigs, from where your eyes first budded in you head in the womb. Had an Eye Dr. check it out.
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Originally posted by deftoned989:
I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm flying at around 30,000 feet (IN AN AIRPLANE DERR) I see them more often.
Yep, that is b/c of the refractive index of different media, specifically air, plastic and glass. Airplane windows are even more likely for this to occur b/c light waves go through air, then through plastic, and then again through glass back to air into your eye. Hence 'floaters' will be amplified. I'm no specialist, and have had this occured to me as well. I've never really thought of it much. However, with all the bending of light, this may overload the optic nerve, as a virtue of very active rods and cones firing. Why it gives the odd cellular shape is beyond me.  May have to do with some sort of distortion of light w/in the vitreous humour (liquid w/in the eye).
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