You can train the muscles inside your eyes to contract and relax on command. Just close one eye with a hand, and hold a pen in front of the other. Now with your open eye: focus on the pen, then immediately focus on a distance. Keep switching between the two until you've detected the circuits responsible for focus and have gained manual control over them. It's as easy as moving your noseflaps or wiggling your ears.
The difficult part comes when you try to focus both eyes at the same time, just take the pen again and now work on it with both eyes until you master it.
Jeremiah Cooper
Genes for myopia are pleiotropic for higher non-verbal IQ.
Connor Mitchell
Use the Bates method to cure your eyesight. Optician's sekret knowledge. Eyes are naturally the right shape, the surrounding tissue and muscle pulls them out of alignment making the eye shape less than spherical, and giving poor vision. Re train the eye muscles to pull on the eye to get the shape back to spherical and you've cured your vision. This is why wearing glasses makes eyes worse, as it tends to cause the muscles to do more of what they were doing wrong in the first place.
Brody Ward
Wait for electrowetting displays to come out and stop looking at the screen without taking breaks once in a while to look at farther distances and thus prevent your vision from getting even worse. this goes for me as well, fucking vision worsens by the year
Nicholas Morales
One of my eyes is more myopic than the other, resulting in amblyopia that wasn't treated when I was a child. Studies suggest there's still enough neural plasticity in adults to achieve better vision with treatment, but how do I go about doing that? Should I just occlude the 'good eye' with a piece of paper in my glasses?
It depends what's wrong with your eye. If you're Myopic (near sighted) your eyeball is elongated and you need to change your behavior to reduce accommodation ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation_(eye) ). Basically anything you focus on up close (computer screens, phones, books, cooking, tv, literally anything) will cause accommodation and prolonged periods can lead to a persistent elongated shape (imagine squeezing a basketball with a belt over time until the ball retains the shape even when the belt is removed). You'll never see any officially published studies on this, but just read what accommodation actually is, read about what eye strain is, and look at what used to be common knowledge for previous generations ("You'll go blind sitting so close to the TV!"). The increase in incidence rate is supposedly "genetic" but only seems to occur within a certain generation for an entire society. It's all about behavior. Increase of time spent indoors. People living in cities where the farthest they can see is across the street. People spending more time watching tv, reading, or using phones. The ideal is to never spend more than 15 to 20 minutes at a time focusing on anything up close that causes accommodation or alternate to looking at things farther away (the farther the better). This is why vision is always best in the morning when you first wake up and worsens over the day for nearly everybody (most won't notice it though). If you have myopia you can reverse it over time by reducing or eliminating accommodation from your behavior, but it always takes longer to revert than the time caused to damage. If you spend 5 years with avid reading, computer time, handheld consoles etc it'll take you 5 years or more without. Negative or Minus ( - ) corrective lenses (prescribed for nearsightedness) alter the light entering your eyes to make things farther away appear closer but also cause additional accommodation that can exacerbate the problem if you don't change your behavior and continue to look at things up close with them. The ideal is to have anything you focus on be just at the border of being out of focus. If you have it closer so the focus is a lot sharper, it can increase the accommodation causing more damage. A lot of people think just reducing prescription strength can work, and it can be a useful tool, but if done improperly will lead to more accommodation than the stronger prescription and cause more damage (this is the result of the only study that's been done, that an "incorrect" prescription damages your eyes when it's all behavior which is harder to control and change). One useful tool is to utilize reading glasses or plus lenses ( + ) for anything involving near work. This changes the light to make things appear farther away than they really are, so anything up close will appear more blurry. If you can keep whatever near work just at the boundary of being barely readable/blurry, it can benefit your eyes over time. They also reduce overall strain (VR headsets for example use very high power plus lenses to make the tiny screens inches from your face appear farther away for example). You can typically buy reading glasses at any store for cheap. Be warned though that using cheap glass can cause your eyes to get used to artifacts in the glass causing artifacts in vision or other odd distortions if there are distortions in the glass and they're used for prolonged amounts of time.
If you're far sighted, you have an opposite problem. Your eyeball is not elongated but instead either squished in OR your lenses are stiffening. Most babies are born with their eyes squished more and elongate in the first years of life to a more "correct" vision. Also older people experience their eye lenses "stiffening" from UV light, age, poor nutrition, poor behavior, and other factors. The stiffening alters the light cumming in making it hard for them to see anything up close without the aid of reading glasses. This can be fixed somewhat but stiffening usually permanent. One benefit of stiffening is that it usually makes people who are near sighted be able to see farther away when it happens but they lose their near vision.
Wyatt Murphy
Stop jacking off.
Hunter Bailey
I never tried them but there are some lenses that you wear when you sleep that reshape your eyeballs so you can see without lenses during the day (the vision getting worse at the end of course).
Joshua Walker
LASIC just changes the lens shape of your eye by removing cells. It does nothing to alter behavior and if your behavior is conclusive to elongation, it will continue and your vision will continue to deteriorate. Usually there's a point where it "stops" because continuing the bad behavior causes strain making the person stop but not always. It's a fast method though.
While some rare genetic conditions do exist, it's almost never genetic for the majority of the population and always environment and behavior induced.
The problem with looking up close is excessive accommodation which leads to excessive elongation which leads to your retina detaching.
Bingo.
If you're myopic (near sighted) this does NOT help and can actually worsen your condition due to excessive accommodation. If you're older and have lens stiffening causing loss of near vision, this can help regain some near vision but you'll also sacrifice some of your distance vision.
If you want exercises you should practice exercises that work out all eye muscles EXCEPT for the ciliary muscle ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliary_muscle ) the main one responsible for accommodation. Try squeezing your eyelids closed without scrunching up any of your face muscles for example. This also puts minor pressure on your eyes, pushing the elongation back slightly. Also with eyes closed, you can look to your extreme left, right, up, down, diagonals, and in circles clockwise and counterclockwise.Try holding each direction for about 10 seconds. It's also good if you can sort of "wiggle" the eye between directions a bit on the outer edge.
Bates method lacks a lot of details and causes additional accommodation for myopic patients as it only focuses on the ciliary muscle (see above). You'd be beter off just strapping high powered reading glasses on 24/7 if you're myopic but then you can't see, at all which reduces quality of life and can lead to vision artifacts from lens imperfections. However it can correct elongation overtime. Proper behavior changes and training for everyday life mitigate those issues.
There is. It's difficult when the eyes are different though as usually your dominant eye will take over and worsen. Try the exercises above or find reading glasses that you can wear that if you use only the "worse" eye, looking at a book or your phone or whatever you do regularly up close is almost too blurry to see but you can put it just barely in focus. The strength depends how far away you want to hold it (if it's beyond arms reach, increase the strength, if you have to hold it up to your face decrease it, so people don't give you shit for looking like Mr Magoo). You never want to bring things in to focus too far though as it can cause more harm, it's better to be right at the edge and just past being focused so its a little blurry.
Isaac Murphy
Yes, i don't remember the name of them off hand but the idea is a good concept but almost all implementation of it is poor. It's very expensive to have them custom made and almost always cause defects in vision, such as blurry spots, or double vision. Also almost all trials with them originally were made out of material that caused a lack of oxygen to flow to the eye causes severe medical problems. Materials now are better, but remember this only reshapes the lenses and not the entire eye ball (or not enough) so it doesn't fix the underlying issue. If there was a way to fully encase the eyeball (there isn't since it's inside your head) you could maybe properly reshape it but you need to remove pressure on the lens at the front while doing it (which is what most people focus on anyway). It's an option but its just not very practical overall.
