 you know, it will attract the irritant, and then after a few minutes, I'm just talking two or three minutes here, maybe five minutes, the flaxseed will have traveled to the inside corner of your eye where you can easily flick it out of your eye. You pluck it out of your eye at that point. And because it will have attracted all that dust around itself, when you flick it out of your eye, now you have a clean eye, clean eyeball.