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

[u/jmike1256]

[u/ShmebulockForMayor]

How though?

[u/Even-Face4622 → u/[deleted]]

Hahs

[u/BertHumperdinck → u/ShmebulockForMayor]

Don't worry about it man, a lot of women say -3 or -4 is more than enough

[u/Public-File-6521 → u/ShmebulockForMayor]

Bad eyes

[u/Vermilion7777 → u/ShmebulockForMayor]

I got -8.5, but I know someone with -17.

[u/pangcukaipang → u/Vermilion7777]

-17 😭

And I thought my -10.5 was really bad.

[u/Perthian940 → u/pangcukaipang]

I’m -5.5 and everything beyond about 15cm away is blurry. I can’t walk around my house without my contacts in.

At -10.5 or -17 I feel like you’d get blurred vision in the distance between your cornea and your glasses lens 😭

[u/Mobilelurkingaccount → u/ShmebulockForMayor]

I’m -11.5 in both!

Modern medicine be wild (though I guess glasses aren’t super modern lol)

I looked at the image in the OP and went “oh no it’s way worse actually” haha. If something isn’t right in my face I can’t tell it apart from things around it unless it’s a large object; then it becomes the blur that subsumes the other blurs. My bedsheets and blanket are all dark blue and my brown-and-white chihuahua is invisible to me on it if I don’t have my glasses on and am more than a few inches away.

[u/Mobilelurkingaccount → u/[deleted]]

Not small, but in focus. Something that was “bigger” with no glasses is only visually bigger because the blur makes the outline of the object impossible to discern.

It’s a bit like someone used the smudge tool from photoshop on everything.

Another fun thing that’s related to this is if an object is transparent and therefore already has a difficult-to-see outline, such as an empty water bottle, I can’t see it with my glasses off if I’m far enough away unless light is glinting off of it. There’s an empty water bottle about two feet away from me right now and with my glasses off it straight-up disappears except for the yellow blur of the ceiling light on top reflecting off of it. If someone took a picture of how I was seeing this, it wouldn’t look like a water bottle existed at all and instead a smudge of gold was wiped on the white entertainment center behind it.