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NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦ NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦

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Eye floaters and flashes of light: what is normal, the warning signs, vitreous detachment, the eye exam, and treatment

For someone who sees spots, threads, squiggly lines or little cobwebs drifting across their vision; for someone who suddenly sees a lot of new floaters, flashes of light or a shadow like a curtain; for someone 50 or older whose eye doctor says the gel inside the eye is pulling away (vitreous detachment); and for someone whose floaters get in the way of daily life. The National Eye Institute (NEI, part of the NIH) says most people have floaters that come and go and often don’t need treatment, but sometimes they are a sign of a more serious eye condition. This page passes on, by name, what NEI says: what is normal, the warning signs, why floaters happen, vitreous detachment, the dilated eye exam, and treatment. It builds the words to say to the eye doctor, and prints a card to keep.

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  • Suddenly a lot of new floaters, flashes of light, or a dark shadow like a curtain over part of your vision? NEI says it can be a retinal tear or detachment, which can be a medical emergency: go to your eye doctor or the emergency room right away. Ours: call 911 in an emergency, and don’t drive yourself if your sight is affected.
  • Floaters with eye pain, a red eye, or after a hit to the eye? Get it checked right away. A hurt eye: the eye injury page (ours).
  • Can’t afford an eye exam? The eye care page lists free and low-cost programs (ours). Thoughts of suicide? Call or text 988, any hour (ours).

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Your eyes or your sight, and not sure this is the right page? The pages on this site for a hurt or pink eye, glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes and the eyes, macular degeneration, a detached retina, dry eye, fading sight and eye care you can afford, on one list.

General information from people who care, not medical advice. We are not doctors or nurses. Only an eye doctor, with a dilated eye exam, can tell whether floaters or flashes are harmless or a sign of something serious, and this page cannot. This guide names no product and no price. In an emergency, call 911.

This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). No doctor or nurse has reviewed it. The facts were read on October 16, 2026 on four National Eye Institute (NIH) pages: Floaters (last updated December 4, 2024), Vitreous Detachment (December 4, 2024), Get a Dilated Eye Exam (November 26, 2025) and Vitrectomy (December 6, 2024). Ours: calling 911 in an emergency (NEI says your eye doctor or the emergency room right away); not driving yourself when your sight is affected; that floaters with eye pain, a red eye or after a hit to the eye are worth getting checked right away; the eye injury page; 988 for thoughts of suicide; telling the eye doctor about being very nearsighted, diabetes or cataract surgery; what to bring; the questions to ask; low-cost eye exams; and the order of the steps. What we left out: NEI’s research news and its external video. This page saves nothing and loads no trackers.

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