• nialv7@lemmy.world
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    17日前

    no no no, they also gets oxygen supply from the back of your eyelids (and also oxygen dissolved in you tears). otherwise you’d have to keep your eyes open when you sleep.

    edit: to correct inaccurate statements.

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      16日前

      So that’s why we’re not supported to open our eyes under water. Our eyeballs are suffocating!

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        15日前

        If our eyes can absorb oxygen from tears then they can certainly do so when submerged provided the water is sufficiently oxygenated.

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          The body is crazy. But I reckon they could survive for a while without air anyways, right?