Myopia is Mental

Myopia is Mental

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Myopia is Mental is a vision improvement method created by Mark Warren.

An emphasis on peripheral vision is very good for relaxing the eyeball, and reduces tunnel vision in many cases.

The method has existed for less than a year (as of start of 2020) and lacks many of the details to improve vision in the majority of adherents, in the long term. Due to a reliance on clear flashes, although some might have good results with it, the effect may be hard to reproduce consistently across many people. It also ignores the scientific consensus that myopia is caused by a longer axial length of the eyeball, and is not purely a psychological effect.

Do feel free to give it a go. Make your own mind up - be skeptical and avoid Blind belief.

Habits, practices, and concepts suggested by Mark Warren

• Tracking multiple objects in 3D space, to aid with "automatic focus" (Myopia is Mental's rephrasing of Active Focus). Specifically, noticing the relative movement of all objects in your awareness as you change your focus between objects at different distances while slowly moving your head position.

• "Rocking" exercise by moving one's body so that the head is moving side to side while the eyes are looking at various objects of interest. To be practiced with multi-object tracking above.

• Stationary movement exercise by rotating one's head while tracking multiple objects at different ranges, and noticing that relative movement between objects changes with distance.

• Combining the practices of multi-object tracking and "stationary movement" by talking walks to see how objects move relative to each other as you move in different directions (either by turning in place, or by walking away/toward/past objects).

• Maintaining awareness of peripheral vision even when looking at objects in central vision. A specific technique Mark calls "peripheral triangulation" involves looking at a target object with your central vision, while noticing the positions and distances of objects in the peripheral awareness relative to the target object in view.

One unofficial analogy to think about the above techniques

is that they are all combined to perform a human simultaneous localization and mapping, which is a concept normally utilized in the domain of robotics.  For a robot to locate itself in an environment using a video camera, the robot needs to track the positions of various features it can recognize in its vision.  Robots that are tracking their movement can use the relative movement between objects in a video image to estimate distance. "Stationary movement" is analogous to a robot rotating its camera and tracking the relative movement of objects in the camera image (to oversimplify, you can calculate the distances of the tracked objects by processing the geometry of the object movement combined with the known angle of rotation).