# When you stare at a cloudless blue sky and you see those floaty things. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618 "2016-05-25T02:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/1 "2016-05-25T02:26:00Z")
What the hell are those? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/2 "2016-05-25T02:42:35Z")
Vitreous floaters: loose strings of dead cells floating (literally) inside your eyeball. If you only see one or two, that’s kinda normal. If you see bunches and bunches…time for an eye doctor. ETA: Less’n you meant skeeters. Or hummingbirds. Or the neighbor kid lost a balloon. Or… ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/3 "2016-05-25T02:44:21Z")
Martians ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/4 "2016-05-25T02:47:13Z")
It could also be white blood cells in your eyes: [You Can See Your Own White Blood Cells Flowing Through Your Eye!](http://io9.gizmodo.com/you-can-see-your-own-white-blood-cells-flowing-through-1652136232) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/5 "2016-05-25T02:56:12Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > What the hell are those? [Cecil speaks!](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/535/what-are-those-threads-that-float-in-your-field-of-vision) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/6 "2016-05-25T02:59:43Z")
They are the scouts of the old ones, keeping an eye until the time is right. If you gaze at them too long they will notice you. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-stare-at-a-cloudless-blue-sky-and-you-see-those-floaty-things/755618/7 "2016-05-25T03:08:56Z")
If you follow them, you will find everything you ever lost.