Making it easier

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It seems that I had plateaued a bit in the past few weeks as you can see by the chart.

This has made me ask 'Why did progress seem to stop?' and 'What else should I be doing?'.

Then something that Dr. Tran said to me came to me.  He said to use +1 reading glasses when dealing with things that are close to me: working on the computer, reading books, etc.

I have +1 reading glasses around me at all times.  I use them when I read books.  However, when I'm at work, the monitors are at a somewhat healthy distance away from me.  I had it in mind to use them while working, but I actually see modestly better without the glasses.  I think that might have something to do with warping which is a result of the fact that the glasses are not high quality--perhaps it's not a result of that fact that I shouldn't use them.

Thinking about this a bit, I decided to give it a try and make this alteration anyway, even though they don't per se improve my computer vision.  

It seemed to have made a sizeable difference in my ability to diverge, and it seemed to make an almost instant difference in the quality of vision with and without the glasses (when I'm not using them for looking at close objects).  It made me think and visualize about what could be happening.

Because the +1 lenses are doing a significant amount of the refractive work, that's less work for my intra-ocular lens to do.  Therefore, it's doing less thickening.  The lens doesn't think it's looking at an upclose object, because the incoming light rays are already somewhat parallelized.  The eye thinks it's looking at something mid-distance perhaps, and therefore, via the accommodation reflex, the eyes want to naturally diverge for those mid-distance objects.  This makes divergence much, much easier and natural for me.  And therefore, it's making fusion much, much easier.  

It's making it much easier for me, when playing Bubbles to see around the other side of the bubbles.--because you can't see the other side of your fixated object when the eye is turned inward.  This 'seeing the other side' appears to be integral in gauging relative depth of the bubbles.  

The lens seems to also just save me a lot on energy.  I get the impression that thickening the lenses for focusing on close objects requires a lot of energy, and that perhaps, most people should use reading glasses just to spare their visual system from undue stress.  And man, I stare at computer monitors at least eight hours a day for work.  Looking at screen for eight hours a day without reading glasses while attempting to gain stereopsis... what the hell was I thinking?  

The saved energy from using the reading glasses while working seems to have helped quite a lot.  I just made this change last Thursday, but I expect to see my score to begin improving again.