So, my eyes have been killing me lately, and while I wait for the visit with a specialist to diagnose what I've got, I'm doing a little bit of research on eye troubles and the like. So, I had an interesting discussion with my town doc, which lead me to do some more research.

Computer screens emit blue artificial light, on parallel to the sun's UV rays. Blue light reaches deeper into the eyes and its cumulative effects can cause damage to the retina. Studies have also found that exposure to too much blue light is the cause of age related macular degeneration(cataracts and eye related losses and diseases)

Nowadays, there's an increase in the use of digital devices and modern lighting such as LED lights and compact fluorescent lamps, most of which emit a high level of blue light. CFLs contain about 25% of harmful blue light and LEDs contain about 35% of harmful blue light.

Continual extended screen time can impact your eyes in two major ways. The first and most common side effect is digital eye strain. When you look at a screen, your blink rate drops significantly, meaning that your eyes tend to be less moisturized and tend to dry out, causing irritation.

If you've ever experienced slightly blurry vision after staring at the computer all day, that's sign of digital eye strain. Maybe your eyes feel dry, runny or tired after using a computer, or maybe you'll get a headache after a few hours on. These symptoms are often so common that we don't even recognize them.

The second big issue being what I addressed up above, too much exposure to blue light which damages your eyes over time and can lead to other fun eye related diseases. Blue light also disrupts your internal sleep clock, by tricking your brain into thinking that it's not time to go to sleep yet.

So, if you're up on the computer late at night, the closer you get to bed time, the more the exposure from your screen will scramble your brain's signals, causing sleep deprivation and difficulty sleeping when you finally do go to sleep.

It's commonly estimated that most people these days have at a bare minimum, six hours of exposure to computer screens, which is continuing to rise as time goes on.

One solid way to prevent damage to your eyes is to simply get a hold of glasses that reflect 100% of blue light and UV light, which can be be acquired by talking to your doc, or an optometrist.

Which, is something I aim to do at the moment since every form of light hurts me.

Cheers folks.

I've been doing this for many years and have never had any problem with my eyes.

Just because you've not experienced anything doesn't make it any less real. Even if you're not experiencing any active effects, blue light still damages your retinas, which is something a computer screen emits in plenty.

I figured I'd just bring this up since it's a possibility that all of my eyes woes at the moment might have been caused by something like this, or at least, made worse by my family's poor eye history.

Not saying you have to do anything about if ya don't want to. But look around for yourself and the studies all say the same thing.

Yeah lately I've been experiencing headaches and the like. I blame Cheat for making the Sep7 background a dark blue. I also have a pair of shades that reflect 93% of UV light, but wearing them at the computer only makes it worse.

The special shades that are designed for computers aren't tinted like sunglasses.

But yeah, I noticed that as well. I have to wear sunglasses at all times now, but I notice that in dark areas, or when dealing with some stuff on the computer, it's a strain on my eyes while wearing the shades since everything is darker.

I was about to mention that I'd heard of a few downloads that can help.

Now I have an excuse to wear cool-kid shades indoors without being a douche.
Awesomesauce.

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 26, 2015, 01:17:27 PM

Quote from: Mr TruMeta Madman Desty👌 on October 26, 2015, 03:35:22 AM

bruv

https://justgetflux.com/

See, that seems interesting. But I'm not quite sold on it. Nothing stops me from trying it of course.

But I'm not exactly sure if you can just up and change the light waves emitted by certain hardware that's built into a computer screen. It might make warmer colours at night but that technically wouldn't change the light and UV that's being used to project those colours, would it?

Gonna try it though and see what happens. Couldn't hurt any more than it already does, right?

Trust me, it makes a difference.

I'm pissing around with their example filters and I can spot the difference. Some of them hurt more and some of them hurt less to look at.