I used to have excellent eyesight and hearing. However, due to inherited genes, they degraded. I wear contacts. Greatest invention on earth apart from twa-lay Papiere and Air Conditioning. It just makes everything so much more pleasant.
Originally Posted by Dr. James Hilfigers, nice
I's got me a pair of Osiris and Jasper Conrans
Specsavers deal?
You knows it! Still cost a fair bit getting the frames thinner. I've got a -7 in one eye so it's no good ridiculous how much thinning a lens costs.
Originally Posted by -Liam/Slink- My eye sight is very good. But because I'm sat starring at a monitor all day, I'm not sure how long that will last...
Not long at all when I met my girlfriend 6 years back she had perfect vision. But thanks to computers she has to wear specs when using them now so be careful! Just a 5 minute break for every hour on the computer is all you need, look at something middle distance so the muscles that control the lens can be relaxed.
Computers don't do nothing against eyes. It's not blinking that damages them.
I wear glasses but only when I have to see something far away, like in class. I tend to wear them the same way some people use binoculars, lol. I've gotten kinda appreciative of seeing things far away as blurry.. it helps me judge the distance of something. Wearing glasses makes me confused as to how far away some things are.
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20th August, 2008 at 18:34:44 -
I needed glasses since I was like 12-15. At 15, I stared at the sun for a while and it made my vision perfect. I jest not. Perhaps I didn't need glasses at all, but I do remember things being blurry if they were too far away.
Hilfiger glasses? Why not Emporio or Gucci glasses? They're a lot nicer.
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20th August, 2008 at 23:10:14 -
My eyesight is decent enough for me to not wear glasses, but I sometimes wear some to protect a bit against screens (mainly when things start getting dark).
Originally Posted by Alonso Martin I needed glasses since I was like 12-15. At 15, I stared at the sun for a while and it made my vision perfect. I jest not. Perhaps I didn't need glasses at all, but I do remember things being blurry if they were too far away.
Hilfiger glasses? Why not Emporio or Gucci glasses? They're a lot nicer.
I've often wondered if weird random things could cure fuzzy vision, but I'd never try staring at the sun. Say for instance, living in the mountains and only looking out as far as you could. I think people get nearsighted by staring at close things too much. Your eye muscles get used to where they are. Or at least, that makes sense to me.
Believe it or not, awhile back I had an inspiration for a pair of glasses that could cure fuzzy vision. But it never quite was complete enough. I've completely forgotten it now.
Glasses when driving, rest of the time I'm content to be pretty much blind. Sometimes has embarrassing consequences though, such as recently when playing (american) football I threw the ball in some random womans face cos I thought she was someone else (I did wonder why she made no attmpt to catch it). Also quite dangerous skiing - very fast and very blind is not a good combination.
If I ever get enough money together at one time I'll get my eyes lasered - it's cheaper in the long run, and less hassle. Can cause problems i've heard though.
I wouldn't want to risk lasik. Two risky. I've done all sorts of goofy stuff when I didn't have my glasses on, or contacts in. I'm sure people get told this all the time, but you really do get used to putting in contacts. I sat in the doc's office forever trying to get the darn stinkin' contact in my eye, but I did it finally. When I got home I could get them in lickety-split. (Funny, I take longer to put them in now, for some reason. O_o) They really are super convenient. I love 'em. Your head stays alot cooler than with glasses. Plus, you look alot more dashing.
I have lazy eye in my right eye, but I don't need glasses cause my brain trained itself to only see out of my perfect left eye or some nonsense.
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21st August, 2008 at 14:04:23 -
Originally Posted by OldManClayton I wouldn't want to risk lasik. Two risky. I've done all sorts of goofy stuff when I didn't have my glasses on, or contacts in. I'm sure people get told this all the time, but you really do get used to putting in contacts. I sat in the doc's office forever trying to get the darn stinkin' contact in my eye, but I did it finally. When I got home I could get them in lickety-split. (Funny, I take longer to put them in now, for some reason. O_o) They really are super convenient. I love 'em. Your head stays alot cooler than with glasses. Plus, you look alot more dashing.
I actually look better with my glasses on, but then again that's probably because I'm not dashing at all.
I guess I'm lucky to have good eyesight then. I didn't realize so many people needed glasses/contacts.
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22nd August, 2008 at 18:35:02 -
Has anyone that travels noticed the gene-pool defect varies from place to place? For instance, I lived 3 years in Vermont, US, and plenty of people had lazy eyes. Here, in Mexico City, everyone has a bad sight and needs glasses (though, I must admit, it's a larger group, thus less defect-specific). Some people in a town outside of Amsterdam have an arm longer than the other one. There was a town in France where people were generally deaf. Might be me noticing too much, perhaps, but I wonder x). I also just noticed I've mentioned only small towns (save mexico city). Perhaps it's a more general defect because of common ancestry?
Hmm, I doubt it's caused by genetics if the sample size is that large. Perhaps it's an environmental factor causing those variations in the populations.
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Originally Posted by Dr. James We're built perfect (apart from needing glasses) in Saddleworth. Aryan race ftw, by force.
Aah, but half the people in Saddleworth don't actually come from Saddleworth.
I think the population in Rochdale are missing the gene affecting intelligence. Oh and a lot of people here can't pronounce letters right, R's become W's, TH's become V's. That's more up Littleborough way though.
Perfect eye-sight when I did a check-up some years back, believe it hasn't changed too much.
I have a very cool idea for MIND-ALTERING-GRASCZHEZZ.
Take a pair of glasses, but add a lens between the outer lens and the eye. The distance inbetween has too be tuned perfectly so that the extra lens flips the image once before reaching the eye. The entire construction needs to be made like a pair of googles so no light can reach the eye without passing through both pair of lenses. Something like this . The result will be that you percieve (not sure about the spelling) your surroundings upside down.
Now for the fun part!
If you wear these googles 24-hours a day for 3-5 days, the brain -amazing as it is- will reprogram it's sight centre (not sure it's called that in english though) to flip how you interpret the image, thereby allowing you to see "normally" if you continue to wear the googles! The bizzare part is that if you then remove the googles -wait for it- you will percieve the world upside down!
After an additional 3-5 days it will reprogram the brain once again to it's prior state. It does this because the input from your other senses is in such conflict with your sight sense input that the brain gets "convinced" that your eyes are malfunctioning.
Of course, I haven't tried this and can't therefore be assured that it will happen this way, but I have discussed it with several doctors and opticians. Everyone of them agreed on the outcome. As it turns out, some russian scientist (I belive this was sometime between 1930-1950) experimented with this and got the same results. But I believe he didn't continue these experiments since it was deemed quite unethical.
Interesting, huh?
BTW, I got the idea when laying upside down in a hammock.
Originally Posted by Eternal Entertainment Perfect eye-sight when I did a check-up some years back, believe it hasn't changed too much.
I have a very cool idea for MIND-ALTERING-GRASCZHEZZ.
Take a pair of glasses, but add a lens between the outer lens and the eye. The distance inbetween has too be tuned perfectly so that the extra lens flips the image once before reaching the eye. The entire construction needs to be made like a pair of googles so no light can reach the eye without passing through both pair of lenses. Something like this . The result will be that you percieve (not sure about the spelling) your surroundings upside down.
Now for the fun part!
If you wear these googles 24-hours a day for 3-5 days, the brain -amazing as it is- will reprogram it's sight centre (not sure it's called that in english though) to flip how you interpret the image, thereby allowing you to see "normally" if you continue to wear the googles! The bizzare part is that if you then remove the googles -wait for it- you will percieve the world upside down!
After an additional 3-5 days it will reprogram the brain once again to it's prior state. It does this because the input from your other senses is in such conflict with your sight sense input that the brain gets "convinced" that your eyes are malfunctioning.
Of course, I haven't tried this and can't therefore be assured that it will happen this way, but I have discussed it with several doctors and opticians. Everyone of them agreed on the outcome. As it turns out, some russian scientist (I belive this was sometime between 1930-1950) experimented with this and got the same results. But I believe he didn't continue these experiments since it was deemed quite unethical.
Interesting, huh?
BTW, I got the idea when laying upside down in a hammock.
Well you did know that the image we see is upside down already, and the brain rearranges it? The light gets flipped between the lens and the optical nerve, so really we're already doing what you suggest.
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I'm sure people get told this all the time, but you really do get used to putting in contacts. I sat in the doc's office forever trying to get the darn stinkin' contact in my eye, but I did it finally. When I got home I could get them in lickety-split. (Funny, I take longer to put them in now, for some reason. O_o) They really are super convenient. I love 'em. 
