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Thread: How Long Is This Supposed To Take?
Post: RE: How Long Is This Supposed To Take?

my vision is even worse than when I started due to all the distance strain. what were your diopters when you started?

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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12-31-2015, 07:28 AM

Thread: Saccades, memory, imagination
Post: RE: Saccades, memory, imagination

I just imagine a clearer version of what I'm seeing, well my mind does that automatically when I see say branchy tree tops in the distance that are far enough away to be not just blurry but very burry...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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12-31-2015, 07:33 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

I came back from -4 and -4.5 in my right and left eyes respectivelly and 21 months later I tested at -1.25 and I haven't plateaued yet as my 22nd month is by the end of October.(I get tested every mon...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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10-20-2015, 06:22 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

Your doc is giving you terrible advice. Eyepatches up close for that long is a double-whammy, no wait, after 7-8 hours of ciliary strain at school, that's a triple-whammy. Sorry to hear that your k...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,023

10-20-2015, 08:40 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

Quote:You may want to find a Bates teacher that you could take your children to, that they can learn directly from someone who really understands the methods and can demonstrate to them things that do...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,023

10-21-2015, 11:09 AM

Thread: My Vision Tale, and Future Advice
Post: RE: My Vision Tale, and Future Advice

Kabuto, what was your prescription just before you started vision improvement?

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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12-31-2015, 07:38 AM

Thread: How Long Is This Supposed To Take?
Post: RE: How Long Is This Supposed To Take?

If you are -3 or less you shouldn't be wearing lenses at all. Keep it simple, lot of time outside, and make yourself feel a little zoned out when looking into the distance, opposite of focusing intens...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

20,069

12-31-2015, 11:15 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

To the thread starter, make sure your kids never wear distance glasses when looking up close, like schoolwork reading, computer, cell phone, etc. Make sure they're not doing that when they are away f...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,023

10-23-2015, 06:08 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

I don't think recommending that a -.75,-1.5 kid should take up outdoor soccer and then use plus lenses(consistent with what I've said in the past about using natural methods first to see what you can ...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,023

10-26-2015, 07:21 AM

Thread: So, Essentially, the Computer is the Eye’s Enemy?
Post: RE: So, Essentially, the Computer is the Eye’s Ene...

I do think excessive close work even before the period of strain can slow down vision improvement. Of all the eye exams I've had, there were a couple times I scored better than I expected. One when ...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

22,294

11-25-2015, 08:08 AM

Thread: What On Earth Do I Do?
Post: RE: What On Earth Do I Do?

(10-29-2015, 06:42 AM)Kabuto Wrote: Right now, I'm living in a place where I barely get sun. It rains and is overcast almost ALL the time. So sunning is a bit difficult to pull off. I think clo...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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12-14-2015, 10:08 AM

Thread: Why Does This Stupid Disorder Exist?
Post: RE: Why Does This Stupid Disorder Exist?

The reason the disorder is so hard to fix completely is because of the assymetric nature of out enviornment. We expose ourselves to horribly close distances without regular enough distance vivsion to...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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02-14-2016, 02:13 PM

Thread: Anyone tried out Power Vision System?
Post: RE: Anyone tried out Power Vision System?

I would avoid that system.

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

10,204

08-25-2014, 12:42 PM

Thread: The SECRET for vision improvement
Post: RE: The SECRET for vision improvement

The question of one eye being weaker than another is something I've had to grapple with myself. When I had my initial vision drop, my weaker eye dropped more than my stronger eye to where they both b...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

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08-22-2014, 11:23 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

What strength plus lens do you use?

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

31,261

04-03-2015, 09:01 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

I don't know what vision she started with, but what I remember about how difficult a sample drivers vision test was for her, she seems to have one eye around -1 and another eye in the mid -1s, which i...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

31,261

04-05-2015, 05:26 AM

Thread: Anyone tried out Power Vision System?
Post: RE: Anyone tried out Power Vision System?

I thinik the way the power vision system uses plus lenses is just so wrong. I'm referring to the so-called principle of maximum load, where you use the strongest plus lens you can read blurry print w...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

10,204

08-26-2014, 07:44 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

Stalling out at -.75 when you sarted out at -2.25 is very normal. You got rid of your ciliary myopia, and now you gotta change the shape of your eye, ie reverse axial myopia, which is much more diffi...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

31,261

04-03-2015, 08:08 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

I will admit the way plus lenses usage is taught makes me cringe. But I still think plus lenses have value for defensive purposes, if used the right way. Glasses with how they have a fiexd sweetspot...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

31,261

04-04-2015, 10:35 AM

Thread: Astigmatism reduction ideas
Post: RE: Astigmatism reduction ideas

I'd find an empty shopping parking lot at night, center myself n the center of the far end of it, and look at lit up store signs that are directly centered in front of me at the other end of the parki...

sleepmaster

Complementary Methods

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10-07-2015, 11:36 AM

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