How To Guides. There’s BackTo20/20, the exclusive lair of Jake’s personal students working on their eyesight. And then there are the free guides, available to all readers, right here on @endmyopia. So whether you prefer DIY, or don’t want to enable Jake by funding his debaucherous lifestyle, or are just dabbling, this section is for you.
A decade of eye guru experience, in hundreds of individual guide posts, many with student examples, all here in this section. Dive right in!
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 [...]
Pro Topic: Differential Now, Normalized In 4-6 Weeks
Semi-pro topic, this one. A supportive optometrist is a great idea for any type of lens adventure. Be aware of local laws regarding prescription lenses. This as usual, not optometry or medical (as if!) advice. Sometimes we get students, just starting out with BackTo20/20, already having changed their distance lenses, as well as the close-up. Not ideal! This erroneous approach tends to manifest in forum posts, trying to untangle what now doesn't flow with the initial set of instructional sessions. [...]
(Pro Topic) Are You Getting Double Vision With Reduced Diopters?
This, absolutely a pro topic. If you're a casual reader, skip this one!As you start practicing active focus with reduced diopters, you realize that your environment doesn't fade straight to blur, from clear vision. Instead there is an intermittent layer of double vision, almost as though your eyes are trying to hang on to the clear image, and slowly losing the battle over to blur. We talk about the causes of this double vision experience quite a bit here in the [...]
Turn Any Writing Into Your Own Impromptu Eyechart
Val posts her latest status update in the forum (-8.50 to -.7.75, pretty good!), and with it, some awesome MacGyver math. Instead of putting up an eye chart like basic guru Jake usually suggests, Val turns any outdoor writing into her own personal Snellen servant. Val's math post excerpt:The formula: Font height / distance to sign *180/pi*60 = arc minutes Handy trick, just paste the whole thing into the Google search box to get the calculation result. If you can get to [...]
Christian: My KEY To Improving My Eyesight
Christian posts in the forum:First of all, I apologize for not having been too involved in the forum for the past two months. I was on vacation from school and tried to use as much time outdoors as possible. I only used my computer for errands that I had to get done and for reading the blog.———Now, to let you know, in the past six months or so I have improved my vision more than the year and half before [...]
Pro Tip: Notes On Diopter Equalizing
Today the blog is more of a just-for-students topic. This one is for those of you who already have made real progress with prescription reductions, improving your eyesight, and are now getting into reducing prescription complexity. I posted this in the forum the other day in response to a patching question, worth a quick read here: Obviously, this is a pro topic. If you're new to all this, don't go monkeying around with your prescriptions. Given the option, a holistic [...]