• kinther@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      First time I had one of these I was so stressed out. I thought I was about to have a stroke.

      • murray_TAPEDTS@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Same! I was on a road trip in Ireland and it came out of nowhere. Freaked me out. I’d never had one until a few months after my first bout with COVID. Now I get them but usually only if I’ve not been drinking enough water for a few days, and ONLY when I stand up. It’s preceded by a weird sort of throbbing where it feels like sound is turned down in time with my heartbeat.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    I have a permanent eye floater. When I get really bored I find suitable things in my field of vision to look back and forth between and play pong with.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    Squiggly line in my eye, fluid.

    I see you there, lurking on the periphery of my vision.

    But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

    Are you shy squiggly line?

    Why only when I ignore you do you return to the center of my eye?

    Oh squiggly line, it’s alright, you are forgiven.

  • wulrus@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    Seen them for decades, but thought it’s best to keep them a secret. Until Family Guy just casually mentioned them like they were no big deal! Not as crazy as I thought, after all …

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 months ago

    I got few permanent ones.

    When I was a kid I played geologist and crushed rocks with a large iron hammer. Few of the metal splinters that ended in my eyeballs left a mark that is still visible today when I look at the sky.

    Not actually floaters, I know.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Huh … I never noticed that I stopped noticing my floaters after getting glasses. When you have something like that for decades, you stop actively seeing those things.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    43·
    10 months ago

    Eyeworms. Villagers get them from touching raw meat then rubbing their eyes. It’s only a matter of time before the worms burrow into your brain. Then you shit yourself and die in a most embarassing way.