HoneySuckleBlue
12-16-2007, 06:44 PM
I thought this trick was really neat and wanted to see if it worked for any of y'all. I can't do it my self since I have perfect eye sight, but Jess and RIch both tried and it works.
But it seems really — really – weird to me. Almost magically weird. It seems to bring his vision — and mine — back from the nearly blind myopia that we both suffer without our contacts. And we can’t explain the mechanism behind it.
The basic method is to create, in whatever way is easiest on your hand, a very small aperture. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger work well for this; squeeze the tips of these fingers together until they make a tiny triangle. Then look through it without your glasses. Do not press the aperture to your eye; look through it at a distance of perhaps two to five centimeters.
If you do it right, you will find yourself seeing things you could never have seen before. I get similar results by simply curling the index finger upon itself, but I could imagine different hand shapes and levels of flexibility that might make this impossible.
That’s really all there is to it. I was able to objectively confirm the benefit, too: While using this method, I could accurately read a digital clock across the room without my glasses. Usually it’s just an indistinct greenish blur from that distance, but there it was, right in front of me, as sharp as anything: 10:58. Only a moment before, I’d had no more than a vague idea of what time it was.
There's more detail on the site if any of you are bored or curious enough to delve deeper.
http://www.positiveliberty.com/2006/09/further-mysteries-from-the-optical-world.html
But it seems really — really – weird to me. Almost magically weird. It seems to bring his vision — and mine — back from the nearly blind myopia that we both suffer without our contacts. And we can’t explain the mechanism behind it.
The basic method is to create, in whatever way is easiest on your hand, a very small aperture. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger work well for this; squeeze the tips of these fingers together until they make a tiny triangle. Then look through it without your glasses. Do not press the aperture to your eye; look through it at a distance of perhaps two to five centimeters.
If you do it right, you will find yourself seeing things you could never have seen before. I get similar results by simply curling the index finger upon itself, but I could imagine different hand shapes and levels of flexibility that might make this impossible.
That’s really all there is to it. I was able to objectively confirm the benefit, too: While using this method, I could accurately read a digital clock across the room without my glasses. Usually it’s just an indistinct greenish blur from that distance, but there it was, right in front of me, as sharp as anything: 10:58. Only a moment before, I’d had no more than a vague idea of what time it was.
There's more detail on the site if any of you are bored or curious enough to delve deeper.
http://www.positiveliberty.com/2006/09/further-mysteries-from-the-optical-world.html