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Slartibartfast
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Topic: Glasses, Contact Lenses, or "Perfect" Vision? Posted: May 26 2008 at 05:23 |
I'm guessing using this computer thingy we all can see something...
Edited by Slartibartfast - May 26 2008 at 19:04
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Vompatti
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 05:48 |
The last choice for me, since it's the most poetic.
I've been thinking about this vision thing lately. I think I have a "perfect" vision, but what if I really don't? In fact, what if I don't see at all? What if the sense I call vision is not really vision at all, but something else? What if instead of "seeing" like other people I sense some kind of nonvisible objects that guide me as if I saw them? This troubles me a great deal.
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 08:44 |
^ Exactly.
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micky
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 08:49 |
legally blind in one eye. .and the other is not much better.. unfortunately not kidding.. but use corrective lenses...
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Raff
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:09 |
At the moment I'm wearing contact lenses, while at home I normally wear glasses. I started wearing corrective lenses at 8 years of age, when glasses were not very flattering, especially for a woman... Luckily my vision, while not by any means perfect, hasn't got much worse with time, and I can do things around the house even without glasses. And nowadays glasses have become very much of a fashion accessory!
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Relayer09
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:46 |
Vision is a naked sword. No glasses or contacts here......for now.....getting old.
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If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb
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E-Dub
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:49 |
Contact lenses during the day (AcuVue 2) and glasses at night. Prescription isn't that much (2.50 left; 2.00 right). Don't mind wearing contacts, so I'll probably never get Lasik surgery.
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micky
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:52 |
have toyed with the idea of Lasik. Probably would have if my eyesight had degenerated further than it did in my 20's. Sort of leveled off.. and since I've worn glasses since I was 5 or 6.. I am just used to them. Sort of sucks though.. can't see my hand in front of my face literally without them though.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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micky
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:57 |
come to think of it.. I'm a bit of a wreck. hahah.. legally blind and nerve damage to my ears thanks to Uncle Sam and it's wars of foreign aggression hahahha.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 10:33 |
Never needed glasses ever in my life, I'm one of those lucky people with 20/20 vision.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 10:33 |
Glasses. Wore contact lenses when I was in high school but I found them to be a pain in the ass, and gave them up about 12 years ago. My vision is pretty bad without corrective lenses. I might consider Lasik at some point, but there's no real motivation.
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Dean
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:05 |
I have computer-eyes: one eye is long-sighted the other is short-sighted, I have an astigmatism and a convergence problem - all of which comes from 30 years of programming - one eye looking at the monitor and the other at print-outs, datasheets and programming manuals. I uses to wear glasses to 'correct' the problem but they only made things worse and gave me dire headaches, so I put them down one day and never picked them up again.
Edited by darqDean - May 26 2008 at 11:06
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:30 |
^ that's the first time I hear about "computer-eyes" ... might be the same for me. I'm short-sighted on both eyes, but the right one about 3 times more than the left eye. The funny thing is: Sometimes I use the effect to my advantage, since the right eye acts as a magnifying lense. I also managed to not get glasses until I was about 15 years old ... before that I used to read only with the right eye. I guess that me starting to use computers at the age of 11 had something to do with it after all
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Dean
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:39 |
^ I stole the name from Ayreon - My Optician didn't have a name for it - just an explanation of why my eyes were bad.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:57 |
^ Yes ... I remember that song. Listening to it I was never sure whether he sang "Computer Eyes" or "Computerized" ... turns out it's both.
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Zargus
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 13:29 |
If i read much the text start to melt toghter sorta then i need glasses. so not perfect i gues. But in everyday life i dont have glasses only when i read much.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 13:31 |
I have evil prism eyes. A la the necromancer No really - I should have glasses but I'm too cheap to go out and get some.
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 15:09 |
Glasses....wouldn't be surprised if I am approaching legal blindness
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tardis
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 15:17 |
Glass eyes.
Er...I mean glasses.
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KoS
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Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:05 |
I use contacts. Whenever I use glasses I get huge headaches. Plus you can't even feel the contacts and don't have to worry about loosing them or scratching them. I would say Lasik if you can afford it.
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