Staring at the sun benefits
While it would in fact address certain problems (namely those centred on the continuing existence of breatharians), world hunger is unlikely to respond to this approach.Ĭurrently, none of the sungazers' claims to obtain energy from sunlight or survive without food have been verified or reliably tested. Leading sungazers and breatharians have seriously proposed sungazing as a solution to world hunger and other global problems. Even plants, which do photosynthesise, require other nutrients for survival.
While Superman does get his powers from Earth's yellow Sun, he's an alien from the planet Krypton, not a human being.
This is a form of breatharianism (or inedia), a belief in survival without eating, a concept wholly rejected by the scientific community (and any other community with an ounce of common sense). Nevertheless, some sungazers claim that they are able to survive without food, since they obtain all their "nourishment" directly from the Sun. However, you do not need to bring your eyes anywhere near the sun for this to happen since vitamin D is made in the skin. The closest that the Sun has in providing nourishment for our body is that sunlight can cause the production of vitamin D. While photons striking the retina do cause chemical reactions that are then detected by the optic nerves, which are interpreted by the brain as sight, the body does not and cannot harvest that energy.
This lacks any scientific explanation since the eye does not have any means of photosynthesis and so cannot convert light into usable energy. Proponents of some New Age movements, ostensibly drawing on Eastern philosophies, claim that humans can absorb the Sun's energy directly and efficiently through their eyes by staring into the Sun for extended periods. Early proponents of inducing blindness sungazing.