NONE@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoI wonder how many people throughout history have confused Eye Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomenamessage-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1209arrow-down1message-squareI wonder how many people throughout history have confused Eye Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomenaNONE@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoAs a kid I could only notice what I now know to be floaters on a bright sunny beach and thought they were little bacteria or something floating on the surface of my eyes. Never jumped to ghost!
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoIf they’re little wriggly sparkles against the sky, it’s not floaters, it’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon Floaters are darkish blobs.
As a kid I could only notice what I now know to be floaters on a bright sunny beach and thought they were little bacteria or something floating on the surface of my eyes. Never jumped to ghost!
If they’re little wriggly sparkles against the sky, it’s not floaters, it’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
Floaters are darkish blobs.