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

[militsa.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting question. I took off my glasses to see XD. Definitely the off-focus thing for me, but I'm pretty damn nearsighted. Glasses don't seem to correct me to 20/20 but contacts do.

I wonder if the quality of the obscured vision is different depending on whether one has an astigmatism or not?

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I've wondered that, too. I'm starting to think there are more kinds of vision problems than just nearsighted/farsighted/astigmatism. For one thing, I was told I'm farsighted but from the descriptions I would think I have astigmatism.

I wonder if the "unfocused camera" effect is more of a nearsighted thing?