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Thread: Introductions
Post: Introductions

Hello Everyone, Very glad to be joining this forum. My name is Otto; not to be confused with Otter who seems to be quite active here. I am myopic with astigmatism. Last prescript was from 1999( O.D....

otto

Bates Method

4,195

06-16-2007, 02:24 PM

Thread: Introductions
Post: Re: Introductions

Funny thing.... The introductions topic was killed the day I registered. I am member 333. Cosmic :D

otto

Bates Method

4,195

06-16-2007, 02:27 PM

Thread: Yahoo Groups
Post: Yahoo Groups

Watch out for a certain yahoo group on the Bates method that does not allow teacher into the forum. I was just thoroughly chastised and berated, called "stupid" repeatedly by the moderator for what, ...

otto

Off Topic

20,995

07-10-2007, 07:59 AM

Thread: Yahoo Groups
Post: Re: Yahoo Groups

Sorry. I didn't mean to create a new topic. I'm not much of a forum user and am a little confused about how things work.

otto

Off Topic

20,995

07-10-2007, 08:44 AM

Thread: Yahoo Groups
Post: Re: Yahoo Groups

Bingo! There you can find proof that you can take anything too far, including reverence for the Bates method. Made me appreciate this forum all the more!

otto

Off Topic

20,995

07-10-2007, 07:06 PM

Thread: Yahoo Groups
Post: Re: Yahoo Groups

What happened was I didn't see that they wanted nothing to do with people that still wear any prescription for any reason, and I still do much of the time at work. I'm committing a cardinal sin. Mea ...

otto

Off Topic

20,995

07-11-2007, 08:02 PM

Thread: Yahoo Groups
Post: Re: Yahoo Groups

Oh, yeah. I got his friend's helpful and gentlemanly message. Really, one shouldn't be surprised to find cult like behaviour in the nvi field. It's rather fertile for such people with the one histor...

otto

Off Topic

20,995

07-12-2007, 08:19 AM

Thread: Staring?
Post: Staring?

I've been practicing the Bates Method for about 2 and a half months and have just started to be able to relax and have flashes. I set my snellen up outside in direct sunlight. The last flash was 20/4...

otto

Bates Method

8,613

08-15-2007, 11:31 PM

Thread: Staring?
Post: Re: Staring?

Maybe that wasn't enough to warrant a response. Anyway, I would like to say thanks to the regular posters. Reading your words has often been illuminating and has made me feel not so alone on this jour...

otto

Bates Method

8,613

08-17-2007, 04:44 PM

Thread: Staring?
Post: Re: Staring?

Dave, That sounds like sound council. I greatly appreciated your thoughts. My attachment to clarity reminds me of how monkeys are supposedly caught: a jug is left on the jungle floor with a banana i...

otto

Bates Method

8,613

08-19-2007, 12:50 AM

Thread: Night Blindness
Post: Night Blindness

I have found that driving at night with my half prescription is considerably more scary then during the day. I think I may have some degree of what is called night blindness. Am I right in my instinc...

otto

Complementary Methods

9,484

08-26-2007, 09:30 PM

Thread: Night Blindness
Post: Re: Night Blindness

Things are way blurrier after dark. I guess I respond to that with frustration and strain. ---------------------------------------- I saw this documentary about a mountain tribe in Columbia where c...

otto

Complementary Methods

9,484

08-28-2007, 08:10 AM

Thread: Night Blindness
Post: Re: Night Blindness

I would like to add a couple thoughts on this. On a recent walk at night I caught myself in the act of straining horribly to see objects in the distance. Funny, but my eyes fear the absence of th...

otto

Complementary Methods

9,484

10-06-2007, 09:20 AM

Thread: Clearer Images On LCD
Post: Re: Clearer Images On LCD

Old post here, but I must concur. My LCD screen that I got two weeks ago from Costco has been a dream. At 22", it has reduced my eye strain considerably. Just before writing this I was looking at an ...

otto

Bates Method

5,794

10-28-2007, 08:15 PM

Thread: A method that worked for me
Post: Re: A method that worked for me

I was skeptical but gave this a try and it did work for me. Things got crisper and looked more alive. I think it allowed me to come out of my myopic/inward looking/blank staring ways momentarily. T...

otto

Bates Method

8,309

12-18-2007, 10:29 PM

Thread: Emotional Struggles
Post: Re: Emotional Struggles

I'm reading an out of print book by a British Bates teacher named Peter Mansfield. I can highly recommend this little book. Here is some excepts from it that apply to the discussion: Quote:In homeo...

otto

Bates Method

35,493

12-22-2007, 11:04 PM

Thread: Question?
Post: Re: Question?

Althougn the power of the prescription you have been wearing, the length of time you have worn them(e.g.: months, years, decades), and the amount of time spent wearing that prescription all can effect...

otto

Bates Method

9,302

01-19-2008, 02:04 PM

Thread: uneven flash
Post: uneven flash

Last night I was having a flash after about an hour shifting and swinging with the Snellen. After awhile I noticed that the totality of the flash was happening in my right eye. When I covered my rig...

otto

Bates Method

3,525

01-19-2008, 05:15 PM

Thread: Sway???
Post: Re: Sway???

ironheart Wrote:so is it okay that it moves in the same direction as me? Yes, it is not a problem or mark of vision strain. It is called parallax, I believe. You are seeing what is outside your win...

otto

Bates Method

5,863

01-30-2008, 06:43 PM

Thread: blind hallucination?
Post: blind hallucination?

Thought this was an interesting story about a blind man who imagines quite vividly. You can read or listen to it on NPR: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/sto...

otto

Complementary Methods

3,144

01-30-2008, 06:51 PM

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