Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is your Smartphone DESTROYING your eyes?”.
Almost all of us have at a point in time where someone has said: don’t need a screen for too long, because your eyes will go square or somehow some way, you’ll lose your eyesight entirely. Well, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news as it turns out. There is no substantial evidence at all that your phone or laptop is doing any long-term damage to your eyes, but the short-term effects shouldn’t be underestimated. So I kind of wanted to make a video that you could watch just once and use it to prevent all manner of eye problems in one go and I’m not here to do the obvious thing and just to say, use your phone less. No one wants to hear that so, with that being said, sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Have you ever finished a long day of work or a binge session on YouTube. Only to find your vision isn’t as sharp. Well, you’ve got a bit of a headache. Slight difficulty focusing or your eyes are just itchy and you want to rub them. These are just a few of the potential issues that can be caused by screens and in recent years this has evolved because it’s not just your computer screen anymore.
People come home from long days, looking at laptops or computers at work to long evenings looking at their phone screens and for me as a youtuber, you can probably imagine it’s a pretty big deal. I go from looking at a screen on my camera when I’m shooting to looking at a screen on my laptop when I’m editing to looking at the screen off my phone when I’m posting something so because these displays are such an integral part of our lives. It’S a good idea to know how to use them correctly.
Ok, so what are the causes of these problems? Blinking, blinking, moistens and refreshes, and the normal blink rate is about 18 times per minute. But when you look at a computer screen, this falls to about 5. So, for this make a conscious effort to blink, which of course sounds like a crazy idea, given how much of an intuitive process blinking is meant to be, but if you start just integrating 5 seconds of shut-eye every 10 20 minutes, that’s really enough to help this One’S interesting in position, your eyes are biologically wired to look straight ahead or slightly down. Try it you’ll notice that these are the positions that your eyes will naturally rest in and looking any other direction.
Your muscles are in continuous strain. This actually means that when you are craning over to look at a phone that is directly below you, you’re actually not doing your eyes any harm, because your eyes are looking pretty much straight ahead or slightly down, but then think about your neck. So as a solution for this, as a bit of a middle ground, hold your phone just a little bit further in front and a little bit below another thing, which surprises a lot of people, is that having a screen too close or too far can create issues. If you hold your hand, two inches from your face and try focusing on it, you’ll realize it’s pretty uncomfortable.
There’S a recent study that recommends sixteen inches is about how far you should hold your phone away. If you start to move closer than this you’ll be experiencing a similar effect to a little hand experiment, but then there is another consideration. Trying to distinguish small objects like text on. Your phone will also strain your vision, so you might be thinking I can’t win here.
I’Ve got to hold my phone further away, but then I can’t read the text. That’S on it. The solution to this, or at least the best compromise you can reach – is use a larger font on your phone by default. Most phones are set up in a way that would probably be hard to read as 16 inches, so just turn this size up a little bit at the same time, to give your eyes a bit of a break. From all this closed, focusing optometrists have comp with a bit of a roll, and you might have heard of it. It’S called with 20-20-20 rule and it means every 20 minutes look at something that is 20 feet away for 20 seconds, and that is the minimum amount of time for your eyes to relax again blue light and you’ve probably heard about blue light in one sense of The word and how it can be disruptive, but there are actually two sides to the coin.
A blue light can suppress the production of melatonin, a sleep inducing hormone that originates from a more primitive origins. So, there’s that, but also compared to red light blue, has a short wavelength and higher energy and this type of light scatters more easily and therefore requires a lot more effort from your eyes to focus this kind of light. And this exacerbates what is known as digital eye strain, so use a blue light filter all the time if it doesn’t bother you, and at least just at night, if it does something, I see just about every single person doing on some kind of level is having A display that is too bright or too dark, and this leads to muscle fatigue generally automatic brightness – will solve this problem, but on some devices, companies set it to overcompensate. So the screen looks more impressive, be aware of this. Your display should be about the brightness of the room. You are in to the point where it is not illuminating your surroundings, if it is it’s too bright and it’s gon na irritate your eyes even on minimum brightness, most phones are too much at nighttime, so use an application to dim setting all right.
So this video wasn’t meant to scare you. In fact, if anything what you can take from this is that, in terms of long term, problems you’re actually pretty safe, looking at displays, but implement just a few of the things we have talked about here. You can save yourself from all kinds of irritation, itchy eyes and headaches, both literal and metaphorical, so yeah. I hope you guys found this video useful and if you did, if you could smash our subscribe button down below I’ll, be really really appreciated.
With that being said, my name is Aaron. This is mr. he’s the boss and I’m signing out .