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Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

Pseudomyopia is an interesting concept, yet the dismissive approach taken by some here is rather surprising to me. It seems as though somebody is explaining that the physics of airplane flight invo...

NoBones

Bates Method

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06-15-2007, 07:08 AM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

otis Wrote:Subject: Clearing your Snellen from 20/70 to normal. Re: Pseudo-myopia, refractive STATE change? For the people who read their Snellen (at 20/70), and CLEAR their Snellen to normal -- ...

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-15-2007, 08:18 AM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

First, my name isn't Neil Brooks, but ... you are free to call me anything that you wish. Second, whether or not you have chosen to answer the question is, clearly, your decision. We may take it as ...

NoBones

Bates Method

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06-18-2007, 09:42 AM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

You're a really special person, Paul. When I saw where you were headed -- at about line two -- I stopped reading. Thanks, though.

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-18-2007, 08:29 PM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

I exercised restraint, not lashing out at you at all. You exercised none. I'm good with my position. If you are with yours, too, then that's groovy.

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-18-2007, 08:48 PM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

David Wrote:NoBones, I don't understand where you think I called it magic, or anything like that. Not you. I attributed the use of the term to nobody. In fact, I simply gave a hypothetical that wa...

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-16-2007, 08:12 AM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

Anecdotally, I've watched this kind of process for years (other people's experience with Bates, or other methods of natural vision improvement). Anecdotally, I have a strong hunch that Bates method c...

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-17-2007, 06:36 AM

Thread: Pseudomyopia
Post: Re: Pseudomyopia

There's a whole lot of misquoting going on here, and a whole lot of conspiracy theory proliferation. Where to start. David, I seem to recall saying something more like Quote:Anecdotally, I've seen ...

NoBones

Bates Method

38,364

06-18-2007, 08:24 AM

Thread: Zenni optical
Post: Re: Zenni optical

I don't know much about the eyeglasses, but if it relates at all, I know that when I bought my new digital camera with a high-quality (Leica) lens and compared the pictures that my friend and I took s...

NoBones

Complementary Methods

35,520

06-10-2007, 11:42 AM

Thread: Zenni optical
Post: Re: Zenni optical

I'm not sure who you mean, but my point was that if you need glasses, you should be particularly attuned to getting lenses with good optics.

NoBones

Complementary Methods

35,520

06-10-2007, 09:11 PM

Thread: Zenni optical
Post: Re: Zenni optical

I dont think I understand this. I know that people here have a goal to remove dependence on eyeglasses. Good goal. Bates, though, talked about a sort of mental strain as the cause of visual defects...

NoBones

Complementary Methods

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06-13-2007, 08:56 AM

Thread: Zenni optical
Post: Re: Zenni optical

esthervdw Wrote:Hi NoBones You wrote: "some forms of astigmatism (what Otter may get if he doesn't wear his corrective lenses) CAUSE eyestrain." I looked at the study you provided a link to, and it...

NoBones

Complementary Methods

35,520

06-13-2007, 01:13 PM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

otis Wrote:Dear Otter, You stated that with no lens on, your Snellen was 20/80. How did you make that determination? You must have read a Snellen at some point. If necessary you can make the meas...

NoBones

Bates Method

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06-15-2007, 08:20 AM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

I would think that investigator bias could be avoided by asking a disinterested party to put the trial lenses before your eyes--without letting you know what the diopters were--and asking you to read ...

NoBones

Bates Method

28,806

06-15-2007, 10:15 AM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

I didn't mention numbers or degree. It is fully possible, and maybe even likely, that somebody will find improvement where none exist--if improvement is what they're looking for. Happens all the tim...

NoBones

Bates Method

28,806

06-15-2007, 12:22 PM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

On what basis do you make that statement?

NoBones

Bates Method

28,806

06-15-2007, 02:24 PM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

Actually, i read your previous posts quite closely, thank you. When a visual fields test is conducted, the technician "calibrates" to set a baseline. During the calibration, and during the test, "du...

NoBones

Bates Method

28,806

06-15-2007, 03:55 PM

Thread: Getting to grips with Bates method
Post: Re: Getting to grips with Bates method

otis Wrote:The standard judgment of the majority-opinion OD is that it is impossible for anyone to clear their Snellen by using Bates method or heated rice balls (Brooks theory and method.) Similar ...

NoBones

Bates Method

28,806

06-15-2007, 08:35 PM

Thread: Plus Lens
Post: Re: Plus Lens

otis Wrote:Staircase myopia from the minus lens is virtually proven. Where? Can you point me toward a couple of references?

NoBones

Complementary Methods

21,488

06-10-2007, 09:10 PM

Thread: Plus Lens
Post: Re: Plus Lens

Paul, my mom put me in shoes when I was young. After that, my feet didn't stop growing for almost 15 years. Ya' think it was the shoes' fault? Around the same age, my folks also took me to the barb...

NoBones

Complementary Methods

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06-11-2007, 07:04 AM

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