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6:11am November 15, 2014
Ever lose your glasses, and not be able to find your glasses, because you can’t see well, because you don’t have your glasses on? (In my case, compounded with visual-perceptual difficulties and double vision, one of which is corrected by the glasses partially, the other of which is not, at all.) I found a solution. Most people these days who are able to read this post, have some kind of electronic device with a camera on it. Turn on the camera. Stick the device right up in your face (if you’re severely nearsighted like me, anyway). And walk around looking for your glasses, using your camera phone/iPad/video camera/tablet/whatever as an electronic eyeball. Seriously it works better than anything else I’ve tried (some of which have resulted on me sitting on my glasses and breaking them). Mind you, I’m not exactly blind without my glasses. (Although by some standards I count as low vision even with them, because of visual perceptioni problems that mean my brain can’t make sense of what I see – meaning-blindness, rather than blindness. And sometimes I really do go blind when my visual circuits get overloaded, which happens easily enough. Everything turns into pixels.) In fact in some ways I see better without them than with them, because the big blurs are less likely to fragment than the lots of little details are. And big blurs are much less wearing on my eyes than lots of little details. Sometimes I prefer to go around with no glasses. But I certainly can’t, at that point, see well enough to find objects the size of my glasses, unless my face is already a couple inches from them. Something about the bulk of the things being clear, and the frames being thin plastic.

Ever lose your glasses, and not be able to find your glasses, because you can’t see well, because you don’t have your glasses on? (In my case, compounded with visual-perceptual difficulties and double vision, one of which is corrected by the glasses partially, the other of which is not, at all.)

I found a solution.

Most people these days who are able to read this post, have some kind of electronic device with a camera on it. Turn on the camera. Stick the device right up in your face (if you’re severely nearsighted like me, anyway). And walk around looking for your glasses, using your camera phone/iPad/video camera/tablet/whatever as an electronic eyeball.

Seriously it works better than anything else I’ve tried (some of which have resulted on me sitting on my glasses and breaking them).

Mind you, I’m not exactly blind without my glasses. (Although by some standards I count as low vision even with them, because of visual perceptioni problems that mean my brain can’t make sense of what I see – meaning-blindness, rather than blindness. And sometimes I really do go blind when my visual circuits get overloaded, which happens easily enough. Everything turns into pixels.) In fact in some ways I see better without them than with them, because the big blurs are less likely to fragment than the lots of little details are. And big blurs are much less wearing on my eyes than lots of little details. Sometimes I prefer to go around with no glasses. But I certainly can’t, at that point, see well enough to find objects the size of my glasses, unless my face is already a couple inches from them. Something about the bulk of the things being clear, and the frames being thin plastic.

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    This is actually a really good idea I’ve never thought of and I manage to loses my glasses all the time (like now, I...
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    oh my god thank you so much for this. my glasses are made of very thin titanium because they have to be lightweight or i...
  15. ischemgeek said: That is a really good idea and will become my substitute for hovering my face 4" off every horizontal surface until I find the darn things. Thanks!
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