hi folks..
i want to know if thinking while looking at a blank place/any object is bad for eyes....
also tell me about how to do sunning and sungazing...
Day dreaming is not bad for the normal eyes because the default condition of the normal eye is to be relaxed irrwspective of external conditions. Thus, most people with normal eyes maintain relaxed eyes even under adverse conditions such as sleeping or day dreaming where they dont directly control the eyes. The matter of fact that no effort is required to see implies that the eye can be relaxed even while day dreaming, sleeping or even in a coma.
Day dreaming can be bad for the myopic eye because similar conditions such as sleep badly affect the myopic eye. The default condition of the myopic eye is to be under strain and this strain will be amplified in subconscious conditions. So day dreaming could be bad if you are already myopic .
To do sunning, close your eyes and look directly towards the sun and gently sway your face from side to side to avoid overheating of any particular spot on the eyelids. Try not to pay attention to the extremely bright visual field during sunning and instead try to think of something pleasant. Dont squint and crunch your face as the harsh rays fall on the face - try to maintain a soft and relaxed posture and dont shut your eyelids very forcibly, but close them very softly. Imagine that you are looking at a beautiful flower instead of imagining that you are sunning because that would help you to keep soft eyes. If you strain your face then sunning could be very unpleasant and might cause a bad headache.
I dont know how to sun gaze and I dont do it. I look in the direction of the sun and the sky close to the sun, but never at the sun itself because I am not yet prepared for it. However I take many momentary glances at the sun, and also do swinging in front on the sun during which you look at the sun only for brief periods.
Daydreaming is ok if you daydream happy, pleasant things and keep mental images in the mind clear; clear objects in the mind.
Try singing or listening to music with a good story that gets the mind thinking of the characters, scenes, in motion like a clear, colorful movie picture in the mind.
Notice the different good feelings of relaxation in the mind, body, eyes that different positive thoughts, emotions create.
This relaxes the mind, ye muscles, eyes and brings clear vision.
The thing about day dreaming is people have the tendency to stare while doing so. As Ram said, people with eye defects have developed poor eye habits and a common one is staring.
When you are day dreaming, make sure there is plenty of movement and allow your eyes to shift with the scenes in your mind. Don't fix your eyes on a single spot as you said - this is staring and it is counter productive. It is better for you if you close your eyes as opposed to finding a blank spot to stare at.
It is good for a myope doing the Bates method initially to be fully aware of what you are doing all the time. This helps you to voluntarily exercise control over vision habits. For eg, while using a computer be aware that you are on the computer and remember to blink, breathe and shift voluntarily all the time. If you get lost in the computer you will imevitably return to your habitual stare and non blinking mode.
In Day dreaming the myope looses control of his eyes because the eye and mind are focussing on different things. This is perfect for the healthy eye but not for the myopic eye which will return to its 'normal mode' of staring the moment you release hold of controlling your visual habits voluntarily. After an adequate amount of practice there will come a time when you no longer need to be aware of your eyes to be using them properly. In that state you can day dream or even attempt staring but will fail. The normal eye cannot stare even if it wants to because good vision is so effortless and most natural to it. Can you suppress hearing if you dont want to hear a sound? The eyes are no different at the mental level. They simply cannot refuse to see if they are normal.
I totally agree with Ram. If you are myopic and you have day dreaming your eyes will automatically come back to their default state without your notice. And default state of myopic eyes is not good and very different from default state of normal 20/20 eyes.
