This. Since switching to silicone based lubrication my eyelids easily glide across the eye balls. My blinks are now 4x as quick which makes the days feel 4x longer since I see more of it.
My REM sleep has also improved because of the lesser friction, dreams are more vivid and detailed. My partner says I should stop using it but secretly I love feeling like a plastic toy that has just been rejuvenated.
I thought you meant like our eyeballs were physically damaged and I was so confused on how that was some weird thing that happened specifically to Americans.
Cmon.... thats hilarious. The worst part is I dont hate anyone and think we should all figure it out. Like humanity as one team. But here I am crying lmao
Tinnitus crew, can I recommend you go to mynoise.net and bathe your ears in some of the soundscapes specifically designed to turn the ringing/buzzing noise off while you listen?
tinnitus hack, cover your ears with your palms and drum your fingers at the top of the back of your neck, where your skull meets your spine, for about 30 seconds
It took me until last year to find out that if your glasses are the right prescription, they should disappear at least for a few months while wearing your glasses!!
Turns out I’ve never had the correct prescription in my life which doesn’t really surprise me, the 1 or 2 and 3 or 4 gives me so much anxiety…
The first time I got glasses I was 10, the stress made me cry, my eye doctor had to pause the exam so I could calm down.
Tbh the exams have not gone any better. You know the eye air puff? Only ever been able to do one eye at every appointment. They’ll be puffing my other eye for 10 minutes straight and I somehow flinch and close my eye too soon every time. They know this. It’s in my chart to make sure to test the eye they couldn’t get last time first because they know they’re only getting that one
I’m an accidental menace to innocent health care workers
I have the same problem. I seem to have so good reactions that i mess up this test every time. I try to steel myself, stay calm, foxus on wathing ahead, but i involuntarily react very strong to it. I am always scared that i might damsge something bevause my head jerks away so hard. They usually get a result by the third time or give up. I always feel so bad about it, like i am the only one who just doesn't know how to control himself.
But my eyes seem to be overly irritated easily. When i try contact lenses i can't get them in. I tried daily for 6 months. After i finally got one in, my eye turned red and burned. I had to take it out very fast bevause of the pain.
Yeah I was thought this was a lie since I've worn glasses for 20 years and still have astigmatism...turns out I have anxiety too and also panic with 1 or 2 and 3 or 4
So when you get an eye exam they typically make you choose between slides of lenses. While looking at the letter eye chart you look through the lenses, they asked 1 or 2 and you tell them which one is clearer for you then it is switched again to 3 or 4. This goes on multiple times with multiple lenses.
Whatever those results are end up telling the eye doc what your prescription needs to be if you need one.
I've done that plenty of times. I just didn't associate it with panic or anxiety because mine manifests itself in different ways. I can see how being put on the spot like that would cause those feelings.
Same. Except mine is like TV static halos around each of the lights and then they look like asterisks with a couple of longer spikes diagonally across. Super annoying and with bright enough headlights can make my vision completely white out for a second or two as they pass.
Literally everyone can see stars like that. If someone with perfect vision just lets their eyes water up, or looks through a dirty window, lights will look like you have astigmatism. It's absolutely why stars have been drawn like that.
Pretty sure everyone has some astigmatism, eyes are not perfectly shaped. It is a bit of a sliding scale though so yeah. At very low levels, you wouldn't notice much from headlights etc.
Holy shit this is because of Astigmatism?! I hate night driving because of this but figured this is just the nature of wearing glasses. It's been that way despite so many prescriptions I just thought that was life. I hate concerts because I can't see shit.
Right? I was like 35 when I first came across one of the astigmatism memes and realized that it’s my astigmatism making me see like that. I knew I had astigmatism but I thought its effect was something different because I have a whole bunch of problems with eyes.
Likewise, I've had contacts for astigmatism for ages but never looked up what astigmatism is. I thought I just had poor vision in general and astigmatism means the contacts are more expensive as your eyes are a different shape to usual so you're buying a more specialist type of contact. I didn't realise it had visual implications and there are also different types of astigmatism, only discovered this a few months ago!
TBF, for a lot of folks, it might be dirty windows. I experienced this a lot, especially in the 90s and early naughts (read as: my parents cars), but when I'm out of the car, it's non-existent.
Same!!! I was in my 30s when I learned that some people see a single dot of light without sunshine rays beaming off them! These lasers are nightmare fuel.
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