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Odd little black spots at the corner of one's vision.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:22 / 28.10.02

Actually it's more like a streak than a spot. It's sort of like the little floaty lights you get that are caused by dust or other bits of crud swimming around on the surface of your eye, except that it's black and it's always in the same place. My eye still looks the same, and it doesn't hurt or anything. It's just there.

Should I be worried or is this just something that all us old farts get?

uncle retrospective

20:33 / 28.10.02

It can be down to not eating properly. [your mum]You eating your greens reguarly?
You going to long between meals?[/your mum]

Kit-Cat Club

20:38 / 28.10.02

Sounds like a floater to me - I have one too. Mine's far enough in in my iris for it to follow my line of vision around - it's like a small fly really. I've had it for years and it's never done anything weird. But, you know, ask an optician if it goes funny...

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:49 / 28.10.02

Hmm. It sounds like it could be something nerve-related - like how vision is sometimes occluded with the onset of migraine or something?

The Apple-Picker

22:44 / 28.10.02

I agree with Kit-Kat Club. It sounds like a floater--I say this based on the vast opthalmological expertise I gained while waiting in the doctor's office and staring his various eyeball charts. I don't have any floaters, but I don't think they're all that uncommon. Whereas I have myopia, which means that my eyeball is freakishly shaped.

Here's some internet discussion where you people with floaters can bond.

Kit-Cat Club

22:49 / 28.10.02

My sister has that. She once came back from the optician wailing that she 'had rugby-ball shaped eyes'...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:22 / 28.10.02

Floaters sounds about right. I've got tons of the buggers. Not sure if there's anything you can do about them.

Bear

07:40 / 29.10.02

Thats weird I was thinking about posting something about these little boys yesterday, when I looked up at the sky yesterday there were lots of little white dots flying around it was very strange it looked like they were actually alive.

Yeah it does sound like a floater though, I've had a little black dot friend since I was a kid I used to try and get a good look at him but obviously when you try and look at him he flys off. Lack of sleep and hangovers seem to create more of them.

woodswalker

10:08 / 29.10.02

Floater. The vitreous humour inside the eye gets a concentration of odd stuff which obstructs the light flow. For months I tried to clean the spot off my computer screen, only to have it move one day when I tilted my head. (slow on the uptake) They are harmless and cannot be removed as far as I know.

woodswalker

10:36 / 29.10.02

Regarding Bear's little white dots; I remember a big stir a while back about "orgone" energy. The actor Orson Bean was on national television here in the states extolling its virtues and claiming to see it as floating, darting white dots. The source of the name Orgone is Wilhelm Reich...lots of intrigue about it. Try this link. http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax9kelley1a.htm

Bear

10:42 / 29.10.02

It was really weird actually, the sky was perfect blue I think thats the only reason I could make them out, I thought they were little flies to start with - they looked like organisms viewed through a microscope. Now I understand, I am God certainly explains a few things.

woodswalker

10:52 / 29.10.02

There before you was the creative energy of the universe. Maybe MC and those other of us with floaters are seeing antimatter.

pointless and uncalled for

11:07 / 29.10.02

My mum had black spots once which were related to a bleeding gastric ulcer that put her in hospital for two weeks. If other symptoms include faintness, dizzyness, nausea and blood stools then be very worried. If this is not the case then have a word with the local optical witch doctor. There is no substitute for direct contact when it comes to diagnosis.

The Apple-Picker

13:38 / 29.10.02

Orgone and Wilhelm Reich, huh? This man was a very interesting man, and I'd like to get ahold of some of his books.

I'm inclined not to believe all the orgone stuff, though. I think he was going a little mad, and wasn't helped in this as his only reality check could have come from an army of awed yes-men.

illmatic

13:47 / 29.10.02

All of Reich's books are now back in print, as of last year. Does anone know why? Is there a resurgence of interest or has a big multinational just brought up his back catalogue? Anyone know?

There's a fantastic bio of him called "Fury On Earth" by a pupil of his Myron Sharaf. As for the orgone box, hmmmm... ask me over a pint.

The Apple-Picker

14:08 / 29.10.02

Thanks for the info, Mr. Illmatic. Now I have yet more piles to add to my Reading To-Do list.

Rage

14:20 / 29.10.02

The white dots! I get those whenever I go outside. They look like tissue sparkles. My friend Sunny and I discussed these things one day, and decided to call them "specs." We were soon conducting social experiments related to these entities. We asked random families if they saw the white specs in the sky. None of the (roughly) 15 adults did, yet over half of the (roughly) 20 children did.

Shrug

20:29 / 21.04.03

Weird I get these too, I always thought they were drug related. I even asked about this on another Barbelith thread. huh .

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