Some odds ‘n ends, bits and pieces today:
Poppy is commenting on another student’s experience with a change in brand of contact lenses reducing distance vision a bit. While I had taken a more laid back approach, this is clearly a good way to look at it:
Love the forum!
Then there’s this one, I’m always fond of progress reports. Over time they make a great bigger picture, when you can look back at anyone’s range of experiences throughout the the course:
That one is here for the full review, for those of you with forum access.
There’s a great, detailed post from Stefanie, discussing her experiences based on the free e-mail course (hey, I keep saying it’s pretty good, even without buying BackTo20/20). I love to hear about these kinds of experiences:
Hi. Warning: this is going to be a long post as I explain how this process has been going for me. So I have +1.5 reading glasses that I wear over my contacts (contact prescription R: -6.5, L: -7.5) for close-up work. I’m pretty good with the habit of keeping my reading at the edge of blur, although sometimes I realize my phone is clear, so I have to move it back. I bought the reading glasses during the week of introductory emails. I was reading the blog also, so I don’t recall where I read that I should use them. I used them the very night that I bought them. The very next day I went to the movies with my husband and I was amazed that my vision with my contacts was 20/20. I had no Snellen chart to verify that, but I’m pretty sure because I could read road signs with crystal clear clarity a quarter mile down the road. This was pretty amazing because my contacts were prescribed to me as a full diopter undercorrected. I have -1 glasses that I was wearing over the contacts for when I drive, which I don’t have to wear anymore. But anyway, I also realized that my left eye was 20/20 and my right eye was not. Then I began to notice a sensation in my left eye like it was a cramp that was just released and being filled with oxygen. It’s a hard sensation to describe, but it was a wonderful feeling. I also noticed that my right eye felt tight, like the cramp was still there. So it was a few days of reading the blog, and working on active vision, and trying to relax my right eye, like my left eye was already relaxed, and taking my cm readings (I’ve been taking my cm readings everyday since Dec 28, morning and night, not midday, because getting the contacts out and put back in at work is hard), and then I was starting to be convinced that you, Jake, could help me. So I signed up for the program. I printed out the Snellen chart, and when my eyes are relaxed I’m 20/20 in my contacts, but when they’re cramped/strained, I’m 20/60, meaning I can see the 20/60 line but it’s blurry, as is the whole chart, even the big E.
For the whole story, if you have forum access, stop by here.
Once you build that awareness, stop doing single prescription paradigm, all sorts of interesting things can happen. And of course I had to leave in that part about finding reason to believe that I can help. Nice. ;)
And there’s a new video up, life without glasses, particularly nice when you’re dealing with pesky things like motorbike helmets:
As usual, give that a little thumbs up as tribute to the Youtube ratings algorithms gods.
Tomorrow, another post from Despi. We’ve been having interesting chats about axial elongation and studies and things, which have been super fun to have with someone in the industry, who is also actively interested in vision improvement. Tomorrow’s post won’t be on that topic in particular, but maybe that’s in the cards for a future topic.
Cheers,
-Jake
