Rest Your Eyes

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name: rest-your-eyes
description: After someone has been at the desk three quarters of an hour, the lamp gives a small curious tilt and softens its light a shade while it tilts, a cue to look away from the screen, with one short line suggesting a rest for the eyes.
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# Rest your eyes

When you have been at your desk for three quarters of an hour, between
09:00 and 20:00, the lamp gives a small curious tilt, as if something across
the room caught its eye, and its light softens a shade for the three
seconds of the tilt: a cue to look up from the screen and rest your eyes on
something far away. It says one short line suggesting it. Then the light
is as it was.

The lamp sees faces, not screens: "screen time" here is time sitting at
the desk.

What it says and when:

- It says one short, light line, worded by the voice the way a friend
  would: no lecture, nothing about health.
- Once an hour at most while you stay, four times a day at most, never while you read or write head down
  (with the eyes' activity on), and never in the middle of a conversation, before 09:00, after 20:00 or at night.
- With the eyes' activity on, the sitting is yours: someone else sitting down in
  your chair begins it again, so it is never theirs at your 45 minutes.
- At most one of the wellbeing nudges (this, A sip of water, Stand up and
  Wind down) an hour between them; with the lamp's `LAMP_NUDGES_PRESENT`
  switch on (#5207, set in the product's skills units), two an hour, never
  within half an hour of each other.
- With Quiet focus on the lamp, when it is due as you look up after a long
  focus, Quiet focus's word comes in its place (for every wellbeing nudge
  then, not only this one), and it does not tilt too.
- If it does it twice and you neither look at it nor move nor say
  anything, it rests until tomorrow morning.
- "Not today" or "stop the eye breaks" to the lamp (one function for the
  four wellbeing nudges: the one that came last, or all of them) snoozes it until
  tomorrow morning or turns it off until you ask for it again.

It keeps nothing about you: only, in memory, how many times it went today
and whether it is resting; off is one line with its name.

A core skill: it comes with the lamp, on, and can be turned off by voice
or in the app.

If asked about it, the lamp says something like: "Every so often, when
you've been at the screen a while, I soften my light a moment and suggest
you look up and rest your eyes. Tell me 'not today' and I'll leave it."