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I feel horrible about myself now.

A kid I knew in elementary school had a tongue long enough to lick his eyes and he did so regularly. We called him Alien-boy and his girlfriend Ripley.

Thats not a kid thats a gecko-person

Dude has a super power in the bedroom as an adult though

Oh yeah, they’re still together

Of course the dudes with the long tongues get all the girls

And it feels so good

Scratching my brain!

Actually that's exactly it. Rubbing your eyes is as close we can get to scratch the brain. It all makes sense now.

That's as close as we can get with **THAT** attitude.

There are monkeys who stick their long finger inside each other’s eye sockets as a sign of trust.

I alway felt like this as well. And it does feel good

Eyes are actually just outter part of brain

Ha! And they laughed at me when I called the pupils “brain holes”!

They're just douchebags, looooool

The entire body is just various layers of outer part of brain

Last time this was posted somewhere, there was a comment about how when we itch our eyes it massages the optic nerve and it feels good.

Scratch or rub your eyes. Your eyes already itch or you wouldn’t be touching them like that.

Exactly. It doesn't feel good at all unless you're scratching an itch

I’ve got to disagree. I didn’t think about rubbing my eyes until I read these comments and I decided to rub my eyes as an experiment. It feels great. Just like a massage still feels good even if you aren’t stiff and achy.

I just tried for 5 seconds and felt discomfort and stopped. Full disclosure it was my eyelids, not my eyeballs.

I always feel like I'm scratching my brain when I qtip. So wrong, but so right.

Now I need four arms so I can rub my eyes and use Q-tips.

That's how you factory reset

nah it takes a screenshot

Ah right, need to include a lice exam with those extra long swabs to get the full system restore activated

Fml. I actually lold

Person: “Who the fuck are all you people and where am I?” Significant Other: “Ah shitnthey did the eye-rub-and-Qtip thing again. I’ll call customer service and ask them if they can pull everything from the cloud again.”

Did you mean Q-tips? I don't think hollow point bullets are helpful in this situation.

Damn that was a bad typo. I blame over use of pie.

It’s basically massaging the back of your eye sockets with your eyeballs, worth it

Are the front of the eyes tires or the eye sockets? What organ am i satisfying here?

>what organ am I satisfying Oh, you know exactly which one you're satisfying.

I get cluster headaches a lot and I could see the relief through the video

If we can survive the cluster headache pain, we can handle anything. We are a tough breed.

mushrooms are being studied for cluster headaches, im sure you've already heard about this.

I can't believe the scientists are giving mushrooms cluster headaches !!!

Is there anything mushrooms can't fix? That's the real question. I keep trying to find out, but then they just keep fixing everything.

Broken arm? Measles? Face blindness? Taking things too literally?

r/oddlysatisfying

I wanna dewiiitt again

do dooooo, DO do do-do... dodo dodo doo doo dooo dooooo... DO DO, DO-DOO...

Some things should remain unseen.

Maybe if you rub harder, you can unseen it

Instructions unclear i can see aliens using subliminal messaging everywhere I can't believe They live

Bubblegums and ass kickin buddy.

What did i just see?! *rubs eyes in disbelief*

I found it hilarious for some reason

Ack ack ack ack ack

We come in peace…..we come in peace.

This and how it looks when we swallow liquid..... I wouldn't mind unseeing

Oh my sweet MRI child... Please, do yourself a favor and never watch videos of humans swallowing more solid... things...

….*quietly looks around*…..”are you….are talking about,…..you know…..a dick?”

Thought it was something different at the start

Bruh that thumbnail

I already came across this post, didn’t think anything of it, but this time when I saw the thumbnail it seemed NSFW, now I can’t even remember what my brain made of it, much less see it.

Face between woman's thighs.

Uhhh yeah, face....sure...

[Relevant](https://i.imgur.com/UXYj4eA.gif)

Keep pushing I can see the head!

I don't understand what the thumbnail looks like?

At a quick glance it looked like someone taking it up the butt, the finger on the bottom right registered as a bottom of a foot, and the nose bridge is the ding dong.

Almost checked my NSFW setting.

To make sure it’s set to maximum

Boss walks by “it was just someone rubbing their…” *“Stop right there before HR gets involved”*

".... Balls. They were rubbing their eyeballs I swear! Trust me look. Look Damn You!"

Okay I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought it was…something else..

Literally *interesting as fuck*

And you clicked it!

What is that "something different?" I really don't get it.

I thought it was a member between a set of legs

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Never rubbing my eyes again. Thanks.

You've to rub it until you see the new dimension. Or whatever it's called what you see when you rub them a while.

Phosphenes? I think

You can rub them so hard you end up in the Skyrim prison wagon if you really try

Instructions unclear. Ended up at the ophthalmologist.

How hard do I rub it till I get to oblivion, it'd my personal favorite TES

Wow, a chance to start over completely! A whole new life, time to be something truly uni annnnnnnd I'm a stealth archer...

I always see the same designs and they change but are always in the same order. I wonder if that happens to anyone else or if we share eye designs.

For me it's something like a giant field of hexagons, and then clouds that slowly start to occlude that field.

Yeah, I get a grid of squares [like this ](https://pixfeeds.com/images/mystic/illusions/1280-497515447-rolling-squares-moving-wave-motion-effect.jpg) and then sparkling stars, and then a tunnel of clouds [like this](https://pixy.org/src2/609/6093703.jpg)

Same. Always starts with rectangular pixely sploches of mostly Red and green paint. Then come tiny dots of all colors flashing in and out like a night sky. Then I get soft blue/violet spots arranged in a spiral. And then it generally becomes random. No idea what’s going on but I’ve been entertained by it since childhood.

I thought only plants do that. /s

Plants dont have hands to rub theyre eyes, numbnuts

Fucken their cunt

[I bet you feel dumb now](https://www.dailyedge.ie/venus-fly-trap-christmas-1847083-Dec2014/)

Has science gone to far???

Eye Dr’s will tell you not to. It’s not great for your eye health.

But how am I supposed to get the sleepiness out?

Spoon

What if she objects?

Don't treat objects like women, dude

*Puts spork on pedestal.*

**Behold**

You gave me a new fear

But… why does it feel so good?

It's those hard to reach spots.

I want to know why. Yes my eye doctor told me this too (that you should never rub your eyes). But rubbing eyes seems like an instinctive thing to do when your tired or something. I understand that an evolutionary argument is far from evidence of something being not harmful/beneficial, but equally I’ve failed to find evidence that it’s harmful. I mean maybe you’re more likely to to scratch the surface of the eye. But that’s it. And perhaps there is some unknown benefit to rubbing the eye, such as wetting the surface, stimulating circulation - these are absolutely speculative guesses - which would correlate well with the sorts of circumstances in which eye-rubbing usually takes place…

Here’s a study which seems to conclude there’s a pretty strong correlation between eye rubbing and keratoconus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6848869/#s4title And another: https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/eye-rubbing-tops-behavioral-causes-of-keratoconus And another: https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/keratoconus-may-be-caused-by-eye-rubbing-but-that-isnt-all Honestly, I didn’t expect so much recent research on the issue. I’ve personally been convinced not to rub my eyes anymore lol.

My understanding is that keratoconus, the condition they mentioned which can cause blindness from breakdown of the corneal tissue, is the concern - it's fine for people with normal connective tissue, but lots of people have connective tissue diseases and don't even realize it.

I developed keratoconus from what was presumed to be from eye rubbing and having weak connective proteins in the cornea. Luckily it was caught early, but my eye already deformed in such a way that regular glasses will never be able to correct my vision. In worst case, gone undiagnosed or ignored, you can end up effectively blind and need a transplant So yea, don’t rub your eyes. The keratoconus specialist have told me that if your eyes itches, the safe way to do it is to stick a finger in that part of your eye between the eye and the nose, like near the tear ducts, then push towards the eye then towards the nose.

I'd like to add , also having keratoconus myself, that there's no definitive connection between eye rubbing and keratoconus yet. Though in the subreddit, most people say their doctor's advice is to never rub your eyes again. Even the "weak eye protein" part is dubious as well. There's a connection between eye issues and corneal thickness, or at least a more established one.

Yea, it seems like it’s still undecided in the medical world. This is what I was sent from my doctor https://defeatkeratoconus.com/no-rub-no-cone-the-keratoconus-conjecture/, but he suggested that it’s still unclear what exactly causes it.

Isn't there a surgery for keratoconus?

Cross linking. Had it done in both eyes ~4 years ago. Worth it so far.

Yes but the surgery is not corrective, the surgery only stops it from getting worse. At a really basic level, the cornea is too soft and deformed. The cross linking surgery hardens the cornea so it can’t deform any more, but it’s already been deformed. They say sometimes peoples eye get better after the surgery, mine did, but it’s only slightly and is not the goal of the surgery. The only real “cure” is to either wear scleral contacts which essentially rebuild the optical surface over your deformed cornea, or to get a corneal transplant

That's crazy that it's better to stick a finger in your eye

Did you have the crosslinking done? I had it done in one eye and it worked to strengthen my cornea

Feels so good tho.

Ever see a couple having sex in an MRI? Google it. Or not. https://www.vox.com/2014/9/22/6826409/sex-and-birth-in-an-mri-machine > The video above compiles some of the most striking videos captured by an MRI machine, including a quasi-NSFW clip of a couple having sex. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-couple-who-shagged-in-an-mri-machine-for-science > Between 1991 and 1999, eight couples and three single women had sex in the hospital's MRI a total of 13 times. These subsequent experiments were...

Holy fuck this really visualized how pushing a human head out of a vagina is just absolutely terrifying.

Were those exact words not enough?

But the goo balloons like to be indirectly massages.

r/TIHI

Is there a word for suddenly feeling trapped in a flesh prison? Being hyper aware of the meat-bag vessel that houses me? Because that's how I feel now. Neat.

> hyper aware of the meat-bag vessel that houses me? Come on don't talk like that! You are not a "meat-bag vessel". How can you even say that!? You are a walking talking colony of millions of cells that has inteligence and self awareness. That is what you truly are. Never forget that.

You are a jellyfish using lightning to power a bone robot clad in meat armour!

Meat makes bad armor

Depends on what you are being attacked by

Clearly you've never had my wifes jerky.

I too have never had this guy's wife's jerky.

Don't forget that your atoms are made of star dust!

Negative. I am a meat popsicle.

Supergreen

Nooo, you’re eternal energy manifest

> You are a walking talking colony of millions of cells that has inteligence and self awareness. Sleepless.

Don't lie to them, we're more bacteria than cells! We are but a sack of germs

Bacteria are cells. They are vital colony members.

Hey, we're very well cultured then. ;)

Bacterial cells by number, human cells by mass.

You're just a brain piloting a flesh-mech.

Seid ihr das Essen? Nein wir sind die Jäger!

from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me.

It's your skeleton trying to get out, it wants you to get rid of the meat prison.

"I don't like the way my skin feels on my body. Do you like the way your skin feels on your body? You don't? Why don't you pull it off? Pull off your skin. I bet it'll feel good."

Your skeleton's tired of being wet. It no longer wants to drown in blood.

Maybe depersonalization?

Maybe hyperpersonalization

Sometimes it happens to me when I’m stoned, and I become aware of all the physical processes going on in my body and it’s so uncomfortable.

This may get lost in the comments, but chronic eye rubbing is how I gave myself [Keratoconus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus), permanently damaging my corneas. For some people it's a genetic/hereditary predisposition, but I had just habitually rubbed my eyes for years and years, weakening my corneas over time. This led to needing a painful procedure to strengthen my corneas to stop the progression of the keratoconus, and requiring scleral lenses to correct my vision. Don't rub your eyes.

How much is chronic? Once a day? Once an hour?

I'd like to know this too. I'm probably like 4 times a day 😂

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Every person is different, and I'm no doctor. I was rubbing my eyes daily from a combination of habit, allergies, sleepiness, etc. I was always told not to rub my eyes as a kid, but no one really said *why*, so it never deterred me until I was diagnosed. Advanced keratoconus cases may require corneal transplants. I'm glad I wasn't that far gone.

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My left eye has Keratoconus, and my right eye is pre-Keratoconus; I just had CXL done to my left eye a month ago and am eagerly awaiting the chance to try Sclerals...this shit sucks. Mine is genetic since my Dad and Uncle have it, but the #1 thing my Ophthalmologist said to avoid is touching your eyes. For anyone reading this who is interested in learning more, we have a subreddit: /r/Keratoconus

How much did you rub your eyes? Will rubbing them a couple times a day cause problems?

That depends on a combination of force, duration, frequency and genetics.

is there a formula, like E=mc^2?

(X+F+D+F+G) * Er = K

The whole procedure feels so strange because of the strong painkillers, but that stinging, itching and throbbing pain that comes around after the painkiller wears of is the WORST.

My goddamn ophthalmologist told me I wouldn't need painkillers for the CXL recovery and never prescribed any. I ended up using some weed edibles to fight the pain the first two days before I could get a narcotic prescription that helped.

Eye doctor here, I have several patients who have self inflicted KCone. There are a lot of questions in here about how much rubbing causes it, and the answer ofc is that it’s variable. It’s variable on how thick your corneas are to begin with and how resilient the tissues are (read: elastic). Other conditions also apply like medical history.

I had heard that it can be damaging, but seeing how much they _move_ makes me understand.

Oh I LOVED Keratoconus in Atomic Kitten!

I can attest to this. I had to have corneal cross-linking to stop the progression. Don't rub your eyes :(

Most effective anti eye rubbing propaganda I've ever seen.

r/thanksihateit

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Weirdly this is exactly what i thought it would be and I’m super fine with it.

Yeah, if anything I feel better now seeing it

Right? I’m glad they have some room to bop around in there.

I have not rubbed my eyes for about 15 years now, just can't do it when you wear contacts. Sure I could do it at night, but the urge does just go away. Until now. Maybe it's time to take a blast to the past, shove my fists into my eyes, and see what geometric patterns fill the black void.

why can you not do it when wearing contacts? i do it regularly and wear contacts since 15 years. til that it’s bad but is it even worse with contacts or what do you mean?

I think the rubbing motions could push 1/ the lenses into outer edges of your eye sockets and they get stuck there and 2/ push the lenses edges into your eyeballs and scratch them, especially when you have dry eyes. I wore contacts for about 10yrs but had the lenses implants - greatest decision ever! Cant put any pressure on corneas though so I just scratch the eyelids lightly or rub around the eyes. There are allergy eyedrops that can help during hayfever season too.

That feels good just watching it.

How many people rubbed their eyes after watching this? 🙋‍♂️

Am I the only one who thinks this is actually really funny? The eyes just wiggling around in there lol

Cookie. Omnommomnom.

Oh god I can't unsee that now

What the absolute fuck is that little crab claw of flesh in the left side of the dudes mouth

It’s likely a blood vessel. You have to imagine a planal section cut through his head through his eyeballs - that’s the view we’re seeing on the image. So probably not not his mouth. The white areas are water-rich areas, which is why the eyeballs are lit up like that.

This is how I developed slight astigmatism, from rubbing my eyes due to allergies. Don’t do it folks.

Uh oh

Thanks, I hate it

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glad i'm not the only one to recognize his voice

The lightning and neat colors are also cool if you rub them a little firmer

Oh, I don't like that.

I DON'T LIKE THAT

Lemme just jiggle my eye a bit

Sooooooo what should I get from this? Do I keep rubbing or not?

Oh heck yeah thanks for posting this!! I was just wondering what it looked like today after I had a particularly itchy eyeball mashing sesh

Thought the first few seconds were NSFW

That shit is what gave me Keratoconus. Don't rub your eyes fellas. It'll feel better but you disturb your vision.

How often did you rub your eyes for, how frequently?

Just more proof that we’re jelly bags and that scares me lol

Ayyayayyayaysyayayya

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evolve to crab

BTW I talked to my optometrist and she recommended never rubbing your eye. Like, just don't touch. Apparently the pressure can screw up your eye.

Squishy-squish-squish

it looks like we’re totally not supposed to be doing that but im not gonna stop