Can you blur your eyesight?
 

Ok...perhaps a stupid question. But, I was sitting here reading some school stuff online and I started blurring my eyesight. I remember being a little girl and learning that I could do it. I don't mean crossing my eyes - I mean actually blurring my vision.

Can anyone else do it? Any medical folks out there, what exactly is it? And, is there any benefit at all?

Is this the same thing as relaxing your eyes when you see one of those "Magic Eye" illusions?

If so, I do it all the time.

Re: Can you blur your eyesight?
 

Yes, this happens to me sometimes when I'm reading.

What it is I don't know. I know its not asigmatism because I visit the optometrist yearly and he's never diagnosised it.

Sometimes this happens to me. Also if I've been reading for a long time, there's a sort of quick shift and the page and everything around me starts to look like it's very far away. Oddly enough, the "magic eye" illusions never work for me - i.e. I cannot do this at will.

I think it's more a product of tiredness than anything screwed up with my eyes.

I can blur my eyesight at will. Always have been able to do that. Maybe I'm weird.

Yeah, I'm talking about doing it at will. I don't know if I made that clear? :)

Ditto. I do have astigmatism though too. I always just figured that everyone could do it.

Ph. Yeah, i can do that too.

I have to hijack this thread and say to Honeykiss1974, I'm feeling the site in your sig.

Yep, I can do this. I can also turn my eyelids inside out if anyone's interested. (I used to do that to scare the isht out of my sister when we were kids :D )

ewww ewwww ewwwww...gross!
::shudders::

Me too (on both accounts, the blurring eyesight at will and turning my eyelids inside out). I was quite the hit with the kids on the bus when I was in elementary school.

PS, I had an astigmatism, but evidently it's going away on it's own?? :confused:

Blurring you eyesight means that your eyes cant naturally focus on your own, and you have to use your eye muscles to see things in focus. Its ok now, but when you are about 40 youre gonna wake up and not be able to see chit. Then your gonna need glasses. You should probably look at getting glasses now, to releave you eyes of the strain and possible tension headaches the eye strain causes.

Thought I was all cool cause I could do the blurry eye thing, till my optomotrist told me otherwise.

I can do the blurry thing, too. But I've been wearing glasses since 7th grade. I don't have to be 40 not to see sh*t! :)

I'm already blind, so it definitely doesn't matter to me either. I've had glasses since 2nd grade and contacts since 6th grade.