A third chimes in: “Thought it was just me. Keep thinking there’s a spider or fly… wave my arms like a loon, then realize it’s a floater.”
Eye floaters are super common, hitting about 7 in 10 people, and can pop up any time.
Mayo Clinic says: “Eye floaters are spots in your sight. They might look like black or gray dots, lines, or cobwebs. They drift when you move your eyes and seem to scoot away when you look straight at them.”
Most floater issues come with age. The jelly-like stuff (vitreous) in your eyes turns liquid and shrinks.
Web MD’s Rick Ansorge writes: “As you age, the protein fibers in the vitreous shrink into bits that clump.”
Clumps of collagen fibers form in the vitreous and cast tiny shadows on the retina. Those shadows are the floaters.
Eye floaters are usually no biggie.