How long can you hold your eyes open before the dry/burning becomes so unbearable that you must blink?

I know the identity of the man who selected "I don't blink."

STEVE FORBES!!!!

20 secs. I'll try again tomorrow, because I'm pretty tired now.

I don't think this is an accurate test. I know I can keep myself from blinking for a really long time, but doing it at a computer screen shortens the time to less than 30 seconds. Somehow, doing it competitively while staring into the eyes of attractive boys when I was 14 allowed me to prevent blinking for more than 2 minutes!

It has to do with the moisture on your eye-balls. If you were in a damp, dark cave you could hold out longer than on a hot sunny beach.

Well, I just tried it, but I am at the reception desk so it would look real weird if I was sitting here holding my eyes open. I made it 13 seconds.

Doesn't Steve Forbes look like a political Andy Warhola without the white hair?

10-30.

24 seconds

I made it to 90, but just barely. I may have counted a little fast.

47!

I forgot and blinked after about 25 seconds. I think I could force it to go maybe half again as long.

I wear contacts, so not very long.

Well, that was unpleasant.

I don't blink when I play multi-player 1st person shooters. Eventually my eyes start to turn red a hurt a lot.

I had the stop watch going for 3min 3sec before I spaced out and forgot to not blink. I rolled my eyes most of the time. Is that cheating? My eyes were buring before I started though since I've spent most of the last 16 hours on SC or painting tarot cards in Photoshop. When I was a teenager I held my breath for a couple minute submersed in the pool. That was a decade before I learned to meditate. I bet I could do it longer now.

Thought i'd win. Guess, I have a competitive spirit after all. Actually I usually do, but just against myself, and never under duress. My idea of winning is to play monopoly with the kids, and will upon them major windfalls, and quick bankruptcies for the rest of us so we can get some sleep. Affecting dice was the first power I discovered, at the age of 7, a couple decades before I started to truly question the nature of reality. We had this game called Zilch, and I could fairly reliably think 'Zilch' and summon those 'box cars' that ended others turns. Then at 14 I discovered that from a 7 floors above the beach strand, I could get a dog to stop, and look around until they looked up to see who stared attention at them.
My kids were taught at a tender age to use tricks like these. My brother was taught ultimate reality at the age of 11, but has blocked it from memory for 15 years now. He remembers it only when he's so drunk that he won't remember what we conversed the next day. The first time I found out, was just before I was considering passing it to my son. He said don't even consider it; it's way to much responsibility for a kid. I don't think he was taught right, because I consider it the ultimate blessing. I must admit that my first 2 years were rough, feeling that an external reality was all I had, & findng it was pretty much an illusion. Now I love the freedom of choice to direct or play (within expanding limit's). Love others as God as yourself.

I wasn't going to attempt this because it didn't sound like a pleasant thing to do. (How long can you leave a match burning on the back of your hand?) I'd guess about 20 seconds.

Zang: I on the other hand did not want to try the blinking thing, but the answer to your question for me is "Three seconds, after that the match burns out"

I suspect I could do the lighter thing for quite awhile, but I'm not fool enough to do so, because the pain would hang with me after I stopped blocking it. And I don't waste what I am given.

supplicant - Hey, I thought you said you outgrew that self-mutilation stuff.

hehe, the accidental emoticon

haha... At my job, they replaced the acronym "MP" with "RPS" years and years ago.

In the online reference materials, someone must have searched and replaced all instances of "MP" with "RPS".... without checking to make sure it was necessary in all places. As a result, there are many places where you find words that legitimately should have the letters "mp" in them, but they have been replaced with "RPS".

I jurpsed over the cat to go turn on the larps.

Okay, I see how that would have been hilarious.

Speed burps!

Lol.

Yep.