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13 Nov 2013, 9:33 am

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finding a light or a reflection of one and moving my eyes to make the glare trails make numbers or letters or symbols, or just cool shapes


I just have to say that that is really cool... I kinda wish I had thought of it!


I used to do that with lights quite often when I was younger. Not so much now as my vision is not as good as it used to be and I'm more protective of it then I was before. It's kind of weird but okay that I'm not the only one who did/does that.


I'm glad I'm not the only one. :D

You're the first person I've come across that's said they did/do it.

I didn't actually 'think of it', it's just something I started doing at a very early age.
In fact, most of the time I don't really intend to do it, I just do it without thinking.
Sometimes I only really notice it because someone will ask me what's wrong with my eyes.


Same way of Obscure Stimming High Five. When my mother found out I did this, she educated me on how bad it was for my eyes. I still do it, but I try to stop when I realize that I'm doing it. My eye sight is not good. Without corrective lenses, I'm legally blind and can't drive without my glasses. I don't have decent night vision so there is risk at night for me spacing out with glare and certain lights. Almost like a moth to a flame. Fun Stuff.


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13 Nov 2013, 1:31 pm

stardraigh wrote:
Bodyles wrote:
stardraigh wrote:
hosford42 wrote:
Bodyles wrote:
finding a light or a reflection of one and moving my eyes to make the glare trails make numbers or letters or symbols, or just cool shapes


I just have to say that that is really cool... I kinda wish I had thought of it!


I used to do that with lights quite often when I was younger. Not so much now as my vision is not as good as it used to be and I'm more protective of it then I was before. It's kind of weird but okay that I'm not the only one who did/does that.


I'm glad I'm not the only one. :D

You're the first person I've come across that's said they did/do it.

I didn't actually 'think of it', it's just something I started doing at a very early age.
In fact, most of the time I don't really intend to do it, I just do it without thinking.
Sometimes I only really notice it because someone will ask me what's wrong with my eyes.


Same way of Obscure Stimming High Five. When my mother found out I did this, she educated me on how bad it was for my eyes. I still do it, but I try to stop when I realize that I'm doing it. My eye sight is not good. Without corrective lenses, I'm legally blind and can't drive without my glasses. I don't have decent night vision so there is risk at night for me spacing out with glare and certain lights. Almost like a moth to a flame. Fun Stuff.


Same way of Obscure Stimming High Five! :lol:

Really? Why is it bad for your eyes?
I mean, I don't exactly have 20/20 vision myself but that's not surprising as both my parents wear glasses.
I never thought it had anything to do with this though.
Of course, I never really thought that much about it till now, so maybe I'm missing something here.



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13 Nov 2013, 2:21 pm

Any bright enough light like halogen & flourescent can damage your eyes like staring into the sun if you stare directly at it. Some lights are even brighter than the sun. This isn't all light sources, glare, and reflections, but some are.

One of the worst things I stared at visually to get the afterimage shape thing going was when someone else was welding. Very dangerous to eyes to look at the welder spark without some sort of eye protection that shades or polarizes. It physically hurts afterwards.... but it's so beautiful to watch. I don't do welding myself but I worked on a car lot where one coworker did. It's that type of thing. Soft lights that are non-white are safer.


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13 Nov 2013, 7:20 pm

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Any bright enough light like halogen & flourescent can damage your eyes like staring into the sun if you stare directly at it. Some lights are even brighter than the sun. This isn't all light sources, glare, and reflections, but some are.

One of the worst things I stared at visually to get the afterimage shape thing going was when someone else was welding. Very dangerous to eyes to look at the welder spark without some sort of eye protection that shades or polarizes. It physically hurts afterwards.... but it's so beautiful to watch. I don't do welding myself but I worked on a car lot where one coworker did. It's that type of thing. Soft lights that are non-white are safer.


Oh, that.
That's why I usually only use reflections or softer lights, and I've always been pretty careful about closing my eyes afterwards to let the after-images grade down from purple to green and then fade away if I'm using something particularly bright like reflected sunlight.

I know about the dangers of looking at a welding torch without eye protection, but I've always sort of wanted to try out the shape thing on one.

I talked with my (undiagnosed, but very likely aspie) mother about it today and she says that people find it very distracting because it's obvious that I'm not looking at anything, yet my eyes are moving.
All I could say to that is that at least it's somewhat less obvious than a lot of the stimming behaviors I've heard about.