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Describe your floaters
#7681003 - 11/26/07 09:18 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ever since I tripped on mushrooms for the first time, I have become more aware of the floaters in my vision. I've always remembered seeing little dots or lines whilst looking at the sky or other monochrome surfaces, even as a child, but now it is almost impossible to ignore these rather annoying little oddities.
People with any degree of hppd will normally have a heightened awareness of floaters, according to many sources. I'm sure there are many people out there without hppd who see them occasionally, too.
Anyway, back to the point of my post.
What do your floaters look like? I see a relatively long, horizontal, oblique line that dominates over the other miniscule dots that surround it.
Oh and maybe I can throw in another question...
For those who did become more aware of your floaters after tripping, do they ever become less apparent, to an almost pre-tripping level of awareness?
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: psychejam]
#7681086 - 11/26/07 09:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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are those the things that when you try to look at it it move away at the same speed you look at it but if you stare at a certain spot away from it it will stay there and you can sorta focus on it? i have those all the time while not trippin
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: milkman]
#7681107 - 11/26/07 09:39 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ive seen mine before tripping, the doctor said mine might be caused by migraines but im not sure. Mine look like weird microscope worms and i have 5-10 in my field of vision at time but a lot of times i look 'past' them and dont notice.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: milkman]
#7681137 - 11/26/07 09:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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milkman said: are those the things that when you try to look at it it move away at the same speed you look at it but if you stare at a certain spot away from it it will stay there and you can sorta focus on it? i have those all the time while not trippin
Yep, those are the ones. It's almost impossible to look directly at them, as they tend to shoot off in other directions when I try to focus on them. As you said, there are times when you find yourself looking directly at them...but it only tends to be for a split second before they realise you're looking at them and proceed to run away. Must be shy...
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: psychejam]
#7681144 - 11/26/07 09:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I call em' electric snakes!
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: 2end4]
#7681149 - 11/26/07 09:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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2end4 said: I call em' electric snakes!
Now that it seems like they're here to stay, I should think of names for them, too. The long, oblique one can be called 'Mick Jagged'. The little annoying dots can be 'Germ Trooper' #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on..
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: psychejam]
#7681169 - 11/26/07 09:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hi... funny to read this... i've been aware of floaters more and more everytime. I even see some things that i don't know if they are floaters or what...
Sometimes when staring at morning skies... plain blue or cloudy i can see particles of light... well what it seems to be bright points in my vision and they "dance" they don't move like floaters trying to run away from your view but instead they swing, they rock a little...
Last month i took a national flight and i was amazed of how many of this bright spots i could see while on the plane... i was staring at the clouds below and they were all over.
Wanna know whats even funnier? I told my dad (who doesn't do drugs at all dont even alcohol)... at first he thought i was joking or had an eye disability but we went hiking and i got him to see them too...
I don't know what they are... maybe i can see condensed photons hehe! or i dunno... but every now and then i have fun "finding" the dancing particles.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: psychejam]
#7681173 - 11/26/07 09:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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theyre "movement" is so consistent with your eyes movement i think it has something to do with migraines like implee said
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: milkman]
#7681179 - 11/26/07 10:01 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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They are little creatures I swear!
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: AngeloWish]
#7681195 - 11/26/07 10:06 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've seen those too! The bright little specks of light, it only seems to happen on semi bright days and only when i look in the sky it fucks with you like "this looks waaaay strange" but i havent experienced it in quite a while.... (i dont go outside much anymore )
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: implee]
#7681496 - 11/26/07 11:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I mostly get the little worms, but there are shitloads of little specks that fly around rapidly when I look at the blue sky.
I remember looking up to the sky as a child and imagining it was filled with little UFOs...
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I have visual snow/static pretty constantly (though its intensity greatly varies--less light/later at night = more frequent), and floaters I do have, but rarely notice unless I focus on them (more because I've heard they're just impurities in the outer lining of your eyes, and one learns to look past them).
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Querjek]
#7681694 - 11/26/07 12:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: ryancleg]
#7681756 - 11/26/07 12:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I see this thing that looks like a a bunch of clear dots stuck together, I think its a scracth on my eyeball or something.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: psychejam]
#7681800 - 11/26/07 01:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I can't stare for too long at one place such as the texture of a roof (foam spray) or wood grain without my vision going crazy on me. Things start to drift and move a little bit, almost as if I'm experiencing some kind of flashback. It's most likely some mild HPPD, if you are one that believes in HPPD (I most certainly do, some deny it's existence).
Substances that seem to worsen this usually come from the tryptamine family(For some reason), I've noticed. For this reason, I tend to limit myself to the PEA side of things, with the exception of DMT here or there on the tryptamine side. I almost feel that DMT is in a league of it's own, so I have not turned my back on it. I don't really touch LSD and mushrooms because they tend to worsen it, but for some reason Mescalin and 2C-B, both full blown psychedelics, don't affect me as much (go figure )
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Robo]
#7681831 - 11/26/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've had floaters since I was a kid and I can bounce it around like a ball just by moving my eyes, I have always been fascinated by them and always wondered what the fuck they were. Sometimes I get a translucent string that looks like a thread, that just floats across my eyes but I can't control that one.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7681969 - 11/26/07 01:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Caribou_Lou said: I've had floaters since I was a kid and I can bounce it around like a ball just by moving my eyes, I have always been fascinated by them and always wondered what the fuck they were. Sometimes I get a translucent string that looks like a thread, that just floats across my eyes but I can't control that one.
Floaters one typically can't control, but tracers you can move yourself (or at least, influence their paths of movement).
Are the first things you describe (personally what I'd call tracers) typically a describable color? Floaters tend to be colorless or the same as the colors around them, while tracers tend to stand out color-wise and are inverted when one closes his or her eyes (the colors invert, I should specify).
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: implee]
#7682033 - 11/26/07 02:18 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I call them a major annoyance
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Gr33nTree73]
#7682082 - 11/26/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is there any way to get rid of them? I don't consider it a gift or blessing, really....
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Robo]
#7682399 - 11/26/07 04:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I first saw them in the microscope. I was actually looking at pond water which is fascinating and I saw the stuff in my eye reflected back some how. I saw that stuff through out my youth (with and without microscopes or eye rubbing) well before psychedelics, and I wondered if it was in the aqueous or vitreous humour or something like that. simmilar stuff - more dynamic stuff, seems to come with psychedelic, and I am not sure if it is related to the humours of the eye. I bet people who had not noticed it in a microscope as a kid, might think it came from psychedelic, which does make you notice lots of stuff that we have grown used to skipping over.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Querjek]
#7682405 - 11/26/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Querjek said:
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Caribou_Lou said: I've had floaters since I was a kid and I can bounce it around like a ball just by moving my eyes, I have always been fascinated by them and always wondered what the fuck they were. Sometimes I get a translucent string that looks like a thread, that just floats across my eyes but I can't control that one.
Floaters one typically can't control, but tracers you can move yourself (or at least, influence their paths of movement).
Are the first things you describe (personally what I'd call tracers) typically a describable color? Floaters tend to be colorless or the same as the colors around them, while tracers tend to stand out color-wise and are inverted when one closes his or her eyes (the colors invert, I should specify).
You're right it's like a grayish tone. The thread looking thing I described is a floater though, it's see through.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: implee]
#7682436 - 11/26/07 04:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i noticed these first when i was very young.
it surprises me to know that some people did not notice these things until after tripping.
i used to stare at the clouds alot while younger to see the different shapes/faces.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: pong]
#7682647 - 11/26/07 04:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is exactly what my floaters look like.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: pong]
#7682674 - 11/26/07 05:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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pong said: i noticed these first when i was very young.
it surprises me to know that some people did not notice these things until after tripping.
i used to stare at the clouds alot while younger to see the different shapes/faces.
Me too as a little kid I had no idea what it was and how to describe it
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This is exactly what my floaters look like.
Me too but usualy there's only one or two close together
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7682712 - 11/26/07 05:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ive been wondering about these for ages too, i sometimes get floaty type things in my vision that move about when i move my eyes, also if i look at the sky i sometimes get pixely type colours, really small dots of colour.
Have had them way before i ever tried any drugs.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: veda_sticks]
#7682888 - 11/26/07 06:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh man, I've tried describing that to other people and no one knew what the hell i was talking about... the pic above is just like mine, except usually only one or two. It moves around with my eye, if I move my eye really quickly it will follow, but after a delay, as if it were suspended in a sort of gooey liquid. I noticed it when I was very young, and for a while I thought I could see the bacteria that were on my eyes, especially because of it seeming like it was in that liquid.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: boxcarguy07]
#7683058 - 11/26/07 07:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bahaha!
Thought this was a thread to discuss fecal matter. 
But, on topic, I believe everyone has these to some extent.
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Oh wow! thats what they are called? And I am not the only one! haha this is a great day.
Mine always reminded me of alien crafts floating in my vision as a child.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: F1234K]
#7683519 - 11/26/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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F1234K said:
Mine always reminded me of alien crafts floating in my vision as a child.
Yeah, they were kind of eerie at times. Showed up dark against a bright sky, and light against a dark background. I remember asking a neurologist about 'em and he said they appear more in children and adolescents than adults.
Go figure.
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Grylls]
#7683585 - 11/26/07 09:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Grylls said:

This is exactly what my floaters look like.
exactly me too but over white, but I guess it could be blue
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That picture is pretty much it
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: implee]
#7683835 - 11/26/07 10:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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but what are they?
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7683911 - 11/26/07 11:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the little squiggly points of light that you see that almost look like sperm swimming around are actually white blood cells. here's a quote and link from wikipedia, its called the blue field entoptic phenomenon
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The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer's phenomenon is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into blue light (such as the sky).[1] This is a normal effect that can be perceived by almost everybody. The dots are due to the white blood cells that move in the capillaries in front of the retina of the eye, near the macula.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
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Re: Describe your floaters [Re: Robo]
#7683945 - 11/26/07 11:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Adagio said: I can't stare for too long at one place such as the texture of a roof (foam spray) or wood grain without my vision going crazy on me. Things start to drift and move a little bit, almost as if I'm experiencing some kind of flashback. It's most likely some mild HPPD, if you are one that believes in HPPD (I most certainly do, some deny it's existence).
Na, not a flashback. When I was a kid I used to do that all the time because it was entertaining. Usually the most extreme times would happen at church (go figure); I'd stare at one place while the priest was rappin on about some thing or another and colors would change, the foreground would seem to move forward and the side slide away, etc...lots of cool movement.
Floaters blow though, I've seen them slathered over top of people's faces that I was talking to - like WTF floaters, let me be....
Scheerer's phenomenon eh? that's interesting. It seems I see this more in the sunlight, which I assume helps make the cells more visible...but sometimes I'll be reading or chillin on the computer and I'll suddenly see a bright flash like a burgeoning falling star in my peripheral vision. For some reason yoga seems to make these more visible, which makes me think that most of these experiences we're talking about come down to greater awareness, as redgreenvines mentioned:
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on lsd mine look like fireflys. And each time you try to catch one you create more! I love to try and catch my fireflys, but have never been successful. You call them annoying, i call them fun, lol!
on mushrooms i dont notice them as much, didnt realize that till just know actually. Ive experienced mushies a lot more though.
i dont think i have hppd(which im sure I would), but I see these floaters from time to time. But im usually stoned so it could be the weed, lol.
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