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It's very much like eye floaters. They are always there, but you can tune them out most of the time.

Completely agree. I've had some light/moderate floaters in my left eye which were very noticeable under a white screen, clean walls, or full bright sky in the evening. It came pretty sure because of a very stressful period at 27.

Here I am, 31. I have to look for them really really hard to see if they are still there. Only when I have a streak of stressful days and bad night sleep, they will be visible again. It comes without saying that I had to change my life in many, many aspects, not only due to these floaters. A much calmer life, better food, gym, financial security, better friends and people around me, and cultivate a spiritual being in some sense. The mind can be shaped in many many ways it's fascinating.

Do check your eye pressure regularly -- if high, you have a higher chance of detached retina, and in that case more floaters all of a sudden warrant an immediate drive to the ER. This can apparently happen when youi fall or hit yhour head. Once that happens, up only have so much time to reattach the retina before it dies off. According to my eye doctor.

[Of course this is not be used as medical advice, as your LLM for that ;)]

my floaters showed up when i was 14- it was kinda shocking and scary at the time to be a freshman in high school and suddenly there were massive sensory disturbances in my eyes. ophthalmologists would just say to ignore them. apparently there's a pretty crazy surgery where they remove all the vitreous fluid from your eyeballs, but instead i decided to follow the ophthalmologist advice and they pretty much stopped bothering me.

tinnitus seems similar. maybe in the future there could be some kind of functionally guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure that could dull out some of the malfunctioning percept, but for now probably the best bet is to ignore it.

on a related note in interesting auditory neurotechnology, vestibular implants seem pretty cool!

I have both,

No you can't tune them out.

They are always there, sometimes if you are very lucky you can get engrossed enough not to have them as the first or second thing on your mind

But it is always in the top five you never can tune them out you have always be aware as not to to certainn things.

I have tinnitus, and this thread is probably the first time I've thought about it this week.
Brains crazy

I had a slight crack in my windshield right at eye level view. And after a minute of driving I don't notice it at all anymore

The fact we don’t notice our nose is crazy! It’s right in front of us!
We have a projector instead of TV in the living room, and there is a small outlet inside the projection area, top right corner. We can go months without realizing/remembering it's there, until it accidentally matches a shadow or object in a scene... the brain just deletes it.

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