Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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Yes! Eye Boogers Explained!
Or, as we call in my family, "sleepies." Whatever you call them, they're kinda gross, and are quite humbling to find in the morning. Despite however beautifully your rest went, they're usually hiding in your eye corners in the morning-- or, worse, they hide until your coworker, horrified, mentions you might want to check a mirror.But it looks like the story on eye-boogers is this:
"The general consensus is that this debris is the stuff leftover from dried out tears.... Tears are made up of water, protein, oils, and a mucous layer known as mucin, which typically coat the surface of the eye to moisten and protect it from viruses and bacteria.... When your eyes are closed and your eyelids are not blinking, dirt and debris within the eye isn't continually washed over by tears, which would help to dilute them. So at night, dryness causes the stuff in tears to precipitate out."
Ew and Oooooh! It's kind of poetic if you look at it that way: it's tear residue.
Does this make them any less gross to you? Do you have any fun names for "sleepies?"
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I'm just glad my regular tears don't look like that hahaha
I don't think eye boogers are THAT gross. But I never get them. Have no idea why. And I probably wouldn't be your first candidate to spot them on other people either. My dobie gets them a lot. I'm always picking boogers out of her eyes.
I always thought of it as 'dried eye mucus'.
ohhhh that's what it is.. i always get them and i hate digging it out.. it's just a pain to pick out..
I call in "morning in your eye"
They're weird, lol...I also get them during the day from my make-up, I believe.
in chinese, it's literally eye poop lol. and i actually enjoy removing them in the morning. sometimes i get so much that it seals my eyes shut because it attaches to my upper and lower eyelashes and then hardens.
i call em "crusties" with my american friends and "ololo" pronounced oh-loh-loh with my african family.
Agh they are a nightmare!! They totally ruin my fantasy of waking up beautiful in the morning.
It's sand from the sandman!
@FallingSafely@xanga - ha i was like "she calls her girlfriend dobie... thats weird" then i figured it out. i dont think theyre that gross either but they disgust my boyfriend beyond belief. i think nose boogs are atrocious though.
They are grosser when you cleaning them from your dog's eyes. My dog has allergies or something because his eyes are red a lot and he tears a bit, so I am constantly wiping away his eye boogies. At least mine are hard, his are gooey.
maybe I'm the only one who kind of likes removing them... it's like... acceptably picking your nose.
eh. nevermind. haha.
@Digital_Angel21@xanga - Hahahha oh my god that is only made worse if your cat has them, because then they try to claw your hands off as you attempt to pick gooey blobs off their face.
@foreverdiet@xanga - haha I should have made that more clear. Dobie=doberman.
@NightCometh@xanga - Agree !!
I've always called them eye boogers or crusties. I've never like calling them sleepies, for some reason.
I get eye boogers all the time even when I'm not sleeping. They don't really bother me though, probably partially because I have them so often haha.
Contacts make them ten times worse...
I don't understand what's so gross about them.
I don't think they're all that gross. I figured it was some kind of residue leaking from the eye to rejuvenate it during sleep.
What? I didn't know that there are people who didn't know what this was; I thought it was common knowledge. I've known what it was since I first noticed it as a little kid and asked my mom about it (I'm 27 now).
She told me in Chinese (Cantonese), it's called "ngan see," which basically translates into eye poop -- a colloquial term like "crusties," I'm sure. I don't think they'd call it that in the medical books, haha.
eye crustalas!
I don't call them anything though my family refer to them as Eye Boogers. I just remove them and go about my day.
nothing unusual for me, lol.
I don't think they're that gross. And I just call it eye boogies lol