- I stare into the light tube for 40 minutes a day. I do 20 minutes after I eat breakfast, and 20 minutes an hour or two before I go to bed. This, I believe, is the exercise that's doing most of the lifting. It is by far, more effective than any other exercise that I've done. It may do other things as well, but in my case, it's worked as an eye-straightener and antisuppressive.
- I do saccades for 12 minutes at a time, immediately after I finish staring into the light tube. I go to this site and I increase the size of my browser's rendering so that the monkeys jump around the entire real-estate of my 22" monitor, and I saccade to where they go. The purpose here is to build eye control and to stretch the lazy eye's ability to reach the very extremes. The idea is that if my eyes can hit the extremes with relative ease, everything else in the middle with work itself out. Being able to hit targets, in turn, allows the brain to turn on the lazy eye because there's less visual conflict if both eyes can land on the same target (remember that visual conflict is what causes suppression in the first place). So I believe saccades and staring into the light tube are natural complements.
- I play video games in sterescopic 3d with my nVidia 3d Vision kit. Lately I've been playing XCOM. I find that this has a few benefits: one, it engages my binocular depth neurons more powerfully than when I look out at the real world; two, it gives me a psychological benefit. Seeing the 3d reminds me that I'm making headway and I'm moving in the right direction.
- I go for walks. The benefit here is to give the eyes a break from looking at things that are nearby. Walking around for an hour or longer and looking out at infinity relaxes my eyes, and reminds them that they need to be able to diverge as well. Almost always, when I come back from a walk, I find that things look crisper, and my eyes feel better.
I do a lot of crap.
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