Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphereen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down15
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkTIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphereen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareSpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 days agoIt is a bit odd. Your eyes feel pain to tell you whatever you are seeing might damage them if you look too long. But if you close one eye the pain can disappear entirely, even though that single eyes experience is the exact same.
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoBetter to go blind in one eye. Then you can have a sweet eye patch
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSo it is averaged over both eyes. Do yoh experience any pain in one eye? Or is it always averaged over both?
It is a bit odd. Your eyes feel pain to tell you whatever you are seeing might damage them if you look too long. But if you close one eye the pain can disappear entirely, even though that single eyes experience is the exact same.
Better to go blind in one eye. Then you can have a sweet eye patch
So it is averaged over both eyes. Do yoh experience any pain in one eye? Or is it always averaged over both?