Misfit Angel
Normal is an illusion
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When I was a kid, I had corrective surgery on my right eye because the muscles around it were weak, out of alignment and it was doing weird movements without my control (imagine a chameleon, that was my right eye). It was swollen shut for about three days after the operation and I was generally good with keeping my eyes shut (even my uninjured working one). But as Ambyssin said, your brain just gets sick of the lack of sensory input and is like "okay, time to open your eyes and see OH GOD THE PAIN MAKE IT STOP CLOSE THEEEEEEM"
The brain is a strange beast, and sometimes there's little you can do to stop it from maintaining what it's comfortable with, even if you put conscious effort into it. That's why I can't do heights; I'm not particularly afraid of them, but my brain nopes out anyways as soon as I set foot on the third step of a 30 foot ladder.
The brain is a strange beast, and sometimes there's little you can do to stop it from maintaining what it's comfortable with, even if you put conscious effort into it. That's why I can't do heights; I'm not particularly afraid of them, but my brain nopes out anyways as soon as I set foot on the third step of a 30 foot ladder.