#Eye sight

[reality-detective]

The color nuances we see depend on the number and distribution of cones in our eye. You can check the image of the rainbow photo above. How many colors do you count? A computer only shows a limited number of shades so this test is limited to "normal" ranges of human perception.

You see less than 20 color nuances: you are a dichromats, which means you have 2 types of cones only. You are likely to wear black, beige, and blue. 25% of the population is dichromat.

You see between 20 and 32 color nuances: you are a trichromat, you have 3 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green and red area). You enjoy different colors as you can appreciate them. 50% of the population is trichromat.

You see between 33 and 39 colors: you are a tetrachromat, like bees, and have 4 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green, red plus yellow area). 25% of the population is tetrachromat. 🤔

[princesslovinharmony]

Tomorrow holds a world unknown, With hopes as high as mountains tall, A chance to see the beauty shown, Or face a darkness that could fall. The fear, it grips my heart so tight, Of what could be or might not be, To wake and find a world in light, Or lose the sight that sets me free. Yet courage calls me to this day, To take the chance, to dare, to dream, For in the risk, there lies the way, To find the beauty in life's gleam. If I should wake to colors bright, The world unveiled, a vivid scene, I'll cherish every ray of light, And every shade and in-between. But if the darkness is my fate, I'll hold the memories close, secure, Of all the beauty known to date, And find new ways to feel, for sure. For life is more than what we see, It's felt in every touch and sound, In every breath, in every plea, In love and hope that knows no bound. So is it worth this leap I take? To risk the sight for dreams so grand? Yes, for in this choice, I stake, The faith to reach and understand.

[marvelmaniac715]

Here’s a fun fact about me - I am long sighted in one eye and short sighted in the other. I have two different prescriptions in my glasses, and when I’m not wearing them I can hardly see, everything’s all blurry. So yeah, that’s fun.

[rose-reaper]

So on my quest to find knowledge for the year as apart of my resolution, I've come across a comment on a Mogul Mail video that mentioned that the sun was good for the eyes. I was curious so I've taken to do a little digging, found some interesting articles and a New York Times article that I can't read about it (Fuck you New York Times, I shouldn't have to pay to get genuinely good information to know). A lot of the articles say a lot of similar things and one article in particular said that half the world's population would be near sighted by 2050. Yeah. That's as of January 4th of 2024 about 25 years from now. This with the combination of genetics and future generations not going outside as much thanks to our electronic devices. I'm gonna do some more digging about this information, however I suggest ya'll look this up yourselves and you can tell the ipad kids to GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE! THEY DON'T NEED SKIBIDI TOILET! Their sense of sight is important.

[elysiumxflowers]

Guess who got new glasses finally! Is this really how everyone sees?! It’s all…dimensional! 3D! I feel robbed and cheated to have watched all my favorite shows with such 2D vision 🥲 guess I’ll just have to watch them all over again!

[secretlywritingstories]

It sucks not being able to see without aid. I tend to forget that it’s a disability, even though it very much is. Just one that’s normalised and generally have very well-developed tools from glasses to contacts to surgery. Still, I’ll never not get jealous of someone able to just wake up, open their eyes and see unaided. The freedom it must be. 

Though I shouldn’t complain, most of the time I don’t even pay attention to needing my contacts. Only the monthly payments or the check-ups twice a year. The rest is routine, picking up the contacts in the morning, putting them in with practiced ease and removing them again when I lie down to sleep. I used to be bad about that last part but that’s been years ago.

I’ve considered the surgery. I qualify for it to be done for free in my country because my vision is that bad. But surgery, no matter how minor is still a bit of a scary thing. I’m worried about the healing afterwards rather than the actual surgery. Because I can rationalise myself out of that one the same way I go on a scary roller coaster. Millions of people go on them without being hurt, so of course I will be fine too.

But healing in general is a bit scary. It’s messy. It hurts. It burns. Though I suppose healing broken eyes might feel easier than a brain that’s... not great. I’ve been trying to heal that one for a while. And I do, in bits and spurts, but new things also props up. Guess that’s the way of the world.

I’m currently writing without my glasses, just directly on tumblr with the small font. I can’t read the letters, just vaguely see that little blobs of black appear on a white background. It’s disorienting, just a little. I know how to write by touch typing, so mostly I never look at my hands, just my screen as I see the words appear. It is making the voice in my head appear, which it doesn’t normally, at least this strong. I can still see the red underlines and go back and try again if I make a typo. But there’s also some red lines that are there on purpose as I refuse to use American spelling.

Bad mental health, illness and the line almost always means glasses days. Like now. All three are currently happening. ‘cause on days were I function and I’m well, it’s contacts and then I wear them the whole day, until it’s time to sleep. Nightly sleep at the end of the day that is. I don’t take them out for naps. I should that’s the recommended thing, but I guess I never quite shook all of that old habit, as I claimed, huh?

It’s an odd sensation to navigate the keyboard or navigate the house without proper vision. Like, I can still see. Everything is just blurry around the edges. Something has to be very close to me to be able to see it clearly. Like now, I’m zoomed in. Physically, not with the zoom function. I leaned forward. Eyes scanning to see if everything is alright. It is. On the page. I’ll be alright too.

A shower, A hot cup of tea. And most of all my glasses back on my nose where they belong, so I can’t just exist in a blurry world that matches my emotions or my health. I’ll go do that now. 

[hellborg]

It’s frankly absurd that eye and dental insurance are luxuries that not every job covers.

Your eyes, you know, your ability to see. Especially for people with glasses, we can’t choose to not wear glasses? So what then? We just go blind. Keep an old prescription and just let our vision deteriorate?

Dental health, despite what so many think, is so so so imperative to your overall health. Dental emergencies can lead to detrimental side effects and in extreme cases death.

Health insurance should be free and universal period. But as someone unemployed and in desperate need of eye and dental insurance it’s even more frustrating. even IF a miracle happens and I get a job, the likelihood of it providing eye and dental is incredibly low.

[kayina-san]

I be alive and i would hunt but i wouldnt be able to see what i was hunting

*this is just about having medical needs that would have meant death without modern medicine, so no ‘I’d probably die from not being able to distinguish the blur as a lion’ we have a healthy caveman squad who cares for each other, we just also dont have, yknow, penicilin. etcetera.

pls reblog for sample size etc

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[areyouafraidofdating]

[return-of-the-living-gnarsh]

Currently I'm blind in my left eye and now my right is acting up. Everything on my phone is in dark mode and text is as large as I can get it so I can see better. I'm really stressed out and freaking out because insurance sucks and the eye doctor is taking their sweet time.

[doug-lewars]

Vision

If you're reading this, you're looking at either a phone, tablet or computer screen. In short, you're looking at something close to your face. To compensate, look at something in the distance as often as possible, preferably outside. Your eyes will thank you.

[artrite]