Small problem and a question

[dragonimp]

I have a small stye or zit or something at the corner of my eye that's causing some irritation, so I'm giving it the warm washcloth treatment - though not right at the moment, because this keyboard requires two hands - and since it's my left eye, this really limits what I can do. No reading, or anything else that requires me to see details. I suppose I could watch something, if I didn't care too much about tracking the screen. I might have to stick to podcasts.

Which brings me to my question, for those who wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

TV usually depicts poor sight by unfocusing the camera, but I've never thought that looked right. For me, it's more like ... closest analogy I can come up with is trying to look through static. The details are there, I can tell they're there, but unless I stare right at them they tend to be intermittently obscured. And small things like letters don't stay put. So my question is: how is uncorrected vision for anyone else? Is the "blurry camera" depiction accurate, close, way off? Are my eyes (eye) just weird?

Sub-question: do your glasses actually give you clear vision? (Mine never have.)

Comments

[reddheart.livejournal.com]

The blurry camera thing is about the best way that bad vision can be recreated and have it make sense, I guess. Kind of the "universal standard". :P I think it describes really bad vision more than people who see basic things OK, but have trouble with details (i.e. the weaker end of the nearsighted spectrum).

The static description is pretty close to what I see. Plus, smaller items become obscured, almost camoflaged..say, my cell phone, a pair of scissors, or even my glasses if I'm not wearing them (which is why if I'm not wearing glasses and I've misplaced something, the first thing I do is put them on). This goes double in dimly-lit places, or in hotel rooms (mediocre vision + low light + no glasses = increased potential for DanyStupid).

My newest pair of glasses are really good, and get me almost-perfect vision, in my opinion. Contacts are pretty close to my glasses, but I have some issues with up-close focusing sometimes when I wear them. It's why as a rule, I generally wear glasses on a regular basis and limit contacts to occasional wear and events.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Everything happens to extremes in Hollywood, anyway XD. But I don't imagine there's any other easy way to show vision problems on screen.

I wonder what the mechanics are of objects being obscured, whether it's the eyes or the brain ignoring something it doesn't have enough "information" for. I've had that happen, too, and it always feels like, well, it's there, why am I not seeing it?