People at the office told me it is a small green dot to stare at and keep your eye from moving that much and there is a small ticking sound… I have heard uncommon facts for how long it is.
I’m having surgery on the 22nd, that material is expensive!
What is the Procedure of Lasik Surgery
The doctor will first freeze your eye, then gently place a metal ring just inside the eyelids. This ring keeps the eye from moving. To signal the brain about what you see, the rods and cones in your retinas have to use up chemicals they’ve got stockpiled. Normally, your eyes are constantly flickering, to go the image around on your retinas so the rods and cones can replenish their supplies. If you keep hitting the same ones with an image, they’ll run out of their stash and you’ll initiation to see a purplish haze instead.
This is what happens a few seconds after your eye is immobilized, your vision changes to a blank purplish color. You see nothing until the laser is turned on, then you just see the green dot.
You will hear a zapping and may smell a “hair burning” smell. This is normal. How long the zapping lasts depends upon the correction level. I was -5 diopters and the zapping lasted about 45 seconds.
Afterwards I wondered what I had been so worried about, and seeing the alarm clock the next morning made it all worth it!
Excellent luck with your surgery.