After weeks of having the words, "Hey, dummy: don't stare at the sun with your naked eyes,' ahead of Monday's solar eclipse, Google searches for people trying to get to the bottom of why their eyes suddenly hurt feel like they stuck forks in them like the guy on the cover of the Scorpions' album Blackout.

If you check on Google Trends, searches for "my eyes hurt" and "why do my eyes hurt" skyrocketed at 3 pm on Monday. That was around the time the eclipse was visible across the United States.

As USA Today points out, if you search by region, the searches follow the path the eclipse took across North America.

I'm fascinated by the idea that there are people who walk among us — a lot of them, apparently — whose eyes started hurting the same day as a rare astronomical phenomenon that requires you to look at the sun if you want to see it, and yet still had to consult Dr. Google.