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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 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: 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: Please help me out.
Post: RE: Please help me out.

(03-28-2015, 03:08 AM)gekonus Wrote: I tried everything, eye rolls, long swings, snellen reading one eye at a time or with both eyes, palming , sunning, reading at the edge of blur, EVERYTHING for m...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

10,385

04-04-2015, 07:25 AM

Thread: PD distance
Post: RE: PD distance

(05-27-2015, 09:30 AM)JDL Wrote: Hi, my prescription is L: -4, R: -3.5 with a little bit of astigmatism in each eye. I want to order glasses online, like -2.75 each. (Without astigmatism) I got my...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

5,491

05-28-2015, 09:14 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

16,023

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: 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

That's one hell of a strawman post.

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,023

10-24-2015, 06:36 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: Newbie with very strong myopia but also hope, guts and sucess
Post: RE: Newbie with very strong myopia but also hope, ...

Hello Hans. If whatever you are doing is working, keep doing it. If not, stop doing it and reassess. My opnion is a lot of stuff works for the first 1-2 diopters of vision improvement. Then you hi...

sleepmaster

David's method

7,725

10-07-2015, 11:30 AM

Thread: New to this. Suffering from 0.25 myopia and 0.75 astigmatism. Need guidance.
Post: RE: New to this. Suffering from 0.25 myopia and 0....

Are your eyes symmetrical? Assymetry can be a precursor to astigmatism. You can test it by looking at those tiny lit up computer monitor buttons in the dark. You can see how one eye compares to the...

sleepmaster

New Members - Introduce Yourself

6,940

12-11-2015, 08:01 AM

Thread: Need some help orienting my vision development
Post: RE: Need some help orienting my vision development

I'd just get outside and try getting exposed to as much extreme distances as you can. If you have a friend, ask them to take you on a drive on the highway, with light traffic so you tend to have cars...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

5,754

08-23-2014, 12:08 PM

Thread: Need help getting started
Post: RE: Need help getting started

Spend a lot of time outside looking at far away distances in a relaxed manner and do a lot of Bates long swings outside. Never ever read with your glasses on. Walk to where you need to go or get som...

sleepmaster

David's method

9,918

08-15-2014, 01:27 PM

Thread: Need help getting started
Post: RE: Need help getting started

Can you get your eye doctor to give you undercorrected glasses by half a diopter to use when you drive? Wearing glasses will slow down your rate of progress when used for distance and when used for...

sleepmaster

David's method

9,918

08-16-2014, 08:50 AM

Thread: Need help getting started
Post: RE: Need help getting started

-looking far in the distance every 3 hours for 10 minutes Do this for way more than 10 minutes. and way more frequently than every 3 hours. You got it reversed. It's close up work you should be d...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,642

08-28-2014, 08:46 AM

Thread: Need help getting started
Post: RE: Need help getting started

Bates and/or Quackenbush talk about how there's a negative to looking at big letters that are too easy to see. If you are doing close work, say when reading a normal book or typing on a computer, t...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

16,642

08-29-2014, 11:45 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

10,321

12-31-2015, 07:38 AM

Thread: My Eye Exercises and story to my success!
Post: RE: My Eye Exercises and story to my success!

I used to trace out letters like that too. In the parkinig lots early in the morning, I'd move my head around to trace letteres in the ar, to spell out my ame, or old mcdonald had a farm. SUch stuf ...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

13,989

09-12-2015, 07:50 AM

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