When did your eyesight start to go?

[smashedagain]

I've no evidence to back it up but after much research and testing... It does not make you go blind

[ManuelsMum]

I've no evidence to back it up but after much research and testing... It does not make you go blind

I think this calls for an epxermiment! I'll be the 5 pint subject, you can be 7, we need a volunteer for 10 and 12.

[Claw75]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

[ManuelsMum]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision.  

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate

[Skippy]

I'm short sighted, and it's true- if I don't wear my glasses for a bit, my eyesight does get a bit better. But it's still not as good as it is with glasses. I don't give a monkeys as I wear my glasses all the time anyway.

[Claw75]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate

here ya go.  i think they suit me?

Click to see full-size image.

[ManuelsMum]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate

here ya go.  i think they suit me?

Click to see full-size image.

Very nice! Stunned by your Paint abilities but you haven't done yourself justice

[hector62]

I am 49 and have managed without glasses so far. I have no problems at all with using the computer, watching TV, cinema, sports, books etc. But there are things in small print on jars etc that to me seem to have been printed microscopically small that i have no way of reading without a magnifying glass.

[RED-DOG]

Remember that opticians are not unbiased. It's in their interest to tell you that you need glasses. When you go the following year it's in their interest to tell you that your prescription has changed a little, therefore, you need different glasses...

[Kev B]

I was 48.

Get an eye test and they will give you the prescription. If both eyes are the same then get down to tesco or some other outlet who stock them off the shelf for about £10. However if one eye is worse than the other you may have to swallow the pill and buy them from the optician.

[pokerfan]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate

here ya go.  i think they suit me?

Click to see full-size image.

15 pints 

[celtic]

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too.

I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate

here ya go.  i think they suit me?

Click to see full-size image.

15 pints of Vodka 

FYP

[celtic]

y last trip to the optician he told me my eyes were perfect, no need to come back for 5 years. So I celebrated by not going back for 27 years. Maybe I should think abut going soon?

[GreekStein]

I was 11 and fucked my own eyes by sitting like right infront of the telly for a few months until gg.

Pretty sure I'm gonna get laser surgery when I get back to the uk.

[ManuelsMum]

y last trip to the optician he told me my eyes were perfect, no need to come back for 5 years. So I celebrated by not going back for 27 years. Maybe I should think abut going soon?

Free eye tests in Scotland ftw, the optometrist is supposed to just supply the service and not pressure you into buying their specs. But they seem to be very skilled at steering you towards the Armanis. Just demand your prescription, ask for the Pupillary distance, if they refuse just get a friend to measure it, then buy your specs online. For a fifth of the price.

http://www.metsuki.com/pupilmeter.php