#effects of light sensitivity

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Sensitivity to Sunlight

Neurodivergent_lou

[cheriekos]

god rewatching arcane season one and these science bitches keep those labs SO dark for no fucking reason i KNOW one of them gets chronic migraines. why is it so dark all the time??? huh??

[wewerebornsextuplets]

the sun is a deadly laser

[21stc3nturyd1gitalb0y]

not sensory seeking, not sensory avoidant, but a secret third thing (both at the same time)

[rabbitindisguise]

Oh my way to get stabbed 27 or more times >:3c

[clairaworlds]

Pro tip if you have light sensitive migranes:

Ware eyeliner, I'm serious, ware dark colored eyeliner or some other dark color arround your eyes. I go with a fairly heavy look, applied liberally with wings that could take off, or some other extra details for fun. It reduces the glare from the sun, and ive found it makes the sun bother me less when I have an ocular migrane.

It dosnt do a whole lot, and if you don't already ware eyeliner it might be too much effort for the effect, but I started waring eyliner more often recently and I have noticed a difference. It might be becuase I'm the most insanly light sensitive person I've ever met so even a SMALL reduction in glare makes a big difference but it's worth a shot.

[gemglyph]

I think my two week long headache is starting to get to me. Anyone have headache advice?

[thebookishwallflower]

When I search disabled Percy Jackson I want to see my boy, my blorbo, and how people hc him as disabled in different ways

Disabled Nico is cool and all, love the movement, but he’s not my blorbo

My disabled ass needs to see the first character I ever really connected to to be disabled in a way that effects him

The File has blind Percy Jackson w guide dog Mrs. O’Leary and I love it. He wears wrist braces when he needs them (courtesy of holding the sky). He uses his powers to help him out, but he also relies on others and uses a white cane.

Reblog w your favorite disabled Percy Jackson head cannons, do it up with disability head canons for other characters that aren’t typically seen as disabled too

Being disabled and being epic aren’t mutually exclusive. These characters can be both and so can you.

[grasstimes]

Ouhg the cluster headache loops

[hyunpic]

[rielzero]

This will probably not go anywhere, but since this is my blog I wanted to talk about this for a bit. Just a rant.

I LOVE games like God of War / God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West- The graphics are beautiful and everything is gorgerous.

The issue is however- because these games have hyper-realism as an aesthetic, the lightning behaves similarly- Especially flashing effects.

I have severe light sensitivity. I wear special glasses when I go outside, when playing games, I wear blue-light glasses to help relieve them as well.

Unfortunately with how much more games aim to look realistic, so do their lights mimic effects that bother me much in real life. And there’s no way to turn it off. I don’t want to play in color blind mode because I am not color blind. I want a way to tone down the brightness without everything in the game becoming hard to see.

I don’t know how to explain this except of describing more of an example; Cyberpunk 2077- I cannot get into it because the neon, reflections, and high textured and colorful atmosphere puts my brain in overdrive mode and I can’t play it for more than 15 minutes without having to put my head in my pillow because my eyes hurt so much. Blue light glasses do not help at all.

I call this ‘’colorgore’’ or ‘’brightgore’’ Because of this, I can’t even get into the game at all. I don’t care for it.

Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West and god of war, ragnarok are different because the stories pulled me in right away. The only downside is that after a good 30 minutes I have to pause the game and just rest my eyes. I blink a lot to make sure I’m not forgetting to blink. I’m not the person who clinically needs eye-drops, trust me. I only have pain in my eyes when I’m playing games with hyper-realistic light or going outside without my daylight glasses.

What’s the difference between hyper-realistic light vs older games? (for the untrained eye)

Here is a screenshot from Skyrim.

The light here is balanced with everything in the surroundings. There is not an abundance of nature, fauna, or textures that make the game look even more real, the light does not react to all the textures differently. It reacts to all things in its surroundings equally. Unlike in real life- which semi-realism mimics, were all things reflect light differently- making some objects brighter, shinier or more detailed. 

Everything in older games like Skyrim is balanced in light- simplified, and removes any stressors from real daylight / night blindness that I experience in real life. My eyes don’t hurt when I play games like this. I never cared for all this ‘’graphics need to be more real’’ stuff cuz it hurts my quality of gameplay experience. You can see that the game isn’t real, my eyes relax more and are less focused on every light particle, shadow, distance- everything. It absorbs the picture with much less stress.

Now here’s some screenshots of Horizon.

The light does highly affect everything. The contrast is strong, every texture responds different to light as it would in real life. There’s fog, bloom, every corner and edge is reflecting and responding to light. My eyes react to the screenshot itself the same way as when I am playing the game. It’s absorbing all the information from every single particle because the light is realistic. 

And that goes for night time as well, night time is even worse for me to fight animal robots that jump around and use flash-grenade attacks. (which I despise! Please- give an option to turn those flash effects off!! I want to be able to enjoy these games without getting frustrated from eyestrain.) And yes, I checked. They don’t have it.

God of war has this exact same problem. Elves and Valkyries use flashy attacks- there’s one or two Valkyrie bosses that use blinding attacks that makes the screen flash white. The whole point behind the flash attacks is that it obstructs your gameplay vision for a moment- but for me this does more than affect gameplay; it actually hurts to fight these monsters when I could otherwise deal with them fine and actually enjoy the fight.

I cannot begin to explain to people who don’t experience this; this shit hurts so much. Even as the image itself. That brightness mixed with the highly detailed particles of light, textures, everything else- physically hurts my eyes to look at. Because it sees EVERYTHING the way everything responds to light as if it was real.

Cyberpunk’s city is the worst offender because raytracing adds mirrors that reflects light realistically. this is all cool and epic technology, but turning off the raytracing does not improve it, if everything else still flashes like hell.

I never cared for the whole ‘’graphics need to be good’’ shit, the gameplay and story sells it for me. I don’t care if you hate stiff expressions or physical gameplay bugs- it doesn’t break immersion for me, it makes me laugh. I am having a genuine good time.

Just don’t hurt my eyes please. Dear devs make an eyestrain relief mode, were flash effects and attacks are simplified, were daylight just is a little less bright. It’s all about color correction- (again: changing the graphic settings that you get before you start a game do not affect this, turning the brightness down actually makes stuff harder to see, because it becomes less balanced. I just need the brights to be less bright, not everything else to also become dark.)

Midnight suns has become one of my fav games this year. And before you say this one is also having light stuff going on- If you look well the colors are much more balanced and the backgrounds aren’t as high in particle and texture light reflection as the cyberpunk picture. Tony’s armor has a nice metal effect, but its not ridiculously shiny and the colors are pretty well balanced even as it reflects light. Doctor Strange’s magic effects don’t ‘’flash’’ they just glow. There’s a difference between glowing and flashing. The light of the glow reflects to the rest of the character, but the brightness is more controlled and balanced. Every other texture from the hair to the clothes responds similarly to the light, rather than uniquely like in horizon or god of war. There’s contrast but not too much contrast. It’s dark but not too dark. It’s light but not too light. This picture is both pleasing to look at and doesn’t hurt my eyes at all.

If someone out there is a game dev in the industry and happens on this.. Please spread this out- It would make my life much easier to playing the new generation realism aesthetic of up and coming games. 

If you experience this too, let me know. I feel so alone in this. (I play on performance modes because graphic mode is even worse.)

Breath of the wild’s flat cell shade aesthetic doesn’t do this to my eyes. Pokémon games and other toony games don’t do this to my eyes. It really is the mix of high texture / objects responding to light realistically that makes everything too bright for me. The contrast is beautiful but it just hurts.

It affects my ability to enjoy the games.

I’ll list below examples in case this is helpful.

Games that affect my eyes: Witcher 3 Spiderman 2018 Remastered God of war / god of war ragnarok Cyberpunk 2077 Horizon Forbidden West / Horizon Zero Dawn Games that don’t affect my eyes: Conan Exiles Runescape 3 Spiderman 2018 Fallout 4 Skyrim LOZ: Breath of the wild Marvel’s Midnight Suns Middle earth: Shadow of Mordor

[diathadevil]

Alright just got back from watching the 2nd Spiderverse movie.

And holy shit. I get the hype for it now.

[bbael]

Just how many hours left of insane visual discomfort...

[onrainynights]

my sister fell asleep on the heater vent in the same room where the thermostat is and it made our bathroom so hot that when I took a shower it triggered a migraine :/ and I have work today. fuck.

[marsuni]

so one of my uncles died of cancer yesterday, and in the same breath another one got diagnosed with a different kind of cancer. can people in my family stop dying this year plz

[thelesbianthespianposts]

some edits are like ‘wow look at my guy! I put him behind large flashing lights and fast moving pictures!! Fuck you if you are photosensitive!!! 10000x light flash attack!!!!’