And since you asked about imagination, here’s an old post where I used my imagination in combination with my looking to let the image become clearer. https://dreamersight.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/unplanned-vision-practice/

Lawrence, I believe you’re referring to the retinoscope, which is still used today. From Wikipedia: “Retinoscopy is a technique to obtain an objective measurement of the refractive error of a patient’s eyes. The examiner uses a retinoscope to shine light into the patient’s eye and observes the reflection (reflex) off the patient’s retina. While moving the streak or spot of light across the pupil the examiner observes the relative movement of the reflex or manually places lenses over the eye (using a trial frame and trial lenses) to ‘neutralize’ the reflex.”

And I don’t need an instrument to tell me if I’m straining my eyes — I can feel it! Or I can glance at one of my many eye charts, and if the letters don’t clear pretty quickly, I’m straining my eyes more than I want to admit. The feedback from your visual system, the level of clarity and comfort, is invaluable information.

Lawrence, hi. As far as I know Dr. Bates never recommended any electronic device to see better, so I’m not understanding you about that. (Note he lived over 100 years ago.) I agree some people are impatient and want an instant cure. Part of the natural vision improvement process is learning to appreciate even small improvements at the start, not to be angry that they’re not bigger. Lifelong wrong habits of looking may take some time to shift.

Thanks a lot dear😊