Sometimes see bright blue dots all over vision when wake up

[OpinionPlease]

Hello, I am 29 year olds, I'm nearsighted and have astigmatism.

For months now, not all the times, just sometimes (like few times a month)
When I wake up in the afternoon, first thing open my eyes, I see bright color blue dots all over my vision, the dots are bright like laser, and appears all over my vision.
This don't last long, I blink, and few seconds later and disappeared.
My vision not blurry or anything, just seeing those bright dots really scares me.

I heard that retinal occlusion see this, and I'm scares.
I have no health insurance now, so I try avoid seeing doctors unless is bad. So it is really bad? Please give me some inputs. Thank you

[F4rn]

strange stuff has been happening with my eyes lately too, i'm not too worried but making sure it isn't bad would be nice. i have seen the entoptic phenomenon. what's more is rather than see it when i look at the sky i can see it occasionally when i first wake up. but tonight when i woke up there were hundreds of blue wavy lines interconnecting. i'd never seen that before, so please help if you can.

[OpinionPlease]

Thank you Dr. Oyakawa, I feel relief now, I was worried I might go blind, LOL!

To DonW66, I think blue dots issame as blue field. I find this in wikipedia, check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Here a quote from it,
The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer's phenomenon (after the German ophthalmologist Richard Scheerer, who first drew clinical attention to it in 1924[1]) is the appearance of tiny bright dots (nicknamed blue-sky sprites) moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into bright blue light such as the sky.

So I think it the same, I do see tiny bright bright blue dots all over my vision sometimes when I wake up, especially in the afternoon when outside shine bright to my room, I can see it more visible.
Is just I never see this before when I was younger, now I am approaching 30, I begin to see it. Maybe eyes get bad as you get older and you notice it more.

[DonW66]

Are blue dots the same as a blue field?

Don W.

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

This is normal.  Google Blue field entoptic phenomenom.


Dr. O.