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

[dormantdrake.livejournal.com]

I'm nearsighted (with astigmatism and no depth perception), and when I don't wear my glasses things past 10-15 feet away get blurry. The further away something is the more... blurred it is. I recall what focusing at that range feels like/looked like, but just *can't* focus on things properly no matter how I try. It's all vague shapes past a certain point, but it doesn't feel wrong, either, nor does it bother me except when I want to read a sign. It's not that things seem out of focus, because it always seems that things are as they should be. When I put on my glasses it actually takes me a bit to adjust to being able to see further and more clearly than I am used to. Close up stuff never changes focus, glasses or no. I've also noticed that as my eyesight has worsened over the years that I'm able to see less and less in the dark, so that now I'm pretty close to blind if you turn off the lights.

I'd say my objection with Hollywood is blurring everything, rather than just the stuff that would be blurred for the particular character. The blurring itself is close enough, though I find it annoying where I don't find my own vision blurring annoying. There must be some difference that I can't quite discern.

Reading through other comments I have never noticed anything like pixels. I just get blurring (it's rather as if past a certain point someone has actually put an out of focus lens between me and whatever I'm looking at). I've never had depth perception and I've apparently always had astigmatism (so I can't aim or judge distances at all) so I don't know how that might affect things. I used to have something like superhuman sharpness, though. Everything was *very* clear and in focus until I reached about fifteen or so and my vision had declined into the normal range. By early twenties I was officially deemed nearsighted and given glasses.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Is the lack of depth perception from your brain ignoring one eye (which was my problem), or from something else, like your eyes not focusing on the same point?

Apparently everyone in Hollywood is astigmatic, never far- or nearsighted ^^;. Neither of which would be *that* hard to portray.

[dormantdrake.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the lack of depth perception is from (no insurance to cover going to the eye doctor, so I only go when my vision has gotten worse *and* I can afford new glasses/lenses). I know I get it from my mother. I can consciously focus on just the input from one eye or the other if I choose, but it doesn't change anything, and I've never had depth perception. (I can go on at length about how much I hate "3D" stuff.) I have *excellent* peripheral vision (part of the reason why wearing glasses when I go outside annoys me), though, and can even focus on stuff in the extreme edge of my vision without shifting my eyes. I suspect it may be related to the odd wiring in my brain.

(Other odd things include: I have to translate my thoughts into words, and what I hear/read into my thoughts, which are very abstract. I read words as shapes, rather than a series of letters, which is why misspelled words annoy me so much. I tend to recognize people by the noises/sounds they make rather than what they look like. I cannot recognize faces at *all*.)