It is not normally so unambiguous in its sexuality. The cells seems to resemble skin cells, I think. Not-wanting is a kind of wanting. Natural floaters are flakes of detached retina or the remains of a vein which fed parts of the eye during gestation and subsequently withered. Other floaters are small parasites who found their way into the eye and couldn't get back out.
Floaters accumulate with age or with physical trauma.
There is probably not a connection. Death has two goldfish named Slim and Wandsworth. Dream has ravens, such as Matthew. Destruction keeps dogs, as we will see. Desire does not seem to have pets.