After Getting a Black Eye Can You Open Your Eyes
How do so many people open their eyes underwater?
I always have to wear goggles, but I often see people who can just open their eyes underwater, even in swimming pools and other places where there are tons of chemicals. Whenever I try it it just hurts. Are they just in pain for the time that they have their eyes open, or am I just weak-eyed?
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It does not feel good but it's no real pain either. Just endure it
level 2
Exactly, for me it only gets painful if I do for some time in a pool with clorine in it
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Are there any health detriments in doing these in the following:
Pool with chlorine
Beach water
?
level 1
Maybe you just have sensitive eyes. No shame.
level 2
This is the reason I failed Red Cross Swimming certification.
level 1
I can manage it in pools, but it's the ocean that I don't get how people do.
Salt fucking stings!
level 2
I can tolerate either one, honestly. Chlorine is actually the worse of the two, simply because it leaves my eyes feeling all dry and itchy for like a day afterwards.
level 2
Salt stings at first, chlorine stings for days.
level 2
I was always scared of opening my eyes in the ocean. I thought our eyes were like open wounds, being really sensitive and needing eyelids to stop the whole water thing happening.
Putting salt on an open wound?
I have opened my eyes underwater but yeah chlorine sucks and the stinging you get after is not worth it. also its all really blurry anyway.
level 2
In my experience sea water is less irritating than swimming pool water.
level 2
Your tears have salt in them too though
level 2
Totally agree. Chlorine water doesn't feel uncomfortable at all to me but seawater in the eyes in agony haha.
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· 7y · edited 7y
The desire to see where I'm going overrides the uncomfortableness, which fades. I just grew up doing it from a very early age so it become natural.
In fresh water ponds/rivers I hardly notice since the water isn't chlorinated.
basically, you train your eyes to not care about the weird feeling because the joy of seeing is more important.
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fresh water ponds/rivers
how are you not terrified of eye parasites burrowing down your optic nerve and laying eggs in your eye sockets
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I agree! I think the first time I did it (because others did it like it was normal) I was kind of like "oh god" for a brief second. But seeing stuff underwater? Pretty cool. Now it's a little uncomfortable, and I don't exactly go out of my way to open my eyes underwater (does not feel nice if you keep doing it), but the benefits of seeing everything are worth it.
level 2
The desire to see overrides the pain sounds like it's from some story, like a philosophical, poetic message, or the theme of enduring pain to find beauty is related to one.
level 1
I used to be able to until I started wearing contacts. Now if I open my eyes they just float away.
level 2
Your eyes float away?! How do you find them again without being able to see?
After Getting a Black Eye Can You Open Your Eyes
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