You already know it's not
good to sleep with your smartphone under your pillow, let alone stare at
it before you turn in for the night. Not only can it disrupt your sleep,
but it can actually damage your eyes, as is the case with two women who
went temporarily blind after looking at their smartphones in bed.
A
22-year-old woman and a 40-year-old woman both experienced recurring
temporary visual impairment over the course of several months, according
to The New England Journal of Medicine.
"I simply asked them, 'What exactly were you doing when [the blindness] happened?'" Gordon Plant, M.D., recounted to ABC News.
In
both cases, the women would look lie on their sides with one eye being
blocked by a pillow and the other eye staring at the smartphone screen.
As a result, temporary blindness lasting for up to 15 minutes would
occur in the eye that was not staring at the phone. Scary, no doubt.
The
authors of the report note that smartphone manufacturers have created
super-bright screens so the user can see it easily. That's great for
daytime use, but not so much as you're trying to power down before
bed. The authors also predict that cases like these "are likely to
become more frequent," given the fact that so many folks are using their
phones while lying down.
That said, Rahul Khurana, M.D., a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, told ABC News that he doubts very many smartphone fans will wind up going temporarily blind, as it feels "very odd" to look at a smartphone using just one eye. Nevertheless, do yourself a favor: Put the phone away before you get under the covers. That last refresh of your Facebook is just not worth the potential side effects.
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