go get your eyes checked

You're nostrils do that as you sleep to keep the one closest to the bed/ground closed. Since people roll from side to side over the course of a night your nostrils swap which one's closed

Mine is also triggered by animal dander so the mammoth could probably kill me by literally just standing next to me.

I assumed sleep apnea. CPAP users of today are the past’s “dang he died mysteriously in his sleep, oh well!”

Personally, I tend to use my mouth to inhale other things.

That won't help with asthma sadly :(

No, I frankly don't have the slightest clue how I did it.

How else are you gonna see in your dream?

Sleepwalking is correlated with stress levels. I've sleepwalked a few times in my life; some I half-remember, but most not at all, I only know if I find out from someone else like family/friends/partners.

When I was a teenager, I had a wall scroll that hung above the head of my bed. One morning, I found it piled on the floor next to my bed. It could have been one of my family, but they all denied it and there's no motivation anyway. I had to conclude that I did it in my sleep, but it's stuck with me because I've always found it extremely disturbing that I'm up and about while I'm completely (or nearly completely) unconscious. I've lived in a few skyscrapers with windows and balcony doors that opened more than enough for me to jump, and the idea that I'll wake up halfway down scares the everfucking bejeezus out of me.

I make use of that trick a lot, unfortunately it wasn't a ton of help this time.

True. I was thinking of the selective pressures of nature, but there are absolutely still self imposed selective forces acting on our species.

That's really not true at all though. Look up "Food Pantries in my area" and see how many places offer food in your area. The blind man would qualify for lifetime disability checks. Food stamps are a thing, charities and churches do this kind of work as well. My city has an emergency rent program and there are, of course, homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well. It's really that society's mechanism for meeting the needs of the hungry are part voluntary (charity) and part automatic with entitlements (not a bad word!) and sometimes people fall through the cracks.

This is why getting people connected to resources is such a big deal.

Just a lot of dangerous animals. And dangerous humans. No cars though.

I was more imagining the current world, but corrective lenses were never invented.

You'd be having sex with a sneaky fucker

i dont know about that one to be honest.

Would be pretty funny though.

I've seen videos of eye surgery, no thank you I'm happy with my glasses and contact lenses

So you're saying ADHD has saved many people's eyesight?

That’s tamper resistant packaging. You’re supposed to remove that before use.

Then who will I blame for all of life’s problems?

Not yet. But my eyes are definitely getting worse in regards to the dryness and pain. I thought it was just eye strain, but the doctor was like, "no. There's definitely something wrong with you."

I have loads of symptoms that indicate auto-immune disease. My thyroid is also larger than it should be, which has the doctor concerned. She could physically feel how big it is.

Focusing close regularly doesn't make you short sighted, not getting enough tourquoise light on your retina from staying inside makes your eye keep getting longer instead of stopping when the focal point is correct. Well, that and genetics.

And losing the ability to see near as you age has nothong to do with pressure. Your lens is constantly adding new layers to itself to stay clear, and after 40 it's become so thick the muscles that pull it to accommodate near vision can't stretch it enough. By 58 it doesn't stretch at all any more. That's why everyone eventually needs bifocals/progressives.

Don't state things as fact if your not sure of them.

Source: ABOA, NCLE, OD, I own two optical practices.

My understanding is that being nearsighted is a relatively new phenomenon that is largely due to being indoors a lot. Farsightedness in old age has been around since humans have been humans.

I took a quick look and Wikipedia partially bears this out re: nearsightedness.

I think its a bit of both.

Personally, I apparently focus (that's what it's called, right? Non native speaker here) slightly behind infinity, so I'll have to put a slight amount of effort into seeing clouds clearly. I can also focus on close objects, but if I read a book for about 5-60 minutes without my glasses I'll suffer a splitting headache, depending on how much time I've used inside recently.

I've found that I can do office work just fine using glasses, but after a few months I'll need to get stronger glasses as my eyes become worse. This resets if I spend a few days outside avoiding computers, books, and my glasses entirely.

I can usually watch TV just fine without glasses, but if I've been doing office work or just been mostly inside for about 2-3 months I'll need my computer glasses (tuned to focus at around 50-100cm) to watch the TV (located about 3 meters away). At this point, I usually also have to use my reading glasses for the computer, and I've got a special pair of glasses that I can use for reading in that specific case. I even start having problems driving longer routes.

In other words, I have really rather (I can still most tasks, just with a headache) bad eyesight during winter and spring, but usually have much better eyesight and barely need glasses during summer and fall.

There are a few ways to have bad eyesight

• Short sighted, can only focus close up
• Long sighted, cannot focus close up
• Poor acuity, cannot see the detail others can see
• Colour blindness

It looks like most of the short sightedness is caused by lifestyle since it is much more prevalent in places where children spend a lot of time indoors

The others would have affected our ancestors as much as us

OP is right, nearsightedness has been attributed to "not being outside enough" while your eyes still develop (aside from genetics of course), something to do with not getting bright enough sunlight for multiple hours as you are supposed to.

There is some truth to it, but there's also just the fact that some people's eyes are bad enough that they need glasses to fully function in modern society, but not so bad that they couldn't survive in the wild without them.

Me for example. I need glasses to drive, I can't read street signs otherwise, and I need them at work, but I otherwise usually don't wear them. The only thing better eyesight would meaningfully help me with in the wild is navigation and spotting hidden animals quicker, and even then it'd really only help with snakes. Any other ambush predator I'd be likely to encounter in my region is big enough that spotting it a few seconds sooner wouldn't really help.

Yeah I'm in my 40s now and could barely see aged 5. I had glasses that were so thick even getting them in high index the lens sticks out of a chunky frame.

That's a factor sometimes, but plenty of people are just genetically nearsighted.