• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    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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    2 months 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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      Might be an urban legend, but it was a blackout, not the pandemic. LOL, we didn’t just turn out the lights. :)

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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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    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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    Anyone ever had an ocular migraine? Fucking trippy. I could see people making up crazy explanations.

    Totally painless, merely circular, rotating, rainbow flashes as you look around. Scared the crap out of me until I looked online. Thought it might be a sort of LSD flashback. Had it it hit me a few times in a short time span, never again.

    This is a great representation of what I saw, no blur in my case, or I didn’t notice any.

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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.

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        Aging?! I saw them more as a child than as a middle-aged man. Are we talking about the wormy things?

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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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    People make up shit every single day without proof of anything. Then go about telling people as if they had absolute 100% proof/evidence in some way. They know it’s a lie, they don’t care.

    That’s pretty much religion in a nutshell.

    DO NOT EVER “take someone’s word for it”. Demand proof. Use critical thinking skills like not being a dumbass, or paying attention.