Off on a complete tangent here, only remotely related.
Yo, fellow four-eyed geeks.
I noticed that when lying down and looking up in a room with a light source, with my glasses on, if there is a small droplet of water on the lens (say, due to having just cleaned the glasses and not wicked up every last drop), this droplet can bend the light in such a way that when it subsequently hits the cornea and pupa, a perfectly straight, parallel beam of light passes through the vitreous humor right to the retina.
The consequence of this is that all the junk floating in your eye is rendered in "4K clarity" in a circle of light, regardless of whether it is next to the retina, or floating somewhere in the middle.
Imperfections in your cornea or elsewhere are also rendered, making themselves evident.
Damn! Thought I was the only person who ever experienced this, it's cool that you decided to post this here. Anyway, I can actually do this with my glasses off as well. Lay on your back and stare up at the light with your eyes nearest to closed as possible but still letting in a little light, it takes some adjusting to get it into focus but you get the full 4k experience just as you describe. Thanks for sharing.
ok I've always wanted to map it out and keep track of them, I swear they come and go, so going to try this out later! If you can shed more details that'd be awesome! Does the droplet have to be dead centre??
The droplet doesn't have to be dead centre. Basically you stare past the droplet and see the glint of light in it as a big blurry orb of light. That's the "spotlight", basically.. That's it. If you squint your eyes, and see relatively sharp shadows of your eyelashes impinging on the orb, it's working.
Heh... my myopia is so severe that I get the effect just by taking off my glasses and looking at a point light source.
Christmas trees look like psychedelic, technicolor schools of puffer fish, and I can clearly watch the intra-ocular "weather" as I move my head/eyes around.
Yo, fellow four-eyed geeks.
I noticed that when lying down and looking up in a room with a light source, with my glasses on, if there is a small droplet of water on the lens (say, due to having just cleaned the glasses and not wicked up every last drop), this droplet can bend the light in such a way that when it subsequently hits the cornea and pupa, a perfectly straight, parallel beam of light passes through the vitreous humor right to the retina.
The consequence of this is that all the junk floating in your eye is rendered in "4K clarity" in a circle of light, regardless of whether it is next to the retina, or floating somewhere in the middle.
Imperfections in your cornea or elsewhere are also rendered, making themselves evident.