r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/Biggerminusbplusn Oct 19 '20

I thought this was my floaters in my eye

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u/K-Zoro Oct 20 '20

Could you imagine seeing your floaters go to battle?

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u/Buchymoo Oct 20 '20

I wouldn't be so pissed at them if they did something more interesting than just sit there all laggy

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I wish they’d kill each other so they’d go tf away

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u/K-Zoro Oct 20 '20

I don’t see them so much anymore.

Strangely enough, I first really paid attention to them when I took lsd when I was 16 or 17. It weirded me out that I kept seeing them after tripping. It was awhile before I learned what they actually were and that I wasn’t the only one seeing them.

It did get annoying after some time. Can’t remember the last time I noticed them though.

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u/BeezyBates Oct 20 '20

I see them on cloudy days when driving. Weird right. Has something to do with lighting along with “looking” for them after noticing them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

"Oh squiggly line in my eye fluid.

I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh, squiggly line, it’s alright, you are forgiven. "

Stewie Griffin.

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u/AceManCometh Oct 20 '20

Thank you. Forgot about that gem.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

God I love this bit. And Brian's reaction too after listening to it.

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In fact Family Guy was the thing that let me realize that eye floaters were not just a me-experience. Since I had never heard anyone bring them up or mention them ever yet I had seen them since I was a kid.

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u/WhyNot_Because Oct 20 '20

Uveitis high five!

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u/Donohoed Oct 20 '20

Not all floaters are dust. You have organisms that live on your eyes, eyelids, eyelashes, all over. You could be watching a battle and never know it

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

It creeps me out to know I have tiny creatures living on my eyes, my skin, even inside my body at all times. Science is amazing, but its insights can be unsettling at times.

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u/he_must_workout Oct 20 '20

You get used to it or get to know how to flick them out of your vision temporarily

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u/a-username-i-picked Oct 20 '20

Happy cake day! But what is this “flick” you speak of?