peripheral vision – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:16:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.iblindness.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-icon-32x32.png peripheral vision – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org 32 32 Driving In Fog https://www.iblindness.org/4973/driving-in-fog/ https://www.iblindness.org/4973/driving-in-fog/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:21:11 +0000 https://www.iblindness.org/?p=4973

As I improved my vision, it took a while for my visual confidence to improve too. I was used to not being able to see, and not expecting to see well most of the time. When I dropped something small, … more...

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Years ago when driving home from a long stressful day at my corporate computer job, over-focused on the traffic with tired eyes behind my -10 hard contacts, a male colleague would regularly pass me. Apparently. I never saw him! He … more...

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Dr. Bates, the natural vision improvement pioneer of the early 20th century, used to get this question a lot from his patients. He would reply that you have as much time to practice seeing with good relaxed healthy vision habits … more...

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Originally published in 2003. Thank you to the author (bio at the bottom) for granting permission to republish it here… way back in 2004 I think? I skipped over it during one of the website redesigns, but here it is
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Did you ever see a baby in the arms of a parent with eyeglasses? Often the baby keeps trying to pull them off! While the child does not know about natural vision improvement, she instinctively wants to get rid of … more...

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Is the Eye a Camera?

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In some ways the eye is like a camera in how a lens is responsible for focusing light rays onto a medium that receives the light data. But there are important differences that have practical … more...

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You get new glasses, either your first pair or the latest in a long run of stronger glasses, and your vision is distorted. Why?

The short answer is your brain hasn’t adjusted to them.

This brings up the question, do … more...

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Governments test a driver’s vision before giving him a driver’s license, yet there’s no screening for anger issues, constant cell phone use, and other factors that probably won’t come up during a short driving test. We assume that the vision … more...

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As someone who used to be very nearsighted, rarely looking far ahead and to my sides hardly at all, the “wide open spaces” of my enhanced peripheral awareness now are a joy. I’m no longer trapped by that tight restrictive … more...

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This morning someone sent me this question. Like many folks who’ve started to explore the Bates Method, he’s experimented with leaving his glasses off, and maybe even read a vision improvement book or two, yet he was confused about this … more...

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Do you hate your glasses? Have trouble explaining why?

I’ll make it easy for you, First, the easy reasons.

Then we’ll explore the reasons they worsen your vision, and why you should consider ditching them and learning how to improve your … more...

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