I know we blink less while using screens and the dryness of eyes could be causing the pain. But staring at plants without blinking doesn’t cause asmuch pain. Maybe the emitted light is the culprit, similar to how eyes hurt while staring at the sun, streetlight, etc.
Also, why does looking at something which emits light hurt in the first place?
(Because E-ink display do not)
What’s the science behind this?
In: Biology
From my knowledge blue light has nothing to do with your eyes hurting. It just makes you more awake so you dont feel like sleeping. What really makes your eye tired is the fact that you blink WAY less when looking at a screen.
It’s the brightness and the blue light. Our eyes actually start heating up from it, but we have no mechanism for dissipating that heat. Plenty of apps for counteracting it with red light, some monitors have their own, some OS’s have their own. Windows has a blue light filter in Display settings.
If im not wrong, computers emit large amounts of blue light. Blue light bad for eyes -> cause eye strain ->pain.
Sun -> huge emitter of infrared, visible and UV. -> huge emitter -> more blue light -> oh no
Plants green cause absorb light except green light -> green light reflect to your eye -> plant is green -> very very little blue light -> all good
E-ink tablets -> emit very little blue light-> no eye strain -> no pain
But why blue light bad?
Blue light -> high frequency than other lights -> more energy -> bad.
Similar to UV, xray and gamma, except they’re ionizing radiations.
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