Do you ever see "air"?

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I see heat. No one can see air. It's invisable. Back in 5th grade one of my old friends claimed she could see the air and I told her she could not. My mom told me she was just full of it when I told her about it.

What you are probably seeing is heat. It's all wavy lines.

This is a messy thread. I'll do my best.

It sounds like some of you are talking about dust motes (small particles caught in the air and illuminated by sunlight), which are actually outside the body, and are not an illusion. If you see them and others don't, that's because they are at a different angle relative to the sunlight compared to you (it's all about perspective). Some of you are talking about vitreous floaters, which are actually in the eye and are technically a visual illusion. They look like little jellyfish and move if you try to look at them. Also, I think someone mentioned the "water on the pavement on a hot day" illusion. That's called an inferior mirage.

Under standard conditions, you cannot see air, only things suspended within it. When you see your breath in the cold, that is water vapor mixed in with your breath. Air is invisible. I hate to sound haughty, but I can't believe I had to type that last sentence.

Here's a link about floaters for those interested:
http://www.triadpublishing.com/eyecarer ... book.shtml

Hope this clears things up.

My vision is pixelated..I am very used to it. Flakey constatnly sees what he calls "swarmies", which are similar to what you describe...or he is just very sensitive to the pixelation of his vision.

I'm not sure what you're experiencing then.

I know I have my own similar thing that nobody knows what I'm talking about. My visualization is small, and I can see it best either in the dark, or with my eyes closed. It starts with a small cluster of red specks rapidly moving around. Then it shifts to a bunch of red ovals whizzing by, either up or down depending how I look at it. I call that part the meteor shower. Then I see a black and white eye blink, then it all starts over. It's short, small and it loops. I've seen it as far back as I can remember. I don't think it has to do with blood in my eye. If that were the case, it seems like I wouldn't be able to see it in the dark. Maybe it's some kind of subjective eye static.

Hi I'm new- I'm losing track of how many times I see myself in these topics. I see these too, but for me they move like water bugs and look like cells. Sometimes they loop around in circles and sometimes they zigzag. I also occasionally see a spark of white light and sometimes with a flash of color. That can happen anytime anywhere, but the water bug pale lights I only see if I look at the sky and focus on the middle distance. I've investigated every angle I come across and have found nothing that satisfies. They are definitely not floaters or dust motes. When I see one of those little sparks wink I feel sort of a warm glow like something just said hello.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field ... phenomenon

I see those too! Wigglyspider, I envy you seeing them in colors. Mine are just bits of light.

Blue field entopic phenomenom makes sense, although sometimes I see the flashes of light and color directly ahead.

I see those light specks too when looking at at clear summer sky. Mine, however, appear out of nothingness, describe a curvy path, and disappear into nothingness again. I think of it as a "molecule dance" although you can't see molecules, obviously. I thought it might be noise in my visual cortex, but the blue field-explanation might have something to do with it, although I think the movement of the particles is too circular to reflect the structure of the capillaries.

P.S. Maybe we just pay more attention than most people do.

They are sometimes refered to as "Proverbial stars" or "Floaters"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater


You could also be experiencing a light migrane aura, an optical distortion that appears trapsparently over the vision. It looks something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/ctfj7p

My vision is kind of akin to when you take a picture with a digital camera with too high of an ISO and you get weird colors in the dark areas. All that noise. I have no idea if that is what you are talking about, but I noticed it last quarter duing photography class. It doesn't always happen but if the room is not perfectly lit and the colors don't match in just a certain way I see that.