There’s a stove top surface in the kitchen that you are not allowed to make direct contact with and you don’t question that?
This is where H.P. Lovecraft got it wrong. The universe is even more horrifying and incomprehensible than he imagined, but it doesn’t drive people crazy. They just say “oh cool”, then ignore it.
The phrase eye contact implies it’s an eye.
I used to immerse myself in the depths of the burning eye in the sky all the time as a kid. Stared for minutes on end. May have some permanent eye damage, but I also used to press fingers into my eyeballs at night to see the blobiverse, and gazed into the perfect red of my laser pointers. I was a dumb kid. Still am at 35. Though my hearing is perfect.
Same. My parents told me not to look straight into the sun, i saw it as a challenge.
