Is the leaves thing common for people who get glasses for the first time? That was the most intense sight for me at 25 years old, was seeing the individual leaves on a tree like 50 feet away
Yes. Going from thinking “yeah, that’s a tree ofc” to talking like a paid shill to everyone I know “I CAN SEE EACH LEAF!!! ITS LIKE I’M SEEING IN HD”
Lmao like we're selling snake oil
For me it wasnt be cause I had heard that so many times from others before I started regularly wearing them. I think for me it was seeing how bad a bunch of my old games actually look. I can still take em off and make em look good again
Ol' CRT eyes here
The fucking moon and Stars the First time i looked at the nightsky after i got my glasses ... I dont remember when or where it was, but i still remember the feeling
Yeah.. I lost them a while ago, my eyesight is dropping very quickly
Mrw trees have leaves
Yep, I always thought the cartoon renditions of a green blob on top of a brown stick were more realistic than they are.
I remember beong blown away at the definition in the leaves i could see driving home after getting my first glasses.
Legit was mindblown when my friend got glasses and was so fascinated that trees had leaves! Happy to know that appreciating this beautiful detail of nature is a bit of a universal experience
I found out I needed glass when I tried my friend's glasses for fun and saw better with them. Twas very depressing actually, realizing I've seen stuff wrong for so many years. Things is I only have -1, so it's not bad enough to significantly affect daily life, tho it is significant enough in how I experience views. Now when I travel I always have a pair with me for whenever I truly want to enjoy the sight of something. Otherwise I avoid my glasses like the plague.
Also -1 here. I was convinced throughout my studies that my university was being super cheap on the projectors, getting always some shitty, soft ones. Ranted about it the whole time. Wish it was the beamers.
My third grade teacher was getting mad at me for several weeks for reading my own books in class until she asked me WHY I suddenly wasn't paying attention and I told her it was because I couldn't see the board.
I'm still curious about what exactly went through her head in that moment because her facial expression was wild. Some combination of "I'm sorry for assuming" and "this fucking kid..." I have to assume.
People meters away have faces
I was shocked to learn how far away people can read and recognize my face. Much was explained that day.
"Wait. I can see where they're looking at from this far away. That means... Oh man."
Like your first fart or boner after cochlear implants.
B-boner? Tf kinda noise is your boner making?
What, you can't hear it? I hate to say it, but you might want to get your ears checked. Everyone else can hear it, people around you have probably just been courteous enough not to mention it.
It sounds like this.
Yeah, I was so blind I didn't know what my parents faces looked like. I got glasses around 12ish. My mother still enjoys the story that when I first got them put on I exclaimed "wow mom, you're so pretty!"
I was 15 when I first got my glasses. I walked out of the opticians to the bus stop and was stunned that I could actually see and READ the number of the bus approaching from 500 yards away and not when it arrived at the stop.
Reminds me of an interview with Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO fame. The day he got glasses, he started drawing the tree branches he saw for the first time. His teacher said he drew trees better than she did, and that's why he draws every day!
One of the really hard habits to break was always looking at my feet when walking
It was primarily because seeing further than that was pretty rough
Though the leaves being back on the trees was pretty great too
I remember really, really wanting glasses because I thought they were cool. I thought it was cool to see two "different" worlds. I even tried to lie on a eye exam.
Well, ask and you shall receive I guess.
I remember being absolutely blown away that you could see planes in the sky
Or that teachers writing on the board were actually writing/drawing stuff and not pantomiming in from of the board
at what point should one have laughed?
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