Can the naked eye see charged ions (or gravity) in the air under certain circumstances? (after a storm, at beginning/middle of sunset near tropical/equater location near bodies of water ? see more below)

A couple weeks ago I was sitting watching the sky right after a quick storm in florida near the coastline and riverline (barrier island)- and it was right as the sun was setting but hadnt set yet. I was gazing up and lookinv at the blue sky and there were some clouds (thin and not many) - but there had just been some rain and thunder but no lighting and it had gotten calm. Weirdx thing tho was I saw they tiny particle-ish things in the air. I didnt see them when i looked down, nor high up - but I did see them whenni looked slightly up sorta at where the suns rays were coming across the air bc it was setting. They were whitish/silverish - very small but thousands of them / thin and moving - almost like the tiniest of little worms or bits of string alternatively moving like the shapes of tiny thin commas or appostrphes someone had thrown up suspended in the air. I couldnt see them after the sun set - but only for a few minutes while it was setting - and again only in the middle space in front of me (I could not see them at all when I looked down at the ground nor high up over my head).

I also could NOT see them if i looked out in front of me and "focused" on seeing any particular object - like the fenceline or the roof of a house or even a cloud bc my eyes then focused on that and the (charged air went away like somehow bc i focused on sonething my eyes let go of seeing the air particles) - but only if I gazed at the air and tried NOT to see any particular thing - boom thats when i saw them - thousands of them, moving, popping and changing/interacting (being created and extinguished).

the sun set and they were gone (thet were actually gone just a minutes before the sun fully set.

Anyone know what it was? charged ions? Gravity (from solar bursts having occurred in last few months) electricity in air?

I believe it had something to do with both the air from the storm, and the way/angle the light was hitting it as well as the way the light was reflected/refracted off the the water on both sides, perhaps even thr tilt of the earth in this area at that moment along woth the sunsetting angle pf light- but dont know.

I looked online and seeing such things and some people talk about seeing spots - which can be various health things - but those they say are usually/are black or gray spots in peripheral vision- but these were neither spots nor black - they were whitish/silverish, moving, and thousands of them all over in front of me not in my periphery vision.

I also get migraines and have visual aura - so i know this WAS not that bc that is very very differnt from what i saw.

anyway it waa very curious and im just wondering if anyone knows ideas of what it could have been, reasons, etc

thanks.