A day when people looked up at the sky and may have seen the green and black sun

[squirmelia]

I gazed up at the sky through binoculars, while wearing a welding mask, standing outside my office. Someone else appeared to be looking at the sky through a CD. The sun, oh, a beautiful glowing green orb punctuated by the black image of Venus. I'm tempted to buy a welding mask so the sun will always look like that.

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[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

When I was seven or eight, I had a pair of huge cheap supermarket kids' sunglasses, lime green plastic with great big lenses which were mirrored on the outside. They made it almost too dark to see anything at all, but I spent most of the time staring directly at the green and black sun, which looked scarcely any brighter than a full moon, lying on my back watching the clouds turn the colour and brightness up and down as they passed in front of it.

I've often wondered if this damaged my eyesight in some serious way.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool. :)

Does the sun look a bit green around the edges to you sometimes still, even when you're not wearing those glasses? That would be an interesting side-effect of having looked at it for too long.
Maybe you should purchase some red-lensed glasses, so that you can try to counteract the effect? Although then, the sun might start looking red, so you'd have to wear the green ones again, and would probably end up with some strangely patterned green and red sun, so maybe best just to leave it green.

[leoz.livejournal.com]

AAAgh! My eyes!

When I was little I used to stare at the sun for minutes on an end without blinking. It was weird cause you see this disk of fire but in its center you see this weird shadow. It's not really a shadow but the sun's brightness overcoming your eyes. Uhm...yesh.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Can you still blink?