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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

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12-31-2015, 11:15 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: 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: Bates - Šičko Method
Post: RE: Bates - Šičko Method

Spend a lot of time outside without glasses where you have access to lplenty of distance around you.

sleepmaster

New Members - Introduce Yourself

16,090

12-23-2015, 09:48 AM

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

16,090

12-25-2015, 09:31 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 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

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: 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

14,847

02-14-2016, 02:13 PM

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

Thread: Distance vs Size mechanic.
Post: RE: Distance vs Size mechanic.

(04-07-2015, 04:01 PM)wtfgod Wrote: (04-07-2015, 12:29 PM)David Wrote: Physically, size doesn't matter.That's not what she said. ...sorry, had to do it. David Wrote:Mentally, size does matter. Wh...

sleepmaster

David's method

12,712

04-09-2015, 06:59 AM

Thread: How I'm Progressing
Post: RE: How I'm Progressing

Just go cold turkey and ditch your glasses. That's when the fun really starts. Where you are at now, you should be able to ditch your glasses for everything except driving.

sleepmaster

Bates Method

12,682

04-20-2015, 06:35 AM

Thread: How I'm Progressing
Post: RE: How I'm Progressing

You started only a diopter worse than I did. You don't have to change your job and you definitely don't need glasses to use a computer at your station if you put your face close enough to the monitor...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

12,682

04-21-2015, 08:01 AM

Thread: How I'm Progressing
Post: RE: How I'm Progressing

If you need to wear glasses of some sort to see the tickets, have you ever thought about usinig pinhole glasses? If you could somehow get your vision better to the point where you didn't need glasse...

sleepmaster

Bates Method

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04-23-2015, 05:55 AM

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