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there are always these colourful worm- and amoeba-like things floating arount and when i try to look straight at them they flee to the corner of my field of vision

That's normal. They're called floaters. They're basically microscopic imperfections in the gel of your eyes. What you're seeing is the shadow being cast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater