Out of Pod Experience

Very much related to this topic.

More true then you might think.

When you see human skin clearly for the first time well it ain't a pretty sight.

Oh no, it's no problem at all.

It's an Alara Thread so I would consider it to be rude not to have it derailed and I'll let rapping Hitler explain why.

I will probably get the surgery too someday.

20/120 Vision.

Now it is 20/25.

There is this can of spray on deodorant 8 feet away from me. When I put on the glasses I can see every line on the small print instructions on the back, when they are off the can looks solid brown.

It is so different.

How do you get over the...

HOLY **** ITS TOUCHING MY ******* EYEBALL MAKE IT STOP, AHHHHHHHH!!!!

Because I am going to be honest, I don't let many things touch my eye and it is a matter of quite some concern to me.

I had to give up on trying contact lenses, after the third appointment at the opticians trying to get it in (an hour each time) I got an eye infection. Not pleasant, eye was closed by swelling and it took half an hour in the shower to get the caked off puss off so I could open my eye after it burst in my sleep....

I expected drinks and all when I read the thread's title... :sadpanda:

Glasses you might need when you get old, but I think it's a scam.


Eyes are focused by muscles. If you deny that with aid devices, muscles atrophy. Imagine what would happen to your legs if you decided to use a wheelchair.

But when you "start them young", and therefore make them dependent on glasses, you have people who will spend an entire life needing - and paying a lot of money for - glasses and contacts.

There are a lot of mass-produced consumer goods out there that are cheap because of it. For example, a power supply for an electronics workbench is pricey, but you can mod a computer power supply to do the job. But computer power supplies are much cheaper. There are many more computers with power supplies than workbench power supplies.

So why are lenses and frames still so pricey?


Because you NEED them.

So when they stick a kid with glasses, they got a new sucker hooked for life.


When I was 16 I had 20/30 vision and they tried to stick me with glasses. I knew then, being a powerlifter, how muscles worked and that the eyes are focused by them. Glasses would make things worse. So looked at my habits and noted that having my nose in books and magazines a lot and not getting out much would make my far vision diminish. So I changed that.

Some years later the military tried to stick me with glasses for 20/30. No deal and I got the drill sergeant onboard with that ruse and I didn't have to wear them and never wore glasses. I did not though that with long schedules and night school while in the armed forces my nighttime vision was blurry and used the glasses occasionally.

So I countered that by getting out more in the daytime and finding nice stuff outdoors to actually look at. By the late 90s I never wore glasses.

Starting around that time I started to work in offices, with occasional jobs outdoors, but I know the importance of an "eye break". I spend a lot of time at computers. I do two things:

1. Use the smallest resolution and text possible.
2. have stuff on the farthest walls to look at - put your clock, whiteboard, and calendar there.

My vision is 20/20 now, and has been since around 1999.

So if you are being a basement dwelling neckbeard wtih your nose up to that screen for the pron, and then your vision starts to go south, think first before you go to a permanent crutch for your vision that will make you dependent on said crutch for the rest of your life.

And part of the great scam is that years later guess what you will need? That's right, a new prescription.

I don't expect anybody to agree with this. I think even if I managed to get suckered in life, spent a lifetime needing glasses and paying bucks for them, and now being dependent on them, if someone told me what I just posted I would have to call that person a nutjob in order to avoid the rage I would feel about having my life changed and being tricked into blindness like that for an industry that gets rich off of it.

So just take my post as a personal experience and tell yourself that you didn't get hoodwinked and made half-blind and dependent by the medical industrial complex. Nothing so see here, all is calm, move along.

Just remember that there is no other species on this planet that ever needed glasses and it's' not normal to "need" them.

Sometimes when I read your post I feel like I'm reading about superman.

I have degenerative myopia, which means that my eyeballs are not spherical but look like a football. They are so misshaped that some years ago my left retina began lacking oxygen, and fixed it through an unnatural growth of new blood vessels, microscopical in size, until one of them broke. Blood leaked through it and a little piece of my retina was detached from the lower layers and i woke up one sunny day seeing all twisted around by a macular haemorrhage. Several months later I was treated with laser surgery to burn out the extra blood vessels, but by then 15% of my left eye's macula was already dead. I had two blind spots in my left eye for almost a year, until my brain learned to ignore the dead, blind macular tissue.

Do you know how big is the macula? It's roughly the size of the asterisk sign on your keyboard, and it provides 90% of your eyesight. A dent in it the size of a dot in your keyboard leaves a visible scar and makes a whole difference in your peception of reality; as always since that haemorrhage, the world I see is darker than it used to be when I was younger.