Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
How Vision Happens In Your Brain & The Visual Reference Trick
Vision happens in your brain.Your eyes are just the very first part of a long chain that ultimately results in your visual perception of your surroundings. In this guide I'll show you how to actually engage your brain in the visual process, and how you can actually see much better than you might realize today.Keep in mind: This is a short version summary of the larger subject of the brain-eye connection. Use this guide as a beginning point for exploring [...]
Updates: Identify New Sessions
If you are using the sessions currently, here is a bit of an update:All session contents are now identified via an icon legend. This should help make it easier to distinguish the options currently available for each session.Old format session:Updates to the sessions are happening quickly, so you may never even see this one. If the rocket symbol is gray, the session hasn't been updated yet.---Updated session, but no audio or video:Blue rocket, updated session. Audio and video not yet [...]
Nostalgia Bits: Archiving The Original Course
It's been an interesting time, the past few months, updating all the various pieces of the site to something more up to date. (or just stranger, as some might say)Part of that has been my offer of a PDF export of the original course to previous participants. A bit messy all that, since the old way was a month-to-month subscription. You were subscribed, you had access. You weren't, ... you didn't. Pretty simple in concept.But then people would ask for extensions, [...]
Floaters In The Eye: Should You Be Panicking?
Let me not hold you in suspense.Yes. Panic is an appropriate response to floaters in your eyes.Kid's gonna have horse head floaters for *days*.Elsewhere, well researched and eloquently, you'll read things like what WebMD calls benign eye floaters:Eye floaters are small moving spots that appear in your field of vision. They may be especially noticeable when you look at something bright, such as white paper or a blue sky.Eye floaters can be annoying, but they generally don't interfere with your sight.Occasionally a particularly large [...]
Member Video: Centimeter How-To
First of the video series not just a talking Jake-head, now online.The centimeter is something most readers already know perfectly well. For those who are new, it can be a bit of a challenge at first to figure out measuring tools and setup. Also, there is always the question of where blur exactly starts.For those, hopefully the explainer video will help. The production quality won't yet win awards, but feel free to check it out anyway.Why isn't the video in the blog? [...]
Kim, 0.50 Diopters Improved: Sometimes Glasses Are A Good Thing
You already know what I think of most optometrist's advice. Yes, sure. If you don't care about your eyes and want a quick fix, by all means .. get that gigantic minus prescription. But then there's the other contingent of foolish advice. (mostly online, this) I'm talking of course about the guys who tell you to never wear glasses. Whenever you read anywhere that you shouldn't wear glasses at all, just close the tab. Click, out, nothing else they say [...]