Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena

stepan@lemmy.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought I could see atoms!

  It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned I was seeing the white blood cells in my retina’s capillaries

  …wikipedia.org/…/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me too! lol

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a kid I could only notice what I now know to be floaters on a bright sunny beach and thought they were little bacteria or something floating on the surface of my eyes or something. Never jumped to ghost!

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they’re little wriggly sparkles against the sky, it’s not floaters, it’s …wikipedia.org/…/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

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