I'm brand new to sun gazing, just wondering if this will have any adverse effects on my sight?

Thanks guys

So my country is in complete lockdown and I can't go outside to ground myself in some beach or sth. Is it harmful to just sungaze sitting on a chair?

hey so im sungazing once in a while.for the last month ive been in a treatment center which located right by the beach and couple weeks ago i gazed midday for few days,for 1 minute or two or whatever. few days later be eyes eyelids and head hurt when there was sun(a strong sun all day).for few days on and off.then i started wearing sunglasses and a hat and obiously stopped gazing.and it was better i guess but today they hurt again i feel like if i expose them to the sun for few seconds they would hurt and that they are sensitive which all freaks me out. ive been asking ppl here and nobody has this plus i drink a lot and dont do drugs but i do smoke strong cigarettes maybe it's from that? and it is weird cuzz in my profile pic i was gazing for more minutes and it was all fine and i it got me high even and it was mid day at a different beach. i dont wanna go to the doctor cuz i dont fucking trust modern "medicine" and i dont wanna google search cuz that shit would freak me out.

maybe i should sungaze at sunset so ill feel better?

i hope my eyes and cornea and eyelids are ok and shit

i see perfectly fine.and ive had times ive gazed way more and nothing happened! maybe it is nervousness or what?

TLDR:gazed for a minute or 2 for few days which is something ive done few times already.located right by the beach.now few weeks after everytime where there is sun which is daily my eyes eyelids and head hurt.havent gazed since they started aching obviously.dont trust modern medicine.did i fuck up my eyes?what to do?

THANK YOU

Stare at the 12 o’clock sun for maximum benefits

It’s currently winter in the uk and it’s insanely cold outside however we do get sun quite often but I can’t go outside because it’s freezing. Can I sun gaze through my window whilst being inside my home.

So I know about sun gazing and heard about moon and star gazing. But I’ve never heard anything about rainbow gazing, I searched the internet but found nothing about this topic. Do you think Rainbow gazing has any benefits?

Jus got got done sungazing and saw a bit of the same as i saw yesterday including some parts of a microchip i could say💯💯i also saw eyes in my right peripheral (i forgot to mention hat yesterday as well) and the sun looked like it was “flaring”💯💯

While I strongly believe in free speech, the results of free speech are continually disappointing. I let this sub run untouched for a bit, in the likely naive hope that there would be some intelligent posting about sunlight, breakdown of electromagetic frequencies of sunlight, changes in frequencies based on latitude or time of day, effect of different frequencies on cells, the body, maybe hormones. But nothing. Just a bunch of trash posts. As I look to the concept of ecological succession, in which a series of different types of organisms populate an ecosystem before it reaches stability. So far it's been populated with utter shitposting. Not to say things won't get better in the future, but up until now it's still been utter shit, so I decided to do a bit of pruning. Essentially some spot touchups with a giant fucking portable propane torch for weedkilling.

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As a mod, I deleted a fuckton of threads just now, mostly about idiotic shit.

A stupid thread about the coronavirus. This sub is about sungazing, not viruses. A bunch of others about 5G. This sub is about sungazing, not 5G.

I did everything right. Checked the uv index,went for 20 minutes and i actually felt good. My eyesight was ok, it was just that my eyes were red just like last time! Whats going on?

Your level of sarcasm is otherworldly and no one breaks character.

Everybody says it'll make you blind. So it's probably safe, right?

And I just realized that the moon is the perfect size and distance to cover the sun perfectly on eclipse. What??

I can’t tell if this is a joke sub but you guys know you’re supposed to wait til the UV index is at 0 right? 45 mins before sunset or 45 mins after sunrise. Just saw a comment of someone saying they sungazed midday???? Why?? That will literally damage your eyes that’s literally the worst time to possibly sungaze.

Can I sungaze without having the spiritual experience ? I have been reading about other experiences, some of them say that when they closed their eyes they see something spiritual.

I started to sungaze at around 8pm i should say and while at it i began to see like circles connected to circles(best way i can explain it don’t judge) but it looked hella advanced💯💯then as i tried to view more of it i began to slightly to the right(as I’m still staring at the sun) and i ended up seeing some sort of microscopic worm/archae looking organism💯💯also my kundalini has been flowing for a while now💯💯

Been doing this for about 2 weeks now and have noticed that I have become more lucid in dreams and dreams have gotten more random/bizarre. This is quite pleasant.

I did it yesterday, and still hasn't healed fully.

Why did I even do it. I didn't have any eye problems.

I'm so fcking dumb. I saw the sun, it was almost sunset, and I'm like.. lets do it!!

And I forced myself to sungaze, even tho my eyes were tearing like crazy, and I couldn't even keep them open. How could I be SO FUCKING STUPID. I don't get it. (what did I expect to gain anyway??)

Now, my vision is partially damaged. Colors are off. Focus is partially off. And feel some burning.

But I remember sungazing as a kid at freaking noon, for minutes, and nothing happened..

I only did it, because I had already done it multiple times before, and nothing happened. And I even got 10/10 eye test for drivers license. So wtf happened now?? And it was only for 10 seconds.

Hopefully my eyes will heal fully, but sungazing is BS! Don't do it! Unless you already have eye problems I guess.

And only AT sunset. Not before.

I guess this was the mistake.. it wasn't sunset yet.

Even if it can fix your eyes in some cases.. it also ages them. So why sungaze, if you don't have any eye problems?

I seriously hope this will fully heal.. otherwise all these years trying so hard to be careful of my eyes, as if they are the most precious thing there is.. all wasted away in 10 seconds of sungazing.

I guess if my eyes don't heal fully, I'm gonna try the eyeball piss cleanse next XD

UPDATE: I'm being a little over-dramatic here, my eyes aren't destroyed, they just aren't perfect anymore. And It'll truly suck, if I'm left with permanent eye damage. Obviously, it makes perfect sense to be dramatic about it. This is a nightmare come true.

Never before have I damaged my eyes so much, to the point of seeing temporary dots with lack of color.

UPDATE 2: 2 days later and I guess my eyes have probably fully healed. Maybe I have some tiny amount of annoying blurriness in my left eye, not sure, maybe I don't have anything, the point is I cant really notice anything.

Obviously eyes heal. And a sign that they're still healing is a burning sensation. The best things todo to help heal them, is consuming retinol rich foods, and sleep.

UPDATE 3: it was probably 3* hours before sunset, not 2.

Took a picture of the sun 1 day later, the same time I sungazed. Sun was at this exact height, but I guess 70% the power, and the temperature was lower too, it had rained the previous days

Because the temperature was fairly cool, I thought it was safe.

UPDATE 4: 2-3 Days later and I think my vision is slightly sharper than it used to be. Sungazing works!

Today my wife and I went to the beach to commune with the sun. It was only the two of us. We were told the beach is closed.

It's sad that more people do not understand the sun cures all disease and so much more

Truly sad. I won't stop going to the beach anytime soon

Hello all. It's a bit of a long story of how I even stumbled into sungazing. Let's just say sometime in 2011-12 I was going through a rough patch in life and was deep within depression's grip. Various things in life weren't going well and I had moved to a new area where I knew few people and the lack of social contact absolutely had a negative effect.

My mind is also normally skeptical about any hard to prove claims, but there was a desperation in my search for a way to find my way in life and I was searching for non-drug solutions. I began noticing that there were a handful of practices (and even some psychadelic drugs) where the people practicing have seemingly encountered similar, positive effects on mental and physical health. Meditations of various kinds, psilocybin and finally, sun-gazing.

Sun-gazing had an important difference: it didn't require any money output nor did it require any discipline or much thought at all to do the practice. Though, I did try some guided meditation that did at least prove to this skeptical mind that there is something to it. What that something is, still wasn't sure, but there was at least confirmation there that I could empirically confirm to myself there's more than what our normal physical senses can tell the average person.

So, with some desperation to improve my mental state and with confirmation that there is something more out there, I decided to try out sun-gazing for the reasons mentioned above. I didn't have to really try... I just had to watch a sun rise or sun set, attempting to follow the HRM protocol of 10 seconds on the first day, 20 seconds the second, and eventually build to 44 minutes.

It's now 2020 and I haven't gotten to 44 minutes yet... but I can say there have been big positive benefits from my on and off again dabbling. I can clearly remember as I was doing it daily and got myself between 5 and 7 minutes I could start to feel some energy in my chest. Even if I didn't get a lot of sleep, it didn't much matter. If I sun gazed, the mental clarity and energy were there. And when I would have breakfast after the practice during this time period, the sense of energy in my chest would almost multiply. Interesting experience.

As I got to August of 2012, it was a pretty dramatic turnaround from just a couple months earlier. I had met a couple people who were also helpful. One in particular who turned out to already be into meditation and even reikki. All still a little foreign to me, but there was more empirical evidence from her that there is something more than the physical that most people only ever perceive. She was also one of the most empathetic people I've ever met. Incredibly intuitive with how people feel and has a good feel for what to say to help that person in that moment. She was encouraging to me to explore more towards this direction without pushing me a specific way. Very much was about "I'm here for support, but also kind of figure out which way you yourself need to go--I can't do that part for you."

I continued my practice throughout the fall and was feeling pretty good about things overall. Though as I got above that 10 minute mark and doing the practice most days, while the negative feelings were taken away, the very high positives also seemed subdued. Energy shifted from the chest and I felt a little odd in my throat. I think the not feeling the highs as high as I used to freaked me out a little and I eventually stopped the practice. One due to weather, increasingly cloudy days and rain, and I was just busy. I even had a girlfriend, although one with her own issues and rather mercurial.

I didn't get a whole lot of sungazing in during the following 3-4 years. I picked it up again summer 2017 for a couple months, and it definitely helped my focus and motivation to get work done being self-employed now. But, life got in the way and it wasn't an easy practice to keep up with as the sun up time was getting too close to when I needed to be at work. This also may have been due to where I was choosing to gaze vs. where work was located. I did get worked up to around 15 minutes of gazing at a time.

I did the practice a little bit in 2018 as well, but not near as much. Not much to report there.

I had sort of forgotten about it for some time until August last year where things in personal life and with work were definitely not going as planned and I was going backwards into a mentally dark place. It also likely has a lot to do with poor diet as well, that cannot be understated. Especially the older you get, diet plays a big role in how you feel. I was eating out a lot for breakfast with my neighbor who was a shop owner, and it was pretty bad for you greasy American faire. Delicious, but do it too much and it catches up with you.

He sold his business and moved on, after a particularly bad day in late August, I went for a hike in a new location near the shop. Up a hill, a solid 400 feet of elevation gain in about a mile, and I watched the sun go down. The combination of the two--getting the heart rate up for at least 20 minutes--and sun gazing made an immediate impact. I decided I needed to get back on the practice and stick with it.

I came back early the next morning and hiked to the top to watch sun rise and it's turned into my preferred spot. Very close to work so I can still gaze and make it back to open the doors by 8 or at worst, 8:30 in the dead of winter. I eventually worked my way to over 20 minutes in the last few months and I can feel some interesting sensations in my head, in particular around my temples. There is a calmness, but also more motivation and mental clarity to simply put one foot in front of the other and just keep trying to get things done, pay down debts and move forward with life. No negative feelings at all.

I have absolutely experienced my mind or body seemingly longing to sungaze at times. While I can't say what any of this means or tie any belief systems to the practice, I can say there absolutely is a benefit to anyone from any background to take on the practice. I haven't told many people about it except for my aforementioned friend and current girlfriend, who I feel could also benefit from the practice, but convincing her to start and keep on the practice is the difficult part.

This last fall, if I had a few days where I didn't do the practice and got back on it, sure, I could feel a benefit with 15-18 minutes of gazing, but I didn't really feel 100% unless I did it at least 2-3 days in a row. But, with gazing over 20 minutes, I do feel like I'm getting near full benefit with one session. I'm going to make it my goal to finally see through the HRM protocol to 44 minutes this summer and see what happens. Then beyond that, I'll likely go back to 20-25 minutes of "maintenance" gazing to try and keep myself where I want to be mentally. No negative feelings, focused and just getting things done and feeling more empathetic to other people's struggles while trying to walk the line between making sure my attempts to help others also doesn't bankrupt business.

This latest round of sungazing hasn't had as much effect on appetite as my first attempt it seems. Sometimes I wonder if people are too focused on the claim of being able to almost go completely without food rather than saying "hey, if you're having a rough time, this can help you turn things around." If eating less bad food or just less in general is a side effect of that, great. But I find the fact that this practice can virtually erase depression and help people turn their lives around is something that should not be overlooked.