>I promote a method to get your visual system working right.
Does it work with high defect eyes (power of my lens is nearly -6)

I have prescription of 5.75 L and 5.5 R. I can not put off my glasses even while desk work. I cannot even read the computer screen without my glasses, How to reduce the defect.

Awesome, awesome, awesome. It takes some doing and you have nailed it. From experience, I know that not many people will celebrate your success, because they do not understand the bigger picture – so allow me to congratulate you. I hope this success gives you renewed self-belief to tackle other challenges in life.

hell yeah paul

since i wrote that ive been glasses free, best decision. 0 regret. cheers

Good on you Nick – stay strong my friend!

based paul

This is such a very convincing argument from “Anon”. 🙂 Seriously though, this kind of weak criticism just goes to show how desperate some people are to find fault and reject the plain truth. Thanks for writing the article David and please keep up the great work.

I guess you’ve never tried it then. I do it all the time and it works as expected. As soon as I go to this bit in your ‘article’ I knew I should click back and find another site. The rest of your info may be good, but I’ll never know due to this obvious falsehood.

At age 22 if I did a lot of reading, I would have blurred distance vision. I did not have any eye exams, until I was 27 and then the optometrist gave me a prescription of +.75 for each eye, and indicated that they were reading glasses. After trying them they seemed too strong, and did not help the distance blur. When I went back to him with this complaint, he said rather sternly, ” you need to be wear the glasses from the time you wake up, until you go to bed”. I put the glasses in a drawer,and never used them. I purchased a Snellen chart, and would check my eyes. Pretty consistently, my left was at 20/30, to 20/40, and the right was 20/20, or better. A few years later, I went to another doctor with the same complaint, and he gave me a prescription for full time wear of left eye, -.25 with a cylinder of -.50, and right eye, +. 25 with a cylinder of -.75. When I first put the glasses on I had very weird sensations, but they were good for reading, and there was no distance blur, no matter how long I read. I quit using the Snellen chart, but often wondered why he gave me a stronger cylinder for my good eye. After about a year the distance blur after reading returned, so I went back to the same doctor. At this point without glasses both reading and distance were difficult. This time he prescribed +1.00, and -1.00 cylinder for each eye, and a bifocal add of +1.25. This prescription was horrible to get used to, and when removing the glasses everything was out of focus, at any distance. Since then there have been a lot of prescription changes, and now it is left +2.75, -2.50 cylinder, right eye +3.00, -3.00 cylinder,with a bifocal add of +2.75.I have been totally dependent on glasses for all activities, and have tried Bates to no avail. I often have thought that the first prescription with the cylinder, put me on the treadmill to glasses dependence, and that there was most likely no need for any lense for my right eye, and now that one is the worst one.

I am facing nearly the same problem, should I opt for glasses or do exercises, can I know about the exercises more ?

I’ve gotten used to it, I guess! Most people are not interested in vision improvement by these types of methods and will have a bad reaction to the idea.

I know this is two years later, but I can’t stand the hoity-toity ignorance displayed in this post – even though I know it is the conventional reaction to the ideas David and those of us who agree (mostly) with him are trying to explain. I will only address the most obvious problem – this post totally ignores the most obvious problem which David first and foremost emphasizes: THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM ITSELF IS AT RISK OF BEING LOST! OR SO COMPROMISED AND DEGRADED AS TO BE FUNCTIONALLY USELESS! No one seems to get the far-reaching implications of that fact.

Giulia, I’m glad to hear your vision is getting better.
Mine was moderate at its worst, -3.00 prescription, astigmatism, strabismus.

Conventional medicine says that wearing glasses doesn’t stop myopia progression. They say that nearsighted kids who don’t wear glasses squint their eyes, so myopia gets worse. This is the same thing that William Bates said: to squint eyes and myopia are friends. Doctor Bates also said that you learn bad vision habits from your parents.

I believe that’s the best thing to do whenever possible. The vision from the eyes can’t be fused completely when each eye has a different power glasses lens over them.

I’ve got my glasses last year and I already think there a pain in the neck so I might consider laser surgery or contacts preferably laser surgery but I know how irritating they are and I barely wear mine so I feel sorry for a lot of you