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Originally Posted by hollylindin

Your comment REALLY got me, Peace Of Mind. Two days ago (one day before you did this.), I did the SAME THING - and for the first time in my life! I'd NEVER looked into the Sun before, and that day, I felt "compelled", just like you, to look RIGHT INTO IT. I stared and stared - for up to at least twenty seconds. I did it a few times.

I know what you mean by the tunnel - remembering it now, I definitely see where you're coming from with that description. When I stared, the big, grainy, white-yellow light we normally see day to day became a perfect circle with a dark red outline. I could see things moving around on its surface, obviously much like flames (they changed from yellow to orange to peach to white and over and over again). There was a perfect light red haze circle around the Sun. And the white-yellow graininess was gone and had ballooned out to surround the light red haze in yet another perfect circle.

But what I find most amazing about the whole thing is that I can actually say I have now REALLY seen the Sun, as it really is! How many people can say that?!

<3

Originally Posted by metaw3

I looked at the Sun for at least 5 minutes, maybe 10. That was in 1998. It didn't bother my vision either. It stopped dazzling after a few seconds and for the rest of the experience it was just like a boring orange circle in the sky, without any light coming from it. I too had the feeling that the Sun was a spiritual gateway of some sort. Kind of the exit door to the next world.

I don't know why it didn't hurt my vision. Here's an article about the Sun and eye safety:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety2.html
I should be blind according to this article, but I'm not.

Check out this thread on sun/solar gazing.

http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16879