Let’s dive into the forum a bit today, for interesting stories.  

I feel that regular blog readers miss out on some of the most insightful and intriguing experiences by not having access to the forum.  To rectify that at least occasionally, look for various highlights and excerpts here in the blog.

Toshiki writes:

Hi, my first day on the program – yeay! And even though that’s at the fourth method I’m trying in the course of only five months (1st: Bates, 2nd: some online competitor who promises 1dpt/month, 3rd: plus lenses on the edge of readability) – none of which have worked so far (I’m still using +0.5 lenses as a differential for computer work) – I’m so excited to be here. You must think, I’m really gullible, but I’m actually a scientist and had read a lot of studies before finding this site, so I know how myopia is thought to come into being and I’m convinced that there must be a way to reverse it that I just haven’t found yet.

I’ve been slightly myopic for at least six years now, but it’s only recently that I’ve noticed that my left eye must be much more myopic than the -0.25 the optometrist found in 2010. I still have the glasses from 2010 (-0.75/-0.25, see below) and I also have a pair of (-0.75/-0.75) that I ordered around last Christmas (along with the +0.5/+0.5 which you can’t buy OTC) as sort of a reference of how clearly I could see without the myopia. I got them shortly before going to an optometrist, who happened to prescribe that exact same correction, though he was very conservative and could have just as well prescribed me with -1.00/-1.00 (see my centimeter results), but he said that he wanted my eyes to still work a bit. Also, he refused to write down the -0.25@180 astigmatism I had reported during the eye chart test.

Not having worn glasses in my life, I am very reluctant to put on minus glasses for distance vision. On the other hand it might be good for me and my visual part of the brain to know what the world should look like without all that distance blur. Would you recommend to wear the glasses occasionally? If so, how often and how much during the day? Writing down the question, I just had the idea to kind of reverse the morning routine into an evening routine of putting on corrective lenses before going to sleep.

I love these kinds of students.

It’s really just Jake-ego, but having somebody experience first hand the difference between all the nonsense vision improvement talk out there, and endmyopia, that’s one of my all time favorites.  I never call out by name any of the so-called vision improvement books and programs, but I do get varying amounts of e-mail on a regular basis regarding the more popular ones.  It’s always people distraught or confused, or wondering why the initial burst of improvement ended up going nowhere.

I digress.  Back to Toshiki, this is what I commented in the forum:

Don’t wear minus! 

At some point in the future (just a couple of months maybe), after we have close-up covered properly, and active focus habits, and increasing centimeters, and well into distance active focus … you’ll know so much more about your own biology to make that assessment for yourself. At that point, if you want to use minus for some distance situations, you’ll at least be in a safe space to experiment. 

Just like you, I’ve tried a lot of other programs and concepts out there. The most interesting part to me was always the guiding rationales and explanations. For example, what’s the basis of saying one diopter a month? What happens to the eye, according to them? All that stuff, was fascinating.

And also of course, none of it works.

Take your time with this program. The session timing and structure is really integral to the whole premise. Without it, it’s just concepts, with it you get some real actionable process. And welcome!  

There’s more follow-up, in the thread of the conversation.

I talk about my own preferences, and why I personal would never start wearing a minus lens, at that level of low myopia.  There’s also the matter of really taking care to track improvements at the low myopia level, to avoid getting trapped in emotional rollercoasters (what you think today your net improvement is, good or bad, may have little to do with the tangible data you hopefully keep track of in your log).

Housekeeping:  Apologies about the post delay!

Cheers,

-Jake