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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- Explore the science of the phenomenon of “floaters,” those tiny blobs that swim across your field of vision.
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Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Michael Mauser explains the visual phenomenon that is floaters.
Lesson by Michael Mauser, animation by Reflective Films.
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my lifetime mystery solved
Lmao
+kagoon0709 I know right LOL!
Same here :)
Sameeeeeee
Same . I always think that there's a worm following me . hehe
8 yr old me in the shower looking up at the ceiling and seeing these floaters: Do I have germ vision?
In a way, yes
i had the same thinking😂😂
lol
[KIRA QUEEN] BITES ZA DUSTO!
@@veeps oh god no please dont blow up anyone
When I was a kid, I always “played” with these things. I tried to keep those dots in the middle of my eye sight and I always wondered what it actually is. Thanks for finally telling me
me too
Me also
I did that too
Yes I did the same too!
Relatable
Seeing in the comments that so many other people also thought they could see atoms is so crazy. Last time I stumbled upon this phenomenon was in a comment section where someone asked if anyone knows the feeling of really wanting to punch in their dreams but the punch doesn't happen haha. I love it that so many other people experience the same stuff I do.
When I saw these for the first time I thought they were atoms until this video (I never told anyone bc I was afraid I had an illness
I used to think I could see bacteria till I saw this video
actually, I thought (as a child) that it was little fairies or magical creatures.
@@namitabsane6194 I thought it looked like cells like blood cells so I wasn't far off
@@BM82Z same
Imagine being the first person to discover this and had to explain to the others
OOF
hahaha
Man i litterly tought i was the only one who had this floaty thing in my eyes
Was me in childhood!
I'd be hella scared
I asked my high school biology teacher about this years ago. he clearly didn't know what i meant and told me to stop doing drugs lol
😂😂😂
That's funny, mine asked me how much I was paying for my LSD then proceeded to tell me about free natural sources..... Hmm? He didn't like me, I think he wanted me dead?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tell him that Coffee is a drug as well, and he should stop taking it.
purple haze ?
I NEVER realised they were _inside_ the eyeball, I thought they were on the surface of my pupil. Great educational video.
The tiny darts of light were always my favourite. When I was a kid I would induce heavy sneezes just to see them lol.
I can't even explain the condition properly
And you easily explain the science behind this 👍
Hi.
@@en2-joserivera896
Why???
@@bts_rollercosterlifepurplearmy, hi.
Literally answered my childhood question 35 years ago
bracket Scrap my childhood question 5 years ago.
exactly. I thought I was hallucinating. mine occurred after I 1st viewed through a microscope in 5th grade. I thought I caught something from the Petri dish. seriously
bracket Scrap I have them too in young
bracket Scrap SAME
35+ and playing minecraft... hmmmm
Non of us searched for this but we all felt compelled to watch it
Ridge frost true
Not so true....
Omg how did you know
that means it must be a distraction? some need-to-know info being algorithmically discriminated against? lol
@@EKon235 yeah....
I experience this two phenomena every once in a while, although the floaters are far more common. I’m so glad to finally get an answer to what they are and what differentiates them.
I've seen these since I was a child 😭They're usually colourful and move around wherever I look, I genuinely thought I was going blind back then. So glad someone finally answered my childhood question!
What happened after that
Like did u go to a doctor
I also saw those but for some reason I did not take them seriously
Same here...they thought I was the "crazy kid"...they all wore glasses without corrective lenses to look cool
I never thought this was ever gonna be answered
Wow . Same
Marcus hungidas ikr
Me too!
Same bruh
I had Googled this years ago. Google answers everything . Being proactive helps.
Now I can die in peace
Fahmi Hoque LOL same!! But I never had it before but if I have something in my eye or you know those moments when you stare at a light for too long and have a big mark in your site I HATE IT SOOOO MUCH!!!! I seriously freak out.
😭u all are lying i believe my superpowers 😳😳😳
Akash Sharma ??
I told my mom about these when I was like 13 and she sent me to a counselor. Wtf.
Skywolf Powell your mother was correct I must say.....no offense though
Joking ;)
I have it a little different it usually happens at night and they make like peace signs squares triangles like formulated shapes What does seem very unnatural End it feels like they’re coming towards me from the back of the bed and then they just disappear they just fade out
wow happened same to me
Sleep paralysis...?
WHAT, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD THIS
Exactly, or when I simply close my eyes sometimes, also it intensifies when I rub my eyes.
Sometimes it feels like the shapes have a specific colour too, because they are different from each other, but I really can't say what colour, as if I see a whole new colour that doesn't exist outside
I think these are called phosphenes
this was my chillhood question for 18 years
this always paranoid me
same! took me literally 18 years xd but i was playing w them
mine were racing or dancing.
The question everyone was wondering about and no one actually bothered to ask
That's me too
I thought I was having a virus or I just have crazy imaginations when I was a kid
Look I asked my aunt when I was little and she thought I was losing my eye strength and needed glasses. Then for a while I thought that I was a superhero with eye powers because literally no one talked about this ever, not in science class, school, college, work... Never anywhere. Then I found this video randomly on a random, uninteresting day.
yea
CallMeCatty so true
I had to wait for more than 25 years for this.
When I was a kid, I used to think that I had a superpower to see micro organisms.
😂😂😂
Me toooooopo😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That is worm. actually, in my eyes :(
Microbes, yes... organisms, maybe. This video is just one opinion
me too 😂
What a beautiful way to end the video. It’s a reminder that what we see depends on us as much as what’s in there.
This video actually helped me and my girlfriend find out that she has visual snow syndrome after looking up the blue field entoptic phenomenon so thank you so much for bringing that up!
“But they’re not alive”…continues to animate them with blinking eyes.
Dude, they made them look like eye parasites!! Why??!?!
I'm Not entirely Convinced that they aren't "Living creatures." Are they in my eyes? Are they in the Air? I don't know, but I'm a bit relieved that I'm not the Only one who sees them. 👌
lmao
Now they literally made it a worm...
I just thought this and saw your comment lol
Everyone thought that they were the only ones who could see these but actually, everybody was aware of it and they hardly discussed this...
There was an elephant in the room.
i swear i never saw those things in my entire life
i clicked at the video because my bestriend said that she have that
and i was like what the ...
but i tought she was special
i never knew that this is rly a thing🤯🤯🤯
btw sry for my bad english
I had a hard time explaining these when I was in middle school. I had no idea how to describe them XD
I dont think ive ever seen a floater
Changyoung Lee the likes are 666
I am Glad that Many of us have faced these common issues and I am a bit calm and relaxed that I am not the only one who experienced this!
i have what’s called visual snow so i have excessive floaters as well as many other visual phenomena. sometimes it’s very overwhelming but this video brings me sm peace.
how many of them when u stare the sky
@@squareoff2110 a trillion
If it gets so bad that it impacts on your life negatively you can have a vitrectomy. It's painless, and within a week or so you have perfectly clear vision.
nobody:
me after seeing the thumbnail: *i knew i wasn’t the only one*
Me: You sure about that one chief?
@@Ishidres yes
@@Ishidres ._.
@@Ishidres \ (•◡•) /
Same
7 years ago, I told everyone that I can see air...
Hahahaha
AIR
Same
WhY tHo😂😂😂
i told people that i could see the ghosts of insects ....
Man, Ive had this all my childhood, and now you solved it. Thank you.
I thought I was the only one experiencing this phenomenon, I tried explaining this so many times to the people around me but they never really understood me or my situation. Well now Im glad that I'm not the only one who experiences this and I can show others this videos whenever I need to explain about this phenomenon. Thank you Teded.
Deapool: what is your superpower
you: i can see floaty thing is my eye
deadpool: you're in
Mr.CoolBoi plz change ur dp it iz scary😥
chahat chiki shut up its beautiful
We're good as long as dead pool haves his mask on
@@chahatchiki1203 How is that scary? are you 5 or something?
He's not going to change his profile picture just because it's scary for you.
5 year olds shouldn't be watching TH-cam.
Fleiki Plays Games. If you aggressively insult someone on the internet for asking politely something they don't like you are probably not even near 5. Your fact of how "5 years old's shouldn't be watching TH-cam" is completely senseless, there are parents who turn on cartoons showed around TH-cam for their 5, if not, even younger children. Learn to use manners correctly, you are old enough to know this.
Thank you for something *USEFUL* TH-cam recommends.
Miguel Angel Medina Rise I see blue red green yellow dots playing together is that normal when I close my eyes
yeah its a blood cell party with some cell strippers.. lol just kidding.
hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Am having this problem 2 years it's increasing slowly any treatment for this floats
That likely means the same thing for you that it means for me: your retina is thinning. I would go to the eye doctor and have them look in the eye and check it. If it's thinning, they will just check it every year and keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't detach.
Thank you so much 🥰💖
These videos are always so entertaining to watch, you always learn new stuff :)
“They are NOT alive.”
~puts faces on them
LOL!
🤣
😂😂😂😂
ok true
Exactly and I am angry.
Other children seeing floaters: I must have super powers
Me as a child after seeing floaters: I must have parasite
Same
Lmao same
Same
Me: I'm seeing ghosts
That’s exactly what I thought as a kid
Of all the TedEds I've watched, this one was probably the coolest.
Wow my whole life I thought there was something wrong with me and I had no idea how to describe it. Always see it when I’m looking into a clear sky it becomes overwhelming
I never told anybody about this because I thought it was just me and didn't think it was important.
skeletonpuma swear dude !
Same
Me too
same
Me to
Who else felt they were the only one seeing it
I always thought it was a common thing. Then some jackass on the internet said that it's a disease that u get from exposing your eye to screens for too long. My mum endorsed that statement, and since shes a nurse, I really believed it for a long time. Turns put, she just did what all mothers do, she lied to get me off my ps4
Of course me
lil Captis I damn sure did
Hehe I thought I was seeing Atoms
Me lol
A great mystery, uncovered at last! Glorious.
After many years i got my answer thanks for making this video👍
Me: **Casually playing minecraft and looks at the sun**
Floaters: *HeLo*
square floathers: heLOOOOO
Is it Me you’re LooKing for
Hello from the other side
@@melvinhotdogman6926 Well yes but actually no
@NKL8K9 Are you kinda being sarcastic or did that meme make you actually laugh?
When I was 12 or so, I described this phenomenon to my dad; he asked me if I was taking drugs. :(
Scott Boatright lol
The first time I notice this when I was a child I thought I have some kind of transparent worm inside my right eye. hahaha
giocoby Yeah, I thought I was seeing spirits that no else could see. Science took away my one superpower.
LMFAO
Scott Boatright yeah . . parents are usualy stupid
i had to become 35 years to lern about one of my oldest questions. thank you so much.
I'm glad you made the video explaining this phenomena, at least now I know I'm not the only one who's sees them and it's actually a normal thing.
I searched "Invisible sausages floating in ur eye" to find this video lmao
Most underrated comment in the comment section 😂😂
LMAOOOOO
100th like 🤣
Eye sosig?
OMG! KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Me: Mom I see these floating blobs in my eyes what are they?
Mom: *IT'S ALL CUZ OF THAT DAMN PHONE YOUR ALWAYS STUCK TO*
Then you start saying ok Bimmer
*boomer
Adzemo parents always love to blame everything on phones 😩
@@fbi6857 so lame
Baby Wilson lame af
Give this man a medal.
Wow, as a child I used to see this often🥰🥰😍👍🏽Thank you for explaining this phenomenon
after watching this many people lost their super power
ashok jakhar i cri evrytiem
ashok jakhar hahaha
ashok jakhar HAHAHAHA
KatKimorah OMFG all the time
I still have it ;_;
Literally everyone in the comments say they thought they had superpowers.
I thought I had a parasitic worm and I was going to die.
Delta SAME
Delta omg same 😂
I am freaking out because I feel like it’s getting longer.... so yours looks like a worm too?
Okay... so I went to the eye doctor. I was seriously worried and it really is a floater!!! She said you would have to be from a third world country to get a parasite in tour eye! Phew......
Same lol
incredibly amazing video. great explanation for everyone.
I literally never noticed the floaty things until I watched this video. Now I see them all the time. Thanks a lot.
How big is yours?
Me peacefully looking at the Sky:
Floaters: lmao no
I love seeing floaters you can even keep them in your vision by blinking
Lol
How do you see floaters?
@@Eknoma how do you NOT see floaters
@@speedlunary797 I dunno, but maybe my pupils are just too large
I have figured recently that there are a lot of "normal" things I cannot do, like apparently most people can unfocus their eyes, and most people have a dominant eye. Neither of those make any sense to me
Also any pixel density below 90 PPI for monitors is extremely jarring for me as I see the individual pixels at normal viewing range
When you thought you're special but this video ruins it
Where's the lie ?!
Jahahqhahahahahhajajahahaa
Hahahahahahahaha
Frost Cosmos wow ikr
Hahaha that was so funny
THANK YOU TED ED ♥
Lol, I had a ton of fun with these guys as a kid. A great way to pass the time.
Everyone is here thinking they had superpowers
And im over here thinking i have cancer
😂😂😂👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Hahahahahahaha
*immediately opens google and searches for symptoms of eye cancer*
*sees one symptom that you think you have*
*panics and starts bursting into hysterics*
Same
Who the fk thinking they had superpower??? Having that phenomenons mostly make people think they have something worst...
I see perfect geometrical figures when i close my eyes, like mandalas.
me too.
Those could simply be phanromal spirits. I use to see them when I was younger. I used to live in a neighborhood which use to be a army base. Outside my house was a big old tree, and whenever I closed my eyes, I'd see a figure in the tree looking up. I remember my little brother saying he saw a boy hanging from a tree with some sort of string across his neck. The boy would be screaming. My brother once said that the boy had blood dripping off wherever he looked. The girl I saw just stared at me, never moved. Still see them sometimes, tbh, but very rarely.
@@yazzy1692 wtf xddd
Same
Mine arent perfect/symmetrical though lol
WOW. It was fantastic! Thank you.
I always thought I was the only one and dared not to tell anyone about it thinking I had some problem but this videoo cleared it all
Wtf....literelly entire my childhood i thought i can see atoms...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
DUDE SAME
Same 😂😂
I thought I could see air
Lol
I always thought I had some kind of magical powers whenever I saw these things damn
Arumie same
Honestly
Same, I was like "I knew I had super vision!" when I was like 8 and I always thought "Nobody will ever understand".
Ey same
Yeah😂😂😂same.
Answered that question well thank you
I've recently experienced this phenomenon, so I went immediately to the optic specialist, She gave me exactly this explanation!
"THEY ARE NOT ALIVE, WE SWEAR" yet you drew them with faces, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?!
My thought too lol
If ur mom dies normally and is normal and always has been
She has face even after death, right?🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@irseeker9989 umm
@@v6790 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😁😁😁👍
Everyone else: "I HAVE SUPER POWERS!!!"
Me: "I think i have cancer..."
Same lol
is this stolen
@@subscriberswithvideochal-gs4wm frick u
again, same
Me too I thought I was going to die in 100 years or something
This was huge to finally learn!!!
Love the simple facts well presented.
Ok, so everyone sees these "floaters"and im not crazy, i finally found out after 14 years. Wow
The real princess jasmine try 19 years lol
Lol I used to think that the purplish blob after looking at a bright light was just me
The real princess jasmine omg right I thought I was going blind
The real princess jasmine same exact 14 years
The real princess jasmine OMGGG SAMEEEE
TH-cam saved me, I literally thought I was the only one seeing these things and scared to tell a doctor😂😂
Firekiller 6152 my mom prays every time she sees them 😂
Same!
Why are you scared to tell a doctor? Will they cull you for being defective?
@@rudimental8917 they need to be remodeled
@@rudimental8917 I was scared when I was 7
It’s weird, when I stare at something for too long, my eyes just go wack, usually I see both and it just makes me super confused.
FINALLY I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS ON MY ENTIRE LIFE
Well damn!! All this time I thought I was gifted with the vision to see microscopic bacteria and other microbes in the air floating around. My parents would never believe me and just laugh it off. All this time I was just a normal pathetic little human, not any supermutant.
loll... You're a beautiful & unique human being! Celebrate that! :-)
Jenny Arzola Well, well. A nice person on the interwebs? Why thank you. I hope you have a nice day.
+Jenny Arzola lol...I think he's just stupid 😂 jk
YOUHAVETO
You apologize right now or be ready to get vaporized.
+qsqua damnnnn...good comeback. maybe you aren't stupid.
A moment of silence for those who are still thinking that they have weird eyes
it's DEKU!!
I want. Month of silence 😭😭
i used to catch them with hands and today i found what they were!!🤣
Thought I was going blind geez
I never thought they were weird, just thought they were part of my astigmatism. They get worse sometimes
This thumbnail perfectly captured exactly what I couldn't describe in words
Thanks for sharing this great great knowledge!
Who tried to look for them during the video.
Me
🙋🏾♀️
Fuck....u got me
I didn’t
i have a feeling you guys are watching me...
Day 13 of quarantine
TH-cam: ever wonder what are those floating worms on your eye?
Hahahahaha
So true
I was gonna to comment the same thing Vegeta.
I used to think they were hairs.
I have never actually seen them before so
Thank you so much 😍
I always wondered what those weird things were- Thanks!
OMG!!!!
My lifelong question has finally been answered!
What a day this is!!!!!
I used to think that I had an eye condition where I was able to see organisms like bacteria in my eyes.
Now I will finally be able to die in peace!
kAi lenG SAME
kAi lenG same
Me too!
Right! Thought it was something special 😅🤣🤣 life long quest lol
Mine too
Swear I thought I could see molecules
Double K sameeeeeeeee
You basically do
Double K that is hilarious! I did too!
Same
What are they? Omg
This just brought a wave of validation and really eased my anxiety about these things 😅
Thanks for the calming explanation:)
I’m a teen and was diagnosed with this😢
No one searched for this
But as soon you see the thumbnail you clicked
I can't speak for everyone, but that's definitely what happened with me ... except it was the combination of the thumnnail and the title
I searched for it lol
I search relatable Eye floaters
Yeaah
Yes....
I thought I had super vision and I could see atoms and bacteria without microscope 😂
Lol
Same
Same lol
Yes!!! 😂😂😂😂😂that's what I thought😂
haha so me
OMG this makes me so happy to see. When I was in high school 20 years ago, I would ask a few teachers about these things. I would consistently be told I'm not seeing anything or I must have been rubbing my eyes right before seeing them. Nice to finally find out I wasn't crazy. Well, at least not crazy about this. :D
lmaoo
I first experienced this during my first time riding a plane as a child, I always sat on the window sit like any other child wants, and as i looked out the window I experienced the moving white floaters with tails. I asked my dad at the time what those white worm like things moving in the sky in which he replied "those are airplanes" and ever since then became the answer for me everytime I experience the floater thing. Then couple years forward is when I realized that my dad didn't fully understand what I was pointing out and thought I was asking what what the other flying airplanes was in the airspace below us.
finally answer for one of the biggest questions of human history
@DecentOtaku same
@DecentOtaku SAME!!!
@DecentOtaku SAME
She forgots something,
The trick when you scratch your eyes too hard that you travelled to another dimension
I don't scratch it lol I rub it
Do you mean travel to the sun😂😂😂
Ohh yes
What if you scratch one eye?
Yes, it happens with me a lot
so interesting to learn about the blue field entoptic phenomenon! even though i knew it was impossible, i always thought what i was seeing was air molecules floating around
저도 가끔씩 이런 것들이 눈에 떠다니는 것을 보며 이것이 뭘까 엄청 고민했는데, 이렇게 쉬운 설명이 있었네요. 이번 영상을 보면서 삶의 작은 것들에도 항상 관심을 가지며 탐구하는 자세를 가져야 갰다고 느꼈습니다.
I thought I had transparent worms in my eyes this whole time.
I thought i had a tumor
Finally i got the answer . When i was in high school i was sitting in my tution class and my science class was going on when this phenomenon happened. I was curious and my teacher noticed and asked what are u doing? I SAID I AM ABLE TO SEE MICRO ORGANISMS IN AIR. I can never forget her look.
LMAO😂😂
Tumhe kabse dikh rahe h
Maybe i will do that too if its not pandemic. Wkwk but fortunately, i already watch this video
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@ashutoshthite tumhe kya dikhta hain
Literally been wanting to know this since I first discovered it as a kid.
Answered the question that I have been pondering since childhood
I thought my eyes are so good that they could see these small things in the air.
lol
I thought they were microorganisms lmfao
I always thought they were my eye veins of something 🤷🏽♀️
😂😂😂😂😂
@@amtie97 lmfaoo same
When I was little i asked my parents about this and they never understood what I was talking about. So i grew up thinking i was the only one noticing this but then I saw this in my recommended and I freaked out lol!!! THANKS
The Saviour Reigns same here. Always tried to explain to people and they would look at me funny.
Same 😁
Same thing with me lol
Same here
Same
Thanks 😊
Ohhhh I was too much confused with these visualisation. Now it's clear.