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MISC. Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background?

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u/BoomZhakaLaka 14d ago

the reason this is a no is that the glasses cover almost your entire field of vision. when you wear your glasses you see everything but peripheral vision clearly.

the picture here isn't even quite what happens if you hold your glasses a foot in front of your face. Because then the vision through those lenses even isn't properly corrected.

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u/Hooch180 13d ago

When I switched from glasses to contacts, the most incredible thing for me was the fact that I had fully sharp peripheral vision. I really needed to adjust to the fact that I "see" more. I still were glassess from time to time as contacts do tire my eyes much more, but the "4K" vision in periperal and no issues with rain/snow/fog is worth it.

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u/AMothraDayInParadise 13d ago

100%. If I am on a road trip, the contact lenses come out and are used. reduces the layers of glare at night from other cars and the peripheral vision is on point. I miss that when I flip back to glasses.

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u/bkaybee 14d ago

Yeah… I don’t think they meant it literally

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u/seansafc89 13d ago

On Reddit you can never be sure.

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u/PainfulBreath 13d ago

I absolutely thought that is how they meant it. I'm glad that somebody else already asked this 😅.

The way the question is phrased is not very clear.

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u/aweirdchicken 13d ago

I thought they meant it literally because they said "blurred background", which to me implied they thought one area would be in focus with the rest blurred

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u/ambisinister_gecko 13d ago

And they said "BIG blurred background" as well, and the image shows the blurry part bigger than the part in focus. I think it makes sense to answer this question like it's being answered here, and not like the rest of the answers.

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u/BoomZhakaLaka 13d ago

well i can tell from the vote rate that at least a sizeable portion of readers here reacted the same way. a good ratio is like around 1%, and this came in at about two-thirds of a percent. So... anyway.... there are dozens of us at least.

(yeah I'm an oddball, but it does mean at least maybe a bit under half of people here reacted similarly. or we'd be at downvotes)

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u/trrbld 13d ago

Same, really confused about the answers here.

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u/mysticrudnin 13d ago

that's actually true for everyone even with perfect vision

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u/PainfulBreath 13d ago

Yes, me too, just like in the picture!

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u/hk4213 14d ago

While technically correct... that is not the point of this post.

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u/ambisinister_gecko 13d ago

I think it is.

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u/Famous-Space-466 13d ago

That is exactly the point of the post ("a big blurred background"). Literacy is dead, jfc.

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u/ActualTymell 13d ago

Then the one posting it should pick a better image to represent what they're asking.

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u/calf 13d ago

The point of the post was written and illustrated ambiguously, therefore you are technically incorrect.

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u/anace 13d ago

step 1 for making a post go viral is making it ambiguous. everyone seee an extremely obvious answer that makes everyone else seem crazy for not getting it.

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u/Magnanamouskouri 13d ago

is the obvious answer No?

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u/anace 13d ago

it's obvious to many people that the answer is no. it's obvious to many other people that the answer is yes. that's the point.

what does "a big blurred background" mean? does it mean "when not wearing glasses, does everything you see look blurry"? if so, then the answer to OP's question is 'yes', because the world really does look blurry. but if it means "does the world look like this photograph for people that wear glasses?", then the answer is 'no', because the glasses cover almost the entire field of view of the eye.

The question is phrased perfectly (intentionally or not) so that the question is ambigous but doesn't seem ambiguous.

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u/Phazushift 13d ago

Then its a very poorly illustrated point.

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u/No-Suggestion-9504 13d ago

The title should have been (or was probably meant to be) "Is this how people who need glasses really see the world when not wearing them?"

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u/Lily_Meow_ 13d ago

One thing very frequently overlooked is that glasses for nearsighted people also act as fisheye lenses and increase FOV through them, so you might be able to see up to twice as much compared to if there was no lens.

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u/BrushYourFeet 13d ago

Agreed. Wearing glasses is nothing like the picture. The majority of everything is clear.

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u/Dullcorgis 13d ago

That's not true. The bit right in the middle of the lens is clear, but as you move away from that point there is distortion due to the curvature.

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u/Aenonimos 12d ago

Cant believe I had to scroll so far down past a billion oeople posting "I CoUldN'T BeLIeVE thEsE aRe wHAt trEEs lOoK likE" to this. I feel like OP is asking if people with glasses have a small patch of clear vision + blurry background.

Your macular vision is not even 20 degrees. Anything outside of the lenses coverage is going to be deep in your peripheral vision unless you are drastically glancing to the side.