Contrast Sensitivity
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristIf you have been doing the program for a while now you will be familiar with the Snellen letter chart and your visual acuities, and the significance of measuring your visual acuity in different ambient lighting conditions. You will have practiced active focus at different times of day, and noticed the vast effect that ambient lighting has on your vision and focusing ability.The Snellen chart was developed by the Dutchman, Dr Herman Snellen, in 1862, primarily for the purposes of prescribing glasses. [...]
Matthew: More Than About Eyesight
Matthew posts in the forum:For me, and for many us, myopia recovery is about much more than eyesight. It began for me as a kid, when I absolutely did NOT want to get glasses. Eventually I accepted them because I didn’t know that I had a choice. The thought occurred to me every year for a while, when the eye doc told me that I need a stronger prescription, that there might be some connection between the stronger prescription and the eyesight getting worse. I didn’t [...]
Pro Topic: Another Active Focus Post
Pro topic. Blog visitor noobs, don't email me asking me why you can't find active focus. Read! ;) Active focus is a very key premise of our method of natural myopia reversal. You go from passively seeing your world, the way high prescription glasses will force you to do, to being actively engaged in the quality of your eyesight. Sounds fluffy unicorns, right? Not really. Some will have you believe that making zero effort is just fine for human biology, but you hopefully know better. Use [...]
I’ve Got The Worst Focusing Muscle Spasm
A quick cautionary tale today, about taking care of your eyes. Yesterday morning I got on the subway in Bangkok, and then the train, and then sat in the airport, and then on a plane. I tried to stick with podcasts for all this sitting around, but phone close-up did accumulate. Phone close-up is especially no good, since you tend to hold a phone way closer than the distance you'd use with your computer screen. Jakey also didn't use plus lenses. Because, bad Jake. Then [...]
Off Topic: Jake Stuffs Update
If you follow my semi-secret Instagram, or the Twitter bits, you already know that today is travel day. Not travel related to @endmyopia, rather still working out the sharp left turn in life that has been the unplanned advent of the little boy. Before all this, the general life parameters were to slowly migrate across the planet (I don't like to travel per se, never been a fan of roundtrip tickets). Six months here, a few weeks there, a couple years somewhere else. For a whole lot of years [...]
Omar: Reduced From -1.00 To -0.25 (In Six Months!)
You know what is amazing? We could literally do only eyesight improvement stories, and cover every single day of the blog. We're actually pretty close to where we could do only eyesight improvement stories from just blog readers (not even students), and cover every single day. That's huge. Oh boy, I can't resist right now ... Right?! Anyway. This one is interesting because it's low myopia, which really takes getting everything right, not being torn by doubts of what's possible, and taking advantage of every bit of [...]