How to get rid of eye floaters First, the good news: Floaters aren't usually a sign of something serious. In fact, they may not even require treatment.

Eye floaters catching your attention? Learn how anxiety amplifies these harmless shapes and how to stop them from taking over your thoughts.

Floaters are typically harmless and result from natural, age-related changes in the eye. Reframing thoughts and reducing focus on floaters can help break the anxiety feedback loop.

With time, floaters can sometimes settle in the eye out of the line of sight or become less noticeable as people either ignore or get used to them.

Eye floaters are not a sign of glaucoma, which typically causes gradual vision loss. Floaters are small dots or shapes that appear across a person’s vision.