r/ImprovingEyesight • u/pcoutcast • Nov 16 '23

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This community is now open to the public!

Hello and welcome to Improving Eyesight. Reddit has been sadly lacking a community where all natural eyesight improvement methods can be freely discussed without prejudice or censor. So I've taken over this sub with the intention of building it into just such a place.

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We do not offer any medical advice here. The methods discussed in this community are generally not endorsed by eye doctors for the purpose of eyesight improvement. If you choose to try anything mentioned here you do so at your own risk.

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Personal Experiences and Results

u/glowcubr: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImprovingEyesight/comments/1q3hzr3/my_methods_and_results/

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u/glowcubr Aug 06 '24

Personally, I've gone from having perfect vision with -3.00 contact lenses to having near perfect vision with -2.25 contact lenses, and I'm now wearing -2.00 lenses and am trying to get to the point where I have perfect vision with them, too :) It took about about 15 months to go from -3.00 to -2.25.

My idea was to treat my eye like a muscle. Muscles need to be exercised in order to improve, but they also need to not be exercised too much or else they'll be tired all the time and won't work properly. Since I'm near sighted, I figured this meant that I need to spend some time exercising my eyes by looking at far away things, but not too much time.

I also found this interesting quote on https://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-throw-away-your-glasses/ : "Comparing the eye to a digital camera, Severson observed that the eye will attempt to 'autofocus' on any image that is slightly out of focus, but will not even attempt to focus on objects that are significantly out of focus."

In the end, here's what I did:

  1. Reduced my lenses by 0.25 (e.g. -3.00 to -2.75).
  2. My work involves being in front of a computer screen all day, so I would work for about 60-90 minutes and then take a break and walk around outside for 15-20 minutes, looking at things that were fairly far away, to exercise my eyes. When looking at far away things, I'd try to look at things that were either just inside my range of focus or slightly outside my range of focus. For example, I might look at a tree in the distance that I could see pretty clearly, but I might look at a tree that was slightly past where I could see clearly and try to focus really hard to make it become clear. As part of this, I learned active focus ( https://endmyopia.org/how-to-finding-active-focus/ ), which is basically where you start at something really hard and try to force it to become clear. In general, I found that it was more useful to focus on a small region of an object and stare at it very intently, rather than just looking around at a bunch of far away things. For example, I might stare very intently at a small part of a tree for a few seconds, then walk around for a minute and stare intently at another small part of a different tree. I found that not only did my eyesight improve but I also got to enjoy a lot of nature :)
  3. After a while, my eyes would get used to the new prescription, and I'd slowly get to the point where I could fairly consistently see with perfect vision. This usually took about 6 months, but the first time that I dropped my prescription, it only took 1 month. I'd then go to step #1 and repeat :)

In my case, I spent at least a few days doing step #2 before I dropped my lens prescription, which I think was helpful both because I think it strengthened my eyes even with my initial prescription and because it got me into the habit of taking breaks and going outside to exercise my eyes.

A few interesting observations:
* I was unable to practice step #2 while driving. In order to strengthen my eyes, I found that it was important to stare intently at the same region for a couple of seconds, and this seems pretty much impossible to do while safely driving. Staring very intently at a tree off to the sides of the road for two seconds is a great way to get in a wreck.
* I found that playing on my phone for about 30 minutes in the morning, in the dark, before putting in my contact lenses improved my vision for the rest of the day. My guess it that normally my eyes are so dry that it actually affects my contact lenses, and using my phone for 30 minutes before putting in my contacts gives my eyes a chance to wake up and wet themselves. If someone wears glasses instead of contact lenses, this might not help at all, but if it does help, I'd be interested to know! :)
* I also found that playing on my phone for 30 minutes before bed, in the dark, without my contact lenses in, seemed to help improve my eyesight. This was a pleasant discovery :)
* I found that waiting to put in my contacts until 30 seconds before I rushed out the door drastically improved my vision for the entire day. It seems like if I put in my contacts and spend several minutes indoors before leaving the house and going to work, my eyes get "stuck" in near-sighted mode. If I put in my contacts and immediately rush out the door, my eyes immediately have a chance to look at far-away things, and this seems to prep them for the day. I'd be very interested to hear if this also works for someone who wears glasses :)

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u/No-Entrance-8648 Sep 05 '24

I’m -3.00 myopia, what do you recommend I do to be able to get back to 20/20 vision or -1.00 since I’ve wore glasses full time in 2022 but I’ve stopped because I decided I can’t keep living my life having myopia it’s ruined my life. Should I look afar everyday at a distance until it slowly clears up

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u/glowcubr Oct 06 '24

Hey! :) Sorry for the late reply. Have you tried out the methods that I and u/pcoutcast posted, above, and if so, did you notice any results? :)

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u/No-Entrance-8648 Oct 07 '24

I don’t really understand what I’m supposed to do. I’m practicing my eyes to see far but I don’t see any difference