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Re: [OM] contact lenses instead of glasses??

Subject: Re: [OM] contact lenses instead of glasses??
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:35:19 EST
>Monovision is a strange ability of the brain to actually adjust to 
using one 
>eye for distance and one eye for near. It is not something you can 
just try 
>on and see..you have to put them in and try it for a week or two, as 
each 
>person adjusts at a different rate. Once the brain "clicks", it is 
wonderful. 
>If you need no distance correction, \\\

I had strabismus when I was kid, the wall eyed version. (this is where 
your eyes tend to point out instead of straight forward). I had surgery 
when I was little to remount the muscles on the eye balls to force them 
to be straight ahead. This was in the mid 60's. I had to wear glasses 
after that because I became near sighted from the surgery. I didn't 
know it at the time, but I did not have stereo vision either. I wasn't 
until the early 90's that I paid for vision therapy at an optomotrist's 
to re-wire my brain so I could see in stereo, both nearfield and 
farfield. It's been a long road to stereo vision, and I don't think I 
would ever want to go back to monovision again. With stereo vision, 
everything looks much more three dimensional. My normal field of view 
expanded with the therapy also to almost 180deg in all directions. In 
other words, when I walk down a hallway with my eyes defocussed and 
pointed straight ahead, I can see the tips of my shoes *and* the 
ceiling over my head *and* the side walls at the same time. It's like 
walking around with a super wide lens all the time. I learned a whole 
bunch (alot??? <g>) through this training. I wish I could afford more 
to refine it even better. Vision is a complicated thing, and vision 
therapy is a relatively new treatment. For example, as I type this in 
with my eyes focussed on the screen, I can see my hands and my lap as 
well as the ceiling and the walls. It's been a long road for me to have 
more healthy vision, and I'm hoping that contacts can further enhance 
my visual abilities. I'm constantly aware of the rims of my glasses and 
the fuzzy areas beyond them, and I have very wide lenses on my glasses. 

Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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