Natural Vision Improvement V1.1

[2.0] CORRECTED VISION

90% of the population of the USA, will at one point or other begin
to wear glasses.


[2.1] What do glasses do to they eye?

It is common experience that wearing contacts and glasses worsens
unaided sight.

Glass and plastic lenses in spectacles and contact lenses
interfere with the transmission of light. Color is always more
intense when seem with the naked eye than with any lens. It can be
argued that since color is a major part of the perception of form it
follows that in small to medium sight defects form is not as well
perceived with glasses. Secondly its possible that glasses
actually agravate the eye, by constantly maintaining a degree of
refractive error which otherwise would not be there, particularly
while in eccentric focusing.

The strong concave glasses required by myopes of high degree make all
objects seem much smaller than they really are, while convex glasses
enlarge them. Patients with a degree of astigamitism can suffer some
very disagreable sensations when they put on glasses. Usually these
difficulties are overcome, but often they are not, and it sometimes
happens that those who do overcome them during the day never succeed in
getting used to them at night.

All glasses contract the field of vision to a greater or lesser
degree. Often glasses cause annoying nervous symptoms, such as
dizziness and headache, and the frames also interfere with
peripheral vision.

Many Russian civilians during WW2 were known to wear negative
diopter lenses for several days prior to visual examinations in
compuslory enlistments in order to easily fail the tests.


[2.2] But don't glasses give me perfect vision already?

No. Refractive abnormalities are continually changing from day to
day, from hour to hour, and from minute to minute. A fact that is
easily verified by personal observation. Thus the accurate fitting
of glasses or contacts is, of course impossible.

The difficulty of keeping glass clear is one of the minor
discomforts of glasses, but is nevertheless a most annoying one.

Likewise reflections of strong light from eyeglasses are often very
annoying, and in the street may be very dangerous. Expensive coatings
are needed to reduce these effects. In so doing, they reduce the
brightness of colors. These coatings also require special cloths to
clean, and they scratch easily requiring a hardness coating.
Many people have great difficulties with glasses because of the
activity of their lives, which not only leads to the breaking of
the lenses but often throws them out of focus, particularly in the
case of eyeglasses worn for astigmatism.

Contact lenses are difficult to clean and maintain. They are
often dropped and lead to various eye diseases if not
scrupulously cleaned. Astigmatism is often corrected poorly, due to
the lens rotating on the eye. Even the most permeable contacts deprive
the eye of oxygen and frequently capilaries begin extending
into the cornea as a result. Extended wear lenses are notorious for
causing infections and complications.

The progression of myopia often means that a perfect prescription is
quickly inadequate and the the patient spends most of his or her time
with a noticeable amount of refractive error. (In fact, most
optometrists undercorrect myopia to begin with -- contrary to popular
belief, 20/20 vision does not mean 100% of the human visual
potential, but the average acuity of people living during the time the
standard was established.)

In an emergency spectacles and contacts often become a serious
hindrance. Droped or broken glasses often aggravate any already
difficult situations.

[2.3] Are compensating lenses addictive?

Yes. The lenses generally prescribed by classical optometrist are
called compensating lenses, in that only compensate for
refractive errors, and have no therapeutic value. In a
progressive myopic the lenses quickly become a total addiction.


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