Swimmies

Ever since I was a little kid, I've seen swimmies. Those are the little things that swim around in your vision when you look at uniform surface, like a wall or the sky. They look exactly like the little bubbles you see when you look at something under a microscope. Does everybody see those, or is it just me?

It's gotten pretty bad lately; not only are the little amoebae running around, but there's little sparks that show up and go around in circles. Maybe it's because I used to sit around in the dark and poke my eyelids so I could see the pretty lights. We were too poor for real firecrackers, I guess.

The lights you see when you push your eyeballs are called phosphenes, by the way. I'm not sure why I know that.