Was having trouble with clearly reading street and exit ramp signs without speeding up to see them better, so I got an eye exam finally after two weeks of avoiding it.
Not blind as a bat out of hell on the freeway, I`ve just attributed my stressed out vision to reading and photo-editing too much as I have to take more frequent breaks.
Though I`m not afraid of blindness, having run around in heavy welders` goggles and into a wall in college for fun, it would be a dampener on my photography career.
As I sat down and the optomitrist put up lines of letters for me to read, I was ready to protest I can barely read anyways.
T, Y, F, R, P were stupidly similiar as were O, Q, C, G, D as I was getting annoyed with reading the bottom lines when I used to have 26/20 vision at the beginning of college.
He wished many people`s IQ would go up with glasses yet the doctor looked at me oddly as I said, at least it`s not stigmata. Astigmatism isn`t so bad as I thought.
Amazingly, my brain has been working overtime to balance out my warped cornea refracting light off axis by .090 as my lenses were off -0.50 on the left and -0.25 on the right. It`s crazy how it manages to flip the image as well, but the body can adapt so much.
And some people wonder if my brain`s working at all, no merely too hard as usual. Yet, the counter-effect has taken some getting used to now.
It`s been a bit trippy re-adjusting to the differences in seeing eveything in my own room, which I thought I could see, but now there`s so many little details I`ve missed from fuzz on stuffed animals to textures on my bed.
Was suddenly in trouble as I noticed girls` individual eyelashes and my girlfriend thought I was checking them out. I was just surprised that I could see so much better with snowflakes, fine print (it wasn`t just legalese confusing me) and people from more than ten feet away.
Sharp as tack is embarrassing after the realization I`ve submitted slightly blurry photo portfolios to city editors and confused my photo instructors for over-sharpening and too contrasty photos.
It`s funny how much you take for granted. I thought I was still sleepy when I missed spots while shaving, fuzzy text from staring at a computer monitor editing for too long, or even taking too many breaks while reading short-stories after too many textbooks.
Was so happy from the moment I put on a pair of glasses and didn`t have to work so hard to read. Technology is cool. Okay so it`s nothing new, but I didn`t know it was 600 years old.
Thank a few monks, Italians, Germans and British, for refining optics for wearing. Not a surprise that the glass guild in Venice were making reading lenses, a German thinker figured out why lenses corrected sight problems, and that a British astronomer figured out how to correct astigmatism. I drink to them. Go to wikipedia and learn about glasses and stuff!
Here I was thinking the rest of the world couldn't be seeing situations clearly. Lobbing terrorist funding pirate boarding hooks, rocket missiles and tank shells, and insults at our neighbours seems like fuzzy logic to me. However, it isn't as easy as a trip to the optomitrist or pub to work out differences and see it straight.
I'll figure out the rest of the world later. It could be worse as my 65 year old aunt is waiting for cataract surgury. Still driving stubbornly and slowing down to read road signs and guess when her street is coming up. Thanks, mom. I feel better knowing I was driving like an retiree and I'm not even in Victoria anymore.
Not blind as a bat out of hell on the freeway, I`ve just attributed my stressed out vision to reading and photo-editing too much as I have to take more frequent breaks.
Though I`m not afraid of blindness, having run around in heavy welders` goggles and into a wall in college for fun, it would be a dampener on my photography career.
As I sat down and the optomitrist put up lines of letters for me to read, I was ready to protest I can barely read anyways.
T, Y, F, R, P were stupidly similiar as were O, Q, C, G, D as I was getting annoyed with reading the bottom lines when I used to have 26/20 vision at the beginning of college.
He wished many people`s IQ would go up with glasses yet the doctor looked at me oddly as I said, at least it`s not stigmata. Astigmatism isn`t so bad as I thought.
Amazingly, my brain has been working overtime to balance out my warped cornea refracting light off axis by .090 as my lenses were off -0.50 on the left and -0.25 on the right. It`s crazy how it manages to flip the image as well, but the body can adapt so much.
And some people wonder if my brain`s working at all, no merely too hard as usual. Yet, the counter-effect has taken some getting used to now.
It`s been a bit trippy re-adjusting to the differences in seeing eveything in my own room, which I thought I could see, but now there`s so many little details I`ve missed from fuzz on stuffed animals to textures on my bed.
Was suddenly in trouble as I noticed girls` individual eyelashes and my girlfriend thought I was checking them out. I was just surprised that I could see so much better with snowflakes, fine print (it wasn`t just legalese confusing me) and people from more than ten feet away.
Sharp as tack is embarrassing after the realization I`ve submitted slightly blurry photo portfolios to city editors and confused my photo instructors for over-sharpening and too contrasty photos.
It`s funny how much you take for granted. I thought I was still sleepy when I missed spots while shaving, fuzzy text from staring at a computer monitor editing for too long, or even taking too many breaks while reading short-stories after too many textbooks.
Was so happy from the moment I put on a pair of glasses and didn`t have to work so hard to read. Technology is cool. Okay so it`s nothing new, but I didn`t know it was 600 years old.
Thank a few monks, Italians, Germans and British, for refining optics for wearing. Not a surprise that the glass guild in Venice were making reading lenses, a German thinker figured out why lenses corrected sight problems, and that a British astronomer figured out how to correct astigmatism. I drink to them. Go to wikipedia and learn about glasses and stuff!
Here I was thinking the rest of the world couldn't be seeing situations clearly. Lobbing terrorist funding pirate boarding hooks, rocket missiles and tank shells, and insults at our neighbours seems like fuzzy logic to me. However, it isn't as easy as a trip to the optomitrist or pub to work out differences and see it straight.
I'll figure out the rest of the world later. It could be worse as my 65 year old aunt is waiting for cataract surgury. Still driving stubbornly and slowing down to read road signs and guess when her street is coming up. Thanks, mom. I feel better knowing I was driving like an retiree and I'm not even in Victoria anymore.
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