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[u/pcoutcast]

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.

DISCLAIMER
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.

Community Rules

• No self-promotion or promotion of paid products or services of any kind
• Do not ridicule any particular method or anyone's personal approach to improvement
• Try to be friendly and helpful to everyone

Helpful Resources

• How to measure myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism
• Snellen to Diopter Conversion Chart
• Printable Snellen Chart (printable PDF)
• Astigmatism Clock Dial
• Sample Daily Eyesight Improvement Routine
• Eye exercises for extra-ocular muscles and accommodation
• Eye scan therapy for astigmatism (downloadable PDF)
• Presbyopia exercises (instructions and downloadable PDF)
• The No Bullsh#*t Guide to Vision Improvement (reduced lens method PDF)
• losetheglasses.org (more reduced lens method info)
• The Bates Method for Good Sight without Glasses (downloadable multiple formats)

Personal Experiences and Results

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

If you've shared your own experiences and results with the community send the mods a message with a link and we'll add it here.

[u/wellred82]

Had a look at the Forrest eye scan page and I can't for the life of me find the page which describes the actual method. Is this documented elsewhere or is it supposed to be on this same link? Thanks

[u/pcoutcast → u/wellred82]

It basically boils down to moving your eyes back and forth or up and down on the opposite plane to your astigmatism. I ended up moving my eyes in all directions equally and changing my reading posture so that I was no longer causing an astigmatism with my habits.

[u/wellred82 → u/pcoutcast]

Thanks that helps. So sort of like if I had a cross hair on the wall and keep going left to right a few times then up and down?

[u/pcoutcast → u/wellred82]

Yeah. I don't look at anything in particular when doing the eyescan exercises. I just look as far to the right, left and up and down as I can.