Ok I don’t know if this is the right subreddit but I’m just a wreck right now.(self.Blind)
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Amonwilde3 points5y ago
If you have no symptoms now, you're highly unlikely to develop any. Symptoms usually become noticeable after 12 hours. Even if you had damaged your retina (unlikely in this case), there's no treatment but waiting for it to improve. So forget about it...you'd know by now if you'd damaged your eyes.
kingdylvn1 points5y ago
Thank you. I looked at The Sun for a brief moment until I got distracted, it was kind of cloudy so I decided to look up and once I noticed The Sun was still out, I looked right back down. I just have anxiety so my mind has been racing the last 24 hours.
Amonwilde3 points5y ago
I understand where your mind is. In that case I won't be coy: based on the information we have about your situation, you haven't done any damage to your retina.
Go treat yourself to a sunset or whatever it is sighted people like to do. </kidding>
Nighthawk3212 points5y ago
Imagine a normal day, and you looked at the sun for 2 seconds. That's literally all you did with the eclipse. You're fine.
Neetz5121 points5y ago
Eclipse light isn't any worse than any other day. The natural spectacle just makes it easier for people to override their natural inStint to look away from Bright Light. You are fine.
reseatshisglasses1 points5y ago
If you received any damage from looking at the sun at the wrong time, it'd be immediate. You'd have noticed a section of your vision in each eye is invisibly empty, a blind spot, and causing the images you look at to have missing parts. Like you look at a flag pole and a section of that pole is just blue sky, so you naturally shift your eyes to move the blind spot off of that section and it magically reappears. That's because your brain is filling in the blindspot in an attempt to adapt to the damage, however, you'll notice it because obviously flag poles can't stand with a missing section and books don't have text that appears and disappears depending how you shift your eyes. You'd have noticed the damage to your eyes immediately because that oddness would be noticed too many times for you to ignore.
You're alright.
DnBDeafNBlind1 points5y ago
No you arent lol.
KillerLag1 points5y ago
There are a few factors that could contribute to vision loss from looking at the sun. The biggest factor is the time spent looking directly at the sun, and the second bigggest is any sort of magnifying lens (like glasses).
If you have no pain and no obvious vision issues, you likely wouldn't have to worry much (but you can always ask your doctor to check for damage for your next visit). If you did have pain or obvious vision issues, you should see your eye doctor sooner.
Not someone I know personally, but I heard about a case where someone had looked up at the sun during a partial eclipse and didn't experience and ill effects. But a few years later, they end up having an unrelated eye condition and it did reveal they had damage to their retina.
kingdylvn1 points5y ago
I looked at The Sun directly for maybe 3-4 seconds but I had anti-UV swimming goggles on, like one of those goggles that has a dark purple tint. It’s just my anxiety that is kicking in.
stormsong191 points5y ago
My understanding from viewing warnings about it are that you'd know. You'd be experiencing color dimness and probably pain, at the least.
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