the seven truths of normal sight

[infinitewolf]

The Seven Truths of Normal Sight

1. Normal sight can always be demonstrated in the normal eye, but only under favorable conditions.
2. Central Fixation: The letter or part of the letter regarded is always seen best.
3. Shifting: The point regarded changes rapidly and continuously.
4. Swinging: When the shifting is slow the letters appear to move side-to-side or in other directions with a pendulum-like motion.
5. Memory is perfect. The color and background of the letters or other objects seen are remembered perfectly, instantaneously and continuously.
6. Imagination is good. One may even see the white part of letters whiter that it really is, while the black is not altered by distance, illumination, size, or form of the letters.
7. Rest or relaxation of the eye and mind is perfect and can always be demonstrated.

*When one of these seven fundamentals is perfect, all are perfect.

greetings to all my fellow students. this above is as written by Dr. Bates. back to the basics, because its always good to keep these things in mind. from these fundamentals set in septimal form, are his treatments prescribed.

[sorrisiblue]

Agreed! Thank you for posting those - the basics are the best reminder of how to proceed when one gets caught up in the details.

[Urban]

I'm not sure about that first one. Our species would be in a sorry state if our vision continually abandoned us whenever it got dark outside, or when fight or flight kicked in.