Need help putting a name to a symptom
 

I don't know if this symptom has an official name, but I'd like find out....

My most prevalent symptom, 1.5 years after trauma, has to do with my eyes. I find myself squinting a lot. It's almost like having wind blown in your eyes or staring directly into the sun.
It feels like the squinting one does after they have been awake for 24 hours straight. Or the squint one does in the act of sneezing.

The eyes sometimes feel sore, sometimes they water, sometimes they feel dry. But the defined perseveration has to do with the eyes, and not the vision in particular.

From what I can tell, it is NOT caused by sensitivity to light. I experience it any time of day, so I don't think being tired has anything to do with it. I don't think it's allergy related (but I could be wrong).

The one thing that triggers it, is boredom. If my mind or attention aren't stimulated, it seems to flare up very quickly....driving, visiting family, going to church, etc. (things that I do embrace but are rather boring to me personally).

Thoughts? Any idea what this sounds like?

I don't know a name for it but for me, I do it when my brain is tired and I am struggling to focus. It is a sign that I need to take a break. It reduces peripheral vision/field of view thus reducing the amount of visual information the brain needs to process.

I like people who think proper grammar is important. You're probably picky about spelling, too. I guess you wanted a screen name that was easy to spell. Maybe I should change my screen name to Dvorak as a counter to yours.

For those wondering. Qwerty is the name of a standard keyboard layout because it is the left side of the top row. Dvorak is a modified keyboard layout that puts the most used keys in home row. Qwerty was designed to prevent typewriter keys from getting jambed by preventing common pairs of letter from being next to each other.

But then, many of you have likely never used a typewriter much less a typewriter with keys that can jamb.

I always thought that as well.
But I definitively can say that boredom will always trigger it so I'm not sure if it's strictly a sign of the brain being over-taxed or not. On the contrary, if properly stimulated, I can focus on a task for hours on end with little repercussions. So I teeter with the idea that it's a psychosomatic issue more than anything else.

I think the boredom may cause a 'lazy brain.' When we wake our brain up, we can do more. Try a caffeine pill and see if it changes your function. That can help explain what is happening.

Are your eyes closing as if from exhaustion? Is it involuntary? Do you squint because you can't see properly?

Haha psychosomatic. At the end of they day the brain is everything and it's all physiological. Psychology is just modifying the function of ones own brain - which can be helpful.