Thursday, November 30, 2023

Gonna get correction

 I scheduled an appointment to get prescription contacts to fix the refractive difference between the eyes.  I want to get this problem fixed yesterday.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Need to increase Columns

 I need to increase the duration of Columns workout duration.  Lately the workouts had been around 5 minutes.  Recently I changed it to 20 minutes and saw substantial changes the next day (today).  Really noticeable when driving my car.  The eyes sort of naturally landed where they should, and the distance of the double images are substantially closer to one another.  Also.... noticing quite a larger field of vision.  There's so much more that I can see now.  It's pretty dope.

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Feels close to fusion

 As said in previous entries, it feels like I had slowed down a bit since I came back from Argentina about three weeks ago, but then things had sped up again in the past week.  Normally I'll see significant changes every three days or so.  Recently it's been ever day.  I can kind of tell when improvement is occurring, and when the binocular neuropathways are being worn into.  Now it's more or less constant.  

There's still a bit of uncertainty because I definitely have a bit more hyperopia on the right eye, but I'm hoping that doesn't matter.  I think it might not.  But this is definitely enjoyable.  

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Opening the channel

Man, when I came back from Buenos Aires it felt like I backtracked a bunch on my progress.  But it really didn't take too much time to realize that's not the case.  I got back into my normal routine.  Fortunately, I got back to my cold plunge of which I've been making judicious and liberal use.   

So much of my vacation time was spent walking around the city looking around, exercising my eyes without vision training.  I got back and began walking around as a normal exercise, but also doing the Columns exercise as well as plenty of VR.  VR has changed quite a bit.  It is quite a bit more immersive, even though I am not yet there, and I do not yet have fusion.  I think what's happening now is that my brain is working on using the two visual channels in tandem now that the motor ability of both eyes is pretty high.  One is still a bit weaker than the other and the text for one of the double images is a bit smaller and weaker.  

I switched from Pavlov VR to Half-Life: Alyx recently, which I had not played in a long time.  And damn, it's almost a different game, and it feels very different from how I remembered it as my vision improved so much since the last time I played it.  The depth is so much more pronounced.  It definitely feels like I'm somewhere between 2d and 3d.  However, I have noticed that when playing these games it is very enjoyable using my new vision.  I've put so many hours into these games, there's no longer any novelty to them.  But I have injected novelty into them with my new vision.  The games are different from how I remember them.  I'm noticing a lot more details than I never noticed before, and I'm sure that this is solidifying and improving the vision.  Just have to keep going, opening the channel, wearing the groove, taking cold plunges.  

Also, my sleeping has been absolute shit lately.  I have noticed in the past that this has corresponded with changes with my vision as well.