• Kairos
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    535 months ago

    Oh so that’s what blindness looks like

    • @then_three_more
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      245 months ago

      I think having them sometimes is normal. Constantly though, not so much.

      • @Retrograde
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        65 months ago

        I have them constantly and this picture looks nothing like them lol

        • @[email protected]
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          5 months ago

          I think that true for all pics, it’s a fairly cartoonish/exaggerated & simplified representation for normies to get it quicker & be more understanding/differently accommodating.

          As for floaters, those are the only pals that don’t leave me. They can’t, … but they dont, that’s the main point here.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      185 months ago

      Ive not had eyefloaters as depicted in this image, but I did manage to get gaslit by people for a long time, telling me I was hallucinating, until I found out that entoptic blue field phenomenon is a thing.

      I was the only person in my friends/family circle who was autistic enough to notice and attempt to describe it.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

      • plz1
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        75 months ago

        That kind of looks like visual snow, which I tried for years to get my eye doctors believe even existed. I know all too well that feeling of being gaslit by assembly line eye doctors just trying to churn out office visits as quickly as possible.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Now I want to look at the sky, but it is covered by clouds today and I’ll probably forget when the sky is visible again

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        Thank you for this. I notice that also sometimes. I thought I just had some mild neurological condition that might be related to high blood pressure.

  • @krashmo
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    215 months ago

    Super glad they added the blindness part. I was really struggling to visualize that one.

  • @[email protected]
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    135 months ago

    I have a partially severed optic nerve and my vision looks like the bottom middle picture if the visible section were replaced with the upper area of y=.5x²

  • @Marthirial
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    5 months ago

    What about astigmatism? Second class eye issue? The balls would look like eggs. Source: all circles I see look like eggs.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      65 months ago

      I must have far more minor astigmatisms than you, all I have is difficulty focusing and the massive bright lights at night bloom thing.

      • @Taniwha420
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        25 months ago

        Yeah, that’s about right. When I look at the moon, there’s a second slightly dimmer moon above it that overlaps by about a third. Lights at night are a cluster fuck; I can’t tell a low bed trailer from a standard box trailer. The doubling of the tail lights on a low bed look like the second set of upper lights on a box trailer. I have a hard time focusing in low light. Also, my brain can’t render 3D without my glasses.

    • @reflectedodds
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      35 months ago

      I think you have something else… i also have astigmatism, but circles don’t look like eggs, with or without glasses.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      My glasses are really thick to make up for my astigmatism, and it makes the world look a bit convex. Eventually, my brain got used to that, but when I switch to contacts I have a good day or two where everything looks concave (first time I thought my phone screen had finally been sat on one too many times) until my brain reverts back. IDK if i’ve ever noticed circles looking like eggs, but then again I rarely am looking at circles with my naked eyes and maybe my brain is fixing it for me anyway?

  • @Etterra
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    55 months ago

    That is one mild case of myopia. I think my vision was that good back in like 2nd grade.

  • @davidagain
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    That is a very informative cool guide indeed, thank you.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    What is the difference between cataract and myopia? Is it only me not seeing difference?

    • @then_three_more
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      55 months ago

      Cataract appears to have a colour tone change and is uniformly blurry. Myopia is not focused on things in the foreground and there’s no red tinting.


      Is it possible you have a slight colour vision deficiency? There’s quite a high percentage of the population that do.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      35 months ago

      It looks like with a cataract, the entire image is significantly blurred, whereas with myopia, the blur gets worse the farther away the element of the image is from you.

      Which would make sense, given that the derived definition of myopic is basically being focused on or concerned with only things that directly affect you and not the more grand scheme of things.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        Thanks, Maybe I see football and blue/white shirt bit more in focus (only because you mentioned it, I stared long enough lol)

        • sp3ctr4l
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          35 months ago

          Im on mobile and i had to zoom the image in a bit to look at it.

          Its not so obvious at a casual glance.

          alternatively:

          Maybe you should get your eyes checked =P

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Yup on mobile as well and yup saw those differences after zooming in / staring. Always a good idea to be on top of medical checkup though, I’ll get eye exam just in case.

            • sp3ctr4l
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              15 months ago

              Hah, I mean, I meant that last part as a joke, but if you’ve not had an eye exam ever, or in 5 or 10 years, I guess its not a bad idea.

    • @fluckx
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      The cataract also seems to change the colours rather than just blur it out. It has more of a red’ish hue?

      Edit: well not really red. A bit darker?

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        When it comes to colors I should remember to crank up brightness and turn off night mode (blue filter). Thanks for pointing color difference.

      • sp3ctr4l
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        15 months ago

        To me it seems brownish, like a mild sepia tone effect.

  • @werefreeatlast
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    15 months ago

    Nice 👍. I got 5 of these! Where’s my price? I’m told I’ll be filling most of the block before I die! Except for the diabetic thing.

  • @riodoro1
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    15 months ago

    The „normal vision” one has sky extremely over exposed. Human eyes don’t do that