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Okay, I have a confession to make about my vision improvement. For some reason I'm starting to see worse with my glasses, or at least making little progress, but -- and this is a big but -- I'm seeing better with my naked eyes! I was trying to use the -1.75 glasses for a while but things seemed to be getting blurrier with them so, sadly, I had to start back wearing my -2.25 glasses. Not too long after this I stumbled upon some really cool looking pinholes from ClearVision Hawaii. I really love these pinholes because they actually look stylish and they wraparound my face so I have a more pinholed-in area. (Haha, made that word up.)

I'm not sure if it was from wearing these new pinholes or not but my eyes have been feeling really good as of late. These glasses do curve around my face instead of being straight like my original pinholes so this may make a difference. In any case I have noticed I have to see a little differently out of them. Maybe it's these new glasses or just the accumulated effect of not wearing prescription lenses but I am really starting to see better without glasses than with them. Once when I was walking after skating a few laps I could make out a guy in a red shirt that was about a half mile away from me, instead of seeing a big red moving blob. I've had clear flashes before but this was prolonged and even survived a few blinks. When I walk to work from the parking lot I don't wear my glasses and there's an overall increase in clarity that I'm noticing, like trees look a little brighter, I can make out signs a bit further away than I'm used to. The main thing though is the feeling in my eyes, they just feel different now. Probably the best way I can relate it is that they kind of feel like the feeling of wiping away the mucus that accumulates around your eyes after you wake up. The feeling when you go from a tight crusted substance to a freeing nothing, my eyes feel like that on a near-constant basis now. Personally I view the feeling as my ciliary muscles relaxing after being tense and stiff for many many years.

The odd thing is that even though I'm noticing improving vision without anything on my eyes, when I wear my glasses it seems my vision is getting worse. Even when I put on my correct -3.00 lenses a few things, I'm starting to notice, aren't as clear as they should. Could be that my prescription is getting worse, I don't know. I do remember though that when I first put my glasses on for the very first time, 15 years ago, that the ground seemed really curved, so curved I thought I would fall off of it. But after a short while I got used to this curvy feeling and the ground seemed straight again even with glasses on. I really wonder now if glasses distort your vision beyond just stressing your ciliary muscles. Glasses are more or less straight whereas your eyes are curved. Maybe contact lenses don't have this problem? Hmm, I don't know, just speculating. But seriously, I am seeing better with my naked eyes even as I'm beginning to see worse with glasses.

Comments

Mary said:

Hi,

I was doing some research on pinhole glasses and I found your comments on them. I was wondering if you have any updates on your vision improvement using pinhole glasses? Thanks.

# March 26, 2008 11:46 AM

Humpty said:

I guess it has been a while hasn't it? I haven't limited my vision improvement experiment to just pinholes, I've also been trying to use reduced strength glasses and using reading glasses. Perhaps as a result of all that my prescription hasn't changed any.

I use my pinholes at work to look at my monitor and they do feel a whole lot more comfortable than using my prescription glasses. Even though it can be a pain to look through the matrix of dots they really do feel so much more comfortable than my regular glasses I'm willing to put up with it.

I can feel a difference in my eyes when I go about without anything on them. Feels almost like I'm letting my eyes see on their own instead of trying to control them. Might sound strange but that's what it feels like. I actually think the little improvement I've seen since this post has come from using my reading glasses though and not pinholes.

# March 26, 2008 8:01 PM

Niecey said:

Oh yea, another thing, I think the most important thing with vision is to relax your eyes, so if you are wearing pinhole glasses and you start to feel the stress in your eyes its important to use that to start to relax the eye and the muscles around the eyes.

Okay that's it :)

# June 10, 2009 11:16 PM

Jack said:

you still wearing pinhole glasses? any changes?

# June 9, 2010 12:45 PM

Humpty said:

I no longer wear pinholes. I've gone back to simply not wearing anything. I have tried the eye exercises mentioned in the comments of another post: http://i-see.org/bershak.html . I did start to feel results with that, my eyes felt stronger. I stopped because of laziness but should start back. But still wearing glasses I'm afraid.

# June 9, 2010 7:09 PM

Costa said:

My eyesight is tirerble too Stacy and I’ve always been secretly jealous of far-sighted people who get to wear all those cute inexpensive reading glasses instead of one super expensive pair of must have or I’ll walk into a tree glasses. I’m definitely going to poke around 1800 specs –thanks for the recommendation. As for real vision though…that’s never cheap, but I’m hoping if I keep making little deposits by giving it my attention every day slowly but surely the blurriness will clear.

# March 7, 2012 8:12 PM
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