I’ve never worn them (in my case, they’d be the cosmetic kind anyway) but I can imagine. My brother wears contacts and says you don’t even feel them and I have to wonder if its just because you get used to it or what. Because even a single spec of dust in my eye bugs the hella outta me. 🤣
the speck of dust hasn’t been engineered to be comfortable on the surface of the eye like a contact lens. a contact lens can be felt, but not the same way a spec of dust can. they’re medical devices. they’re made to be on your eye comfortably.
they don’t feel strange or irritating when you blink. and after a few days wearing them, most people don’t notice them. i typically only notice mine if I haven’t blinked in a long time and they kinda can feel a bit dry or cold. or I notice them if I’m very tired and have been wearing them all day.
Your brother is trolling you. I’ve been wearing contacts for over two decades now; you definitely feel them. After 6-8 hours they become unbearably irritating and I have to go back to glasses for the rest of the day.
I used to wear extended wear soft contacts, but I’m a trash goblin and I’d leave them in for a month at a time, only cleaning them by vigorously squirting my eyes with saline when they would bother me.
I cut that shit out years ago when one pretty much glued itself to my eye and I spent an hour aggressively pinching my eye to extract it.
I never got good at putting them in/taking them out. I’m jealous of people in instructional videos that can just pop them in/out in seconds.
I’ve never worn them (in my case, they’d be the cosmetic kind anyway) but I can imagine. My brother wears contacts and says you don’t even feel them and I have to wonder if its just because you get used to it or what. Because even a single spec of dust in my eye bugs the hella outta me. 🤣
the speck of dust hasn’t been engineered to be comfortable on the surface of the eye like a contact lens. a contact lens can be felt, but not the same way a spec of dust can. they’re medical devices. they’re made to be on your eye comfortably.
they don’t feel strange or irritating when you blink. and after a few days wearing them, most people don’t notice them. i typically only notice mine if I haven’t blinked in a long time and they kinda can feel a bit dry or cold. or I notice them if I’m very tired and have been wearing them all day.
Also annoying to clean, and people sometimes forget them and they get nasty infections of life acanthomoeba keratitis
Your brother is trolling you. I’ve been wearing contacts for over two decades now; you definitely feel them. After 6-8 hours they become unbearably irritating and I have to go back to glasses for the rest of the day.
I used to wear extended wear soft contacts, but I’m a trash goblin and I’d leave them in for a month at a time, only cleaning them by vigorously squirting my eyes with saline when they would bother me.
I cut that shit out years ago when one pretty much glued itself to my eye and I spent an hour aggressively pinching my eye to extract it.
I never got good at putting them in/taking them out. I’m jealous of people in instructional videos that can just pop them in/out in seconds.
I started wearing them again after about 20 years of only using glasses, though I had used contacts for several years back then.
“Oh yeah, I know how to get them in and out!”… Cue finding a YouTube video to remind me. Lol.
I mainly use them for cycling and driving (long drives, not every time I get in a car).
But once they’re in, I basically forget about them.