Everyone sees them but what ARE they???

Question

at night if u really focus on the air in front of your eyes you can see sparkles,patterns and lots of stuff really. is it like a slideshow ur brian puts on when its idle? ive always wanted to know since i was 7

Answer 1

They are heat waves that you can see! Cool isn't it?haha

Answer 2

floaters

Answer 3

In mind-science class, they told me that these are actually energy globules, little sparkles of energy that you can see if you focus and do not blink your eyes for a while. When I was a kid, we were fond of lying on a bed out in the open, especially in the evenings. It was open country then. I used to gaze at the blue evening sky while lying on the bed. And then I would see the funny sparkles and patterns, wiggling this way and that. It was exciting. I thought that it was only my eyes playing tricks. Now I am told that it is real, they are actually blobs of energy. I can now see them at any time during the day by just gazing at the sky, away from the sun, preferably when the sky is darkened a little. Mind-science taught me how I can actually absorb that energy and make use of it, such as to heel others. I really need to practise.

Answer 4

I've lived to 63 without seeing them.  I can only imagine you are talking about dust particles but you'd have to have some light in the room to see them.

Answer 5

When you're born they break apart from inside your eyes and are trapped from within. Everyone has them and it is NOT DUST

Answer 6

atmospheric dust being attached by your focus

Answer 7

This happens to me all the time :)! I used to think that i had microscopic vision and i was able to see little bacteria and creatures floating around or on my eye, until I discovered the truth on tv. What you are seeing is little organisms and voids and such (etc.) in the eye liquid, and if u turn your head, the eye liquid will run to one side, and will take the little things with it. Im not trying to gross anybody out, but that is just what I heard. :)

Answer 8

i had that happen to me. I think is eye strain. not sure. But it hurts my eyes.  

Answer 9

not sure ask doctor (online one if you dont want to go to local) might be a problem

Answer 10

I call them floaters.  I don't know what the medical term for them is.  It is actually matter floating around inside your eye ball.  I see them during the day sometimes too if my eyes are open, like when I am looking at a blue sky, but not really focusing on anything.

Answer 11

The same phenomenon can be experienced when on a cool summer day you look into the pleasant blue vacancy of the skies above, as for instance when you lie on your back in the openness of a park. Then if you concentrate you could actually see tiny sparks flying all over the place in front of your eyes. But it is hard to focus on any one of them, as for one, they are too tiny to behold properly, and secondly, they move far too fast and absolutely randomly for our eyes to catch up. I have wondered myself as just what they might be. I have come to the conclusion that they are either fairies, or some sprightly spirits at work, as they might be at work all the time to carry all the heavy and not so heavy images from our eyes deep into our mind.

The scientific reality, however, could also be there to spoil the fun of all our imaging, and free speculation. As I think, they are produced as a result of electrical activity in the sensors cells of the retina of our eyes, the retina is the screen at the back of our eyes that translate light signal into electrical ones that then are carried to the brain form further processing, or questioning. So they are not actually out there in front of our eyes by in there, in the head, which I think is also good.

Answer 12

Hello. In the daytime on a blank surface you see "floater spots" which are part of an unused pathway in your eye. At night the flashes, like when you close your eyes, are called Entoptic Phenomina. They are the background noise of your vision. Good bye.

P.S- THEY ARE NOT DUST AND AT NIGHT THEY ARE NOT FLOATERS. GOD IT SEEMS ONLY THE TOP CONTRIBUTERS HAVE ANY FRIGGIN CLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good bye.

Answer 13

i think its just your brain relaxing and closing down and so you 'see things that your brain creates, or that you have seen during the day. coolio isn't it :)

Answer 14

Lmao i know right? some one answer this question for us =]

Answer 15

Not everyone sees them. They are not floaters (I have those also) or after images, etc.  They are a basic type of physic vision, similar to the type of vision used to see auras. Wow, I am surprised, I did not now so many others could actually see them, I have seen them as a child also. In the day they tend to be colorless unless they run into each other & explode, but only because of the bright light. At night in a dark room, with practice you can literally get to the point where there is no dark at all anymore. In the book "The Tao of Physics" the author discusses his experience the first time he saw these, it helped me years ago to understand what I was seeing.

Blessings!

Answer 16

Hi I used to tell my parents that they are fairys that come to use lol, but all they are really is the skin at the back of the eyes I think. sometimes called floaters

Answer 17

It's just the brain.  Just as another member here said, they're just floaters.  It's how the brain works.

Answer 18

It's stuff like cells, dust and so on floating across the surface of your eyeball

Answer 19

i dont know but its great innit?!

Answer 20

You can see them during the day also.  It is really just your eyes.  It is particles and literally debris floating on the suface of your eye and it seems like you are seeing images and patterns..  That's all it is..  I asked my eye doctor one time and that is how it was explained to me.  Hope that helps.

Answer 21

What you see is just like that on a no-reception TV screen, huh?

It's the noise light signal remain on your retina.  

Answer 22

OMG! i thought i was the only on who saw that! aaaaa!! idk what it is but i been wondering too! :))

Answer 23

It is dust in the air. Sometiems your eyes are strained and they put all sorts of colors in front of your eyes tellign you to sleep.

Answer 24

dust and dead skin cells???

Answer 25

So I'm not alone,  huh? I sometimes see bright little red dots and it's like you're floating through space or something. It's really cool.  

Answer 26

Pixie dust.

Answer 27

they are not floaters, that would be something behind the lense in your eye that you can see, many people get those, but they are often little dark flecks not bright sparkly ones.  what you are describing are either energy globules or atmospheric dust particles.  

they are very pretty.  you can see them as well if you look at a bright blue sky.

Answer 28

OMG i've always wondered the same thing!!!!!!!! what is it??

Answer 29

I've always believed it is small particles from amniotic fluid inside the lens of your eye, left over from when you were in your mother's womb.  However, I've just looked on Wikipedia and although I'm not totally wrong it's a bit more complicated than that. There are a number of potential causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

Answer 30

omg i knowww i have no idea why and what they are but i totally get what your sayinggg