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<div>==Welcome to EndMyopia Wiki! đź‘“==<br />
welcome to EndMyopia Wiki.<br />
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Our goal is '''the best vision improvement encyclopedia possible'''. EndMyopia receives quite a lot of [[EM:user traffic|user traffic]], many people wanting information. On [[EM:social media|social media]] plenty of questions are asked about vision improvement. Hopefully, the wiki can develop into a really useful resource for newcomers and experienced members alike.<br />
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-- [[User:NottNott|<span style="color:#e67e22">NottNott</span>]] <small>([[User talk:NottNott|talk]])</small> 04:08, 9 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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== EndMyopia Wiki: Launched! ==<br />
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Thanks to everyone who has done a terrific job on getting the wiki up to scratch. Definitely a team effort, and I think it's paid off quite nicely. Always more to be done, but the basics look pretty taken care of. Wiki's looking good. We're on the front page of the main site, it's been promoted in Facebook and there should be a video coming out at some point.<br />
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[[EM:admin guide|Admin specific]]: the next two to four weeks will be a good barometer of how much [[EM:vandalism|vandalism]] can be expected over time, and whether things need to be changed or not. I'm heavily in favour of keeping it 'create an account, make an edit', but if need be there can be additional restrictions.<br />
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Try to check in on [[Special:RecentChanges]] every once in a while to see if anything unsavoury is happening. I might be overestimating the amount of vandalism we'll get, we must wait and see. Don't be afraid to [[Special:Block|block users]] if necessary.<br />
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Cheers! {{User:NottNott/sig}} 08:55, 20 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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<div>{{Writing|}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: [[Normalized]]s, [[Differential]]s, and [[Blur Horizon]]:)<br />
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If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you.<br />
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==Long Version==<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
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Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
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Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
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Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
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=='''TL;DR:'''==<br />
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1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
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2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
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3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
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=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
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Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
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=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
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Pay attention to your internal experience and do things as you do that.<br />
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=='''P.S.,''' ==<br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42<br />
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==PPS==<br />
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Want an overly simple definition for active focus? The [[EndMyopia_Glossary]] definition is as simple as it gets.<br />
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[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Angel&diff=16697User talk:Angel2022-07-06T19:56:48Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* A bowl of strawberries for you! */ new WikiLove message</p>
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<div>==Welcome to EndMyopia Wiki! đź‘“==<br />
Angel, welcome to EndMyopia Wiki.<br />
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Our goal is '''the best vision improvement encyclopedia possible'''. EndMyopia receives quite a lot of [[EM:user traffic|user traffic]], many people wanting information. On [[EM:social media|social media]] plenty of questions are asked about vision improvement. Hopefully, the wiki can develop into a really useful resource for newcomers and experienced members alike.<br />
<br />
More guidance here:<br />
*[[Help:How to contribute]] if you are unsure how to edit wiki articles<br />
*[[EM:Policies]] for important information on the way articles are written here<br />
<br />
If you have any questions about editing the wiki, you can message anyone [[EM:Welcome|on this list]]. You'll get a response in the [[forum]] or [[discord server]] as well. If there are any suggestions for overall wiki changes, see the [[EM:Village pump|village pump]]. Happy editing! 🧾<br />
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-- [[User:NottNott|<span style="color:#e67e22">NottNott</span>]] <small>([[User talk:NottNott|talk]])</small> 01:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)<br />
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== Animated gif removal ==<br />
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Hi Angel, thanks for your contributions! I understand the need for accessibility, but at the same time this isn't a reason to remove animated gifs from the site. It would be similar to removing all of the images off of the main Endmyopia site because I doubt Jake bothered with accessibility either.<br />
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You can look into providing alt text with MediaWiki images with the alt tag if you would like: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Syntax<br />
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-[[User:NottNott|<span style="color:#e67e22">NottNott</span>]] <small>([[User talk:NottNott|talk]])</small> 18:25, 16 October 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Not sure if I was supposed to respond here or on your talk, I think it varies by wiki? So I responded [https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/User_talk:NottNott#Animated_gifs_trigger_seizures over at your talk]. Thanks! [[User:Angel|Angel]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 23:33, 16 October 2021 (UTC)<br />
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== Conversation with Snax ==<br />
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[https://discord.com/channels/606146580051132446/730715414518169670/929803857037496340|Conversation covers why not to convert cylinder during a bike trip (what if you get double vision that is challenging to resolve and you're nowhere near your opto), and some guidelines about cylinder reductions.]<br />
Conversation was re: this plan I had made for spring 2022 that would happen about a month into my bike trip:<br />
====Equalizing and Reducing cylinder ====<br />
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I am not doing more than one step at the same time. By reducing my cylinder, my lenses equalize.<br />
====Silver close-up frames====<br />
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OD/Right: -3.25 sphere, -1 cylinder, 171 axis<br />
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OS/Left: -3.25 sphere, -1 cylinder, 176 axis<br />
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====Grey normal frames====<br />
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OD/right: -4.5 sphere, -1 cylinder, 171 axis<br />
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OS/left: -4.5 sphere, -1 cylinder, 176 axis<br />
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====UPDATED PLAN====<br />
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If I am a spherical cow and my eyes are perfectly average, I will do a more conservative cylinder conversion later in the bike trip.<br />
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- Drop a quarter diopter in sphere for my normal glasses a month into the bike trip after the first mountain range.<br />
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NORMAL (April-ish 2022)<br />
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OD right: -4 sphere, -1.5 cylinder, 171 axis<br />
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OS left: -3.75 sphere, -1.75 cylinder, 176 axis<br />
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- Bike in the flat part of the country for a while<br />
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- Cross the second mountain range<br />
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- Do a more conservative cylinder conversion later than originally calculated. (Note: I am still not doing more than one step at the same time. By reducing my cylinder, my lenses equalize.)<br />
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NORMAL (when i'm ready to convert cylinder)<br />
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OD right: -4 sphere, -1.25 cylinder, 171 axis<br />
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OD left: -4 sphere, -1.25 cylinder, 176 axis<br />
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CLOSE-UP<br />
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OD right: -3 sphere, -1.25 cylinder, 171 axis<br />
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OD left: -3 sphere, -1.25 cylinder, 176 axis<br />
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== A bowl of strawberries for you! ==<br />
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|}</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=20-20-20_rule&diff=1649520-20-20 rule2022-03-11T20:04:43Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Do you need the 20-20-20 rule? */</p>
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<div>The 20-20-20 rule is designed to be an easy to remember caution about doing too much [[near work]] and to give your eyes a break from [[eye strain]] regularly. This rule is supported by conventional optometry<ref name="American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster">{{Cite web |title=American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster |date=2020-05-30 |website=American Optometric Association |url=https://www.aoa.org/documents/infographics/SYVM2016Infographics.pdf |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="Medical News Today: Does the 20-20-20 rule prevent eye strain?">{{Cite web |title=20-20-20 rule: How to prevent eye strain |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321536 |last=Nall |first=Rachel |date=2020-05-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref> and is a start towards the EM method.<br />
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* Every 20 minutes<br />
* Look at something 20 feet away (6 meters)<br />
* For at least 20 Seconds</big><br />
==Go Beyond 20-20-20==<br />
EM finds that short breaks are less effective and recommends that you '''take longer breaks''', possibly less frequently to compensate for the longer duration.<br />
* After you do close-up for 20 minutes continuously, take a 5 minute break.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia - Endmyopia |url=https://endmyopia.org/breaks-are-key-to-build-eye-strain-awareness/ |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=endmyopia.org |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref><br />
* After you do close-up for 3 hours continuously, take the longest break you can (like an hour) ([[3 hour rule]])<ref>[https://endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-eyesight-five-steps/ How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps]</ref><br />
* Take your break outside. <ref>[https://endmyopia.org/must-read-going-outside-to-improve-your-eyesight/ Must Read: Going Outside To Improve Your Eyesight]</ref> Notice how the lower frequency (3 hours instead of 20 minutes) is balanced by the increased duration (1 hour vs 5 minutes).<br />
* To develop [[Strain Awareness]], it is recommended to use frequent short breaks and shift towards less frequent, longer breaks if preferred.<br />
* You can customize your break schedule to your needs.<br />
<br />
==One more thing==<br />
The most commonly asked question about the 20-20-20 rule is: "Do I need to switch back to [normalized] every time I shift focus, for a break?" <br />
<br />
The answer is: whatever you wish. However, it would make your life easier if you kept the [[focal plane]] you are already using, be it [[differentials]] or nothing depending on where you are in your journey, for breaks under 5 minutes. If you are taking a much recommended longer break; this is a good time to switch to [[normalized]], in order to ensure you are not trading close up strain for excessive blur strain.<br />
<br />
==Reverse 20-20-20 rule==<br />
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Which glasses should you wear if you don't want to change your glasses all the time?<br />
<br />
At least two people in the Discord chat have the following personal rule: If you will be in blur for more than 20 minutes, change to your other pair of glasses.<br />
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==Do you need the 20-20-20 rule?==<br />
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{{quote|The 202020202002020202 rule isn’t ours / mine / endmyopia. I think it’s kind of pointless but I :zipper_mouth_face: when people bring it up since … :man_shrugging:<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/nottnott-fixes-his-eyesight-from-5-video-log/5361/1189</ref>|Jake Steiner}}<br />
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{{quote|20202020202020202020000 rule is really just mainstream articles filtering into here. When you get distance vision your ciliary unlocks anyway. Whether [[ciliary spasm]] shuts off axial gains is debatable, light rays still converge in front of eye in theory. Try without 202020 rule and see if you still make the gains.<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/ok-but-when-exactly/16092/2</ref>|NottNott}}<br />
{{quote|It was never an Endmyopia rule, it’s a mainstream optometrists / work ergonomics recommendation.<br />
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Jake generally recommends longer breaks. He says that a break needs to be at least 10-15 minutes to be really effective.<br />
He also recommends to have 1 hour break after every 3 hours of close-up.<br />
<br />
But these are not strict rules. Generally what matters if you get ciliary spasm during your close-up or not. The best way to make sure is to check a Snellen chart or some “landmark” before you do close-up. You should be able to maintain the same acuity during close-up. If you detect blur on the same Snellen chart / landmark, then you should take a break.<br />
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Edit: to avoid misunderstandings, the 20/20/20 doesn’t do any harm, but on it’s own is not enough to prevent or eliminate ciliary spasm.|halmadavid}}<br />
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{{quote|At EM we like to talk about "psuedomyopia" or whatever but the real danger is getting psuedoADHD induced by 20-20-20, as in you're actively choosing to train yourself to have a short attention span. "The rapid turnover of context." Check out Huberman Lab Podcast #37 At the 2:09:16 mark|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=20-20-20_rule&diff=1649420-20-20 rule2022-03-11T19:28:52Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Do you need the 20-20-20 rule? */</p>
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<div>The 20-20-20 rule is designed to be an easy to remember caution about doing too much [[near work]] and to give your eyes a break from [[eye strain]] regularly. This rule is supported by conventional optometry<ref name="American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster">{{Cite web |title=American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster |date=2020-05-30 |website=American Optometric Association |url=https://www.aoa.org/documents/infographics/SYVM2016Infographics.pdf |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="Medical News Today: Does the 20-20-20 rule prevent eye strain?">{{Cite web |title=20-20-20 rule: How to prevent eye strain |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321536 |last=Nall |first=Rachel |date=2020-05-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref> and is a start towards the EM method.<br />
<br />
* Every 20 minutes<br />
* Look at something 20 feet away (6 meters)<br />
* For at least 20 Seconds</big><br />
==Go Beyond 20-20-20==<br />
EM finds that short breaks are less effective and recommends that you '''take longer breaks''', possibly less frequently to compensate for the longer duration.<br />
* After you do close-up for 20 minutes continuously, take a 5 minute break.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia - Endmyopia |url=https://endmyopia.org/breaks-are-key-to-build-eye-strain-awareness/ |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=endmyopia.org |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref><br />
* After you do close-up for 3 hours continuously, take the longest break you can (like an hour) ([[3 hour rule]])<ref>[https://endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-eyesight-five-steps/ How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps]</ref><br />
* Take your break outside. <ref>[https://endmyopia.org/must-read-going-outside-to-improve-your-eyesight/ Must Read: Going Outside To Improve Your Eyesight]</ref> Notice how the lower frequency (3 hours instead of 20 minutes) is balanced by the increased duration (1 hour vs 5 minutes).<br />
* To develop [[Strain Awareness]], it is recommended to use frequent short breaks and shift towards less frequent, longer breaks if preferred.<br />
* You can customize your break schedule to your needs.<br />
<br />
==One more thing==<br />
The most commonly asked question about the 20-20-20 rule is: "Do I need to switch back to [normalized] every time I shift focus, for a break?" <br />
<br />
The answer is: whatever you wish. However, it would make your life easier if you kept the [[focal plane]] you are already using, be it [[differentials]] or nothing depending on where you are in your journey, for breaks under 5 minutes. If you are taking a much recommended longer break; this is a good time to switch to [[normalized]], in order to ensure you are not trading close up strain for excessive blur strain.<br />
<br />
==Reverse 20-20-20 rule==<br />
<br />
Which glasses should you wear if you don't want to change your glasses all the time?<br />
<br />
At least two people in the Discord chat have the following personal rule: If you will be in blur for more than 20 minutes, change to your other pair of glasses.<br />
<br />
==Do you need the 20-20-20 rule?==<br />
<br />
{{quote|The 202020202002020202 rule isn’t ours / mine / endmyopia. I think it’s kind of pointless but I :zipper_mouth_face: when people bring it up since … :man_shrugging:<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/nottnott-fixes-his-eyesight-from-5-video-log/5361/1189</ref>|Jake Steiner}}<br />
<br />
{{quote|20202020202020202020000 rule is really just mainstream articles filtering into here. When you get distance vision your ciliary unlocks anyway. Whether [[ciliary spasm]] shuts off axial gains is debatable, light rays still converge in front of eye in theory. Try without 202020 rule and see if you still make the gains.<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/ok-but-when-exactly/16092/2</ref>|NottNott}}<br />
{{quote|It was never an Endmyopia rule, it’s a mainstream optometrists / work ergonomics recommendation.<br />
<br />
Jake generally recommends longer breaks. He says that a break needs to be at least 10-15 minutes to be really effective.<br />
He also recommends to have 1 hour break after every 3 hours of close-up.<br />
<br />
But these are not strict rules. Generally what matters if you get ciliary spasm during your close-up or not. The best way to make sure is to check a Snellen chart or some “landmark” before you do close-up. You should be able to maintain the same acuity during close-up. If you detect blur on the same Snellen chart / landmark, then you should take a break.<br />
<br />
Edit: to avoid misunderstandings, the 20/20/20 doesn’t do any harm, but on it’s own is not enough to prevent or eliminate ciliary spasm.|halmadavid}}<br />
<br />
{{quote| At EM we like to talk about "pseudomyopia" or whatever but the real danger is getting pseudoADHD induced by 20-20-20, as in you're actively choosing to train yourself to have a short attention span. "The rapid turnover of context." https://youtu.be/hFL6qRIJZ_Y?t=7756.|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=20-20-20_rule&diff=1649320-20-20 rule2022-03-11T19:26:46Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Do you need the 20-20-20 rule? */</p>
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<div>The 20-20-20 rule is designed to be an easy to remember caution about doing too much [[near work]] and to give your eyes a break from [[eye strain]] regularly. This rule is supported by conventional optometry<ref name="American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster">{{Cite web |title=American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster |date=2020-05-30 |website=American Optometric Association |url=https://www.aoa.org/documents/infographics/SYVM2016Infographics.pdf |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="Medical News Today: Does the 20-20-20 rule prevent eye strain?">{{Cite web |title=20-20-20 rule: How to prevent eye strain |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321536 |last=Nall |first=Rachel |date=2020-05-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref> and is a start towards the EM method.<br />
<br />
* Every 20 minutes<br />
* Look at something 20 feet away (6 meters)<br />
* For at least 20 Seconds</big><br />
==Go Beyond 20-20-20==<br />
EM finds that short breaks are less effective and recommends that you '''take longer breaks''', possibly less frequently to compensate for the longer duration.<br />
* After you do close-up for 20 minutes continuously, take a 5 minute break.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia - Endmyopia |url=https://endmyopia.org/breaks-are-key-to-build-eye-strain-awareness/ |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=endmyopia.org |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref><br />
* After you do close-up for 3 hours continuously, take the longest break you can (like an hour) ([[3 hour rule]])<ref>[https://endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-eyesight-five-steps/ How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps]</ref><br />
* Take your break outside. <ref>[https://endmyopia.org/must-read-going-outside-to-improve-your-eyesight/ Must Read: Going Outside To Improve Your Eyesight]</ref> Notice how the lower frequency (3 hours instead of 20 minutes) is balanced by the increased duration (1 hour vs 5 minutes).<br />
* To develop [[Strain Awareness]], it is recommended to use frequent short breaks and shift towards less frequent, longer breaks if preferred.<br />
* You can customize your break schedule to your needs.<br />
<br />
==One more thing==<br />
The most commonly asked question about the 20-20-20 rule is: "Do I need to switch back to [normalized] every time I shift focus, for a break?" <br />
<br />
The answer is: whatever you wish. However, it would make your life easier if you kept the [[focal plane]] you are already using, be it [[differentials]] or nothing depending on where you are in your journey, for breaks under 5 minutes. If you are taking a much recommended longer break; this is a good time to switch to [[normalized]], in order to ensure you are not trading close up strain for excessive blur strain.<br />
<br />
==Reverse 20-20-20 rule==<br />
<br />
Which glasses should you wear if you don't want to change your glasses all the time?<br />
<br />
At least two people in the Discord chat have the following personal rule: If you will be in blur for more than 20 minutes, change to your other pair of glasses.<br />
<br />
==Do you need the 20-20-20 rule?==<br />
<br />
{{quote|The 202020202002020202 rule isn’t ours / mine / endmyopia. I think it’s kind of pointless but I :zipper_mouth_face: when people bring it up since … :man_shrugging:<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/nottnott-fixes-his-eyesight-from-5-video-log/5361/1189</ref>|Jake Steiner}}<br />
<br />
{{quote|20202020202020202020000 rule is really just mainstream articles filtering into here. When you get distance vision your ciliary unlocks anyway. Whether [[ciliary spasm]] shuts off axial gains is debatable, light rays still converge in front of eye in theory. Try without 202020 rule and see if you still make the gains.<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/ok-but-when-exactly/16092/2</ref>|NottNott}}<br />
{{quote|It was never an Endmyopia rule, it’s a mainstream optometrists / work ergonomics recommendation.<br />
<br />
Jake generally recommends longer breaks. He says that a break needs to be at least 10-15 minutes to be really effective.<br />
He also recommends to have 1 hour break after every 3 hours of close-up.<br />
<br />
But these are not strict rules. Generally what matters if you get ciliary spasm during your close-up or not. The best way to make sure is to check a Snellen chart or some “landmark” before you do close-up. You should be able to maintain the same acuity during close-up. If you detect blur on the same Snellen chart / landmark, then you should take a break.<br />
<br />
Edit: to avoid misunderstandings, the 20/20/20 doesn’t do any harm, but on it’s own is not enough to prevent or eliminate ciliary spasm.|halmadavid}}<br />
<br />
{{quote| At EM we like to talk about "pseudomyopia" or whatever but the real danger is getting pseudoADHD induced by 20-20-20, as in you're actively choosing to train yourself to have a short attention span. "The rapid turnover of context." https://youtu.be/hFL6qRIJZ_Y?t=7756. |AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=20-20-20_rule&diff=1649120-20-20 rule2022-03-11T17:17:26Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Do you need the 20-20-20 rule? */</p>
<hr />
<div>The 20-20-20 rule is designed to be an easy to remember caution about doing too much [[near work]] and to give your eyes a break from [[eye strain]] regularly. This rule is supported by conventional optometry<ref name="American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster">{{Cite web |title=American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster |date=2020-05-30 |website=American Optometric Association |url=https://www.aoa.org/documents/infographics/SYVM2016Infographics.pdf |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="Medical News Today: Does the 20-20-20 rule prevent eye strain?">{{Cite web |title=20-20-20 rule: How to prevent eye strain |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321536 |last=Nall |first=Rachel |date=2020-05-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref> and is a start towards the EM method.<br />
<br />
* Every 20 minutes<br />
* Look at something 20 feet away (6 meters)<br />
* For at least 20 Seconds</big><br />
==Go Beyond 20-20-20==<br />
EM finds that short breaks are less effective and recommends that you '''take longer breaks''', possibly less frequently to compensate for the longer duration.<br />
* After you do close-up for 20 minutes continuously, take a 5 minute break.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia - Endmyopia |url=https://endmyopia.org/breaks-are-key-to-build-eye-strain-awareness/ |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=endmyopia.org |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref><br />
* After you do close-up for 3 hours continuously, take the longest break you can (like an hour) ([[3 hour rule]])<ref>[https://endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-eyesight-five-steps/ How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps]</ref><br />
* Take your break outside. <ref>[https://endmyopia.org/must-read-going-outside-to-improve-your-eyesight/ Must Read: Going Outside To Improve Your Eyesight]</ref> Notice how the lower frequency (3 hours instead of 20 minutes) is balanced by the increased duration (1 hour vs 5 minutes).<br />
* To develop [[Strain Awareness]], it is recommended to use frequent short breaks and shift towards less frequent, longer breaks if preferred.<br />
* You can customize your break schedule to your needs.<br />
<br />
==One more thing==<br />
The most commonly asked question about the 20-20-20 rule is: "Do I need to switch back to [normalized] every time I shift focus, for a break?" <br />
<br />
The answer is: whatever you wish. However, it would make your life easier if you kept the [[focal plane]] you are already using, be it [[differentials]] or nothing depending on where you are in your journey, for breaks under 5 minutes. If you are taking a much recommended longer break; this is a good time to switch to [[normalized]], in order to ensure you are not trading close up strain for excessive blur strain.<br />
<br />
==Reverse 20-20-20 rule==<br />
<br />
Which glasses should you wear if you don't want to change your glasses all the time?<br />
<br />
At least two people in the Discord chat have the following personal rule: If you will be in blur for more than 20 minutes, change to your other pair of glasses.<br />
<br />
==Do you need the 20-20-20 rule?==<br />
<br />
{{quote|The 202020202002020202 rule isn’t ours / mine / endmyopia. I think it’s kind of pointless but I :zipper_mouth_face: when people bring it up since … :man_shrugging:<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/nottnott-fixes-his-eyesight-from-5-video-log/5361/1189</ref>|Jake Steiner}}<br />
<br />
{{quote|20202020202020202020000 rule is really just mainstream articles filtering into here. When you get distance vision your ciliary unlocks anyway. Whether [[ciliary spasm]] shuts off axial gains is debatable, light rays still converge in front of eye in theory. Try without 202020 rule and see if you still make the gains.<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/ok-but-when-exactly/16092/2</ref>|NottNott}}<br />
{{quote|It was never an Endmyopia rule, it’s a mainstream optometrists / work ergonomics recommendation.<br />
<br />
Jake generally recommends longer breaks. He says that a break needs to be at least 10-15 minutes to be really effective.<br />
He also recommends to have 1 hour break after every 3 hours of close-up.<br />
<br />
But these are not strict rules. Generally what matters if you get ciliary spasm during your close-up or not. The best way to make sure is to check a Snellen chart or some “landmark” before you do close-up. You should be able to maintain the same acuity during close-up. If you detect blur on the same Snellen chart / landmark, then you should take a break.<br />
<br />
Edit: to avoid misunderstandings, the 20/20/20 doesn’t do any harm, but on it’s own is not enough to prevent or eliminate ciliary spasm.|halmadavid}}<br />
<br />
{{quote| At EM we like to talk about "pseudomyopia" or whatever but the real danger is getting pseudoADHD induced by 20-20-20. |AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=20-20-20_rule&diff=1649020-20-20 rule2022-03-11T16:50:06Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Do you need the 20-20-20 rule? */</p>
<hr />
<div>The 20-20-20 rule is designed to be an easy to remember caution about doing too much [[near work]] and to give your eyes a break from [[eye strain]] regularly. This rule is supported by conventional optometry<ref name="American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster">{{Cite web |title=American Optometric Association 20-20-20 rule poster |date=2020-05-30 |website=American Optometric Association |url=https://www.aoa.org/documents/infographics/SYVM2016Infographics.pdf |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="Medical News Today: Does the 20-20-20 rule prevent eye strain?">{{Cite web |title=20-20-20 rule: How to prevent eye strain |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321536 |last=Nall |first=Rachel |date=2020-05-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref> and is a start towards the EM method.<br />
<br />
* Every 20 minutes<br />
* Look at something 20 feet away (6 meters)<br />
* For at least 20 Seconds</big><br />
==Go Beyond 20-20-20==<br />
EM finds that short breaks are less effective and recommends that you '''take longer breaks''', possibly less frequently to compensate for the longer duration.<br />
* After you do close-up for 20 minutes continuously, take a 5 minute break.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia - Endmyopia |url=https://endmyopia.org/breaks-are-key-to-build-eye-strain-awareness/ |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=endmyopia.org |access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref><br />
* After you do close-up for 3 hours continuously, take the longest break you can (like an hour) ([[3 hour rule]])<ref>[https://endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-eyesight-five-steps/ How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps]</ref><br />
* Take your break outside. <ref>[https://endmyopia.org/must-read-going-outside-to-improve-your-eyesight/ Must Read: Going Outside To Improve Your Eyesight]</ref> Notice how the lower frequency (3 hours instead of 20 minutes) is balanced by the increased duration (1 hour vs 5 minutes).<br />
* To develop [[Strain Awareness]], it is recommended to use frequent short breaks and shift towards less frequent, longer breaks if preferred.<br />
* You can customize your break schedule to your needs.<br />
<br />
==One more thing==<br />
The most commonly asked question about the 20-20-20 rule is: "Do I need to switch back to [normalized] every time I shift focus, for a break?" <br />
<br />
The answer is: whatever you wish. However, it would make your life easier if you kept the [[focal plane]] you are already using, be it [[differentials]] or nothing depending on where you are in your journey, for breaks under 5 minutes. If you are taking a much recommended longer break; this is a good time to switch to [[normalized]], in order to ensure you are not trading close up strain for excessive blur strain.<br />
<br />
==Reverse 20-20-20 rule==<br />
<br />
Which glasses should you wear if you don't want to change your glasses all the time?<br />
<br />
At least two people in the Discord chat have the following personal rule: If you will be in blur for more than 20 minutes, change to your other pair of glasses.<br />
<br />
==Do you need the 20-20-20 rule?==<br />
<br />
{{quote|The 202020202002020202 rule isn’t ours / mine / endmyopia. I think it’s kind of pointless but I :zipper_mouth_face: when people bring it up since … :man_shrugging:<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/nottnott-fixes-his-eyesight-from-5-video-log/5361/1189</ref>|Jake Steiner}}<br />
<br />
{{quote|20202020202020202020000 rule is really just mainstream articles filtering into here. When you get distance vision your ciliary unlocks anyway. Whether [[ciliary spasm]] shuts off axial gains is debatable, light rays still converge in front of eye in theory. Try without 202020 rule and see if you still make the gains.<ref>https://community.endmyopia.org/t/ok-but-when-exactly/16092/2</ref>|NottNott}}<br />
{{quote|It was never an Endmyopia rule, it’s a mainstream optometrists / work ergonomics recommendation.<br />
<br />
Jake generally recommends longer breaks. He says that a break needs to be at least 10-15 minutes to be really effective.<br />
He also recommends to have 1 hour break after every 3 hours of close-up.<br />
<br />
But these are not strict rules. Generally what matters if you get ciliary spasm during your close-up or not. The best way to make sure is to check a Snellen chart or some “landmark” before you do close-up. You should be able to maintain the same acuity during close-up. If you detect blur on the same Snellen chart / landmark, then you should take a break.<br />
<br />
Edit: to avoid misunderstandings, the 20/20/20 doesn’t do any harm, but on it’s own is not enough to prevent or eliminate ciliary spasm.|halmadavid}}<br />
<br />
{{quote| At EM we like to talk about "pseudomyopia" or whatever but the real danger is getting pseudoADHD from the 20-20-20 rule. |NottNott}}<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=User:AznDudeIsOn&diff=16367User:AznDudeIsOn2022-02-27T18:30:02Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: Created page with "Be Enlightened like Buddha:https://azndudeison.github.io/enlightenment-explained/ I started off -3.75 SPH, -.25 CYL Around 2019 3 years later I'm around -1.5 maybe -1.75 Ful..."</p>
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<div>Be Enlightened like Buddha:https://azndudeison.github.io/enlightenment-explained/<br />
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I started off -3.75 SPH, -.25 CYL Around 2019<br />
<br />
3 years later I'm around -1.5 maybe -1.75 Full Rx<br />
Using -1 norms, sometimes -1.25 norms.</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=16366Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2022-02-27T18:18:24Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: [[Normalized]]s, [[Differential]]s, and [[Blur Horizon]]:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
==Long Version==<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
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Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
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Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
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Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
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=='''TL;DR:'''==<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
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2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
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3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
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=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
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=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
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Pay attention to your internal experience and do things as you do that.<br />
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=='''P.S.,''' ==<br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42<br />
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==PPS==<br />
<br />
Want an overly simple definition for active focus? The [[EndMyopia_Glossary]] definition is as simple as it gets.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=16364Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2022-02-27T18:16:58Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: [[Normalized]]s, [[Differential]]s, and [[Blur Horizon]]:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
==Long Version==<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
=='''TL;DR:'''==<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
<br />
=='''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''==<br />
<br />
Pay attention to your internal experience and do things as you do that.<br />
<br />
=='''P.S.,''' ==<br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42<br />
<br />
==PPS==<br />
<br />
Want a super simple definition for active focus? The [[EndMyopia_Glossary]] definition is as simple as it gets.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14964Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-08-12T16:59:51Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Pay attention to your internal experience and do things as you do that.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14963Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-08-12T16:59:15Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Pay attention to your internal experience and do more things.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14962Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-08-12T16:58:59Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. <br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
Pay attention to your internal experience and do more things.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14961Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-08-12T16:57:13Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so therefore it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry but because your brain is good at filling in the blanks it looks clear to you. Whatever the actual case may be, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same vein, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural-automatic mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you automatically do just that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape-horizon that envelopes around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. If not, I'll repeat it. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is how much visual exploration you do, and how much effort you put in to level up your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means Be considerate about how each different way of visually focusing has a different effect on how your vision looks like to you (different ways to visually focus include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, paying attention to just one object, looking at distant things, looking at close-up things, or looking at mid-range things) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities. AKA be in tune with yourself and do more things.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14613Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-02-13T20:53:26Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see. The more you spend time noticing your vision, and the more nuance you are able to notice about your vision, the better your vision journey will go. Nobody but yourself can take your visual journey.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is paying attention to the nuance of how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14554Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-31T17:24:40Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include but are not limited to, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you are able to notice about your vision, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14553Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-31T17:23:10Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you are able to notice about your vision, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14552Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T18:10:19Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
'''P.S.,''' <br />
Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14551Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T18:09:53Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
'''TL;DR of the TL;DR:'''<br />
<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
P.S., Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14550Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T18:06:01Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
TL;DR of the TL;DR<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
P.S., Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913 from 1:21:53-1:27:42</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14549Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T18:05:15Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
TL;DR of the TL;DR<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
P.S., Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video on Andrew Huberman video by searching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQhKFMxmDY&t=4913</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14548Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T18:03:56Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
TL;DR of the TL;DR<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
P.S., Want to hear more discussion about different vision-related attentional modes? Check out this video on Andrew Huberman video by searching on youtube this code SwQhKFMxmDY and watch from 1:21:53-1:27:42.<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14547Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T17:39:48Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink your own visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. Only you can educate yourself to increase your understanding of what you see.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
TL;DR of the TL;DR<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', improving what you can notice, familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, maximizing the quantity of visual exploration you do, and preferably increasing the quality of your visual exploration by leaning towards dynamic visual activities.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14546Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T17:30:21Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. We do not see what you see, and you cannot accurately explain to us what you see. Only YOU can see what blur looks like to you for various objects at various distances, lightings, speeds, and angles. A common mistake for newbies is that they often mistake things that are slightly blurry, for clarity. They are even more likely to make this mistake when the visual object of interest is words, because your brain will fill in the blanks and go, "oh? It's very legible so it must be clearly seen." Perhaps for you what you see truly is clear, or perhaps it is slightly blurry and you've gotten so used to not noticing your vision that you think it's clear. Whatever the case, only YOU can figure this out. Nobody else. Only you. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. You don't even have to read the rest of this because I'm not you. So get going and start looking at your vision. Just hop on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Instead of trying to make active focus happen, Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) I say it again, you are not in control of active focus happening. Also, quantity matters. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
TL;DR of the TL;DR<br />
Active focus is noticing how your vision looks '''to you''', familiarizing yourself with different vision-related attentional modes, and maximizing the amount that you do those two (preferably in a visually-dynamic activity).<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14545Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-30T17:11:10Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, you do not try to turn on Active Focus, you set yourself for success so that Active Focus, a natural mechanism, activates for you. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the person who's IT that's chasing you but while tracking the IT-person you're still low-key trying to keep track of your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14541Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2021-01-19T16:19:05Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. "Exploring the world visually in various ways" means be considerate in the way you are visually focusing affects the way vision looks like to you (ways of visually focusing include, a holistic-whole-view focus, or an attention-to-detail focus, or a focus on how an object fits in its setting, while you and/or object is moving, while you and/or object is stationary, paying attention to multiple objects, or to one object, looking at distant thing, looking at close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Explainer:How_centimeters_relate_to_diopters&diff=14417Explainer:How centimeters relate to diopters2020-09-14T18:24:47Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>{{under_construction}}<br />
Centimeters have an inverse relationship to diopters<br />
<br />
Stuff like, centimeters change very little at high myopia but loads at low myopia.<br />
<br />
See also [[Optics related math]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=List:Measurement_tools&diff=14416List:Measurement tools2020-09-14T18:23:13Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* cm measurements */</p>
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<div>The following is a list of tools created to measure vision improvement progression, usually in [[centimeters]].<br />
<br />
==cm measurements==<br />
*[[Varakari's Vision Log Tool]]<br />
https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Measurement</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14399Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-09-12T18:05:24Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look out at everything around you at the same time. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice yourself. Be aware of where you are in your environment. Notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. Various ways means be considerate how what you focus on affects your vision (such as, a holistic focus, attention-to-detail, or how an object fits in its setting, while moving, stationary, multiple objects, one object, distant, close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective].) <br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14397Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-09-10T21:02:41Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around the object. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment/lifestyle that allows you to explore the world visually in various ways. Various ways means be considerate how what you focus on affects your vision (such as, a holistic focus, attention-to-detail, or how an object fits in its setting, while moving, stationary, multiple objects, one object, distant, close-up, [insert other visual-focusing perspective])<br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Guide:How_to_ask_for_support&diff=14395Guide:How to ask for support2020-09-09T21:40:19Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Asking Jake */</p>
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<div>{{Community rule}}<br />
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|[[File:Cutest questioning dog.gif|right]]<br />
|-<br />
|align=center|Cutest questioning dog :D<br />
|}<br />
{{Shortcut|SUPPORT|ASKING|ADVICE}}<br />
This guide will help you answer any questions you have in the right way.<br />
<br />
You may have ended up on this page after making a post that was closed/removed for some reason. Don't worry! This advice is written so everyone can have a better time with vision improvement.<br />
__TOC__<br />
{{clear}}<br />
==Asking the resources that already exist==<br />
EndMyopia has built up a large existing canon of free resources. These free resources were made for full immersion, not for the readers to pick-and-mix what they do and don't want to do. You have to do several things, together, correctly in order to improve your vision, just doing [[Active Focus]] or just improving your [[habits]] won't suffice. <br />
<br />
Here is an exhaustive list of free resources available:<br />
{{Template:Readables}}<br />
===Reading > asking for support===<br />
[[File:Spin the wheel.gif|right]]<br />
{{Shortcut|READFIRST}}<br />
These resources don't involve asking anyone else for advice. That's a good thing, because any time you ask the advice of someone else, '''they are likely giving you a much reduced level of detail, compared to what you actually need to know to improve your eyesight'''.<br />
<br />
You're spinning a wheel and hoping someone will give you something helpful (by chance), instead of going directly to a resource that has a high level of detail and is guaranteed to be helpful and thorough.<br />
<br />
There is a choice between:<br />
#Detailed, crafted information prewritten trying to give you the detail needed to improve eyesight<br />
#Whatever someone decides to write you at that moment (spin the wheel)<br />
<br />
In the early stages of improving your vision, '''reading will always be superior to asking questions to the community'''. We're sorry, but nearly all of your basic questions have been answered elsewhere and in much greater detail.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
==Asking for support==<br />
If you are really unsure about where to get help from, and you've tried your best with the written resources that exist, then you can try your luck at asking for advice from other members of the community.<br />
<br />
Sometimes it is a case of individual experiences being better than the written resources.<br />
===Asking for support correctly===<br />
=====Doing it calmly and politely=====<br />
Be sure to show respect to anyone that you ask advice from. Remember they've volunteered to help you in good faith, and they are not the reason you currently are struggling with vision improvement. They're also not obliged to help you, so make sure to be on their good side.<br />
===Asking for support incorrectly===<br />
=====Asking for diopter specific advice=====<br />
{{Main|Explainer:No diopter specific advice}}<br />
Don't ask people for the [[diopter correction]], in numbers, that you should wear to improve your eyesight.<br />
<br />
Asking for diopter specific advice implies a grave lack of understanding on what you actually need to do to improve your eyesight. Having the right diopters is only [[Explainer:The Eyesight Improvement Equation|one part of the puzzle]] in fixing your eyes. Even if you have the numbers you need, you are almost guaranteed not to improve your eyesight if you don't understand anything else.<br />
<br />
So, the rule against diopter specific advice is really for your good {{wink}}<br />
=====Being entitled=====<br />
You're not entitled to free support from anyone, let alone ''good'' free support. People who offer to help you are volunteers who ''probably'' have done a lot of their own work in reading the [[#Asking_the_resources_that_already_exist|materials that already exist]]. A lot of them have made improvements in their eyesight as well. Be like them {{smiley}}<br />
=====Asking Jake=====<br />
{{Joke|Plzbro}}{{Joke|Joke:Plzbro}}<br />
Don't ask Jake for free support. He's worked hard enough developing all of these [[#Asking_the_resources_that_already_exist|free resources]] that you have probably ignored.<br />
<br />
Alternatively, you can ask Jake for '''paid''' support in [[BackTo20/20]].<br />
<br />
=====Asking any of these questions=====<br />
[[Frequently Asked Questions/FFAQ|{{bigger|Here you can find a list of frequently asked questions, and their answers}}]]<br />
<br />
==Rationale behind this guide==<br />
A lot of people unfortunately stagnate their vision improvement almost entirely by not following the principles in this guide. Furthermore, moderators often have to interfere and shut down threads and discussions where it is clear the original poster has done '''no research of their own''', and are simply looking to use others as a substitute for their own brain and thinking. Sometimes the original posters are banned, if they ignore the warnings from the mods.<br />
<br />
It's somewhat annoying to those of us who put in the effort to read and digest the free material, before asking questions. It also clogs up the feeds of people who want some proper discussion.<br />
<br />
With that said, if it's clear you have done some reading beforehand, and you are looking for clarification on something complicated, there is nothing to worry about {{smiley}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Frequently Asked Questions/FFAQ|Frequently, Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
*[[Explainer:No diopter specific advice]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Guide:How_to_ask_for_support&diff=14394Guide:How to ask for support2020-09-09T21:38:34Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* Asking Jake */</p>
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This guide will help you answer any questions you have in the right way.<br />
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You may have ended up on this page after making a post that was closed/removed for some reason. Don't worry! This advice is written so everyone can have a better time with vision improvement.<br />
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==Asking the resources that already exist==<br />
EndMyopia has built up a large existing canon of free resources. These free resources were made for full immersion, not for the readers to pick-and-mix what they do and don't want to do. You have to do several things, together, correctly in order to improve your vision, just doing [[Active Focus]] or just improving your [[habits]] won't suffice. <br />
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Here is an exhaustive list of free resources available:<br />
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===Reading > asking for support===<br />
[[File:Spin the wheel.gif|right]]<br />
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These resources don't involve asking anyone else for advice. That's a good thing, because any time you ask the advice of someone else, '''they are likely giving you a much reduced level of detail, compared to what you actually need to know to improve your eyesight'''.<br />
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You're spinning a wheel and hoping someone will give you something helpful (by chance), instead of going directly to a resource that has a high level of detail and is guaranteed to be helpful and thorough.<br />
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There is a choice between:<br />
#Detailed, crafted information prewritten trying to give you the detail needed to improve eyesight<br />
#Whatever someone decides to write you at that moment (spin the wheel)<br />
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In the early stages of improving your vision, '''reading will always be superior to asking questions to the community'''. We're sorry, but nearly all of your basic questions have been answered elsewhere and in much greater detail.<br />
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==Asking for support==<br />
If you are really unsure about where to get help from, and you've tried your best with the written resources that exist, then you can try your luck at asking for advice from other members of the community.<br />
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Sometimes it is a case of individual experiences being better than the written resources.<br />
===Asking for support correctly===<br />
=====Doing it calmly and politely=====<br />
Be sure to show respect to anyone that you ask advice from. Remember they've volunteered to help you in good faith, and they are not the reason you currently are struggling with vision improvement. They're also not obliged to help you, so make sure to be on their good side.<br />
===Asking for support incorrectly===<br />
=====Asking for diopter specific advice=====<br />
{{Main|Explainer:No diopter specific advice}}<br />
Don't ask people for the [[diopter correction]], in numbers, that you should wear to improve your eyesight.<br />
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Asking for diopter specific advice implies a grave lack of understanding on what you actually need to do to improve your eyesight. Having the right diopters is only [[Explainer:The Eyesight Improvement Equation|one part of the puzzle]] in fixing your eyes. Even if you have the numbers you need, you are almost guaranteed not to improve your eyesight if you don't understand anything else.<br />
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So, the rule against diopter specific advice is really for your good {{wink}}<br />
=====Being entitled=====<br />
You're not entitled to free support from anyone, let alone ''good'' free support. People who offer to help you are volunteers who ''probably'' have done a lot of their own work in reading the [[#Asking_the_resources_that_already_exist|materials that already exist]]. A lot of them have made improvements in their eyesight as well. Be like them {{smiley}}<br />
=====Asking Jake=====<br />
{{Joke|Plzbro}}<br />
Don't ask Jake for free support. He's worked hard enough developing all of these [[#Asking_the_resources_that_already_exist|free resources]] that you have probably ignored.<br />
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Alternatively, you can ask Jake for '''paid''' support in [[BackTo20/20]].<br />
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=====Asking any of these questions=====<br />
[[Frequently Asked Questions/FFAQ|{{bigger|Here you can find a list of frequently asked questions, and their answers}}]]<br />
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==Rationale behind this guide==<br />
A lot of people unfortunately stagnate their vision improvement almost entirely by not following the principles in this guide. Furthermore, moderators often have to interfere and shut down threads and discussions where it is clear the original poster has done '''no research of their own''', and are simply looking to use others as a substitute for their own brain and thinking. Sometimes the original posters are banned, if they ignore the warnings from the mods.<br />
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It's somewhat annoying to those of us who put in the effort to read and digest the free material, before asking questions. It also clogs up the feeds of people who want some proper discussion.<br />
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With that said, if it's clear you have done some reading beforehand, and you are looking for clarification on something complicated, there is nothing to worry about {{smiley}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Frequently Asked Questions/FFAQ|Frequently, Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
*[[Explainer:No diopter specific advice]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Axis&diff=14351Axis2020-09-04T14:54:49Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>'''Axis''' is the orientation of the [[cylinder]] portion of your lens, used to compensate for [[astigmatism]]. You don't have an axis value if you don't have [[astigmatism]]. From the lens wearer's perspective, 0 degrees of axis is horizontal, and increasing values move clockwise around the eye. The axis of cylinder is symmetrical, so it only goes from 0 to 180 degrees. The convention is that the horizontal is described as 180 rather than as 0.<br />
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An axis near 90 degrees is sometimes called "with the rule" and near 180 degrees "against the rule". "against the rule" is more common in young children, while "with the rule" is more common after starting school,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dobson |first=V. |last2=Fulton |first2=A. B. |last3=Sebris |first3=S. L. |date=1984-01-01 |title=Cycloplegic refractions of infants and young children: the axis of astigmatism. |url=https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2159731 |journal=Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=83–87 |issn=1552-5783}}</ref> and "against the rule" returns after the working years.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kanellopoulos |first=Anastasios John |last2=Asimellis |first2=George |date=2015-8 |title=Distribution and Repeatability of Corneal Astigmatism Measurements (Magnitude and Axis) Evaluated With Color Light Emitting Diode Reflection Topography |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4500657/ |journal=Cornea |volume=34 |issue=8 |pages=937–944 |doi=10.1097/ICO.0000000000000476 |issn=0277-3740 |pmc=4500657 |pmid=26057324}}</ref> It is commonly believed that the axis between your eyes is likely to have some symmetry or be 90 degrees off, but this is not true.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mckendrick |first=Allison M. |last2=Brennan |first2=Noel A. |date=1997-08 |title=The Axis of Astigmatism in Right and Left Eye Pairs: |url=http://journals.lww.com/00006324-199708000-00029 |journal=Optometry and Vision Science |language=en |volume=74 |issue=8 |pages=668–675 |doi=10.1097/00006324-199708000-00029 |issn=1040-5488}}</ref><br />
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The axis of astigmatism can be measured with a [[stenopaeic slit]] or [[JCC lens]] but the use of these tools is complex and easily misunderstood, it's usually best to get your axis from your most recent [[prescription]].<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14295Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-23T22:00:00Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what finding it entails, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually.<br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14294Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-23T21:58:59Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you. <br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
<br />
TL;DR:<br />
<br />
1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to.<br />
<br />
2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually.<br />
<br />
3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14293Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-23T21:53:09Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar the basic idea of these 3 terms: Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you. This read can be summarized by: 1) Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. 2) Be deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually. 3) You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Your own internal visual experiences is what you have to pay attention to. So, just come on aboard and drink the visual kool-aid. <br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, there's no switch for you to turn on to active Active Focus. If you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do play tag with all your friends to test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Being deliberate in choosing an environment that allows you to explore the world visually is a win-win situation. At best, you find active focus. At worst, you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. I repeat, do not just idly sit around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. For you gamers out there, you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. Pay attention. ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. Are you with me? If not, Let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, continue living a life where you are visually exploring the world. You have to continue visually exploring because active focus will never happen if there is no opportunity for it to happen. Also, while you are visually exploring, don't try to force active focus to happen because active focus is not in your control. You are not in control of active focus happening. The only two things you are in control of is increasing the amount of visual exploration you do, and improving your ability to notice how your visual exploration is going. So, while you live life, Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do these 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14292Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-23T20:24:27Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do to that. Do stuff or be places that increase your likelihood of Active Focus happening to you. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? The worst thing that happens is that you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. You with me? ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14290Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-23T15:57:49Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
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<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(ADVANCED TOPIC assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds, Differentials, and Blur Horizon:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do that. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? The worst thing that happens is that you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. You with me? ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14275Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-08-16T14:23:53Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(Assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds and Differentials:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do that. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? The worst thing that happens is that you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. You with me? ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively ''find'' rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14271Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:36:12Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* See also */</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia_Discord_Server|EndMyopia Discord]]<br />
* [[Frequently_Asked_Questions|FAQ]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14270Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:35:59Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia_Discord_Server|EndMyopia Discord]]<br />
* [[Frequently_Asked_Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14269Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:34:24Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* See also */</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia_Discord_Server|EndMyopia Discord Server]]<br />
* [[Frequently_Asked_Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14268Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:33:48Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/EndMyopia_Discord_Server|EndMyopia Discord Server]]<br />
* [[https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14267Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:29:09Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: /* See also */</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Forum]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia_Discord_Server]]<br />
* [[Frequently_Asked_Questions]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Seven_day_free_email_guide&diff=14266Seven day free email guide2020-08-11T17:28:27Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Seven day email guide''' a free guide recommended for all EndMyopia students. Knowledge of the guide is a per-requisite of engaging fully in the community. <br />
<br />
{{#ev:youtube|nOS7Z8Ta0yw|||||start=171&end=420}}<br />
<br />
== How to sign up ==<br />
* Find this box at the bottom of [[Moved:Endmyopia.org|endmyopia.org]]<br />
[[File:Load-the-guide.png|left|320px]]<br />
{{clear}}<br />
<br />
A French translation of the guide is available, see [https://endmyopia.org/enrayer-la-myopie-the-7-day-free-guide-available-in-french/ Enrayer La Myopie]<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
*Day 1. How the eye works<br />
*Day 2. How glasses affect your eyes<br />
*Day 3. How to test your own myopia<br />
*Day 4. Diopters<br />
*Day 5. Worse things you can do<br />
*Day 6. Differentials and other good things<br />
*Day 7. Active focus and where to go next<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Guide:Start your improvement here]]<br />
* [[BackTo20/20]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Facebook Group]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Reddit]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Forum]]<br />
* [[EndMyopia Discord]]<br />
<br />
* [[Frequently_Asked_Questions]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14186Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-07-25T20:59:02Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(Assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds and Differentials:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do that. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? The worst thing that happens is that you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. You with me? ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively find rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don't</u> try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14141Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-07-20T21:38:38Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(Assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds and Differentials:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
<br />
First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
<br />
Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually lying in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do that. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from the IT-person chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? The worst thing that happens is that you find yourself appreciating life more and seeing life differently.<br />
<br />
Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, that doesn't mean sit around idly. I repeat, do not just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) ''finding rare loot'', and then there's 2) '''finding rare loot'''. You with me? ''Finding'' rare loot and '''finding''' rare loot is <u>not</u> the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can ''find'' rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively ''find'' rare loot. If you could actively find rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will '''find''' that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never '''find''' rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively '''find''' rare loot, you aren't actually actively ''finding'' rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the bolded kind, not the italicized. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus <u>don</u>'t try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
<br />
Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
[[Category:Project AF]]</div>AznDudeIsOnhttps://wiki.endmyopia.org/index.php?title=Writing:Putting_yourself_to_sleep_by_not_trying_to_find_rare_loot&diff=14064Writing:Putting yourself to sleep by not trying to find rare loot2020-07-04T23:18:27Z<p>AznDudeIsOn: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Writing|AznDudeIsOn}}<br />
(Assuming that you are familiar with Normalizeds and Differentials:)<br />
<br />
If you are wondering how active Active Focus is and wondering what it looks like, then this read is for you.<br />
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First step? ''Stop trying to look for what Active Focus looks like in others;'' '''The answer is within you.''' Trying to explain to you what Active Focus is like is like trying to explain the taste of a strawberry. No words in the world can explain the taste of a strawberry, you just have to eat it for yourself. Just come on aboard and drink the kool-aid.<br />
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Second step? ''Active Focus is like sleep:'' '''you don't put yourself to sleep, sleep puts you out.''' by putting yourself to sleep. Think about this. Do you know how to sleep? Do you just press a few buttons like a computer and put yourself to sleep? Probably not. So, you may be asking how do you put yourself to sleep? You don't. You just do stuff or be places that increases your likelihood of sleep happening to you. Whether that be turning off electronics and lights an hour early, or actually being in your bed instead of the couch for once in your life. In the same way, if you want to Active Focus: live a life that lets you do that. Do zoom in and pay attention to the details of how things look, how porous someone's beautiful skin is, how unflat-flat things are, how bird-wings flap as they fly. Do look at how things look at varying distances. Do zoom out and see how your object of interest looks within the grand landscape around you. Do look at how clear or blurry things appear to you as you move (or don't move), and as your object of interest moves (or doesn't move), as you pass things in your life and as life (things) passes you by. Do test your ability to pay attention to an object while simultaneously tracking multiple objects as you play tag with all your friends, as you run away from IT chasing you but you're still low-key trying to keep your crush in view. As you look in life, notice how you see and feel. Sometimes your eyes will feel tight, sometimes unburdened. Sometimes your vision gets worse, sometimes it's better, and sometimes there's no change at all. Set yourself up to actually see what's in your life. What could go wrong? Worse thing that happens is that you find yourself seeing life differently.<br />
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Third Step? ''Finding Active Focus is like trying to find rare loot:'' '''you find rare loot by not trying to find rare loot.''' Now, don't just sit idly around. You're never going to find treasure just sitting around. This analogy may be lost on you nongamers, but for those of you that played RPGs you'll know what I mean. There's 1) '''finding rare loot''', and then there's 2) ''finding rare loot''. You with me? Finding rare loot and finding rare loot is not the same thing. If you're lost, let me try to explain. 1) In an RPG, people think you can find rare loot, but in actuality, you can't actively find rare loot. If you could actively find rare loot, the game would be too easy, too short, and unfun. 2) So, what games actually let you do is actively loot. You keep actively looting by killing monsters that drop loot. While you are actively looting, once in a blue moon, once every now and then, you will find that the monster will drop rare loot. But notice how active this process is. You will never find rare loot if you are just waiting around idly hoping that it falls from the sky in front of you. I hope this is making sense to you. When you actively find rare loot, you aren't actually actively finding rare loot. What you are actually doing is (while looting) '''finding''' those moments you ''find'' rare loot. Two very different definitions of find, and you should be doing the first kind, not the second. In Active Focus terms, it happens passively but you must be active. You have to be patient as you see, but not idly seeing. Focus on these three: 1) look at things, 2) notice changes in your vision, and 3) notice changes in your vision as you look at things. In other words, to find active focus don't try to ''find'' active focus, just do those 3 things, and maybe while doing them you'll '''find''' that you ''find'' active focus.<br />
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Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAjKaExZ2M<br />
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