Yes, the thread title sounds downsy and utterly retarded, but nothing else would fit in a thread title that even remotely made sense or properly set up my actual question. Basically this is a "Paging Dr. TWW" thread regarding optometry....


What is the term for those little anomalies that one can get on one's eyes? They're like a tiny little dark-ish ripple that kind of float around in the field of vision, and they're not really noticeable unless one is looking at a uniformly white surface or a solid and light-colored computer or TV screen...


There's this little blackish-grey spot that's basically dead-center on my left eye, and it's getting fucking annoying... I really don't notice (in fact, can't really even see it at all) it unless I'm trying to focus on something being displayed on a mostly-white computer screen... which is unfortunate, since it makes reading forums or pretty much anything with a white background on the internet somewhat annoying. If I move my eye in a direction, the spot just sort of floats off in that direction, but it's still a little bitch.

1/24/2009 6:07:13 AM

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloats.htm

1/24/2009 6:08:54 AM

You're on the fast track to blindness

1/24/2009 6:09:21 AM

Holy shit, you produced that link quickly.

Great job, A++++ effort, would eBay again.


^Lies. According to the article: "Most spots and floaters in the eye are harmless and merely annoying. Many will fade over time and become less bothersome."

[Edited on January 24, 2009 at 6:10 AM. Reason : .]

1/24/2009 6:09:37 AM

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31141772

Ohh squiggly line, in my eye fluid...

1/24/2009 9:17:38 AM

it's crap that's floating in your vitreous humour. It casts a shadow on your retina, blah blah blah


you usually don't have to worry about it. your body will clean it out eventually

1/24/2009 9:22:01 AM

I used to fuck around with these things when I was a kid... I'd be watching TV and I'd sweep my eye across it and watch the people get all rippely (rippley? [sic]?).

This thread marks the first time one has actually impeded my sight.

1/24/2009 9:25:41 AM

this first occured to me when I was 18, over an interesting summer that involved some drunken boxing and lasers

I was convinced either the former or the latter had fucked up my eye, until I realized how common this was

1/24/2009 10:52:07 AM