My flatmate let me borrow her little astronaut shaped galaxy projector that also had a green laser projecting a million little stars across a wide field into the room. She apparently got it off Amazon.
I have ADHD and was entirely captivated by the display for at least like 30min to an hour, but then I noticed that the brightest stars kinda felt a bit uncomfortably bright, as if I was looking straight at a light source rather than a light. Twice, I accidentally got the laser straight into my eye for like a second, because it was projected out across the room.
I turned the stars off so there's just the galaxy light being projected now, but my near vision looks almost a little bit blurry as I type this, and I'm generally far sighted. Then again, I'm wearing contacts and I'm tired and paranoid. However, it is on my right eye, which was the one that got the accidental direct laser.
I noticed, after turning it off, that it has a small yellow label reading "Warning: Don't look into the light", with a warning triangle for the laser next to it. This product is allowed to be imported to the UK, apparently, but it is from Amazon.
Do you think I'm just being paranoid?
Picture of the label and video included here, and will post a video on my profile so you can go see what it looks like - a bit into the video, you can also see what it looks like when the camera is pointed directly at the lights as it turns on.
Everything kinda looks a little bit less sharp through my right eye atm, but it could just be tiredness/dry contact/overthinking, and I actually really enjoyed the starfield till I got paranoid about the lasers, so lmk! Thanks 😊