Vision Hack: My New Approach to Glasses

[jesse_the_k]

Since 1960 I've been wearing complicated thick glasses which attempt to correct my divergent eyes. No matter how well made, when my eyes tire I get double vision anyway. I’ve become accustomed to closing my left eye, depending on the stronger right eye. This year I decided to fuck it. I was able to optimize my vision by using other tools in addition to the glasses.

At my recent annual appointment, I told the provider I no longer cared about double vision except in specific cases. I asked for a "social pair" (hanging out, watching TV, and short-term reading in extremis) with NO PRISM AT ALL and one reader addition on the better eye. My optometrist was shocked but supportive -- "we're taught to correct to perfection, but you're the one wearing the glasses" -- and I'm hella pleased.

I’m glad I let go of my 2010s round approach. I kidded myself I could make my glasses invisible without the metal frames. Now I went for oval browline glasses with matte fuschia metal above and golden metal below:

The "work pair" still have the prism: I wear them for reading and beading. They succeed because I don’t hold my reading material in my hands — it’s always at around 20" away on my bookstand or iPad holder. When beading, I wear a head-mounted +1.5 OptiVISOR (focal length ~20") with a flipdown +2.5 loupe for threading needles.

Encouraged by my eyeglass support witch, I went wild with these very thick cat-eye browline glasses, small black & white check on face and mardi-gras check on the temples.