Reversing Low Myopia: Your eye is a stimulus response system. The degree of myopia is largely irrelevant to your ability to reverse it – in other words, you can always reverse both pseudo- and lens-induced myopia.
The devil though, is in the details. It may seem more challenging to reverse that last (or only) diopter. The reason for that though is largely because it’s a) a bit trickier to get the right sort of stimulus and b) it’s harder to quantify a 20% improvement (for example) when you’re just dealing with low myopia to begin with. Read through this section for ideas, student feedback, and how-to guides for the low myope.
Semi Secret Low Myope No-Glasses Trick
Matthew posts in the forum: Original thread If you have forum access, I suggest you hop over for a quick read of my comment to Matthew, for some low myope tips. Short version: You want to focus on equalizing when you're that close to getting rid of your glasses altogether. Why? Because it reduces the subjective disruption of your vision when you take off your glasses. Having different focal planes for left and right eye with glasses, then not having [...]
Vision Improvement Secrets (Low Myopia)
Here's something you probably already noticed, in your personal life. You may have heard something said a hundred times. You heard it and heard it, but it never sank in. You never somehow translated in your own head, to make it meaningful to you. You go, yea yea, I know, got it, but it doesn't actually "click" for you. This happens quite a bit, with me and students and BackTo20/20. I say all these things, really key pieces, as often [...]
Johnny’s 2 Year Update: From -5.50 To -0.75 Diopters
In keeping with the recent promise of spending more time on good news, let's look at Johnny's latest update from the forum today. As a bit of background, Johnny started two years ago, before yours truly took over stewardship of this project. The first update is here, and others are here, here, and here. If you have forum membership you can find a whole lot of this kind of timeline of updates. I recommend browsing a bit, to help [...]
Low Light Myopia Explained
They tell me that it hasn't been this cold and rainy in Hong Kong in 60 years. I bought a down jacket and been hiding indoors as much as possible. Rain is beating on my hotel room windows, and I definitively stopped talking big talk about how much I miss winter in Europe. Anyway ... Here's a quick video on what happens to your ciliary muscle once light diminishes. Obviously it's not actually the muscle making the decision to [...]
Matthew: From -4.00 Down To -1.50 (In A Year And A Half)
Yes, I glamorized the title just a little bit. Still, there is quite a feat here, something to help get you motivated. Here's Matthew's progress report: There's lots more in Matthew's complete thread, including his 2016 plans, and some interesting tricks he has come up with to help maintain patience. If you have forum access,visit the thread here. Cheers! -Jake
Johnny: -5.00 to -1.00 Progress Update (amazing!)
Johnny posts another update in the forum. If you are into improving eyesight, this is definitely a must-read (there are previous updates from Johnny, here, here, and here). All the challenges, hurdles, strategies, insights, absolutely things you want to be aware of. Here's the latest update: Hi guys update time I last posted in July where I was at about -1.75 / 1.5 ish. My vision was pretty good with these but I did have double vision. Now if you [...]