Hyperbole

Yes, it's true -- I've joined the large and varied ranks of the glasses-wearers. Today is my first day as a full-time spectacale.

It's a very strange experience -- my brain is attempting to compensate for the new "visual information" in very interesting ways. Because the vision in my left eye has become so poor (20/80 + astigmatism) my brain has primarily used the information from my right eye. Now it appears that my brain is overcompensating, preferring the left eye. Unfortunately, this is leading to strange depth-perception effects -- my perception of what I see is skewed -- for instance, my computer monitor appears to be a set distance away, but shaped like a trapezoid instead of a rectangle, with the left side being the shortest line with obtuse angles leading to the right. I assume my brain will someday (soon) learn to properly render this image on my brain, but in the interim it's very trippy. Also, despite the fact that my right lens has very little correction (vision is 20/25 without astigmatism), items solely in my right eye's field of vision are a little blurry. (This is entirely the opposite of how it is without the glasses.)

The brain is a strange creation indeed...