Does Playing Games Hurt Your Eyes

[XtAsY]

Originally posted by Busyman@23 September 2003 - 17:42
When staring at a computer monitor for long periods of time you must take time to look away (maybe down the hal or something). Too much light, too close, for long periods of time is a surefire way too ruin your eyes.

that use to happen to me when i started playing games for long periods of time... but not anymore, cuz at most now i play 2 hours straight or maybe less

[NewBie40]

The most common problem of playing games is that u dont blink with your eyes enough (studies have been made) and your monitor has a bad quality. If u like playing then u have to invest in a good monitor (flatscreen 85 Mhz) and remember to blink your eyes.

[DWk]

lol...... k so what you do in lan parties? of course, if u have gone to these.... i go to these like once a month...we play from like 4pm to 6am or something..... yea with breaks cuz we know its 2 MUCH to play for that much in front of the screen...besides its a wise choice since we dont wanna mess up our pwetty pwetty eyes

B)

DWk

[miffo]

Originally posted by NewBie40@16 October 2003 - 12:27
The most common problem of playing games is that u dont blink with your eyes enough (studies have been made) and your monitor has a bad quality. If u like playing then u have to invest in a good monitor (flatscreen 85 Mhz) and remember to blink your eyes.

I also read that somewhere
edit: found some stuff http://www.webhealthcentre.com/general/ec_vision.asp

and
"Accommodative problems may occur as a result of the eyes' focusing system "locking in" to a particular target and viewing distance. In some cases, this may cause the eyes to be unable to smoothly and easily focus on a particular object, even long after the original work is completed.
Eye irritation may occur because of poor tearflow over the eye due to reduced blinking. Blinking is often inhibited by concentration and staring at a computer or video screen. Compounding this, computers usually are located higher in the field of view than traditional paperowk. This results in the upper eyelids being retracted to a greater extent. Therefore, the eye tends to experience more than the normal amount of of tear evaporation resulint in dryness and irritation."

and as usual -cheap shit'll hurt u in the end of the day

[Wolfmight]

Well i've played online RPGs for an entire day.. i woke up.. got 2 bottles of water (so i dont have to get a refill.. lol) then i sat on my ass and played constantly.. ehh a few occassional bathroom trips, but still thats allmost like 15-20 hours strait gameing..
I actually only did this a few time, cause when i went to bed.. i was like in a "smoked too much weed" state or something. Really weird.

[miffo]

Originally posted by Wolfmight@16 October 2003 - 13:29
I actually only did this a few time, cause when i went to bed.. i was like in a "smoked too much weed" state or something. Really weird.

yupp I know that one

usually my brain wont stop playing the game until the next day or so
when walkin around in the house I allways peer around the corners for enemies (if it's an fsp i've played for hours)
man does that feel dumb when u realize what you're doin

[ashutosh_cool16]

Yeah.. it definately does... Also.. after u get up playing lot of hours, u constantly feel that you are doing the things which you were doing in the game... for eg. riding a bike, etc etc

[evilmonkeyshaman]

As you can see this is a really common problem. IT does help to just take 10 or 15 mins every couple of hours or just look away from the screen when you die or there is some other pause in gameplay

p.s. i once played perfect darks on N64 for 17 hours straight with my mates and it was at a sleepover so the room was completely dark other than the telly, none of us could see anything for about a day after that and i thought my head was going to explode