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Normal to be able to see blood vessels in eye?

I was just at the opticians earlier on today, and as usual they did the examination where they shine the light into your eyes. What I noticed when my optician was doing it was that when she asked me to look to the right/left etc, I could see the blood vessels quite clearly.

I didn't say anything at the time, because I assumed it was normal. But when I mentioned it afterwards to my mother she said it sounded a little strange; but she assumed it must have been reflected or something.

Is it quite a common thing to happen? I just have never seen it before, and I've had quite a few eye tests. :p:

:p:

Yep

:smile:

Always happens to me anyway, so if there is something wrong, we both have it! :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Lofty.

Schroedinger's Pandora

Yeah that happened to me too! I told the optician I could see the back of my eye, and she said it was perfectly normal :smile:

:smile:

Something to do with the way the light bounces around inside the eyeball. :wink:

:wink:

.... or something....

OP

Ooh thanks you two, that's a relief. :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Yeah I think it's something to do with the retina reflecting the light, like with red eyes in photos.

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