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Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

I just tested at double -1.25s today(-1.25 in each eye) Half a diopter improvement in 30 days, I like that.

sleepmaster

Success Stories

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09-29-2015, 10:40 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

Whatever you do, don't give up after it gets harder after your first diopter gain. Everyone goes through that. I dropped from the -4s to -3 and my optometrist who is himself a natural vision practit...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

47,434

07-30-2015, 11:49 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

I discovered that around strong -1.75/weak -1.5, it became much easier to cycle through plus lenses since your eyeball won't lock up anymore. I was using the +1.75 lens at the time. Then +2.0, Then ...

sleepmaster

Success Stories

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10-01-2015, 01:16 PM

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

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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...

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: 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: 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

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

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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

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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

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01-20-2015, 09:55 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

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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

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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

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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

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10-16-2015, 07:30 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

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04-17-2015, 05:52 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

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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

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11-25-2015, 08:08 AM

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