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What it's like to see through glasses
Oct 1, 2016 8:41 AM
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ThisIsYourConscienceSpeaking
Just got PRK eye surgery about 3 months ago. I see so great now.
iamthebeeker
Yeah, untill they are covered in scratches.
AesirSRW
mm yup. Thats pretty damn accurate
TheBirdBrain23
I dunno. The stuff around the glasses looks pretty clear to me too.
thefaftek
For those of you with issues, check dopamine levels. I went from -2.0 with astigmatism to 20/20 once my levels were fixed
TalkingDustBunny
I WISH my vision was that good with glasses
MacRockatansky
Mine must be broken:
naino123
First thing I always get shocked by when I get new glasses is how detailed the leaves are.
chudontknowme
I'm 20/2500. My vision is far far worse than this
Mrlolkins
I thought HDTV was pretty good. Then I got glasses. Not sure if it's actually better or worse. I can see sharper detail but more jaggies too
Benruryefri
Can comform. Came home from visiting my girlfriend who has those cheap pharmacy glasses. Apparently im blind as batshit
KerryMoon
The annoyance of trying to find your glasses, without glasses on. I've sometimes had to put in my contact lenses just to find my glasses.
RepresentativeOfNorway
well if you have your glasses that far forward it will get distorted either way
TangleMonkey
Sadly I know
MultiColoredRedhead
When I got glasses for the first time I remember seeing the wires between telephone poles and being like ohhh
slyvic
That's a bit misleading. When I put on glasses it gets all blurry and shit.
DickGarden
20/20 here, yes it is that amazing all the time
FearTheKraken
EvilMoo
My vision is better with glasses, but it makes my peripheral vision so much worse I prefer not to wear them.
surprisedthisnameisnttaken
I remember being so excited I could watch TV without squinting
imatalldrinkofwaterdontrufflemyshit
The revelation was great. Years later and I fucking hate how dependent I am on these things.
Trumar616
Main downside of being asian :/
MantisTobagganMD
My first revelation was how crisp and clear the leaves and clouds were
xSigma
Haha yea. I didn't think it was normal to be able to distinguish individual leaves on a tree either.
Whabert
Add some smudges and scratches to the lens
whitter86
This is closer to what I see without glasses http://cdna.allaboutvision.com/i/ilasik/slider-still-660x440.jpg
Aprana
I needed glasses for 14 years and genuinely didn't know it, I just assumed that's how everyone saw. First thing I said was 1/2
Aprana
"Wow I didn't realise that your face had so many holes in it" to my mother, after much apologising, it was the best day of my life.
Phalkor
Now add the constant need to clean them and hope you never put a scratch that you can see when you wear them.
justcomatose
Glasses made my freckles more noticeable but that's only because I could finally see them
AnanasHoi
Ayyy good thing!
kollette88
I put on my glasses and realized how ugly everybody os
SquiggleSquaggle
I got corrective surgery done at the beginning of the month. Unless my sight degrades any I won't need glasses ever again.
OnlySupernaturalWillDo
You may need reading glasses when you're older. The muscles around your eyes will eventually weaken due to age, and surgery can't fix that.
SnarkDarcy
With LASIK it's assumed that your eyesight will begin to degrade due to aging ~40; reading glasses will be needed.
RandomAbscessMemories
I've thought about doing that but then I saw a video of how it's actually done and some deep part of my being said "HELL FUCKING NO" to that
SteveMND
If it makes you feel better, it's scarier in concept than actuality. That said, i still DID NOT watch the 'handy video' beforehand.
SquiggleSquaggle
It IS a bit intimidating I'll admit. And the post-op pain will be the worst thing you can imagine. But it's so worth it though.
Oatmealer
I have cataracts in both eyes (surgeries are scheduled for mid-Oct and early-Nov. I can't see with or without glasses dammit.
toxicboyroy
Hope it gets a lot better after the surgery dude, good luck!
Oatmealer
Thanks for the kind words! I thought I was just gonna get made fun of on here!
IamPyres
Hope it gets WAY better after the surgery buddy! Good luck!
Fiea
but how did you type this
Oatmealer
Everything is foggy. Bright lights wash things out. Things are blurry up close. I can still drive and see, but it's been a learning curve
Oatmealer
It's like needing reading glasses and needing to rub the sleep out of your eyes, but wearing glasses doesn't help and you can rub your eyes
Oatmealer
but things still appear fuzzy and hazy
Fiea
Oh D:
MaximumRadius
Based on my own experience, you will be amazed. It was a whole new world for me.
Oatmealer
My mom had the surgery a few years ago and she said she forgot what it was like to see so clearly. I'm looking forward to it! Any tips and
Oatmealer
Tricks and advice you can lend me about the whole experience? Kinda anxious about laying there with tools probing my eyes
MaximumRadius
The procedure takes only a couple of minutes and I never noticed any instruments. The anesthetics will keep you calm but awake. There are a
MaximumRadius
couple of weeks of followup medications.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Make the background much more blurry and you'd be right in my case. I can only see about 30 cm without my glasses.
WastingEvenMoreTime
About 8 freedom units
MaximumRadius
Before cataract surgery, 15 cm.
TheManWithDecentPaintSkillz
oh look at you duchess "I can see 30 cm without glasses"! some of us have to deal with 10! *sobs quietly in place, couldn't find corner*
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
*trips over you*
RustyCatheter
Y'all are blind, Jesus
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
It doesn't count as legally blind! Also, wearing glasses or contacts, I can probably see better than you :-)
RustyCatheter
Actually no you can't
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I guess we'll never know, since we'll never meet to test it.
Fistouille
40 cm for me, yay!
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
If I squint my eyes I can do 40 cm too, badly.
Cananadamn
I have great eyesight but bad hair loss, dad's genes
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I got the hair loss too :-/
nitroseal
Mine is 2 cm
illegalacorn
We're not talking about dick sizes.
ocdmn
At least i can still see my dick without glasses...
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Mine would have to be about 50 cm long for that to be true.
ocdmn
Well, that would be inconvenient. The 50cm dick, i mean. You'll have to have open carry permit for that would be difficult to conceal.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
lol true. Also I bet I'd pass out every time it got hard, from the loss of blood in the rest of the body.
Peccaverunt
15cm :(
Xx11Rebecca11xX
5 Q_Q
TheRealFireFrenzy
about right, little less i think for me
pollomagnifico
Fuck man, I WISH my vision was that good without glasses.
FuttBuckit
I feel you. 6 and 6.5
Xallacasor
20/800 myself. People say that wearing my glasses forces a headache worthy of at least a half a dozen bottles of Tylenol.
OnlySupernaturalWillDo
Right -5.35, left -3.25. I can walk around alright without glasses, but will end up with a migraine. Definitely can't drive without them.
adognamedspot
This comment thread made me realize how luck I am to have 20/20
EventidesCall
I dispensed contact lenses that were -19.00 yesterday. It could always be worse for most people... except that guy.
IGiraffeInsteadOfLaugh
My contacts are -11.25 that's an eleven, not a typo. I can't even see my hand in front of my face.
ambadassadeur
People with crappy eyesight united!
BridgetoTerabithiawasshit
I've got -1.25 in one eye and -0.75 in the other. Its only for distance, like reading a whiteboard from the back, but hot damn does it work.
boobphysicist
i cant even see a persons face from 3 feet away
stylinchilibeans
My right eye has 20/100, and left is 20/300... I feel ya...
Mikklesquid
Agreed
cheeseguy3412
Same here. My glasses are nearly a CM thick at the widest point, and I have the ultrathin polycarbonate stuff.
becauseurwrong
Wish my vision was that good with glasses. But eye docs either say I'm lying or too picky :/
usuallyjustalazylurker
You might need glasses
paulpounder
One time while drinking I set my glasses on the bar to take my hoodie off then my dumbass walks and leaves them on the bar. 1/2
paulpounder
2/2 I thought i was really drunk because everything was blurry then I realize holy shit my glasses. what's up the REFINERY BAR NORTH Pole AK
KoshkaKiska
-6.5 in each eye plus a bad astigmatism. I'm so blind.
IamPyres
Have a large scar on my right eye causing it to be legally blind.Luckily the brain "fools" itself into not seeing it while my left eyes open
LeftHandPanda
Same.
deejoy92
-5.75. Never forget.
iixsephirothvii
I had really shotty vision with thick glasses, thanks to some circumstances I went to Tbilisi Georgia, and got lasik for $1200, worth it
PirateBandita
Right? I'm -11.5 and I'm always jealous of people that can wake up and be able to see everything clearly.
SurpriseBidet
Are you ok?
Lamaramaman
Bless you guys with your minus (-) vision. I got +6.5 and a Cornea with more slope that mount everest.
ermergerdwerrfers
-7 in both eyes. 150 astigmatism in my right 7.5 in my left.
Monka42
I never knew the numbers went into the negatives...I have 20/20 privilege and I never even gave it any thought.
McKuck297
I've been thinking about getting Lasik for a while, glasses can get damn expensive
Feedmenoms
Best money I spent. No more contacts, no more pushing glasses up my nose!
MitchHon
I wish I could get it but I have chronic dry eye and apparently that just makes it worse.
yaya2407x
they're sunglasses and regular glasses in one (the sunglasses are a magnetic attachment) so it was win/win! Zenni Optical is the best. (2)
yaya2407x
The glasses range from $20 and up (maybe less, Idk) and they're great quality. I just bought a pair of sunglasses and found out (1)
yaya2407x
zennioptical.com ... All you have to do is put in your prescription info or send them a copy of it so they get it right.
SomeGeographer
Did it a few years ago. Worth it.
ICanHasJava
Thank Luxotica for that
legalizegillyweed
-12.5 -15 here, fuck I'd love to have any of y'alls vision
whatthefuckgus
Holy shit I was about to bitch about my -8 -9.... Nevermind!
legalizegillyweed
Hahaha I was 2 months early so my eyes never fully developed, I'm legally blind!
thepotatointhecorner
I've got a -7 and a -9.5, retinal detachment gave me a scar in the middle of my vision so I'll never see perfectly through the right eye:(
LazyLoes
-8.5 here! Luckily i have good contacts ???? still thinking on getting laser surgery though
MadMontyMN
That's what I was thinking. I can see light and color without my glasses. I'm Mr. Magoo.
ManyOfThemManyMuchMoosen
Me too. - 6.25 represent! Or stumble around and bump into stuff. Probably more likely.
otiumCatulli
Yeeeeaaaaaaaaah -6.25 club!
BushToadSherlock
-7, I can never forget I'm not wearing my glasses like my brothers can.
emmashreds
I feel you. My contacts are -9.50. I always carry spares, cause if I lose them, I'm absolutely fucked.
BoristheDivine
I have the case where I got -7,5 on one eye and -5,25 on the other. I need to bring several spares for each eye...
PrincessBuahcwup
-9.50 as well. My biggest fear is being robbed at night and not being able to describe them. "Big black blobs.... Could've been a bear idk"
RedroverRedrover
Yep. -7.5 here. When I go on vacation I usually bring 3 extra pairs.
jimmythejedi
-9.5 as well. And I still can't see shit with glasses and contacts.
mattituuude
Join me my blind compatriots!
Xx11Rebecca11xX
-7.5, I get to about 5cm away from my eyes and then everything blurs.
PrincessBuahcwup
But I can find a splinter real quick. -9.50 here.
KiwiJesus
Maaaaate!!! Me too! -7.5 and -8, bit stronger for my glasses. We're like vision buddies.
Xx11Rebecca11xX
Not sure what my glasses are (obviously they are close to contacts) - I can swap my glasses with my mum and brother xD *high fives*
KiwiJesus
That's pretty useful being able to swap glasses like that. I'm the only one in my family with bad vision. It was discovered because when...
KiwiJesus
I was learning to read stuff I was trying to read street signs with binoculars. It was the only way I could read them :D
DancingPanther
-3.75. Couldn't tell you there was a car in the driveway across the street. Just a fuzzy red blob. I'd be dead if I was born 10,000 yrs ago.
Zegot
natural selection would have been stoked though.
Bobfishcat
As would I. Being 10,000 years old is not good for your health.
gebsmith1
-7 and -7.5. I was -3.75 in 4th grade
SirFisticuffs
-6.75 and -5.50, vision like this would be amazing
Luxaeus
http://weknowmemes.com/generator/uploads/generated/g1361041739860123871.jpg
bigfatdildo94
-6.5 and -7.5
Varenvel
i got -3 , -3.25 , pretty much blind without them
SomethingIsFuckyHere
For what it's worth I think all of us would be dead if We were born 10,000 years ago.
AShartInTheWind
-8.6/-8.5 I'm blind AF.
AYYOGIRLLemmefixyourteeth
-4.75 at one point, doc lowered mine to -4.25 recently though
DinoKebab
20/20 I love seeing things
Doktor101
-2.0 I thought I was bad...
tangybreath
As someone with -6.25 and -6.5, Haha, thats cute
chopper35
bitch please -7.50 L -7.75 R
rainbowcoloredpoop
-7 and -8. What blob?
whitter86
Right?
DefendersZero
I'm with you, -7.5 -8.5
Fishticuffs
Maybe not. Sabre toothed cats were going extinct 10,000 years ago, so you might have survived.
Assilem22
Yeah I'm -5
TheGuyWithTheAppleTattoo
My partners dad has +3 -3 and is famous in local opticians.
iamkyleh
Nice to meet you fellow -3.75
KerryMoon
Also -3.75! Hey there!
emdoubleyew
My people! Fellow -3.75!
Vanish914
High fives to my -3.75's!
wemustfindthelight
Oh hell yeah!
iamkyleh
Somehow according to my optometrist im nearsighted and farsighted. My eyes are bad enough i couldnt even get my glasses at the usual place
Rainbowdieahrrea
-11.45 both eyes. I would have died from a horse long ago
Nkechinyerembi
-10.25 & -9.5 ..... And I worked on a farm. Screw genetics, man.
chopper35
welp, i've been beat.
type1diabeticwithnoinsurance
Upvoted because I had to scroll down way too far to find someone with vision as bad as mine. I feel you man.
SweatyNuN
-4.5 reporting in. Can't find my glasses.
ifavoritedogsandsometimescatsandshi
Interesting biology fact, you might have perfect vision since a lot of bad vision can be attributed to growing reading books and in school.1
ifavoritedogsandsometimescatsandshi
Look up Inuit myopia 1969, when they changed to modern school systems myopia increased dramatically.
whitter86
HA! -3.75? Try -8.00 on for size buddy! Everything is just a mixture of fuzzy colors!
Jokesterwild
Well yeah no one can live that long!
TraitorousTrump3
-5. Sitting in drivers seat of a car. Cannot read anything at all in the dash.
ctrlaltAna
Helloooo -3.75 ^^
nicduda
lol y'all are cute. -8.5 and I actually need to get a new prescription so probably closer to -9. I wouldn't survive in nature
causality
Technically, growing up in the wild would have exposed you to far more direct sunlight as a child, greatly lessening your nearsightedness.
nicduda
Oh wow, I've learned something new today. Thanks homie!
causality
The lack of direct sunlight exposure is currently the best theory for the modern epidemic of nearsightedness.
SweetAndSourBabyJesus
Really? What's the mechanism behind that? Because I was under the impression that focal length and shape of your eyeball were it!
causality
The idea is that natural direct sunlight moderates or calibrates the growth of the eye as it grows from 16.5mm at birth to 24.5mm at age 13.
causality
We don't know the exact mechanism yet but groups who spend most of their childhood years outdoors have vastly lower rates of myopia than us.
PotzBlitz
I've got -13.00 ... I can See sharp as far as the tip of my nose. Only solution is the implantation of an extra lense costing about 6000€.
chopper35
jesus christ! you are farnsworth blind.
LazyLoes
My god! How do you see now?
PotzBlitz
Just like everyone else.. My spectacles aren't even thicker than usual ones and as I said before I'm using contact lenses most of the time.
LazyLoes
It's great what they can do nowadays ????
PotzBlitz
At least I can wear contact lenses. Sometimes I enjoy going home without them. It is like being on drugs with all the lights of the city.
SuitcaseJefferson
I feel your pain. -9 in my dominant eye and -6 in my eye that I actually can't see out of.