when I wake up

[curioucity]

Hi

I wonder about one thing:
Almost everytime I wake up, when I see something, wall for example, I see something like water ripples, or something that looks like bacteria seen with microscope, or whatever.... basically it doesn't block my sight, it just becomes a transparent 'extra scenery' to me.....
Any explanation please?

 

[//drift]

Could it be floaters in your eyes? The bacteria bit makes it sound that way, and the 'doesn't block my sight...' bit too. I have a lot of these and if i look at some bright, plain surface they show up like you said.
http://www.vis-ability.com/floaters/floaters.html has some links and a description. I have more tiny round ones like the bacteria-under-a-microscope you mentioned, as well as the stringy ones that come up on that linked site.
The rippley thing sounds familiar too, I get some disturbances in my vision. I got into a panic for a while once by doing to thing of looking up symptoms of pretty awful medical problems then automatically recognising them. I thought I was going to go through Retinal Detatchment .
aah well, there you go. I don't know a great deal about these things but I recognise the description.

 

[sargentlard]

Interesting..i thought i was the only one it happened to.

 

[curioucity]

So, it's just a metter of aging? Good to know.... for now.... maybe..... I'm 19......
I just wonder that the link does't say that this happen in certain times only, even though our eyes move a lot (relatively, since our eyes are attached to our active head, right?)......

 

[river-wind]

it's possible that you notice the floaters more after you wake up because you have been lying down. this allows them to concentrare on top/in front of the visual sensors. as the day does on, they'll float down a bit, and may leave your field of vision.


edit: "this would allow them to [float tot he back of your eyeball, right in the center of your view, concentrating where you'll notice them]. As the day goes on [and you spend more time verticle]..."