Translucent bouncing orbs in my vision. Anyone know what this is called?!
Question: Sometimes while looking at the sky or a blank background, I can see little circular translucent circles with darker centers. They're about 2 or 3 millimeters in diameter in comparison to arms length. When I move my eyes, they bounce in the direction that I look, then slowly rebound and begin to fall downward. I can jerk them back towards my center of vision again by moving my eyes. When I do this, they follow the trajectory of my line of sight before rebounding again.
I've seen this since I was a kid and nobody else seems to relate. Anyone have the answer?
Answers: Sometimes while looking at the sky or a blank background, I can see little circular translucent circles with darker centers. They're about 2 or 3 millimeters in diameter in comparison to arms length. When I move my eyes, they bounce in the direction that I look, then slowly rebound and begin to fall downward. I can jerk them back towards my center of vision again by moving my eyes. When I do this, they follow the trajectory of my line of sight before rebounding again.
I've seen this since I was a kid and nobody else seems to relate. Anyone have the answer?
In the central cavity of the eye, the vitreous cavity, is a gel like substance, the vitreous. This stuff is thick in little kids, and gets thinner as we age. There are cells, called hyalocytes, which float around in there. There can be deposits of calcium salts causing asteroid hyalosis, but that looks like thousands of snow flakes or little pieces of gold dust.
As these things float around, but are suspended in the gel which is a semi solid, they'll move with you, then sort of slosh back towards their 'neutral' positions.
If you get lots of 'new' ones, you may have a tear in the retina or retinal surface which has caused a hemorrhage into the gel. That kind of 'new' floaters should send you to an ophthalmologist or retina specialist to make sure you haven't torn the retina itself. That gel can yank on the retina up in the front of the eye and cause a tear. If fluid gets under the tear, that's called a retinal detachment.
Most likely, you just see the same floaters the rest of us see all the time with the blue or gray sky or white wall or gray wall or ? wall or ?, .. enjoy them.
Maybe your'e psychic.... lol jk.
I have the same thing-my eye doc told me it was called Aura. Sometimes you will see them before a headache, sometimes you will just see them... You may want to see your eye doctor though, just in case it is a sign of something worse...
I have similar objects the move back and forth in my vision. You can see this more when looking at a plain surface such as a clear blue sky or a white wall. Though mine aren't cirles like you describe. I think they are Called FLOATERS. Often made worse by dehydration. I don't think they are serious. Not in my case anyway. I hope this helps
sounds almost like 'floaters'. part of the gel in the interior of the eye that becomes less jelly like as the eye ages.