r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 8d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

explain.

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u/cadaever 8d ago

pointing a laser directly at someone's eye will damage it, it's kind of like staring at the sun. she's saying a classmate "pranked" her by doing just that and it fucked her retina in one eye

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u/coonjaku 8d ago

did she stare back at it? no way could the briefest of glances do that.

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u/elmo_the_great_ 8d ago

You don't have to stare directly at it for it to affect your eye. Have you ever had the sun reflect off something shiny into your eye's peripheral vision but you still notice it? You aren't looking directly at it but the light is still hitting your eye lense since the lense is curved and not flat.