Summary of this week

Progress is accelerating, and I think it will continue to accelerate until I'm done.  

There was a day during the middle of the week when I had a sudden realization of how much my vision has improved.  I notice it generally when looking around, and with increased brightness, and field of vision.  But now that I think of it, it's also the stuff that I'm not really looking at as well.  When I notice my peripheral vision.  I can see my arms and the double images of them are coming together.  

And then, most of all, it's my feet.  The discrepancy of the distance of the double images varies depending on where I'm looking.  My feet, in particular, have always worried me, because the distance of the double images of my feet were always so far apart.  I think it was yesterday that I looked down at my feet and the double images have come together so much.  It is shocking how much improvement I've seen here.  This is an objective marker of improvement.  And bear in mind, I haven't been doing vision therapy.  This progress is a result of me figuring out how to practice proper binocular posture, knowing when I'm pressing down on the muscle, and when I'm not, and then making a conscious decision to do it when I have the available mental bandwidth. 

So that's how I do 'vision therapy'.  And increasingly I'm able to do it for longer and longer periods of the day.  When playing VR games, or watching TV, or going out for walks.  And holy crap, is my vision improving as a result.

And what's crazy is how fast this progress has occurred.  It really feels like it has happened suddenly--like--as in the past four weeks or so.  Really seems to coincide with the improved grasp on my vision which I seem to have only very recently developed.  Very excited to see what improvement happens in the coming weeks.  The eyes really are really a freaking amazing organ/organ system--how tied in they are with the brain, and with thinking, and how malleable it all is, and what is possible with training.  It truly is bananas.

Had another massive quantum leap today. Things are getting real now.

 This train ain't stopping.  

Today has probably been the biggest leap in vision quality I've seen, ever--especially if you're talking about changes seen/noticed within a single day.  Truly massive.  

It's hard to describe.  It's just better.  Noticing more and more, larger field of vision, the feeling of using and directing both eyes.  Things are brighter.  It's also the way it feels now--using both eyes.  It's a combination of all of these things. 

Could possibly coincide with a few changes I've made. I've gotten stricter with my ketogenic diet.  Basically, I have one carb-laden meal a week in order to avoid keto toxicity.  Also, I do about 60 miles of cycling over the weekend--30 miles each day.  That is a way of depleting glycogen, and getting the body ready to burn fat.  I've talked in previous entries about how keto helps with vision therapy.  Basically, keto is great for brain performance.  Vision is all about the brain.  I've found keto helps vision, as well as mental activities, as well as mood.  

Another big change in lifestyle--and this may be huge--I'm now getting up and going to sleep at the same time every day, regardless of whether it's the weekend.  I've realized, and it's hard to deny it now, that sleep is extremely important, and that I've been fucking myself over whenever I sleep in on the weekends.  It basically screws up my sleeping for the entire week.  So if I want to stay up late, fine, but I still get up early.  I just sleep less.  Doing this has made a massive difference.  So far, so good.  It's already made a massive improvement in the quality of life.