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The title is not clickbait! I actually changed at that rate, excluding the years of blur adaptation. | The title is not clickbait! I actually changed at that rate, excluding the years of blur adaptation. | ||
After 6 years of slow progress because I partially read the site and didn't understand the small details well enough, I finally reviewed the concepts in depth and fixed my mistakes. As Jake says, if you reduce too quickly or improperly, "you accumulate debt with your visual cortex, that you’ll have to pay eventually", which I seem to have repaid in the last few days. | After 6 years of slow progress because I partially read the site and didn't understand the small details well enough, I finally reviewed the concepts in depth and fixed my mistakes. As Jake says, if you reduce too quickly or improperly, "you accumulate debt with your visual cortex, that you’ll have to pay eventually", which I seem to have repaid in the last few days. The blur I cleared during that time seems to have become axial myopia reduction, allowing me to "accumulate credit" and speed up later reductions though, as I have no blur to clear, just polyopia. I would recommend not reducing too quickly, because the extra strain of accommodation kind of hurt, but it was just for a few days. | ||
In June 2015, I started with cm measurements suggesting -2 R and -2.5 L (50, 40 cm). I learned active focus very quickly and I used my old -1.5 R -1.75 L glasses as normalized (0 differential because I never used glasses for close-up) and quickly reduced to my old -1 R -1.25 L, as I saw the cm measurements go to -1.75 R -2 L within 2 weeks, but it plateaued, probably because of what I did next. I also noticed it was hard to sleep on days with significant change in cm, almost as if the changes acted like stimulants like caffeine. Because the diopter gap seemed to get smaller, I thought that I could tolerate large unbalanced focal plane changes quickly, so I went to -1 to equalize, and then I went to -0.75 and later -0.5 for extra stimulus, since that supposedly helps to break a plateau. I also messed up focus pushing by being too far away. I didn't know how to measure, so I ended up measuring two different values with and without AF, which were steadily suggesting -1.8 R -2 L with AF to -1.5 R -1.7 L (about 0.3 D AF capacity). It would explain the -1.5 reading from the optometrist with a 6m chart resulting in refractive errors of -1.33 R and -1.53 L, which round up to -1.5. | In June 2015, I started with cm measurements suggesting -2 R and -2.5 L (50, 40 cm). I learned active focus very quickly and I used my old -1.5 R -1.75 L glasses as normalized (0 differential because I never used glasses for close-up) and quickly reduced to my old -1 R -1.25 L, as I saw the cm measurements go to -1.75 R -2 L within 2 weeks, but it plateaued, probably because of what I did next. I also noticed it was hard to sleep on days with significant change in cm, almost as if the changes acted like stimulants like caffeine. Because the diopter gap seemed to get smaller, I thought that I could tolerate large unbalanced focal plane changes quickly, so I went to -1 to equalize, and then I went to -0.75 and later -0.5 for extra stimulus, since that supposedly helps to break a plateau. I also messed up focus pushing by being too far away. I didn't know how to measure, so I ended up measuring two different values with and without AF, which were steadily suggesting -1.8 R -2 L with AF to -1.5 R -1.7 L (about 0.3 D AF capacity). It would explain the -1.5 reading from the optometrist with a 6m chart resulting in refractive errors of -1.33 R and -1.53 L, which round up to -1.5. | ||