Eye boogers are the dry, crumbly or sticky gobs that can be found around the corner of the eye or one the lashes after a night’s sleep. Some people get eye boogers even when they haven’t slept. While a fairly common phenomenon in humans, dogs and even cats, the field of ophthalmology hasn’t been able to come up with a scientific name for it. In fact, the only technical term that is used by eye doctors to describe what we call “sleep dust”, “eye goop” or “eye boogers” in everyday life is “mattering”.
