Eyeball Floaters Explained

Eyeball Floaters Explained

Almost everyone sees a few floaters at one time or another. They can occur more frequently and become more noticeable as you grow older. Hank Green of SciShow explains the cause of these specks or squiggles that sometimes appear in our field of vision.

Sometimes our eyes do weird things. One of the things that it sometimes does is get floaters. What are they? Where do they come from?

 

Joke Of The Day

My eye doctor told me this, I’m not making this up. He says, ‘You know you have one eye set a little bit higher than your other eye?’

‘No, I didn’t know that.’

He goes, ‘It’s no big deal; it doesn’t affect your vision or anything. I just thought you might want to be self-conscious for the rest of your life.’