got bifocal glasses since a year as well (getting 42 this year)
seems that your eyes get used to the glasses and start to degrade faster. I also need more light to read smal prints on gear and such and yes eyestrain breaks creativity. Last year has been a real struggle to find time between the things i needed to do in order to do the things i wanted to do. often being tired, but once sitting down, start fooling around i'll get back into it.

It's like sport, once you got the momentum back, it's easier. but if your out of cycle it's very hard to get back in.

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Originally posted by TranceLover007 Man, this was just like reading some fantasy book lol, I wish you all the best in your rosy future Future depends on people like you

Well, there's no need to overstate it. I basically got lucky at a very early age, nothing I did had any bearing on my ability to beat the odds. Point is, there's no point on dwelling on what you didn't accomplish - it's far better to dwell on you DID accomplish and what you still want to accomplish, despite your age or past failures. [/hippie talk]

My eyes hurt. I'm going to lunch.

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Originally posted by Raphie got bifocal glasses since a year as well (getting 42 this year) seems that your eyes get used to the glasses and start to degrade faster. I also need more light to read smal prints on gear and such and yes eyestrain breaks creativity. Last year has been a real struggle to find time between the things i needed to do in order to do the things i wanted to do. often being tired, but once sitting down, start fooling around i'll get back into it.

That sounds like exactly what I'm going through - confirmation is good!

BTW @mathieu - I browsed that article and it looks interesting, although not really quite on topic. Thanks for posting it, though - I'll read it later after work or this weekend.

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Originally posted by Raphie ...seems that your eyes get used to the glasses and start to degrade faster.

Yeah, I completely forgot about that, I should be using my glasses (from around 40) but after few day with them I notice the same thing what Raphie is talking about, you eyes become weaker (they don't go through this self adjusting motion which they usually go hundreds/thousand times a day), so I quit them completely and start to do some (5 to 10 min) exercises few times a day and I can tell you that this definitely help me (at least till today) carry on with my daily activities.

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what eye exercises do you do?

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Originally posted by cryophonik Well, there's no need to overstate it. I basically got lucky at a very early age, nothing I did had any bearing on my ability to beat the odds. Point is, there's no point on dwelling on what you didn't accomplish - it's far better to dwell on you DID accomplish and what you still want to accomplish, despite your age or past failures. [/hippie talk] My eyes hurt. I'm going to lunch.

Yeah, what I was saying that there is noting you can do about it, as long you know that those moment will come and if you can get ready for it, then better for you it will be lol (a specially when your kid/s will leave your house lol - trust me, you can't escape from it ) --> old fart talking

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Originally posted by Raphie what eye exercises do you do?

Will try to find some interesting article for you, if I still have in my house, but you can try this, simple find two different object at different distances from you, let say one is close to you, like your monitor distance and the second with like 20 to 30 feet away from you, then try to focus so you have great clarity of the object you looking at (at least good, as is not going to be that easy at the beginning). You repeat that for (and this is totally up to you, you can start with 2~3 min and slowly, I mean over the time extend to) 5~10 min --> simple but you stimulate your muscles which over the time getting weaker.

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Originally posted by mathieu yes but what happens is, your brain tries to be more efficient even when not looking for info. dunno about you but i used to be a big reader, now i struggle reading a couple pages without getting disctracted nowadays. its not just how the brain stores things, its how it chooses to analyse information

blame facebook and the internet in general. I read more than i ever have. The more my brain can offload information, the better you are, the less stress you carry and really there is no downside unless you use that as an excuse not to learn anything.

I am legally blind with out glasses. Had cataract surgery as a teenager so i can't focus. The lens is plastic. Even with glasses , they are one distance. I have 2 pairs. One for about 1 metre focus and one for about 4 metre focus. When i walk around downtown, i usually take off my glasses and its like i'm blind and it is rather relaxing. What does suck is if i misplace them. I have had to call my girlfriend to come home and help me find them a few times. Now i have 3 redundancy sets placed in various locations. ALso, when i go out at night, i usually wear a set of frames minus the lens as i don't really want to see, i can take pictures and if i get drunk and loose them, well no real loss as i still have my actually glasses safe at home.

and i'm colour blind. So can i borrow your car ?

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Originally posted by cryophonik Nope, not me. I was given up for adoption at birth, lived in a hospital on life support for much of the first year of my life, was adopted at 13 months, and wasn't expected to live more than a few years, yet here I am with 3 college degrees, a phenomenal wife and son, a successful career, tightly knit group of close friends, etc. So, believe me, I know how good I've had it.

Damn, that's impressive Dave. you should be proud - I know tons of people who had a rough start and used it as a an excuse to amount to nothing their whole life and also have known people born with every advantage a person could ever need only to completely squander their life and amount to fuck all.

I'm lucky (so far) in that i have 20/20 vision, but I once had a science teacher who had less than perfect vision which got worse as she got older. She then studied this form of eye excerise that she did religiously ever day for about 15 mins. She put her glasses down and never needed them again, except for really close up technical things.

I know it involved doing things like focusing on things far away then quickly focusing on something very close, then doing it for different directions and trying to get better and better at them every day. I Can't tell you what it was called but it seemed to work for her as she never really saw her wearing glasses again.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Damn, that's impressive Dave. you should be proud - I know tons of people who had a rough start and used it as a an excuse to amount to nothing their whole life and also have known people born with every advantage a person could ever need only to completely squander their life and amount to fuck all.

Thanks RANN, but again, it's not something that I really had any control over since it all happened at an early age for me. Fortunately, I was adopted into a great (and pretty large) family and actually had a lot opportunities to succeed because of that. So, my point was really not about overcoming anything (which I had no control over), but rather, being grateful for the opportunities that I had, knowing that I was very fortunate in many ways beyond my control.

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Originally posted by TranceLover007 Will try to find some interesting article for you, if I still have in my house, but you can try this, simple find two different object at different distances from you, let say one is close to you, like your monitor distance and the second with like 20 to 30 feet away from you, then try to focus so you have great clarity of the object you looking at (at least good, as is not going to be that easy at the beginning). You repeat that for (and this is totally up to you, you can start with 2~3 min and slowly, I mean over the time extend to) 5~10 min --> simple but you stimulate your muscles which over the time getting weaker. Darek

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I know it involved doing things like focusing on things far away then quickly focusing on something very close, then doing it for different directions and trying to get better and better at them every day. I Can't tell you what it was called but it seemed to work for her as she never really saw her wearing glasses again.

Sounds like a similar exercise. I'll consult my doctor to find out if it's right for me. Erections lasting longer than four hours....oh wait, wrong forum.

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Originally posted by cryophonik Erections lasting longer than four hours....oh wait, wrong forum.

Lol, this commercial (a specially if you watch it some small children around you) is killing me

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