Last night I decided to do an experiment with me eyes by wearing an eye-patch on my right eye. You see, I have two eyes of vastly different temperaments. Right eye - very go-getter, very on top of things, competing to see everything first. Left eye - lazy, indolent, reliant on its stronger big brother to do the seeing, it just sits there and daydreams. I decided that left eye needs to work a little too, so I made right eye sit in the dark for a bit. It was super weird trying to read, let alone study, with one eye shut. I kept seeing, at the periphery of my vision, these pulsating bands of light. I think it was my left eye's spiteful little trick to protest.
A curious thing happened after that. Shortly after, I turned off the lights to my room to turn in for the night. The first thing I noticed was, a feeling like a curtain had just dropped over my left eye. Suddenly I had unbelievable night blindness from my left eye. To make sure I wasn't hallucinating - I alternated between my left and my right eyes. When I see with only my right eye, the room, even though dark, is like 5 shades lighter and crisper than my left eye. I felt panic rising because I thought I was losing my vision in my left eye.
I sat down on my bed and furiously massaged my eyes. Now get this paradox folks. I know to help my eyes, I have to relax them. But there's nothing like maniacally trying to relax your eyes while staving off a rising panicked feeling of gloom and doom. At one point, I even fancied that I was seeing different shades of color from each eye. Right eye - I see a bluish tint to everything. Left eye - I see a brownish tint to everything. Soon, my eyes equalized and I realize that, part of the problem was, momentarily, I was seeing BETTER with my right eye, and made my left eye seem all the weaker. Because, soon I was seeing a brownish tint from both eyes (now I was sitting in my room in pitch black while carrying this experiment out, hence the brownish look) and that's when I relaxed finally and told my silly self that I need to go to sleep.
I woke up this morning and to my relief, I seem to see okay as per my usual blind self. I do think though that I have to incorporate a system of training my left eye to see as good as my right, or else I become a physiological cyclops.
5 comments:
You could see better with your right eye because it was dilated due to the eye patch. When you turned off the light, your left eye wasn't dilated yet so you weren't letting enough light into your eye so you can't see anything. I even know that and I'm not even in medical school. psshhh
when did you become so smart? very good deduction watson!
emily, you're hilarious. Actually my Chinese student (the kid i'm teaching Chinese to) has been doing the same thing - wearing an eye patch on the right eye because her left eye vision is very weak. She's been doing that for several months now, but not necessarily 24/7. I asked her if it yields results, she said not sure. But recently, she's been having wheat grass juice (like the ones you get from Jamba Juice); her family makes it for her. And she said that is helping her actually. I also taught her the yan3 bao3 jian4 cao1(eye massaging exercise we did in schools back in China) last week and told her to do it during the day in school. I think you can try that too. Do you know what I'm talking about?
It's very helpful to look away into distance if possible every 30min so your eyes get some relaxation.
You should be quiet four eyes. Now go get a new pair of glasses!
Wendy - teach me the eye exercises!
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