The major concern for me is not visual strain, but its consequences. I’m talking about the under-eye area. My under-eyes are chronically aesthetically impaired. I can’t exactly describe how, because they’ve almost always been like this, and I don’t have close-up pictures when they looked healthy. I think they were more plump. I can’t make them healthy anymore. I don’t know if they will recover one day. I know screen usage is involved in that situation for sure, as I made an investigation.
I recently switched my smartphone for a Bigme Hibreak Pro eink phone, and I think it will most likely solve the visual strain problem if not the under-eye problem. I’ve also been working with my laptop using a projector. It turned out the projector was still tiring for my eyes, and I’m quite sure, even though there’s very little aggressive light when it’s reflected like from a projector. So I realized it’s not a problem of light intensity. After all, if it was, the sun would be way more aggressive than screen light, because it’s more than one thousand-fold more luminous. So what is that causing my under-eye to be sunken, which comes from screen usage?
- It’s not blue light, because it doesn’t make sense. Blue light could disrupt sleep, but I have normal sleep.
-It’s not less blinking, as some claim, because I recorded myself blinking in front of a screen, and it looks the same and doesn’t correspond to what I observe in other people.
I need to test PWM and dithering. Although it’s not easy, because I don’t necessarily feel pain by watching a screen immediately, even though it does fatigue my eyes immediately, and it may need long-term experimentation to find the precise cause.
It is not a screen environment contrast or at least not only that the issue.
Also I am trying to understand the physiology behind it but just starting investigating in that. I tried several things for replump my undereye, creams compress massages but nothing have worked so far except when I have been reducing screen for long. But when I ve been reusing screen for a while a lot and then reducing it later it did not work again.