Temporary Blindspots
In the middle of my working day, I ran into a problem. I was sort of going blind. Not completely. I could see parts, but it was like a ton of blind spots in my eye that I kept trying to, but just couldn’t see around. It was horrible. It wasn’t just looking at my computer screen, but just everything around me. I remember just looking at the screen and all of this white space on it. My eyes started to hurt and I looked up.
One thing that I did earlier in the weeky was change the resolution of my monitor to be much higher. Lucky for me, I made all my system fonts bigger too. I was able to make out enough parts to make the resolution smaller. I also turned the brightness down to the lowest setting and turned the contrast down a bit as well. Although it was easier on my eyes, I was still having this problem.
So many thoughts went rushing through my head. Maybe I should just go home. How the heck could I drive home? Would anyone be able to pick me up? What if this is perminent? What if this is a look into the near future? How am I going to be able to ever work on a computer again? Is it something I ate? Is it because I’m not eating enough? Is it from stress? Is it my medication? Is it going to get worse?
So many questions arrise with life changing events like these. Lots of coincidences and paranoia just come to light. I remember a co-worker commenting about how an LCD screen would be better on the eyes then the monitor I have. I thought about my posture, and perhaps a protective screen on the monitor.
The good news is that it gradually passed over 15 minutes. It just shocks the heck out of you. I left my monitor settings dark and in a low resolution for the remainder of the day.