Visual Snow

[CarolinaDude]

Recently, I started noticing that whenever I look around my bedroom at night, when it's verryyy dark, I'll notice MILLIONS of tiny, tiny white dots EVERYWHERE.. They're NOT floaters.. And now I started looking for them during the daytime, too, and surely enough I can also see them, but if I'm not looking for them they easily go unnoticed. I feel like I've lived my whole life with them and am now just noticing it..

I was looking around the Internet and found out that it's called visual snow.

These two pictures are basically what they are, but mine is much less severe:
http://www.visualsnow.com/examples/pictures/index_files/page1-1000-full.html
http://www.visualsnow.com/examples/pictures/index_files/page1-1001-full.html

Does anyone else have this?

[Maxxie]

Yeah, I've got it too. It's not very bothersome, but it's pretty strange. It's also accentuated after I look at a bright screen like my iPod in the dark.

But honestly, I don't think it's anything to worry about.

[Syvelocin]

This is another one of my little quirks my parents thought I was crazy for when I tried to explain it to them. A bit different though, what I noticed as a kid were little bubbles when I looked at the sky. And I'd find patterns in this visual thing against my ceiling when I was a kid. But now that you say that it's actually something, yes, I get the same thing. Is it supposed to be crisp? I thought that's how vision was... hmm.

[Magenta]

This is completely normal. I believe it's just how your eyes are. At night, I blame it on my eyes trying to adjust.

What Rith said, almost like bubbles when looking at the sky, it's actually a calcium build up in your eye that appears to be floating around. I used to watch them a lot and try to follow them... of course, the minute I tried to focus on them, they'd disappear.

It's nothing to worry about.

[Belton21]

This is completely normal. I believe it's just how your eyes are. At night, I blame it on my eyes trying to adjust.

What Rith said, almost like bubbles when looking at the sky, it's actually a calcium build up in your eye that appears to be floating around. I used to watch them a lot and try to follow them... of course, the minute I tried to focus on them, they'd disappear.

It's nothing to worry about.


I did the same thing,when I was little.

[CarolinaDude]

Yeah I always thought this was how vision was too! But then I asked my brother and he doesn't see them. And for some people, it's so bad that it actually impairs their vision and the doctors just think they're making stuff up.

Oh well. I'll try to stop worrying. I barely notice them, anyway (except at night, of course). Thanks for all the replies!

[canyon]

I sometimes notice them too. I also see these like little orbs I guess? floating around my eyes. They look like little shadowy balls and when I move my eyes they go in the direction that I move my eyes in. Most of the time they don't bother me but sometimes they really get in the way of me seeing and I have to concentrate on something to move them away..