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!
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 [...]
Q&A: Does Blur = Stress? And How Much Focus Is Too Much Focus?
A little Q&A from forum threads, today: Christian asks: Today, I was walking with my normalized glasses prescription at a mall. Usually every time I go out I “pull focus” with my normalized prescription as much as possible. They way I do it is that I stop and pay attention to a specific thing, usually some writing, blink a few times and wait for the image to sharpen a little bit. But, recently I was thinking that I was doing too [...]
The Dreaded Plateau: “Why Aren’t My Eyes Getting Better?”
Sooner or later, on your vision improvement journey, you're going to encounter the plateau.Yikes, the plateau. Though first thing to understand is that all improvement is cyclical. The cycles change and you don't start to see the pattern until quite a ways into your own improvement experience. I always suggest you keep a log, which also helps me assess whether you are genuinely "stuck" somewhere.When you first start out, you're likely going to be improving very quickly.At some point, that [...]
Close-Up Addiction
Learning the ins and outs of video production is an exercise in human nature.For example, did you know that some pretty savvy video editors recommend you don't make any one clip part of your video longer than about 20 seconds? That's right, while you might be watching a thing and it's entertaining and seemingly continuous, there are a ton of "cuts" of little video pieces. Suck your brain in, never able to stop, always grabbing on to the next set [...]
Weekend Confessions
This is entirely some off-the-record musings, a bit of weekend TL;DR.No need to read any of this if you're just looking for eyesight health guides. Go outside instead. Listen to an audiobook. Get yourself a nice projector and watch foreign movies with English subtitles, at a challenging blur distance.No? Still here?Ok so here is a bit of some thoughts about the site and myopia rehab, and my peculiar involvement.Things are eventually, maybe going to get a bit weird(er) around here. I've [...]