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Thread: Bates - Šičko Method
Post: RE: Bates - Šičko Method

I spent a few hours standing in one spot yesterday in a park looking at branchy trees at the other side of a lake. It was worth it. As you get further and further along in vision improvement, I thin...

sleepmaster

New Members - Introduce Yourself

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12-25-2015, 09:31 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: 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

19,211

08-22-2014, 11:23 AM

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

is there a way to do a lot of this improvement indoors? Not that I know of...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

20,069

12-24-2015, 07:51 AM

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

20,069

12-31-2015, 07:28 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: So, Essentially, the Computer is the Eye’s Enemy?
Post: RE: So, Essentially, the Computer is the Eye’s Ene...

I have my taptop right in front of a window, so I always have lots of distancec in my field of vision at the same time I am using the computer. I also use the dimmest monitor setting I can get away w...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

22,294

11-10-2015, 11:39 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: Weak eye
Post: RE: Weak eye

I think eyepatches are overrated. I've used them and if you leave them on too lonng you do lose some binocularity and depth perception, and maybe even make the unpatched eye worse. IIt's rather unna...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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04-16-2015, 11:26 AM

Thread: Weak eye
Post: RE: Weak eye

This is precisely what I would do and/or have done. I would hold off focusing on the weaker eye altogether until youo hit the first plateau for both eyes. I'll explain, as I myself started out with ...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

24,562

04-17-2015, 05:52 AM

Thread: My "Vision Quest" Thread!
Post: RE: My "Vision Quest" Thread!

Spend a lot of time outside without wearing corrective lenses. The more faraway distances around you in your line of sight, the better.

sleepmaster

Vision Blogs

25,186

10-10-2015, 06:52 AM

Thread: My "Vision Quest" Thread!
Post: RE: My "Vision Quest" Thread!

VisionQuest, one way to think of it, is looking at signs outside is like looking at charts outside at greater distances.

sleepmaster

Vision Blogs

25,186

10-11-2015, 06:21 AM

Thread: My "Vision Quest" Thread!
Post: RE: My "Vision Quest" Thread!

FWIW, one easy wway you can telll if your vision is getting better is looking at the halos around very small light sourcr in the dark. My favorite is when my desktop computer is in black screensaver ...

sleepmaster

Vision Blogs

25,186

11-03-2015, 05:23 AM

Thread: My "Vision Quest" Thread!
Post: RE: My "Vision Quest" Thread!

If you're -2 and trying to get into the -1s, well what halped me a lot were heavily wooded park trails, without glasses of course. I needed the added details of all that tree bark and branches since ...

sleepmaster

Vision Blogs

25,186

10-16-2015, 07:30 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

Good news on your drivers license vision restriction removal. If you don't pass it, do you have to wait a minimum amount of time before taking the test again? I'm fixing to take my driving vision te...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

26,503

08-13-2014, 08:03 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

Do you use plus lenses at all or do you mainly do the bates stuff? If you're able to drive without your glasses during the day but not at night, and from some other stuff you described, I'd guess y...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

26,503

08-13-2014, 11:08 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

(10-28-2014, 03:59 PM)adawe Wrote: hey op what were your best exercises? did ypu do print pushing on the pc? Anyone try pushing print you type as opposed to pushing print you read? You can "push" a...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

26,503

01-19-2015, 06:48 PM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

I use a +1.0 lens to push with since I cant make my arms any longer than thtey are and my keyboard is attached to my monitor. I have the monitor on the least brightest setting when I do this, and n...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

26,503

01-20-2015, 09:55 AM

Thread: Bates Method Teacher Certification Training
Post: RE: Bates Method Teacher Certification Training

A lot of this certification drama seems silly to me. If I ever went to a teacher, I'd care about their eye exam results, or what their visual acuity improvement appears to be from their posts, instea...

sleepmaster

Find a Bates Teacher

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08-15-2014, 01:15 PM

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