I remember being very relieved when my intro to psych professor first taught me about “floaters”.
Btw, if you’re looking at just the right kind of blue background you can also see corpuscles of your eye, which are tiny blood vessels. To me, they kinda look like chicken wire with electrons pulsing through them. If you stare at a blue sky, you can often hone in on them. But it can be a bit tricky at first since you’re not sure what you’re looking for and because our minds generally cause us to ignore it as well as floaters. (P.s. Just found some more info here.)
Personally, I find it interesting to be learning about your eye just by looking around or at a blue sky. I also find it amazing to see how our body works, to inspect it like the incredible machinery that it is. Not sure how else to describe that, though I’m definitely not doing justice to my sense of awe.
P.s. The floaters are not blood vessels, but debris in the fluid in our eyes. But we do have blood vessels, the corpuscles I mentioned earlier. They look different though and are harder to spot. Check out the links for more info.
P.p.s. According to wiki: “They are also called Muscae volitantes (from the Latin, meaning ‘flying flies’)”. Kinda gives new meaning to the mad saying in Catch-22, “He’s got flies in his eyes!”
Aha! So I was not going crazy when I thought my “floaters” had always looked like strings of red blood cells. XD
