Not Hallucinations, Just...Floaters

Like Cam, I too am back from a lovely break, and as such, must return to posting semi-regularly. On a self-laudatory note, this blog broke 1000 page views last week, and is well on the way to 2000. I'm not really sure how impressive that is relative to the rest of the Internet, and I think at least 300 are just from me alone, but whatever.

I'm sure by now you are wondering what the title of this post means. It was this same power of curiosity that brought me to discover the eponymous secret of the Floaters. Have you ever gazed up at the sky on a day when it was particularly blue and bright? If you have, you may have noticed little specks dashing in front of your vision. Try as you may to follow them, they seem to skitter away from your gaze. I always thought it was one of the many odd imperfections of my body, but driven by my thirst for knowledge, I now know it is instead a real documented phenomenon. 

I tried to find a scientific name, but apparently people just call them floaters. Whatever. Anyways, they're caused by bits of cellular debris (parts of you that fell off) that are quite literally floating around in your eyeball. This explains why they skitter away from your field of vision. To look at them, you have to move your eyeball, but they're IN your eyeball so they move too! (I'm aware this may only be amusing/make sense to me).

So next time you think your sense of sight is broken, don't worry its just dead cells chilling in your eyeball.