• Zagam@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Sittin’ here on the toilet, it took me a second to shift the word “floaters” into proper context.

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    3 days ago

    Didn’t it happen that people in LA started calling the cops one time during the pandemic because they saw the Milky Way for the first time in their lives?

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    3 days ago

    If you look at the sky on a clear blue day, you can see the shadow of your own white blood cells moving around in your eyes.

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    A while back in some thread, I mentioned a lecturer who claimed halos are explained by some people who can visibly see earth’s magnetic fields and wondered if it’s true. I had something to do and went about my business, but searched it up, later. It turns out many eye conditions can be the cause. Now I’m wondering about phosphenes!

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    No, Aliens successfully genetically bioengineered our eyes to have “eye floaters” that look exactly like their interdimensional starships flying overhead so they can fly them around on Earth without anyone noticing. It is all part of their evil genius plan!

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    Those aliens have incredibly fast ships. It doesn’t matter how fast you turn your gaze, they’re one step ahead.

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          If someone throws a hat in the air, you take a picture of it before it lands, and you don’t know what it is you’ve seen and photographed, technically you have taken a photo of a UFO.

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            That is only because Aliens monitor all aircraft on earth and will if given the chance teleport-swap your hat for a UFO while it is thrown in the air (it is the perfect time to do it unfortunately). Notice how most politicians don’t wear hats, it is because they know their hats were long ago replaced with alien monitoring UFOs that only look and feel like hats and they are keeping the truth from us.

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          Hats are more commonly the subject of UFO photos than aliens.

          FTFY

          If you can’t identify the object that’s flying, it’s a UFO. It doesn’t matter what it is. A flying hat that isn’t identified is still a UFO.

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    I’m thinking about my eye floaters roughly 200% of the time and I still mistake them for bugs flying past my face at least once a week.

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    I used to think of it as bacteria on top of my eyeballs. Then my sibling put in the fear that the bacteria is inside the eyeballs, which made sense since washing my eyes didn’t really remove it. I eventually stopped giving it any thought.

    Thank you for resolving it.

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      Afaik, unless you have eye surgery, floaters are stuck in your eye forever, it’s just that many eventually sink out of your field of vision. If you have large new floaters, especially if there are multiple new ones that appear suddenly, I’d recommend seeing an eye doctor - it’s how I found out I’d torn my retina, which was at risk of detaching and possibly making me partially blind.

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      I swapped my desktop computer to night mode so my floater is less annoying.

      My optician said I’d stop noticing it in 6 weeks. That was 6 months ago.

    • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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      There is no treatment because they are considered a natural and harmless consequence of aging. Only in severe cases is surgery necessary.