Thursday, May 19, 2011


'Floaters are particularly noticeable when lying on one’s back and gazing at the sky.'
'When they are first noticed, the natural reaction is to attempt to look directly at them. However, attempts to shift the gaze toward them are frustrated, because the floaters follow the motion of the eye, and remain to the side of the direction of gaze. Floaters are, in fact, visible only because they do not remain perfectly fixed within the eye. Although the blood vessels of the eye also obstruct light, they are invisible under normal circumstances (and thus not annoying) because they are fixed in location relative to the retina, and the brain “tunes out” stabilized images. This does not occur with floaters and they remain visible, and, in some cases when large and numerous, very annoying.'


Hmm. So they are floaters...

I keep seeing them.

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