Eli5. Where do hairs go that disappear behind your eyeball?

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Here one minute, and stuck in the anatomical abyss the next.

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So that normally shouldn’t happen, but there is some space between the eye and the eyelid that things like contacts and hairs can get stuck in. Things can’t go all the way around the eye in a normal person because there are things physically attached to your eye at the sides and back; muscles to move it, and your optic nerve, and various connective tissues that all come together to seal the inside of the skull off from the outside.