Glasses, Contact Lenses, or "Perfect" Vision?

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I'm guessing using this computer thingy we all can see something...

Edited by Slartibartfast - May 26 2008 at 19:04

Poll Question: Silly question, but what the heck?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Glasses	20	[43.48%]
Contact Lenses	7	[15.22%]
Perfect Vision	11	[23.91%]
Blind	0	[0.00%]
Legally Blind	2	[4.35%]
Something Else?	3	[6.52%]
Vision Is A Naked Sword	3	[6.52%]
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Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625	Topic: Glasses, Contact Lenses, or "Perfect" Vision? Posted: May 26 2008 at 05:23
	I'm guessing using this computer thingy we all can see something... Edited by Slartibartfast - May 26 2008 at 19:04
	Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Vompatti Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 67381	Posted: May 26 2008 at 05:48
	The last choice for me, since it's the most poetic. I've been thinking about this vision thing lately. I think I have a "perfect" vision, but what if I really don't? In fact, what if I don't see at all? What if the sense I call vision is not really vision at all, but something else? What if instead of "seeing" like other people I sense some kind of nonvisible objects that guide me as if I saw them? This troubles me a great deal.

TGM: Orb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052	Posted: May 26 2008 at 08:44
	^ Exactly.

micky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828	Posted: May 26 2008 at 08:49
	legally blind in one eye. .and the other is not much better.. unfortunately not kidding.. but use corrective lenses...
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Raff Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24391	Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:09
	At the moment I'm wearing contact lenses, while at home I normally wear glasses. I started wearing corrective lenses at 8 years of age, when glasses were not very flattering, especially for a woman... Luckily my vision, while not by any means perfect, hasn't got much worse with time, and I can do things around the house even without glasses. And nowadays glasses have become very much of a fashion accessory!

Relayer09 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 31 2007 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 314	Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:46
	Vision is a naked sword. No glasses or contacts here......for now.....getting old.
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E-Dub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 24 2006 Location: Elkhorn, WI Status: Offline Points: 7910	Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:49
	Contact lenses during the day (AcuVue 2) and glasses at night. Prescription isn't that much (2.50 left; 2.00 right). Don't mind wearing contacts, so I'll probably never get Lasik surgery. E


micky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828	Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:52
	have toyed with the idea of Lasik. Probably would have if my eyesight had degenerated further than it did in my 20's. Sort of leveled off.. and since I've worn glasses since I was 5 or 6.. I am just used to them. Sort of sucks though.. can't see my hand in front of my face literally without them though.
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micky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828	Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:57
	come to think of it.. I'm a bit of a wreck. hahah.. legally blind and nerve damage to my ears thanks to Uncle Sam and it's wars of foreign aggression hahahha.
	The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

Petrovsk Mizinski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210	Posted: May 26 2008 at 10:33
	Never needed glasses ever in my life, I'm one of those lucky people with 20/20 vision.


Padraic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31165	Posted: May 26 2008 at 10:33
	Glasses. Wore contact lenses when I was in high school but I found them to be a pain in the ass, and gave them up about 12 years ago. My vision is pretty bad without corrective lenses. I might consider Lasik at some point, but there's no real motivation.

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:05
	I have computer-eyes: one eye is long-sighted the other is short-sighted, I have an astigmatism and a convergence problem - all of which comes from 30 years of programming - one eye looking at the monitor and the other at print-outs, datasheets and programming manuals. I uses to wear glasses to 'correct' the problem but they only made things worse and gave me dire headaches, so I put them down one day and never picked them up again. Edited by darqDean - May 26 2008 at 11:06
	What?

MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 20522	Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:30
	^ that's the first time I hear about "computer-eyes" ... might be the same for me. I'm short-sighted on both eyes, but the right one about 3 times more than the left eye. The funny thing is: Sometimes I use the effect to my advantage, since the right eye acts as a magnifying lense. I also managed to not get glasses until I was about 15 years old ... before that I used to read only with the right eye. I guess that me starting to use computers at the age of 11 had something to do with it after all
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Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:39
	^ I stole the name from Ayreon - My Optician didn't have a name for it - just an explanation of why my eyes were bad.
	What?

MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 20522	Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:57
	^ Yes ... I remember that song. Listening to it I was never sure whether he sang "Computer Eyes" or "Computerized" ... turns out it's both.
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Zargus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 08 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 3491	Posted: May 26 2008 at 13:29
	If i read much the text start to melt toghter sorta then i need glasses. so not perfect i gues. But in everyday life i dont have glasses only when i read much.


Queen By-Tor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 13 2006 Location: Xanadu Status: Offline Points: 16111	Posted: May 26 2008 at 13:31
	I have evil prism eyes. A la the necromancer No really - I should have glasses but I'm too cheap to go out and get some.

moreitsythanyou Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: April 23 2006 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 11682	Posted: May 26 2008 at 15:09
	Glasses....wouldn't be surprised if I am approaching legal blindness
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tardis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2005 Location: Victoria, BC Status: Offline Points: 14378	Posted: May 26 2008 at 15:17
	Glass eyes. Er...I mean glasses.

KoS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 17 2005 Location: Los Angeles Status: Offline Points: 16310	Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:05
	I use contacts. Whenever I use glasses I get huge headaches. Plus you can't even feel the contacts and don't have to worry about loosing them or scratching them. I would say Lasik if you can afford it.