What happens if you use a computer for 24 hours for a year? Will you kill your eyes or?>

[WolfLoverPro]

so i always wanted to know what will happen if someone uses a computer for like 23 hours a day for a year doing whatever wether its gaming but im just more asking about screen staring lol

 

so like will you go insane or blind or what happens to you? or nothing lol

 

 

i know gamers game like idk 10 hours a day but

[haanuman]

lol! I am eager to know this as well, but can people actually do something like that? 

[LAwLz]

You can't stay awake for 24, or 23 hours a day for an entire year.

You would fall asleep and then your eyes would get the rest they need.

 

You wouldn't go blind even if it was possible though. At most your eyes would get tired. Fundamentally, staring at a screen is no different from staring at a brightly lit object. For example a rock that's exposed to sunlight. A rock in sunlight will probably reflect more light than your monitor produces. Do you think you would go blind from staring at a rock? 

 

My guess is that if you could magically stay awake for days upon days, your eyes would possibly start to hurt from fatigue, and you would probably get a headache if you constantly concentrated. Tired eyes = extra effort required to keep the screen focused = headache.

[Syntaxvgm]

In the past few years my vision has went from nearly perfect to nearsighted. I may need glasses soon. No one in my direct family needed glasses till they were like 50, I'm in my mid 20s. I don't know if it's from the excessive screen use, but I think it might be. Not to mention IPS screens feel like they burn my eyes now. I use flux and yellow glasses a lot now. Otherwise my vision like goes dark. 

[Startower]

i use my computer at least 14 hrs a day, 6 days a week, on monday i fell fresh and can stay for hours in front of the monitor but by friday mi eyes hurt so badly i need to stare away every couple of minutes or so. 

 

also my sight reduces its effective FOV so anything away from the center looks blurry and i feel dizzy most of the time. 

 

 

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, WolfLoverPro said:

so i always wanted to know what will happen if someone uses a computer for like 23 hours a day for a year doing whatever wether its gaming but im just more asking about screen staring lol

 

so like will you go insane or blind or what happens to you? or nothing lol

 

 

i know gamers game like idk 10 hours a day but

1. You would literally die from sleep deprivation long before you actually damaged your eyes.

2. You would likely go insane long before you died.

3. If somehow you managed to escape options #1 and #2, then your eyes would be irritated, tired, and strained, but they wouldn't go blind or anything.

4. There is no 4.

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

1. You would literally die from sleep deprivation long before you actually damaged your eyes.

2. You would likely go insane long before you died.

3. If somehow you managed to escape options #1 and #2, then your eyes would be irritated, tired, and strained, but they wouldn't go blind or anything.

4. There is no 4.

yah I ignored the 24 hours thing 

[dalekphalm]

14 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

In the past few years my vision has went from nearly perfect to nearsighted. I may need glasses soon. No one in my direct family needed glasses till they were like 50, I'm in my mid 20s. I don't know if it's from the excessive screen use, but I think it might be. Not to mention IPS screens feel like they burn my eyes now. I use flux and yellow glasses a lot now. Otherwise my vision like goes dark. 

I would be hesitant to blame screens. Needing glasses is almost entirely genetic. Just because your family doesn't need glasses, really doesn't matter. It's not necessarily hereditary. Anyone can need glasses, even if that person doesn't use computers or TV's at all.

[porina]

I probably spend most of my waking hours looking at a screen. Weekdays, it'll be the work monitor. At home, it'll be my monitor. Even in bed, I'll often have a tablet out too... but this isn't close to 24/7. Been doing this as routine for decades.

 

My vision doesn't require correction. I had unrelated eye trouble in the recent past, and as part of that I had a lot of eye tests, and in part came out better than 20/20 (or 6/6 in Europe). I would say, I do tend to run monitors really low in their brightness setting ranges.

[WolfLoverPro]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

I probably spend most of my waking hours looking at a screen. Weekdays, it'll be the work monitor. At home, it'll be my monitor. Even in bed, I'll often have a tablet out too... but this isn't close to 24/7. Been doing this as routine for decades.

 

My vision doesn't require correction. I had unrelated eye trouble in the recent past, and as part of that I had a lot of eye tests, and in part came out better than 20/20 (or 6/6 in Europe). I would say, I do tend to run monitors really low in their brightness setting ranges.

 

4 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

I would be hesitant to blame screens. Needing glasses is almost entirely genetic. Just because your family doesn't need glasses, really doesn't matter. It's not necessarily hereditary. Anyone can need glasses, even if that person doesn't use computers or TV's at all.

 

5 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

yah I ignored the 24 hours thing 

 

13 minutes ago, Startower said:

i use my computer at least 14 hrs a day, 6 days a week, on monday i fell fresh and can stay for hours in front of the monitor but by friday mi eyes hurt so badly i need to stare away every couple of minutes or so. 

 

also my sight reduces its effective FOV so anything away from the center looks blurry and i feel dizzy most of the time. 

 

 

 

21 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

In the past few years my vision has went from nearly perfect to nearsighted. I may need glasses soon. No one in my direct family needed glasses till they were like 50, I'm in my mid 20s. I don't know if it's from the excessive screen use, but I think it might be. Not to mention IPS screens feel like they burn my eyes now. I use flux and yellow glasses a lot now. Otherwise my vision like goes dark. 

 

24 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

You can't stay awake for 24, or 23 hours a day for an entire year.

You would fall asleep and then your eyes would get the rest they need.

 

You wouldn't go blind even if it was possible though. At most your eyes would get tired. Fundamentally, staring at a screen is no different from staring at a brightly lit object. For example a rock that's exposed to sunlight. A rock in sunlight will probably reflect more light than your monitor produces.

My guess is that if you could magically stay awake for days upon days, your eyes would possibly start to hurt from fatigue, and you would probably get a headache if you constantly concentrated. Tired eyes = extra effort required to keep the screen focused = headache.

 

30 minutes ago, haanuman said:

lol! I am eager to know this as well, but can people actually do something like that? 

Wait so basically ok fine not 24 hours lol lets say idk whats the avarage gamer hours ? 10 whatever

 

screens dont damage your eye>? it just gives u the red eye but it wont effect vision what???

[dalekphalm]

3 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait so basically ok fine not 24 hours lol lets say idk whats the avarage gamer hours ? 10 whatever

 

screens dont damage your eye>? it just gives u the red eye but it wont effect vision what???

More or less correct, yes.

 

There are some studies that show excessive screen usage might make your eyes worse over time. And there are other studies that show this is incorrect. But most studies seem to show there's little to no long term damage.

 

Eye strain and tiredness are all short term problems that can be solved by simply taking a break.

[Syntaxvgm]

15 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

I would be hesitant to blame screens. Needing glasses is almost entirely genetic. Just because your family doesn't need glasses, really doesn't matter. It's not necessarily hereditary. Anyone can need glasses, even if that person doesn't use computers or TV's at all.

well Im not sure, it literally gets worse temporarily the more I use screens. I've also had a terrible diet the past couple years, could be a factor, I've heard high fat diets are not good. Either way this change really started once I started using IPS screens. The far vision may be unrelated, but I only focus my eyes directly in front of me all day. The reason I wonder if screens are responsible is my vision going dark. Basically, my eyes will adjust to the brightest thing and cant focus on anything else. 

I remember I was playing a game on a tv in the dark just fine and a friend used his phone flashlight to try to plug something in and I literally couldn't see the TV while it was on, or rather I could see it but all my eyes could focus on was the light, which was barely in my field of vision. I was in a theater once that I've always thought had a screen that was too dark compared to another local theater (but the seats are SOO much better). There was a small led light by the exit sign on the door by the bottom right of the screen, about 10 feet away from the screen and 200 feet away from me at the top middle. That tiny light literally made it hard to see the movie for me since it was more intense, focused light. It really wasn't even that bright, asked my friends and they didn't even notice it. 

If I use a screen that's too bright/has too much blue light and turn away from it, there will be a dark spot in my vision for a while, even if the lights were on. Have you ever like been outside in snow when it's really intensely bright? You come inside, and everything seems a bit dark for a minute? That happens to me now. It's so bad that I have a monitor with a blue led bright enough that I cant use the monitor unless I put tape over it, less annoying and more blinding. So Yah I'm headed to an optometrist soon. 

[Techicolors]

i think the 20-20-20 rule will help if you have a lifestyle staring at computer screens. tho i am not sure how much research supports the rule that it can help against eye strain 

[DimasRMDO]

https://www.ibtimes.com/gamer-dies-internet-cafe-after-three-day-gaming-binge-hardly-anyone-notices-1787936

There was a guy who passed away because of gaming non stop for 3 days straight, it was believed to be a cardiac failure.

Talking about 23h of PC usage....

[WolfLoverPro]

2 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

https://www.ibtimes.com/gamer-dies-internet-cafe-after-three-day-gaming-binge-hardly-anyone-notices-1787936

There was a guy who passed away because of gaming non stop for 3 days straight, it was believed to be a cardiac failure.

Talking about 23h of PC usage....

why would you die using a computer that long? wtf

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, DimasRMDO said:

https://www.ibtimes.com/gamer-dies-internet-cafe-after-three-day-gaming-binge-hardly-anyone-notices-1787936

There was a guy who passed away because of gaming non stop for 3 days straight, it was believed to be a cardiac failure.

Talking about 23h of PC usage....

I've done what are basically 22-23 hour days a week at a time before, and I could not imagine not moving or using a screen that entire time. 

I dont think I could do that anymore at all. I feel like killing myself with even 4 hours of sleep. I have a sleep disorder so I used to be pretty good at that, but holy crap no these days fuck that. 

[Syntaxvgm]

5 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

why would you die using a computer that long? wtf

Think you would die from anything that long. Heart attack, etc. Blood clots, who knows. I think in most cases of people dying playing games you see it's related to rarely eating or getting up from where they sit and a ton of energy drinks, little food. People always talk about that "after gaming piss" and not getting up all day and not realizing it, getting bladder infections and uh...I have no idea how people do that but I've witnessed it. Sitting 6-8 hours without getting up once. Nuts.  

[dalekphalm]

5 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

well Im not sure, it literally gets worse temporarily the more I use screens. I've also had a terrible diet the past couple years, could be a factor, I've heard high fat diets are not good. Either way this change really started once I started using IPS screens. The far vision may be unrelated, but I only focus my eyes directly in front of me all day. The reason I wonder if screens are responsible is my vision going dark. Basically, my eyes will adjust to the brightest thing and cant focus on anything else. 

I remember I was playing a game on a tv in the dark just fine and a friend used his phone flashlight to try to plug something in and I literally couldn't see the TV while it was on, or rather I could see it but all my eyes could focus on was the light, which was barely in my field of vision. I was in a theater once that I've always thought had a screen that was too dark compared to another local theater (but the seats are SOO much better). There was a small led light by the exit sign on the door by the bottom right of the screen, about 10 feet away from the screen and 200 feet away from me at the top middle. That tiny light literally made it hard to see the movie for me since it was more intense, focused light. It really wasn't even that bright, asked my friends and they didn't even notice it. 

If I use a screen that's too bright/has too much blue light and turn away from it, there will be a dark spot in my vision for a while, even if the lights were on. Have you ever like been outside in snow when it's really intensely bright? You come inside, and everything seems a bit dark for a minute? That happens to me now. It's so bad that I have a monitor with a blue led bright enough that I cant use the monitor unless I put tape over it, less annoying and more blinding. So Yah I'm headed to an optometrist soon. 

Remember that humans are quite susceptible to confirmation bias. You might remember it starting right around when you started using IPS displays, but that's not a confirmation of causation.

 

Have you seen a specialist eye surgeon (not a regular optometrist)? These sound significantly worse than typical eye problems.

 

I work in IT. I stare at a screen for 8 hours. I then go home and spend most of my time using my laptop (IPS display) and watching TV.

 

I wear glasses, but my vision has only gotten marginally worse over the last 10 years, despite only working in IT for 4 years - this is a typical downward trend for someone who needs glasses due to genetics. If screens (in particular, IPS displays) were bad for your eyes, then my eyes would have gotten a lot worse over the last 4 years, compared to before.

 

In fact, the rate of sight degradation has slowed in the last couple years for me.

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28 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

1. You would literally die from sleep deprivation long before you actually damaged your eyes.

2. You would likely go insane long before you died.

3. If somehow you managed to escape options #1 and #2, then your eyes would be irritated, tired, and strained, but they wouldn't go blind or anything.

4. There is no 4.

[Syntaxvgm]

14 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Remember that humans are quite susceptible to confirmation bias. You might remember it starting right around when you started using IPS displays, but that's not a confirmation of causation.

 

Have you seen a specialist eye surgeon (not a regular optometrist)? These sound significantly worse than typical eye problems.

 

I work in IT. I stare at a screen for 8 hours. I then go home and spend most of my time using my laptop (IPS display) and watching TV.

 

I wear glasses, but my vision has only gotten marginally worse over the last 10 years, despite only working in IT for 4 years - this is a typical downward trend for someone who needs glasses due to genetics. If screens (in particular, IPS displays) were bad for your eyes, then my eyes would have gotten a lot worse over the last 4 years, compared to before.

 

In fact, the rate of sight degradation has slowed in the last couple years for me.

This is true. 
I'm also aware this is not typical, and I do plan to get help, as in the very least if they cant help the light problem I do have problems reading things far away now, put on a friends glasses and they corrected my far sight- which is a big sign lol. Never had that happen before. "Lets see how fucked up your eyes are...oh...mine are fucked up"

I do have a laptop that's TN and my gaming desktop is TN, and both cause me much less eye strain, even after I've already used my IPS screens all day and I'm zooming in to read by that point. In fact, sometimes I'll switch screens after a 10+ hour day. I'm using a 27 inch IPS screen at work, a macbook, and this older 15 inch tn laptop, I right now I can read the laptop better but it's further away. It's that much of a difference to me. I can switch screens and give my eyes a break. Plus all of those examples were led light with a lot of blue- the phone flashlight, the led light in the theater, street lights that are "daylight color". Hell even car headlamps do it to me if they are too far on the blue side. Older car lights, even new lights with a warm temp dont affect me. For my house lighting I switched to warm leds and florescent bulbs and noticed an improvement. 

The ips is important because I used to think that I didn't have problems with screens. Some people do, and are sensitive to this. Even have a freind that despises any florescent lights, is sensitive to the 60hz flicker. Never considered it a problem, but as more and more devices started putting off blue light and we started getting street lights that were led, I've had more of a problem. Some years ago I bought my first IPS screen and had those yellow glasses I had always made fun of like a month later. I dont know how much of it is the problem getting worse and how much of it is more exposure to blue light, but I do know what type of screen I use has a big impact, so much so that I pretty much use this laptop at the end of the day. The kicker is I almost never use flux on it either or wear yellow glasses. 

[dalekphalm]

2 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

This is true. 
I'm also aware this is not typical, and I do plan to get help, as in the very least if they cant help the light problem I do have problems reading things far away now, put on a friends glasses and they corrected my far sight- which is a big sign lol. 

I do have a laptop that's TN and my gaming desktop is TN, and both cause me much less eye strain, even after I've already used my ISP screens all day and I'm zooming in to read by that point. In fact, sometimes I'll switch screens after a 10+ hour day. I'm using a 27 inch IPS screen at work, a macbook, and this older 15 inch tn laptop, I right now I can read the laptop better but it's further away. It's that much of a difference to me. I can switch screens and give my eyes a break. Plus all of those examples were led light with a lot of blue- the phone flashlight, the led light in the theater, street lights that are "daylight color". Hell even car headlamps do it to me if they are too far on the blue side. Older light, even new lights with a warm temp dont affect me. For my house lighting I switched to warm leds and florescent bulbs and noticed an improvement. 

The ips is important because I used to think that I didn't have problems with screens. Some people do, and are sensitive to this. Even have a freind that despises any florescent lights. Never considered it a problem, but as more and more devices started putting off blue light and we started getting street lights that were led, I've had more of a problem. Some years ago I bought my first IPS screen and had those yellow glasses I had always made fun of like a month later. I dont know how much of it is the problem getting worse and how much of it is more exposure to blue light, but I do know what type of screen I use has a big impact, so much so that I pretty much use this laptop at the end of the day. 

I would suggest you have actual eye damage, and that all of your screen issues are a reactive symptom of your original problem - not the cause.

 

But yes, you should get your eyes checked ASAP, because honestly that sounds very serious.

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

I would suggest you have actual eye damage, and that all of your screen issues are a reactive symptom of your original problem - not the cause.

 

But yes, you should get your eyes checked ASAP, because honestly that sounds very serious.

I agree. I just signed up for vision coverage, and I'm trying to fit it in time wise. Lot of dental work that needs done too lol. 

[dalekphalm]

10 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

I agree. I just signed up for vision coverage, and I'm trying to fit it in time wise. Lot of dental work that needs done too lol. 

I feel for you lol. Fortunately my dentist works on Saturdays and evenings.

[wasab]

7 hours ago, WolfLoverPro said:

so i always wanted to know what will happen if someone uses a computer for like 23 hours a day for a year doing whatever wether its gaming but im just more asking about screen staring lol

 

so like will you go insane or blind or what happens to you? or nothing lol

 

 

i know gamers game like idk 10 hours a day but

You die due to sleep deprivation. 

[DimasRMDO]

9 hours ago, WolfLoverPro said:

why would you die using a computer that long? wtf

Try using computer all day long without having a sleep (from the morning like 8AM until midnight), I've done it once and my chest hurt so badly and I breathed a bit harder and that was only my first day (out of three from the guy's case).