What are these tiny, almost transparent, dots in my vision?

Question

Sometimes when I stare at a very bright thing such as the sky I see little dots. It's actually more of a circle with a little dot inside it. They are half-transparent and they move around a lot. When I first see them they tend to appear in a group out of nowhere. I have seen one that is gray and almost black. What is this?

Answer 1

You are probably seeing floaters.

Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age, the vitreous is transparent, but as one ages, imperfections gradually develop

You might as well be seeing Scheerer's phenomenon

The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer's phenomenon [..] 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.

Please have a look at the wikipedia article for more information.

I only now realize that your question is a duplicate of Seeing strange things in light