What always confused me about that is that I could look at my own eyes over years and see that SOMETHING was acting as a lymphatic drain — so I always took that as a “we don’t care enough to figure it out.”

Wtf?

I've read a lot about the eyes recently (medical issues) and it struck me as odd that the eyes are described as having a largely separate immune system.

Like how??

Have you noticed yet the pervading visual noise that sits at the very front of your vision?
The colorful shifting shimmers that play on even in the dark.
Ya know, eye tinnitus.

If you’ve got excess floaters you should have your eyes checked. It can be an indication of something else going wrong.

This. I have bilateral PVD's. My retina guy said all the gunk would eventually dissolve.

It’s been almost fifteen years. It has not dissolved.

You are degaussing your eyes like this:

I am degaussing my eyes like this: