During this time, the light emitted from the sun isn’t as strong, making it safer to look at the sun. Sungazing is the process of staring at the sun during sunrise or sunset. It's difficult to read shit as when I look at the words they just disappear. Sun Gazing is an ancient practice used to aid with the opening of the third eye chakra and enhancing psychic abilities. TL DR : Starred at the sun for too long because I thought the sun looked cool, now got a permanent blind spot in the middle of my vision where I read shit. I most likely have done permanent damage to my eyes and now have a permanent blind spot right where i read all my shit. So I'm thinking well maybe I'll just give it a hour or two.įast forward today, it's been 24 hours and I still have the blind spot. The red does go away shortly after but where the red dot was is now a blind spot, if I stare at a word it disappears. Not thinking too hard about it, done it before normally it just goes away and my vision restores. I notice as I look around in the center of my vision is this red dot where the sun was. Probably at least 30 seconds go by and I start to think maybe I should just pull away, so I do. So I keep staring, squinting harder but making sure not to break eye contact, im probably thinking I need to beat this fucking sun in a staring contest or some shit at this point, obviously completely forgotten about consequences and the fact that I was suppose to be just calming admiring the beauty of what the sun is. I'm reckless, I'm like 'Fuck it, im breaking my record!'. Studies have shown that permanent damage to the retina can occur when looking at the sun for even around 100 seconds. However, sometimes people stare at the sun for so long that the retina is irreversibly damaged and cannot recover. BUT! For what ever reason (maybe because im a stupid male), I thought i had to prove something by overcoming this pain and staring at it for longer than normal. This phenomenon is known as Solar Retinitis. It started to hurt a bit, squinting my eyes, this obviously should've been my indication that it was too long. So I decided to sun gaze and stare at the sun. Does anybody know where you can get sunglasses that fit your minds eye so this doesnt happen again 9 comments.

I imagined staring at the sun for too long, and now Im partially blind in my minds eye. Like the colors and light and all is pretty cool and staring directly at it is like a rainbow of colors. I imagined staring at the sun for too long, and now Im partially blind in my minds eye.

So this happened yesterday, I was outside and I thought 'hey the sun looks pretty cool'.

Staring at the sun for too long