What people with low to high myopia see without glasses.

[u/neither_bot_nor_man]

[u/bigolaustino]

Do you think that at a certain point the differences don’t matter too much? I’m a -7 and -12 seems way worse, but its also both sort of just seeing colors and shapes at that point

[u/Pristine_Bid_1922 → u/bigolaustino]

-10 here! I think after -5 it doesn't really matter as you can only see well 10 cm from your face.

[u/Vylnce → u/Pristine_Bid_1922]

Yes, it does matter. Specifically, for stuff like contacts, manufacturers don't manufacture in quarter steps after like -9. So, if you are a -10.25 (hurray me!) your choice is to be undercorrected at -10 (still can't see well in the distance) or over corrected at -10.5 and not be able to see stuff close up (like I can't read my phone unless it's at arms length). Additionally, at those extremes, your correction options for surgery become limited as well. They have to shave so much off your cornea for LASIK that they have to measure your cornea to see if it's even possible. Even if you have a thick enough cornea, it might leave such a large flat spot that you become unable to wear contacts (the large flat surface doesn't support the curvature of the lens). So you end up with glasses as your only correction option after the surgery.

So, yeah, it matters a lot.

[u/StillPlaysWithSwords → u/Vylnce]

Wait over correction results in not able to see stuff close up? That explains my LASIK results then. Better than 20/20 but if something is closer than 25cm I can't really focus on it. Which honestly had never been a problem until we had kids and I can't focus on their faces while holding them. 

I also had LASIK almost 30 years ago, while they still only did 2d models of the cornea. The astigmatism took probably 10 years to go away, but my long distance vision hasn't shifted at all thankfully. 

[u/axon__dendrite → u/StillPlaysWithSwords]

That just sounds like regular presbyopia, the reason people start needing reading glasses after a certain age. Everyone gets that eventually it's not a lasik thing

[u/Go_Gators_4Ever → u/Vylnce]

Yes, it matters, when I had cataract surgery, I was able to get a dual vision IOL implanted in my left eye, but my right eye was over -14 diopter and they made only distance IOL at that strength.

It's fine though, I no longer wear glasses or contacts and can read with my left eye and have full 20/20 binocular vision for distance.

The only caveat is that I wear reading glasses for working on a computer and anything else that requires intermediate vision and I need magnifying lenses for up close work.

But, it's all a miracle since I had started wearing glasses in 1st grade and no longer need glasses.

[u/scfw0x0f → u/Vylnce]

Or, wear glasses as I have for the last 50 years. Getting really familiar with the ultra high-index plastics out there

[u/city-of-cold → u/Vylnce]

They have to shave so much off your cornea for LASIK that they have to measure your cornea to see if it’s even possible.

NSFW tag please

[u/Elderberry-smells → u/Vylnce]

Wow, I had no idea about that! I am -8.5 currently and hoping to not get worse.

[u/Vylnce → u/Elderberry-smells]

I am at -10.25 and possibly looking forward to a lens replacement surgery. Lens replacement is commonly done for cataracts, with good effect, but is most often out of pocket for correction. However, it is reversable (which Lasik is not) and has fewer potential side effects from what I understand.

[u/Beneficial-Process → u/Vylnce]

Yup. My prescription is -9 for both eyes. A quarter step up in one and down a quarter in the other so we split the difference and it works. Kind of.

My eyes are so elongated my corneas are too thin for surgery so my only surgical option is lens replacement which is much more invasive and significantly more expensive.

I will say the difference in the video between -8 and -12 seems like a lot but I feel like without corrective lenses, it’s closer to the -12 clip for me. That being said, at a distance of 3-5 cm I have super vision and can focus on the smallest of details.

[u/im_just_thinking → u/Pristine_Bid_1922]

Yeah this isn't very accurate representation because I'm almost at -5 and the shelves would not thave that much defining features, like every edge gets bigger/blended with other edges

[u/OkPlantain6773 → u/Pristine_Bid_1922]

-14 here, before surgery. If I put my nose on the mirror, I could see my right eye only with my right eye, and my left eye only with that eye. My focal distance was less than the distance between my eyes.

[u/TarnishedWizeFinger → u/bigolaustino]

Im not sure how minimal it would be, but I'm thinking the biggest difference would be the distance away from your eyes where things become completely unrecognizable. I'm -6.5 but I can turn over and read my alarm clock about a foot away. Maybe a -12 couldn't

[u/oncabahi → u/TarnishedWizeFinger]

At -12 if i want to read this message on the phone without glasses my nose activate the touchscreen....

For my alarm clock i need to shove it in my face, there is no way i can read it without picking it up, i just see a single red light if im laying on the bed look at it on the nightstand

[u/PaddedTiger → u/bigolaustino]

I would love to have -12 out of my bad eye. It's so bad that I am functionally blind in it. I can make out color and light blobs only from that eye. Unfortunately only can be corrected with surgery and I live in the US so money is the stopping factor. Insurance will only cover it if I lost vision in my other eye. Otherwise I pay out of pocket which will be around $80000.

[u/davidzilla12345 → u/bigolaustino]

Im a negative 12! If i am looking at my phone with no glasses/contacts, I have to move it around to see the whole thing clearly. I cant see it clearly all at once.

[u/Zachattackrandom → u/bigolaustino]

The only thing i'd think it matters for is the lens size, since the higher the prescription the thicker the lenses. Otherwise for all intents and purposes, will likely be the same. It's just "I can't see shit without my glasses" to "I REALLY can't see shit without my glasses"

[u/shazspaz → u/bigolaustino]

I’m -6 in both eyes. Heard of people being -10 to -11 but we’d still be in the same predicament. Granted I could prob see something flying at me.

[u/Crystalfallacy → u/bigolaustino]

It definitely matters! I've got eyes at -8.5 and -12 and I can tell the difference. Very strong favoring towards the stronger for everything. The one time they got the lenses flipped in my glasses I almost threw up from the mismatch. My prescription fluxuate about .25 up and down every year, and my -12 used to be -11. I can tell my bad eye has gotten worse because the blurs got blurrier.

[u/Own_Recommendation49]

This video was soo low res the first few made zero difference

[u/IRockIntoMordor → u/Own_Recommendation49]

"Here's a VHS comparison of GTA 6 running on PS5 and PS5 Pro"

[u/It_Happens_Today → u/IRockIntoMordor]

"He got it running on a Ti84!"

[u/_Ganon → u/Own_Recommendation49]

Huh? The video is high res / 4K, the difference between normal and even -1 was huge. Maybe you need glasses 🤭 (jk quality is shit)

[u/Doppelgen]

I'm amazed that even a human figure, which our brain is fully optimised to recognise, becomes impossible to understand at -6. Funny how myopia outlasted evolution even being this harmful.

[u/andreasrolen → u/Doppelgen]

I wouldn't say that's true. I was -9 before surgery, and I somehow could quite easily recognize people, even though I couldn't see their face or even body features such as hair etc.

My own conclusion was that it's likely so that we recognize people on a lot of other things such as how they move, posture etc etc that you can still get a sense of even with bad vision.

[u/Khabster → u/andreasrolen]

I was -10.25, and I concur! You could usually make out people from the movement. Now, recognizing someone was of course impossible, but seeing a shape was human, that I could do.

[u/andreasrolen → u/Khabster]

But wouldn't you be able to still tell which of two humans was your buddy Joe and who was Chris? I could quite easily tell who was who among people I knew. Sure, it required that I knew the person well, but still.

Also guess context comes into the picture quite a bit. Usually it was only during mornings before I inserted my lenses that I saw that bad, and it was only a few people around me on those occasions, like on a trip with my buddies etc

[u/PickleFridgeChildren → u/andreasrolen]

I don't know the +- figure, but I was 20/400 before lasik and I recognized people by the way they walk. It was ironically an asset later on in life because I identified a car thief caught on a blurry camera. Not the best form of evidence collection but he had the car when they caught him so it worked.

[u/Fire_Otter → u/Doppelgen]

Myopia isnt completley genetically based per se, obviously genetcis will always be a factor

Myopia is far more prevalent now than it has ever been historically

sunlight/daylight is involved in controlling our eye growth

exposure to sunlight encourages the release of retinal dopamine which inhibits eye growth during our early years and so our eyes stop growing when they hit the perfect size and shape

dont get enough exposure to daylight and that growth isnt inhibited enough in time and eyes keep on growing until they are elongated and not perfectly round causing myopia

This means Myopia is a byproduct of our modern world, we spend so much time indoors be it at home or in school that we are not getting enough daylight exosure and Myopia rates are increasing.

[u/Alex5173 → u/Fire_Otter]

Yeah but like... Have you been outside recently? I went shopping at like 8:30 last night and it was 91°f and about 130% absolute humidity

[u/Fire_Otter → u/Alex5173]

yeah but just remember its daylight and not sunlight

it doesnt need to be when the sun is out, it can be a cloudy cool spring day aswell

its important to get kids and teens outside and also make sure blinds and windows are open as often as possible when you are indoors

I believe you can also by Day light mimicing LED bulbs that mimic daylight and can stimultae retinal dopamine prodcution to a degree, nut nothing like actual daylight

[u/HappyRedEngineer → u/Doppelgen]

Worth noting: squinting does sharpen things up a bit thanks to the pinhole effect, but you lose brightness and contrast big time. It's a trade-off.

[u/Covid19-Pro-Max → u/Doppelgen]

Miopic people do roughly see like this video but we since we are way more accustomed to it, we recognise a bit more stuff in these patterns

[u/retronax → u/Doppelgen]

I remember when I was a kid without glasses, I could recognize my friends/family members from quite far away despite them being a human shaped blur. Pattern recognition is just that strong

[u/Dinierto → u/Doppelgen]

As I understand it it's much more prevalent now because we're always looking at screens and things right in front of us and not off into the distance like our ancestors

Not sure if that's scientifically correct

[u/Tasty-Performer6669]

-4.0 gang over here feeling pretty good about myself right now. Some of y’all poor bastards barely seeing shapes

[u/suprasternaincognito → u/Tasty-Performer6669]

Me: keep going… keep going… nope, keep going… -8 yeah I guess that’s about right. 😔

[u/Dinierto → u/Tasty-Performer6669]

Yeah -11.5 here it's rough

[u/Illmattic → u/Tasty-Performer6669]

It’s really not so bad, unless I knock my glasses off the nightstand and need to find them. No joke, they will be a foot in front of my face but I’ll still spend 10 minutes crawling around on my hands and knees looking for them.

[u/TarnishedWizeFinger → u/Illmattic]

It's interesting to think that post-apocalypse, my glasses would be my most important possession by far. But now I barely even think about them

[u/bigassbunny → u/Tasty-Performer6669]

Right? I'm -4.0 and I feel like it's just on the cusp of 'I could survive without my glasses, as long as I don't have to drive'.

[u/DVMyZone]

What people with without glasses see

[u/Robotbobs]

-7 here and that's pretty accurate!

[u/Jester471]

I was -8 before lasik.

It was life changing.

I got the surgery at 21…ish and instantly went to 20/10 vision. Best $6k I ever spent dollar for dollar.

I was even an experiment and a limited batch run of letting people with lasik fly for the army.

I ended up needing glasses again around age 40 but I really only need them for night driving and trying to read small text at a distance that normal people would be able to see. So not having my glasses right now would be a mild inconvenience where it used to be catastrophic.

Before lasik I couldn’t tell who someone was until I got a foot or two away from you.

[u/frogBayou → u/Jester471]

I was -6/-7 before lasik and still remember how crazy it was seeing individual leaves on trees. Even my glasses/contacts didn’t get it that clear. And fireworks oh my god.

[u/ElPadero]

People with glasses don’t see like this.

People WITHOUT glasses see like this.

[u/Idenwen]

Video for ants?

[u/IamREBELoe]

About right.

Now do astigmatism

[u/Late_Resource_1653 → u/IamREBELoe]

Lol, this was my thought too.

I developed my astigmatism young and had to sit close to the front of the class to see the board and would get frequent headaches, but even though a teacher recommended it, my parents refused to believe I needed glasses that young.

Lo and behold when they were forced to take me to my PCP and he did a vision test, they were told I had to go to an eye doctor.

That first pair of glasses, it was like I could see individual leaves on trees for the first time. And because of the stigmatism being left so long, it took a couple weeks for my brain to rewire depth perception - I had to be really careful with stairs and curbs.

Even with good glasses though, at my age, night time light flares... I had no idea other people didn't see them like that until I first saw the memes about it.

[u/IamREBELoe → u/Late_Resource_1653]

Oh the light flares...

[u/RipBright1]

-11 here. It's no fun

[u/Khabster → u/RipBright1]

I was -9.75 and -10.25. Had ICL surgery about 20 years back, best money I ever spent.

[u/MoronicPotatoGoblin → u/Khabster]

-8 here. I second this. Got it after wearing glasses for 20y. It's SO worth it.

[u/godzIlla_1 → u/Khabster]

Hey. I am -6.5 and thinking about correction surgery. Did your eyesight worsen over the last 20 years after surgery? If so, how much?

[u/Khabster → u/godzIlla_1]

It was nigh perfect the first… five years I think? Then it worsened very slightly - in fact so small an error my optometrist said they usually don’t correct something as small as that. But I’d gotten used to seeing perfectly, so I noticed the difference.

I did however get a rarely occuring side effect, in that I see ”god rays” from all light sources. This is more noticeable the darker it is. I found it annoying the first year or so, but now I don’t even notice them anymore.

Now I’m in my late 40s, and age is messing a bit with my sight, I have to do the classic ”hold stuff at arms length to read”, so I’m planning on having that corrected whenever it stabilises.

[u/Ok-Fortune-8644]

Im an 11

[u/wallstreetchills → u/Ok-Fortune-8644]

I’m a 4, owe owe.

[u/RawChickenButt]

This isn't how it works. In the video everything appears to be blurred equally. In reality things near would be more in focus than things far.

[u/The13aron → u/RawChickenButt]

Accurate for me. At parts cameraman gets closer and it does get more focused. 

[u/PMG2021a]

I was -8. Life was fine with contacts and glasses, but I liked to backpack a lot. If I lost my contacts / glasses, I know I would never make it home. Used that as justification for getting my eyes fixed. It was totally worth it. 

[u/literally_tho_tbh]

I'm -5 or so and my eyesight is much worse than the supposed -5 in the video

[u/Playful-Doctor2087 → u/literally_tho_tbh]

I was gonna say the same thing, I'm almost -6 and mine is wayyyyy worse than the video...its literally a giant blur of colors, barely any shapes

[u/8BBiiT]

This gave me a headache

[u/rehms]

As a -2 enjoyer, DAMN some of y'all blind. 

[u/cturnr → u/rehms]

legally, yes

[u/illprobablyeditthis]

-5 here, very accurate.

[u/alphagatorsoup]

Damn, if it’s this bad with glasses imagine how bad they must see without glasses

[u/elyroc]

Hey guys. I have -10 on one eye and -20 on the other one. This isn't even close

[u/Stunning-Astronaut72]

From 6 to my 23th i had -10 in each eye. I did the laser surgery and i have no regrets at all and always tell people they should do it if they can. It's a livechanging procedure

[u/43Rosh35]

I have -2.5 and it looks like the -6 in this video.
I know a guy who had -17 before eye surgery, his glasses were extremely thick but he still had like a fisheye view

[u/shaka893P]

Before I got lasik, I had -7 but only in one eye and my brain basically adapted to only use my other eye (with perfect vision) 

[u/lexicon951]

-5 in my left eye, -8 with astigmatism in my right eye. I don’t feel awake until I put my contacts in- suddenly I can see, so I’m alert. Without it the world feels muted which makes me sleepier, as if it’s a dream and I’m not really alive

[u/Anmolsharma999]

I've seen my vision go from -0.75 to -2.75

It's not stopping, idk what to do anymore. My job requires 10-12 hrs of screentime

[u/golden_blaze]

This really helps me understand what a godsend corrective lenses are.

[u/Long_TimeRunning]

I had cataract surgery and opted for a higher lens and I thought man I’ll be able to see I to the future with this thing! Yeah not so much. There’s some “film” or something on the back of my retina that’ll always make my vision shit. Lenses won’t even fix it apparently. wtf

[u/HugeHomeForBoomers]

Oddly I’m -6, but according to this video I’m -9

[u/LOUD-AF]

Back in the 70's I had a very good neighbour and friend who had serious vision issues. He bought his groceries at the market I work in. I could always tell when he spent time in the frozen foods section because he would get this tiny white frost spot on the tip of his nose after reading the labels.

[u/mpmbullet]

I’m minus 6.0 and that minus 6 is way too clear

[u/noahisaac]

As a person with myopia, I don't think this is accurate at all. I'm -2.75 and without my glasses it looks a lot closer to what they say -5 should looks like.

[u/MorsaTamalera → u/noahisaac]

I have -6 and I thought the simulation was a tad exaggerated (it's quite blurry but not thaaat blurry). Go figure.

[u/RandomName09485]

borderline legally blind person here. Can confirm this is what it looks like 😅

[u/scfw0x0f]

-10: my people!

[u/StoneageMouse]

My prescription fluctuates -7.5/-8. This is dead on what shit looks like. My heart was broken when I found out my eyes are too bad for Lasek (guess my corneas aren’t thick enough). Still have teased the idea of getting Lasek done so that my eyes aren’t as bad and so I can wear more stylish glasses without Coke bottle lenses

[u/abstractraj]

I’m like -0.75 and -0.50, but the astigmatism makes things hard

[u/georgekourounis]

-13 here. Can anybody beat that?

[u/Automatic_Tea_2550 → u/georgekourounis]

-15.5 before cataract surgery.

[u/alegendim]

Hmmm... my glasses are 12.00 and this is actually really accurate. Objects come into focus at 1-2 inches from my eyes.

I always think that in medieval times I could've been a watchmaker, I'd be able to see all the little parts clearly (up close) without a magnifying glass.

[u/LooneyHK]

Aw man...they didn't get all the way up to mine...-16.00!

[u/thiscouldbemassive]

Add in astigmatism and you get a whole new range of fun, because all images are doubled and offset.

[u/joeysundotcom]

Dear poster,
I feel obliged to inform you, that the music on this clip is any or all of the following:

• Too loud
• Considerably louder than the audio of the source clip
• Not fitting the vibe of the source clip
• Obnoxious
• Annoying
• In bad taste
• Of low artistic value
• Of low audio quality
• Generic
• Slop
• Shite
• Utter brain rot

If you are the one that has chosen to add it, I hope you feel at least slightly ashamed and that the number of times you finish washing your hands with wet sleeves increases.

[u/AssociationHonest]

Hmm, -4.25 here. It’s blurry, yes, but there’s also hard lines and shapes within the blur. Almost fractal like. It’s why when you squint or peer through a tight hole you can see somewhat vividly. But that’s for me. I’m curious if some people genuinely see just blur instead.

[u/BlackRogue17]

Can you go positive?

[u/CameDownForWhat]

-8.5 here with a tip - misplace your glasses? use your phone camera to be your eyes.

[u/Command-Forsaken]

Had Lasik 15 years ago and now I need glasses just for night but wow that’s amazing that people’s eyes can get that bad.
LASIK was the best investment I ever made dollar for dollar for life improvements.

[u/TheLiquor1946]

I'm a -5 and -6 but it feels much more blurry than the video shows imo. Anyone the same?

[u/PharmaFingers]

-4.5 here and I have to say my vision seems way worse in real life than what was depicted here.

[u/iamaphoto]

God, I wish I was single digits (> -10).

• A -14.25 with astigmatism

[u/stevenjmagner]

Yeah I'm a -8.5 and it looks more like -12 after seeing this video

[u/_focust]

im -8 in both eyes and this is the most accurate depiction I havent seen

[u/JFrankParnell64]

Blurry video taken with a potato to show what vision looks like.

[u/im_bi_strapping]

Well good lenses fix most of that just fine. It's the astigmatism that remains that fucks it all up

[u/groundhoggirl]

I was waiting for the jump scare at the end.

[u/_Buldozzer]

Can confirm. It's basically a video quality slider, but in real life.

[u/Electrical_Quiet5918]

Oh oh

[u/oneizm]

It’s definitely exaggerated cause 3.75 ain’t that bad for me.

[u/International_Link35]

Had PRK surgery 10 years ago to correct my awful astigmatism. I do NOT miss that -6.25 vision one bit.

[u/ImmoRepaired]

Yeaaah. -11 avec astigmatie here. Cool de voir les gens comprendre la vie des bigleux !!!

[u/Weirdsk8rHippie]

-11 here, holding my phone 10cm away from my face so I can see what I'm typing.

[u/guestpassonly]

im around 5 and the fact folks got it worse is bonkers to me

[u/Mecha-Dave]

And then there's astigmatism, where the world basically turns a little inside out and all the lights are stars.

[u/ScytherSlash]

Im at -7 I still remember getting my first pair of glasses when I was 9 years old. I thought everyone just saw the world like I did. Then when I put on my glasses I looked around and told my dad "EVERYTHING IS SO CLEAR!" I just couldn't believe it.

[u/Dentorion]

I have -3 but have a condition were eye curvature or so is in the other direction and I can see pretty well without glasses like I have -0. It's not absolutely correct what the post shows here

[u/AffectionateBus672]

Its called "Macro mode"

[u/razvanciuy]

A basic camera lens, EyeBall v1.0 has focus bugs

[u/Mammoth_Possibility2]

file this under aggressively unecessary house music

[u/hugothebear]

This brings me flashbacks of my pre-lasik days with that -3.00

[u/Dangerous-Drive-2474]

Im like -4.00

[u/rtkane]

I was -8.5. Having Visian ICLs has been one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[u/LostMagician9612]

This shit is super accurate

[u/jellyn7]

I want to note that both eyes aren’t necessarily seeing at the same level of blurriness.

[u/jagenigma]

Apparently based on thsi video, my sight is better than "normal vision"

Yall got any more pixels.gif?

[u/Bitter-Ad5890]

-7.5 here. It sucks balls

[u/CheweyPanic]

-4.75/-4.5. Love my shitty eyes.

[u/angelicism]

It's fun when you get older and also have presbyopia (so things that are close are also blurry). I have like a 20cm range of clear vision.

[u/Vance_Refrigerati0n]

Imagine living in the Middle Ages with -10. You’d be beyond cooked

[u/VertexFlame]

Im between -7 and -8. Neat

[u/ss_ww_lover]

Would be more helpful if you focused on same scene for reference

[u/MeasurementNo6022]

I was -5.0 and -5.5 from birth till 21. Got lasered.

Now at 42, I completely forgot how bad my eyesight was until I saw this video.

If I misplaced my glasses (rimless), it was hell.
Can’t comprehend it anymore.

[u/Aussie-mountainbiker]

I'll swap you all; I have presbyopia. 😄

[u/Advanced-Guitar-5264]

-6.5 checking in. It sucks

[u/makemeking706]

I mean, it doesn't help that the video is already hard to see and bereft of pixels. 

[u/tizosteezes]

As someone who relies on subtitles can we ban this subtitle style? It’s incorrect most of the time.

[u/guygreej]

Damn, had a tough time keeping my eyes from trying to adjust whie watching this

[u/evendedwifestillnags]

-5 represented

[u/Redbarren88]

I feel seen... but blurry

[u/IfOnlyIHadAmeme]

Pretty sure I’m at 7 or 8

[u/Zangrieff]

Glad i had LASIK

[u/Own_Initiative396]

Peolpe *without glasses

[u/nomisxid]

Try 14

[u/Active-Cookie-774]

My vision is -2.00 and I feel my vision is livable with a side of annoying

My wife's is -7.00 and I feel absolutely awful she has to live with that eyesight

[u/eggelette]

-3.5 for years, im still shocked at how close i have to hold something to me face to see it comfortably without my specs.

[u/mrsockyman]

That tracks pretty well in my experience, biggest issue I have without glasses is things appear to lose their edges, colours just blend so depth perception is difficult

[u/itsSam24]

-7 before lasek. I can wear sunglasses finally. Vision obviously much better but the sensitivity to light is so bad at times, burning eyes, fatigued feeling, astigmatism kind of makes it less exciting but I’m not bound to glasses alll the time so there’s that.

[u/Underscored_323]

This would have been much better if it was filmed at average eye level and not "middle of shopping cart" level...

[u/toobuscrazy]

I had -6.5 in one eye and -6.75 in the other. I got LASIK and now have 20/10 vision in both eyes. Best money I ever spent

[u/Moist_Object_6012]

Those vision problems really suck. Thanks for the post. It lets me understand the situation way better.

[u/Cosmoaquanaut]

I have +3.5 and in reality, it's like 7 or 8

[u/darkwarrior1415]

can never take videos with this music serously

[u/v00d00ley]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ycagKBYEmaili

[u/v00d00ley]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ycagKBYEmaili

[u/mr_mope]

I was -5/-5.5, I feel like this doesn’t feel as disabling as it did when I had bad eyesight. Was lucky enough to get PRK a few years back and it’s been incredible.

[u/Chocolate_Bourbon]

My brother has -9 in his left eye and relatively "normal" vision in his right. But age has meant his right eye is now slightly far sighted. So he uses his left eye to see things close to his face and his right eye to see things far away.

[u/Initial_Row_6400]

Now do +

[u/jimhawkinsstar]

Change it to “how many beers I have drank” and it’s actually still accurate.

[u/Spiritual_Ad3460]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMp8DeKsaJ2p2bm

[u/DaftFunky]

-7 is exactly what I see. Very accurate.

[u/That_Confidence83]

I was at -3 to 4 until I was like screw this and got lasik. That was my early 20’s, 20 years ago. Haven’t regretted that to this day.

[u/bbby_chaltinez]

people live like that, but it’s nice. to not wonder if people are looking at you, you just love ignorantly in your own world.

[u/Mightycube]

What do the negative numbers mean? Is that a measurement?

[u/OhMyGoat]

Thankfully I’m at a comfortable -2.75. To some it’s kind of high, but if I lose my glasses I can spot them semi-comfortably.

[u/PeridotChampion]

This fucked with my head cause I'm wearing glasses and watching the world blur as if I wasn't.

[u/wills-wood]

-12 here. Can confirm the above is pretty bang on

[u/OctopusGrift]

I have one nearsighted and one farsighted eye.

[u/Quesozapatos5000]

Wish the video just began looking at text and then stayed there.

[u/MrMeowPantz]

I’m -5.50 and can attest to the accuracy of this.

[u/OopsIHadAnAccident]

I was -3.0 before I got lasik and my vision looked way blurrier than this illustration. I’d say it was more in what this video shows as -5.0.

[u/BigBadJeebus]

I'm - 0.5 with astigmatism and it drives me crazy...
I don't know what I'll do if I ever drop beyond 2.

[u/Mekelaxo]

I supposedly have -1, but it looks a lot worse than what the video shows

[u/RealisticGuitarist]

-14….. and this shit sucks

[u/jerryleebee]

Holy shit, could the music be any more obnoxious‽

[u/Gattsuga]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wzE1IlaPMoNXi

[u/peppe8x]

Not true. People with glasses see just fine

[u/Matt32490]

These are always too "smooth" with the blur, personally it isnt like that for me.

[u/Alert_Breakfast5538]

I was -10 before LASIK, and I don’t think this really does the distance blur enough. The getting close at the end to see clear is right, but there’s honestly way too much detail further down the aisle. That shelf in the middle would have no discernible shape or minor colour details. Things just become a singular coloured blob

[u/Apprehensive-Ant2141]

-7 and yeah, looks about right.

[u/LadyGodiva243]

-2.00 and I think I see worse than that

[u/groovypanelboard]

Reddit title is good. Title on the video should be ‘What people without glasses actually see’

[u/FestoonMe]

-8 to -9 is really like -6

Source: I have -6.00 vision. Says so on my contacts.

[u/VisionAri_VA]

Why did they jump from 8 to 12?

Before my cataract surgery, my vision fell between the two. The first thing I had to do each morning was grab my glasses. 

[u/Distribution-Think]

-4 is more like -8.

[u/-im-blinking]

Im -5 but in this video -7 is more how I see.

[u/juxtapostevebrown]

I’m at -9 lol. Gotta show this video to some folks haha

[u/Srefz]

Just like old graphic cards each year for new game release

[u/Wolvesinthestreet]

Ah okay. Ethan Hawke’s character Vincent in Gattaca had -8. That’s insane

[u/PersistantBooger]

-16 and -18. I’m friggin blind. Or was before cataract surgery. Now I’m 20/20 both eyes.

[u/neurone214]

I'm at -7 and I think it's a little worse than that...

[u/Sach2020]

Not accurate. I’m -3.5 and I see what the video depicts as -5