Feifer said:
I have them too. nothing to worry about unless you start getting a lot of them. Then it might be a warning sign of a detacted retina. Here's some info on it.
http://www.irishhealth.com/?level=4&con=492

Edited to add THEY ARE NOT BUGS

RACER_X

Philadelphia, PA

February 2003

FEB 27, 2005 09:32 AM

MisterSatan said:
Try pressing real hard on your eyeballs. That'll make them go away.

You forget the part about using the steak knife. Duh.

SexyBeast

Covington, LA

July 2004

FEB 27, 2005 09:51 AM

I hate floaters, especially when someone else needs to get in there. It's so embarassing flushing the toilet 10 times while somone else is banging on the bathroom door. I use catch them with toilet paper and tuck them in the garbage can underneath everthing else. A couple of times the garbage can was empty and there was no where to hide them, so I had to stick them in my pocket. It was pretty gross. Now I've learned that there is a trick to it. You have to cover the floaters with a few sheets of tiolet paper, so when you flush the wet toilet paper weighs them down. That's something people should be taught when they are kids, it would save so much embassment.

I really don't understand how pushing on my eyeballs would make them go away. Maybe I missed some other trick, I guess I will go read the thread.

joe_process

East York, ON

January 2005

FEB 27, 2005 09:52 AM

Sabre said:
Floater are real...the are very small single celled organisms that live on the eye ball....

i was pretty sure that they werent alive, just dead cells floating around in eyeball soup. But i went and looked it up in wikipedia it didint mention alive-ness, but more importantly, I found this amazing scientific fact:
" One should bear in mind also that floaters can become less annoying if the sufferer becomes accustomed to them,"

yaaay for medicine!
so on second thought, ill not beleive everything i read, they are definetly alive.

SurfBetty

Atlantic Beach, FL

December 2003

FEB 27, 2005 09:55 AM

Kosomot said:
I see dead people.

GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!

sounds like ya'll need a happa filter.

RiffProphet

Palm Harbor, FL

January 2005

FEB 27, 2005 09:57 AM

Noir said:

contrast said:
yes.

now my question:

sometimes, when i'm lying in bed, as i'm trying to fall asleep, i'll get this "thing." ... its like a quick electronic pulse in my head. it sounds like an electronic surge/shock.

anybody else get this and what the hell is it?

i NEVER hear anybody talk about it.

Okay, I get this all the time and it freaks me out. I thought I was just going crazy. Now I know that you are as well.

I used to get that alot, but it went away by itself. It was kinda like a ZZZZAP! ..almost even made that sound.and totally would startle me..it was kinda scary

inabsentia

Missoula, MT

December 2003

FEB 27, 2005 10:01 AM

I see them...but only when I'm not wearing my glasses, and I look into lights...then I see them floating around all magnified and shit.

abadinfluence

Canada

July 2003

FEB 27, 2005 10:01 AM

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

I thought I was the only one that saw those. No one else I know claims to be able to see them.

That makes me feel so much better about my crappy eyesight.