# Eye boogers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-boogers/300616>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-boogers/300616 "2005-04-22T15:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![alimarx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@alimarx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alimarx)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-boogers/300616/1 "2005-04-22T15:57:29Z")

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What is the correct medical term for this stuff, y’know, eye cheese, sleepers, eye snot, sandman came to visit, etc? Googling pulled up a bunch of slang and opinions.

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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-boogers/300616/2 "2005-04-22T16:48:30Z")

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Wish I knew 😛

I always seem to get a glob of that stuff clinging to my eyeball when I wake up in the morning. Drives me nuts- usually I go to the mirror and try to work it towards the corner of my eye (since I’m not keen on using my finger to polish eye boogers off my eyeball 😛 )

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-boogers/300616/3 "2005-04-22T17:03:02Z")

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Conjunctival mucin. It is secreted from the plica semilunaris.  
[http://www.optometrists.asn.au/gui/files/ceo841004.pdf](http://www.optometrists.asn.au/gui/files/ceo841004.pdf)