# My eye makes creaking sounds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 11, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529 "2004-07-11T04:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![please123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@please123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/please123)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/1 "2004-07-11T04:33:41Z")
I suppose I should see an eye doctor for this, but I’m too cheap/lazy. Sometimes, usually about once every few weeks, while I am laying in bed at night, I rub my eye and it makes a craking sound. The sound continues every time I touch my eye that night but it ok once I wake up in the morning. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Should I go see a doctor? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/2 "2004-07-11T14:24:40Z")
That happens with my left eye. I asked my optometrist about it and he said no big deal. It’s just the fluid in my eye squishing around. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/3 "2004-07-11T16:41:59Z")
hahaha, I love that sound. Both my eyes do it sometimes; I actually derive pleasure from pushing the corner of my eye and hearing the resulting “kkkwwwiisshh”. I’ve always assumed it was just eye juice slushing around. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/4 "2004-07-11T19:36:35Z")
Chalk up another eye-juice squisher! I think I inherited my _talent_ from my Mom, her sounds were quite audible. I’m not as noisy, and my brother can’t even get the first squish out[Law of Diminishing Returns, or “Let’s go take a ride on the Canal of Schlemn(?)”] ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/5 "2004-07-11T20:38:30Z")
Another eye squisher checking in here. It happens to both my eyes every now and then. It annoys my wife when I do it because she thinks it is gross. I have no idea what causes it, so if anyone does, I would be interested in the answer as well. ---
**Author:** ![please123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@please123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/please123)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/6 "2004-07-11T21:24:22Z")
For some reason though, I don’t think its because I have extra fluid in my eye, rather because my eye is dry. I am guessing this because the creaking sound sounds like a dry wooden floor of an old house. What kind of sounds do your eyes make? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/7 "2004-07-12T13:47:06Z")
If your eye creaks when you’re sleeping, maybe you didn’t go to bed “oily” enough. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/8 "2004-07-13T06:24:22Z")
Mine does that. I’ve always thought that it’s AIR, not fluid, trapped in the… um… tear duct thingy. As an aside, when I was a kid, I could blow air out that same hole. I could blow bubbles underwater with my _eye_. Yeah, I was a talented kid. ---
**Author:** ![Hauky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@Hauky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hauky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eye-makes-creaking-sounds/254529/9 "2004-07-13T06:34:41Z")
That always happens to me when I’m all snotty from a cold or something, so I assumed my eyes… had snot in them or something. I’m not sure what I assumed, now that I have to think about it. I hadn’t tried blowing air out of my eyes for about 10 years (I’m 20 now, and used to do it a lot as a kid), but I just did it again from my right eye to see if I still could. Sadly, my left eye appears to have sealed shut. Rest assured that I will now attempt to do this over and over until I either actually do get air coming out my left eye again or pass out from exhaustion.