Glasses?

[BookStop]

Anyone here where glasses? I just got my first pair for reading, and it is really strange. I can see really clearly with either eye. *pfutt* But I also feel a bit like I'm under water or something. Things at a distance look distorted and I am beginning to wonder if I haven't perhaps fallen through some sort of reality barrier. I can see the headlines now. 'Family awakens to find wife and mother missing; only clue left behind is empty glasses case.'

[HoopyFrood]

Yes, I wear glasses. Have done for quite a few years (and I'm quite sure that my gratuitous reading is the reason for it). It started when I was about...12? I noticed my long version was getting a bit blurry, so I was given reading glasses to take the strain off my eyes. But then I got glasses for long-distance after a year or two of those and I started wearing those permanently. And I still do now -- nay, I need to, because when I take them off even the screen of my laptop is slightly blurry and then just gets worse as the distances grow.

It is weird at first, I know. Especially when the strengths get changed slightly (which mine seem to do every couple of years when I go back for a check-up). But after a while you even stop seeing that strange thick rim around your vision (thicker rims were the glasses to buy, it seemed, when I bought my current pair).

But I love wearing glasses, personally. And I look strange without them now. My optician keeps saying "you should try contacts!"...but I like my glasses!

[pyan]

Originally Posted by BookStop

I just got my first pair for reading, and it is really strange. I can see really clearly with either eye..... Things at a distance look distorted and I am beginning to wonder if I haven't perhaps fallen through some sort of reality barrier.

You're supposed to take them off when you've finished reading, BS!

Originally Posted by Hoops

And I look strange without them now

No...no....I will be strong....

[BookStop]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

I look strange without them now.

All dragons look strange without thier glasses.

I see what you mean about the rim - it's huge. Now that you've brought it up, I can really see it

[Ursa major]

I recall getting my first pair of glasses (for myopia).

Walking out of the opticians was really odd. The pavement (sidewalk) looked far too close (proving that I should have got the glasses a lot earlier). I almost fell over. Needless to say, the effect soon wore off. (The human brain is clever in that respect.)

[Tillane]

Well, I'm blind as the proverbial flying mammal, and wore glasses until I was 13, when I switched to contacts. I still occasionally wear my glasses - they're much better if I'm tired or in a hot climate, as under both conditions my eyes tend to dry out very quickly if I'm wearing contacts - but wouldn't want to wear glasses full-time any more; they're too cumbersome and uncomfortable, due in large part to the thickness of the lenses (I really am very, very myopic). I get wicked eye strain if I wear them too long, particularly if I'm working at a PC...

[Ursa major]

Plastic lenses are a lot lighter than glass, Tillane. Have you tried them?

[chrispenycate]

Yes, I've worn glasses since I was nine, and a teaccher oticed that the grease dpots on my books were from my nose (there were reasons the family hadn't noticed) The original shock of discovering that the world actually existed a consideable distance beyond myself, and that the teacher at the blackboard was doing more than talking at us has worn off some considerable time ago.
till, going onto varifocal lenses has been a new experience: the world changes depending on how you look at it. Geometry is variable, depending on viewpoint, the once stable universe is as fluid as quantum mechanics…
Yes, I have noticed the tendency.

[mosaix]

Yep, been wearing plastic lense varifocals since 1990. I wouldn't be without them.

It took to them straight away mainly because my reading had been suffering and suddenly I could see every single letter again.

The only thing is, now my hearing's starting to deteriorate.

[Lith]

I've known several people to switch back to glasses because of eyestrain at the computer... I tried contacts a looonnng time ago, but my eyes dried out very quickly and they would just pop off in random places. That and the fact that it took the better part of an hour to get them out at night put me off them ever since (for some reason, they never offered me plungers to get them off...)

The swimming feeling will pass. That is, unless something comes along and gives them a good knock (such as a soccer ball to the head), and throws the frames slightly off. Then you have to go through the whole process again.

[The Ace]

I find them irritating. I have decent vision in one eye, but the other is very short-sighted and my glasses give me partial binocular vision.

The last time I had glasses to correct my defective eye completely, my brain couldn't match the images. I lost them when I stepped around the bollard that wasn't there and into the one that was (I had no way of telling them apart).

[Rane Longfox]

I've worn glasses as long as I remember, without them I'm next to useless (though I played rugby without them, for hopefully rather obvious reasons)

In fact, in my family on both sides for 3 generations (going as far out as cousins), my sister is the only person not to have glasses. Odd, eh...

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I've worn glasses for years now.....I don't really like them much. But my eyesight is horrid without them.

[Tillane]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

Plastic lenses are a lot lighter than glass, Tillane. Have you tried them?

Tried both glass and plastic, and I have the thinnest lenses possible (damn expensive, but worth it). The problem, unfortunately, lies not in the material but in my eyesight.

[daisybee]

I realised I needed glasses in school when I had to copy stuff from the board from my neighbours book. I used to think people walking dogs in the distance were swarms of people too. I was about 12.

I nearly died when I wore glasses for the first time- things had actual edges!!! LOL.

Contact lenses are fab, and I switch between them. I remember walking around ASDA with a pair of contacts in when I was 15 (never wore my specs outside the house much then except school-vain cow) and running up to strangers saying, " Pizza's are half price at the counter!!" I almost burst with amazement at my ability to read every last sign in the place.

Now I am comfy with my specs-seems silly looking back that it was ever something to be embaressed about, but it's quite a personal thing, like wearing a sign saying I'm not quite up to scratch everyone-eyes faulty over here!!

Silly I know. Especially when lots of people wear the plain versions just to get a certain "look." Weird how glasses are quite designer now really.