I have been seeing vitreous floaters since age 10. They have gradually
increased - I am 40 now - to a point where they are becoming hard to
ignore. I don't wear glasses and although I haven't actually had an eye
test since school I don't have any trouble reading or suffer from
blurred vision.

The other day I brought a cheap microscope with the intention of seeing
brownian motion, however when I turned the microscope light on and
looked through the eye-piece I saw the clearest view of my floaters
ever. I assume they are so clear because the microscope puts a lot of
light near to the surface of your eye. Up to this point I had been
aware that they are more noticeable in bright surroundings and on a
light background. But viewing them "through" the microscope they are
incredibly clear - for me anyway. It was only the fact that they are
moving reminds me that they are not actually on the microscope slide
itself.

They look similar to the cells one sees through a microscope in Biology
at school. Seeing them requires a certain knack because, unless a
floater happens to be right in the centre of your field of vision, as
you look towards it it will move off in the direction that your eye
moves.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Anyroad, it's all a painted veil!