How to Make Your Eye Feels Like Its Closed Even Though It’s Open

Wow. Sort of like a phantom limb sensation.

I have the opposite feeling when I’m entering a hypnocogic state (between sleeping and wakefulness). My eyes are closed but my mind thinks they are still looking around the room!

jmp,

nonetheless the eye patch seems to work for that cause.

Plenty of houses have multiple bathrooms, definitelyme.

Wow, and here we were thinking we were frugal when we built our house and didn’t give our kids each their own *private* bathroom.

However, I hear where you’re coming from, definitelyme. The house I live in now seems quite luxurious to me. I grew up in rental houses, and there was always just one bathroom shared between four people. We didn’t even have a kitchen table big enough for the whole family to eat at.

I guess houses in the US (?) are just a lot bigger. Apologies for going off topic.

This happens when i lay in bed on my side and one of my eyes is buried in my bed and the other one is looking out. it is weird.
oohh also when i used to work in the darkroom and one eye would be looking through the grain focuser staring at light. the other closed.

Xinavera, I thought I was the only one who thinks questioning facts is funny!

Try covering up an eye and see what happens when you uncover it in 5 minutes.

Well I tried it and it works, Xinavera.
The mechanism behind this effect is likely to be more than just pupil dilation.
It’s probably more about the rod and cone receptors in operation at the back of your retina. Once the effect is happening, the eye that had been covered will have adjusted to receiving input predominantly from your rods (which are more sensitive to light and shape but not to colour), this helps us see better in the dark. And the eye that was exposed to the light would be receiving input mostly from your cones (which are less sensitive to light and more sensitive to colour). Because cones are less sensitive to light, they don’t allow us to see in the dark as easily.
Usually, we use both types of receptors, but as the light in our eyes increases, we begin to rely more on our cones, and as it decreases, we rely more on our rods.

Try this: Go in a pitch dark room and let your eyes dark adjust. Keeping your eyes open, fire off a flash camera (fire it at what’s in front of you–not in your eyes!). The whole room will be “burned on your retina for about 30 seconds. Even though it’s pitch dark you will still be able to see an image of the room!

The human body is sure amazing.

Hey Jennifer, I think your right. While we have fewer cones than rods, the cones are much more highly concentrated towards the middle of our retinae, which is where we tend to recieve the input that makes up our central vision. Rods are more highly concentrated towards the outer edges of the retina. Because rods are much more sensitive to light, when our eyes are adjusting an a dark room, we are better able to perceive light and shapes in our peripheral vision.