Not everyone is you. People tend to blink less when looking at a bright, backlit screen than they do when looking at a passively lit screen. The eye is dryer w

Not everyone is you. People tend to blink less when looking at a bright, backlit screen than they do when looking at a passively lit screen. The eye is dryer when you blink less, and thus more easily irritated. "Computer Vision Syndrome" brings up 250,000 hits on Google Scholar. I'm skeptical that it's a nocebo at this point.