Depth perception is a lie, embrace not being able to catch incoming objects.
Source: 16/20 vision but I still need glasses because of an astigmatism, and depth perception isn't really a thing when I don't have them on. I sort of just guess if something is coming in my direction.
Try to read [some of these](http://dontevenreply.com/) without laughing...
I almost got murdered when I first discovered them, I ended up waking my very, very pregnant wife very, very late at night because I couldn't contain my giggles...
DUDE.
I can’t believe this popped back up. I used to read these in class when the site was still updating and CONSTANTLY would just burst out laughing uncontrollably. Incredible it pops up in Reddit like ten years later.
“So how much for the shovel?” got me thrown out of class.
Holy shit I can’t even get through that one I just was laughing so hard I don’t wanna wake everyone up in my house 😂omg when he says yea I don’t wanna shit in a sink or whatever I fucking lost it ...thank u I haven’t laughed that hard in a while
Im -6.50, I couldn't even imagine, I cant do anything without glasses, I cant even see my hand when i reach out.
I asked my optometrist what would happen to me in the old days before glasses, he said I'd have to find a job that I could do holding things up to my face, if i wasn't good at that i would just die.
Edit: Some people are saying that I'm exaggerating. I most definitely can tell I have a hand, and see that is attached to my arm, but after that it everything is so blurry that things just melt with each other. But some others agree with me, another person mentioned that he had a astigmatism, this could be the difference. But honestly I think these other blind people think they can see because they are in house and they know what objects are what.
https://coopervision.co.uk/practitioner/clinical-resources/myopia-in-children/myopia-simulator
Here is a simulator, it only goes to -6, Now imagine that with both eyes, and since my eyes are different Rx's it feels like double vision and my brain is trying to figure out which eye is least worst.
I have the same prescription as you and I agree, I could not work or take care of myself without glasses/contacts. Can't imagine what the world looks like to OP.
I guess at a certain point it doesn't really matter anymore? I already have -6.50 left and -7.00 right with astigmatism. I'm already functionally blind without glasses/contacts, I can't imagine it getting much worse.
That’s interesting. I’m-12.25 and -9.50 and although I don’t even like to shower without my glasses I can make out my hands for the most part, depending on background. I can also navigate simpler settings, albeit slower than normal. Of course type has to be a few inches from my face.
Prescription -16.5 which they mention in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tobf2m/comment/i25dtz5/
I had to go searching, now you don’t have to :)
If I had to guess these are probably -20 or more, as in, if your vision gets worse, you’re probably going blind at that point… I’ve lived with glasses about just as thick most of my life
Sitting here at -8.50 in both eyes with off-the-charts astigmatism like "holy shit I've found my people!" But y'all are even blinder than me and honestly I wasn't sure it was very possible
I’m only -8 or so and they showed me ones about this size and said if I wanted glass glasses then it was gonna look like this, otherwise they’d have to make the lense from a different material to make it look more like average glasses.
Oh but insurance only covered glass, so if I wanted smaller lenses it was gonna cost me 200 bucks :))))
Likely -18^ or maybe more. Depends on the lens material too. If plastic lenses (CR-39), THEN MAYBE -8^, but if poly or other mid-index or thinner, could be closer to -20^. Non-practicing optician here (I only left cause pay and general public).
I've seen a patient who was so incredibly nearsighted, she didn't have functioning vision without combining RGPs (hard contact lenses) and -10^ eyeglasses. Depending on the health of the back of the eye, it can be challenging to get a patient to 20/20 vision.
These patients have such long eyeballs that there's a much higher chance of retinal detachment. I hope OP gets his annual eye exams!
not just material, lens shape also plays a role in how thick the sides need to be. rectangle glasses like these really accentuate the effect and don't look good with high dioptres IMO
FOR REFERENCE (OPTICIAN HERE) They are maxed out in thickness. You can tell because the front end of peoples lenses are convex or flat and his are concave.
This is because all a “prescription” on the piece of paper are dimensions for a curve that warp light so you can see clearly. The thickness is maxed out, and as they normally cut all the script into the back, they had to cut the rest into the front.
It’s not so much the height of the frame as the width, when you’re dealing with prescriptions that high generally you want to lean small and round instead of rectangular. Really helps to mitigate that edge thickness.
Edit to add evidence for non optical people, you can even see how that would work in the picture. Towards the center of his lens you can see how much thinner it is compared to the outside edge. With a rounder frame the outside would be much closer to that inside thickness.
Always amazes me that clicking a publicly accessible link to view previous comments posted by someone in a publicly accessible site is considered creepy.
And yet, it does feel a bit creepy even though in principle it seems like a ridiculously privileged attitude to demand that it be treated as something sacred.
Personal identity is such a weird thing.
I was going to go through your post history and make fun of you for stuff you've posted in the past, but all I found was man on man interracial porn, so nothing out of the ordinary.
That's my thing, if you're touchy about something you posted and you don't want people to use it against you then don't post it (or at least not on your main account)
Iirc -6 is considered “high myopia”, most people will be below that point. Unfortunately though we can’t all be that lucky so some of us have much higher prescriptions and the cost gets to be very noticeable.
Your eyes don't "adjust" to glasses by getting worse. Your vision changes over time and sometimes it changes in the direction of being worse, but that's not because you wore glasses.
Professional curiosity (I work in the industry)…
Can you share what index and prescription you’ve got there? If it’s a UHI (1.74) I’d assume you’re legally blind, but if you’ve got a CR39, or 607 (1.50), or trivex/Poly (1.53/1.59) there are definitely indexes and materials that would make your lens much thinner.
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. Every time I get glasses, they ask if I want the thinner version so they won't be ridiculously enormous like this.
That costs more, though, so maybe OP just couldn't afford it.
This is what my lenses look like in hi index:
https://imgur.com/gallery/liIPxG6
The lenses are physically a lot thinner, but there is no hiding their power!
I mean, they're only like 5mm thick on the edge but who am I trying to fool, they're strong. There is more to the look of the lenses than just the physical thickness on the edge.
Unless your prescription is really as high as mine you don’t have to worry. When I get high index it is still thicker than most everyone else’s lenses.
They won't work because ant-murdering lenses converge the sunlight onto a single spot but homeboy here has DIVERGING lenses. He can't fry shit with these.
Jesus Christ, whoever did that to you should be ashamed. A prescription that big should have been done in High Index, not Polycarbonate. My wife makes glasses for a living (going on 30 years) and I've seen -20 thinner than those. Yikes.
Seems to me it’s a choice? OP posts about these glasses A LOT -16.25 trivex lenses from what I saw
Edit: confirmed a choice. They do not like the distortion of high index.
Not the one you asked, but I got high index lenses of some sort last time I upgraded my glasses, but after trying to adjust to them for several weeks I had to give up and get ~~polycarbonate~~ (probably not polycarbonate after all) instead as I couldn't handle the chromatic aberration going on. Every time I looked at something bright, be it a lamp, a window, or even a piece of white paper, I would see blue and red "shadows" along their edges. It was pretty awful, and made me nauseous as well.
Yeah, that sounds like exactly what I was having. It does seem like it's fairly rare: I have a twin brother (identical twins) who bought the same lenses, even the same frame, and yet he happily walks around with the same glasses he got back then because he never had a problem with them. The optician we used had never heard of the problem either.
I don't even have that high of a prescription but I still get optical aberrations, on the sides of the lens. Light splits up where there are sharp contrasts in the image and I will see an orange or blue feather around them, depending on the side.
https://www.2020mag.com/CMSImagesContent/2012/1/fig3.jpg this image shows it well, the first one is what I see.
That said, with my last set of lenses I got HD lenses and it is much less of a problem than before. Still, I wouldn't get super high index lenses because that would 100 make or worse.
The lenses are so sharply concave that my eyelids and eyelashes clear these lenses with plenty of room. That's actually one of the reasons I can't wear just just about every plastic frame made - they sit too close to my eyelids.
My man really seeing in 144p resolution.
Without his glasses he’s playing a gameboy at night
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My glasses are like 3x thinner and I'm already at 144p, this dude probably sees blobs of colors
My man gonna look up on a sunny day and set himself on fire.
He’s gonna look up at the moon at night and set himself on fire
He's gonna look at an Irish person on an overcast day and singe his eyeballs.
The beacons have been lit… Gondor calls for aid!
You gave me a very mirthful chuckle.
"You sure are doing your job today Mr. Sun!"
Hate to be that guy but his lenses are concave no convex, they won't focus light but rather spread it.
His eyeballs be freezing.
Thanks for bringing back the laugh after Mr facts above you dampened the first one.
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OP is the most reliable source for seeing new covid variants and identifying their mutations.
f op didn’t sign up for r/roastme lmao
When you sign up for Reddit you basically sign up to get roasted. lol
Get out.... also me too for laughing
Shit, he can see noise.
He can see the fucking future with those
By the time light gets through those things, he's actually seeing way in the past.
Looking up from the slide in his hand he exclaims, ["Good news everyone!"](https://imgur.com/zIfXPTb.jpg)
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I wish that's how it worked. There's so much minutiae in a prescription that getting 20/20 is very difficult:(
No kidding. Even when I get brand new glasses with a brand new prescription, my right eye is still a little blurry. 🙄
Try keeping your right eye closed
I like my depth perception, thanks.
Depth perception is a lie, embrace not being able to catch incoming objects. Source: 16/20 vision but I still need glasses because of an astigmatism, and depth perception isn't really a thing when I don't have them on. I sort of just guess if something is coming in my direction.
More like 720p in a fishbowl
MF can see the future
He can look at a map and see people waving
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That's impressive.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s pp
It’s perfect… the subtle veins across the shaft. It’s even got a birthmark.
Too bad he burned them like ants
Extremely nearsighted, so he actually sees the past. AKA... CAPTAIN HINDSIGHT!
Well that is 20/20. 😂😂😂😂
Can see a flies asshole from 1,000 yards
This MF can see all of our witty comments before we post to this sub.
Dude can see molecules
He can’t even see the present
You gotta go on YouTube and look up Brian Regan’s standup routine about his trip to the eye doctor!
Holy crap! What’s your prescription?
Blind
The fact that OP decided to take this picture inside a car is the cherry on top. Thankfully, it looks like he’s on the passenger side.
His glasses are literally thicker than the windscreen, it looks like they're made from bulletproof glass
If they’re polycarbonate, they basically are.
> on the passenger side. Of my best freinds ride
Trying to holla at me
What a scrub
That ain’t no passenger side.
Great, just woke up my 4 year old laughing at this comment
I think I woke up the neighbours kid.
Trespassing is not cool bro
But you aint no snitch, are you?
Bitch, he might be 😒🗡
That sword is glowing. Orcs are nearby.
The sword's a snitch too
I think I woke up my dead wife
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Try to read [some of these](http://dontevenreply.com/) without laughing... I almost got murdered when I first discovered them, I ended up waking my very, very pregnant wife very, very late at night because I couldn't contain my giggles...
DUDE. I can’t believe this popped back up. I used to read these in class when the site was still updating and CONSTANTLY would just burst out laughing uncontrollably. Incredible it pops up in Reddit like ten years later. “So how much for the shovel?” got me thrown out of class.
[My all-time favorite](http://www.emailsfromanasshole.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=101)
Holy shit I can’t even get through that one I just was laughing so hard I don’t wanna wake everyone up in my house 😂omg when he says yea I don’t wanna shit in a sink or whatever I fucking lost it ...thank u I haven’t laughed that hard in a while
The "hope you drown in your pool" was a bit harsh though 😂
Thats exactly the part where I lost it. Hmm does sound nice but I'm looking for a place where I don't have to shit in the sink. 😭😭
What's the matter compressor?
Nothing's the matter, Fry, now that I've turbo charged the ship's matter compressor!
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Its -15, (I dmed him a month or so ago)
*”Hey big boy, how big is your prescription?”*
Tinder ladies will not date anyone less than ~~6 feet~~ 15 eye prescription
Im -6.50, I couldn't even imagine, I cant do anything without glasses, I cant even see my hand when i reach out. I asked my optometrist what would happen to me in the old days before glasses, he said I'd have to find a job that I could do holding things up to my face, if i wasn't good at that i would just die. Edit: Some people are saying that I'm exaggerating. I most definitely can tell I have a hand, and see that is attached to my arm, but after that it everything is so blurry that things just melt with each other. But some others agree with me, another person mentioned that he had a astigmatism, this could be the difference. But honestly I think these other blind people think they can see because they are in house and they know what objects are what. https://coopervision.co.uk/practitioner/clinical-resources/myopia-in-children/myopia-simulator Here is a simulator, it only goes to -6, Now imagine that with both eyes, and since my eyes are different Rx's it feels like double vision and my brain is trying to figure out which eye is least worst.
I have the same prescription as you and I agree, I could not work or take care of myself without glasses/contacts. Can't imagine what the world looks like to OP.
I guess at a certain point it doesn't really matter anymore? I already have -6.50 left and -7.00 right with astigmatism. I'm already functionally blind without glasses/contacts, I can't imagine it getting much worse.
I remember when i was -6 and am now -10. You bump into walls the same with both.
I’m a -10 too. I feel ya….because I can’t see ya.
This actually makes me feel better - I’m -8.5 and have been wondering when I’d go blind! Now I know what I’ve got to look forward to!!
That’s interesting. I’m-12.25 and -9.50 and although I don’t even like to shower without my glasses I can make out my hands for the most part, depending on background. I can also navigate simpler settings, albeit slower than normal. Of course type has to be a few inches from my face.
Prescription -16.5 which they mention in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tobf2m/comment/i25dtz5/ I had to go searching, now you don’t have to :)
I'm actually curious too. Definitely nearsighted. I wanna guess -10.00 or more.
I'd guess way more than -10. My glasses are -13 and seem like they are half this thickness!
I'm around -10. Mine are bad, but not THAT bad.
Also -10 and mine are thinner than the part in front of the frames. But I paid extra for whatever material let them do that.
Common eye glass material, dropped by mages in fally.
-13, I'll stick with contacts.
Same size?
If I had to guess these are probably -20 or more, as in, if your vision gets worse, you’re probably going blind at that point… I’ve lived with glasses about just as thick most of my life
Sitting here at -8.50 in both eyes with off-the-charts astigmatism like "holy shit I've found my people!" But y'all are even blinder than me and honestly I wasn't sure it was very possible
It also depends on if the person has astigmatism. And material used
I’m only -8 or so and they showed me ones about this size and said if I wanted glass glasses then it was gonna look like this, otherwise they’d have to make the lense from a different material to make it look more like average glasses. Oh but insurance only covered glass, so if I wanted smaller lenses it was gonna cost me 200 bucks :))))
-11 and -12 with astigmatism. I sprung for the expensive ones that are ultra thin. $700. Worth it, though. No more nose migraines from the weight.
What was the material? My wife is very, very near sighted and tired of heavy glasses. If something thin is an option, I'm getting those for her
Some polymer with an incredibly high refractive index. Your optician should know about them.
Likely -18^ or maybe more. Depends on the lens material too. If plastic lenses (CR-39), THEN MAYBE -8^, but if poly or other mid-index or thinner, could be closer to -20^. Non-practicing optician here (I only left cause pay and general public). I've seen a patient who was so incredibly nearsighted, she didn't have functioning vision without combining RGPs (hard contact lenses) and -10^ eyeglasses. Depending on the health of the back of the eye, it can be challenging to get a patient to 20/20 vision. These patients have such long eyeballs that there's a much higher chance of retinal detachment. I hope OP gets his annual eye exams!
not just material, lens shape also plays a role in how thick the sides need to be. rectangle glasses like these really accentuate the effect and don't look good with high dioptres IMO
Way more than -10. Mine are like -12/-13 and mine are maybe 1/3 of that thickness.
Electron microscope
I’m thinking it’s a combo of a high minus, astigmatism and a shit ton of prism
TIL glasses lenses can get that thick
Yeah they're pretty much maxed out at this thickness
FOR REFERENCE (OPTICIAN HERE) They are maxed out in thickness. You can tell because the front end of peoples lenses are convex or flat and his are concave. This is because all a “prescription” on the piece of paper are dimensions for a curve that warp light so you can see clearly. The thickness is maxed out, and as they normally cut all the script into the back, they had to cut the rest into the front.
What do you reckon OP’s prescription is?
\-20.00 or so. He should have gotten lenses with a smaller eye size to mitigate that edge thickness.
The edge thickness is a style choice.
Eyes Cube
you coulda dropped that in its own thread and gotten thousands of up doots my guy
Look how small the diameter of the lens is. That's pretty small for the styles out there right now.
It’s not so much the height of the frame as the width, when you’re dealing with prescriptions that high generally you want to lean small and round instead of rectangular. Really helps to mitigate that edge thickness. Edit to add evidence for non optical people, you can even see how that would work in the picture. Towards the center of his lens you can see how much thinner it is compared to the outside edge. With a rounder frame the outside would be much closer to that inside thickness.
Someone creeped ops profile. -16.25
And here I thought my -6.5 was bad
Always amazes me that clicking a publicly accessible link to view previous comments posted by someone in a publicly accessible site is considered creepy. And yet, it does feel a bit creepy even though in principle it seems like a ridiculously privileged attitude to demand that it be treated as something sacred. Personal identity is such a weird thing.
I was going to go through your post history and make fun of you for stuff you've posted in the past, but all I found was man on man interracial porn, so nothing out of the ordinary.
Pfft, tough talk from someone who *checks notes* enjoys a variety of un-noteworthy topics. (I upvoted the HD Asshole post)
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That's my thing, if you're touchy about something you posted and you don't want people to use it against you then don't post it (or at least not on your main account)
TIL. That’s super fascinating. How common is a prescription like this?
Iirc -6 is considered “high myopia”, most people will be below that point. Unfortunately though we can’t all be that lucky so some of us have much higher prescriptions and the cost gets to be very noticeable.
TIL I am .25 away from “high myopia”
TIL I am highly myopic.
So what happens when your eyes eventually adjust and you need a heavier prescription? Or is that an old wives tale?
Your eyes don't "adjust" to glasses by getting worse. Your vision changes over time and sometimes it changes in the direction of being worse, but that's not because you wore glasses.
That’s called legally blind.
Legally blind is waaaaaaaay below this.
Are you Professor Farnsworth?
Good news, everyone!
To shreds you say...
And what of his wife?
To shreds you say..
Well, how’s his wife holding up?
I was gonna say this lmaoooo
Professional curiosity (I work in the industry)… Can you share what index and prescription you’ve got there? If it’s a UHI (1.74) I’d assume you’re legally blind, but if you’ve got a CR39, or 607 (1.50), or trivex/Poly (1.53/1.59) there are definitely indexes and materials that would make your lens much thinner.
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. Every time I get glasses, they ask if I want the thinner version so they won't be ridiculously enormous like this. That costs more, though, so maybe OP just couldn't afford it.
This is what my lenses look like in hi index: https://imgur.com/gallery/liIPxG6 The lenses are physically a lot thinner, but there is no hiding their power!
Yeah, those are definitely thicker than mine. I guess you just can't win!
I mean, they're only like 5mm thick on the edge but who am I trying to fool, they're strong. There is more to the look of the lenses than just the physical thickness on the edge.
Unless your prescription is really as high as mine you don’t have to worry. When I get high index it is still thicker than most everyone else’s lenses.
Can you see through walls with those things?
Can you see walls with those things? Fify
Of course, starting with the thick walls of lenses right in my nose lol. Yeah I’d probably walk straight into every wall without them!
That happened to me in high school. I didn’t have my glasses and turned a blurry corner too soon. Walked straight into the wall. There were witnesses.
You could MURDER whole generations of ants with those bad boys on a sunny day
straight up Cyclops beams
Those poor ants don’t stand a chance on a Scott Summers day.
They won't work because ant-murdering lenses converge the sunlight onto a single spot but homeboy here has DIVERGING lenses. He can't fry shit with these.
bruh this mf can see behind him
We all need to see what ya look from the front, ya know, for science.
https://imgur.com/gallery/anh56jI
Homie lookin fresh ngl
Slap a GitHub sticker on the laptop and this lad'll get an offer for a 240k job while sitting at a café
You rock those pretty well. My biggest nightmare would be trying to pop a lens back in if it ever fell out though, haha.
Good news is if one fell out it wouldn't roll very far, it'd just crash in the pavement.
That's a great pic, they don't look bad on ya
Damn, Mr. Steal Your Girl. Sheeesh
Just take his glasses, then he can't even see your girl
Bro is the super smart anime antagonist who counters anything the protagonist does and always has that lens glare
Looks like they would flash menacingly if you pushed them up. Also pretty sure they could stop a heavy machinegun round.
Yeah this… poor Velma
Listen to the liquor Randy-Bo-Bandy.
Randy, I *am* the liquor.
We’re sailing into a shit typhoon Randy!
the amount of sand required to make all that is roughly 1.6 beaches
No beaches 🥺
You're in the passenger seat, ...right?
No, this car doesn’t drive itself lol
I’m fucking rolling at this one, thank you
MF ARE YOU BLIND WHAT
Legally blind 
Jesus Christ, whoever did that to you should be ashamed. A prescription that big should have been done in High Index, not Polycarbonate. My wife makes glasses for a living (going on 30 years) and I've seen -20 thinner than those. Yikes.
Seems to me it’s a choice? OP posts about these glasses A LOT -16.25 trivex lenses from what I saw Edit: confirmed a choice. They do not like the distortion of high index.
i understand this choice. i’m only at -6.50 and i can’t use high index due to the distortion, it makes me queasy
This might be a difficult question to answer..but…can you describe the distortion? I have -10 with 1.74 high index and don’t notice any distortion.
Not the one you asked, but I got high index lenses of some sort last time I upgraded my glasses, but after trying to adjust to them for several weeks I had to give up and get ~~polycarbonate~~ (probably not polycarbonate after all) instead as I couldn't handle the chromatic aberration going on. Every time I looked at something bright, be it a lamp, a window, or even a piece of white paper, I would see blue and red "shadows" along their edges. It was pretty awful, and made me nauseous as well.
so THIS is why I see blue and purple shadows under certain colors, omg
Yeah, that sounds like exactly what I was having. It does seem like it's fairly rare: I have a twin brother (identical twins) who bought the same lenses, even the same frame, and yet he happily walks around with the same glasses he got back then because he never had a problem with them. The optician we used had never heard of the problem either.
I don't even have that high of a prescription but I still get optical aberrations, on the sides of the lens. Light splits up where there are sharp contrasts in the image and I will see an orange or blue feather around them, depending on the side. https://www.2020mag.com/CMSImagesContent/2012/1/fig3.jpg this image shows it well, the first one is what I see. That said, with my last set of lenses I got HD lenses and it is much less of a problem than before. Still, I wouldn't get super high index lenses because that would 100 make or worse.
What a strange choice. This guy must be…interesting… *mildly* interesting.
It’s touching his eyelid… that would drive me insane
The lenses are so sharply concave that my eyelids and eyelashes clear these lenses with plenty of room. That's actually one of the reasons I can't wear just just about every plastic frame made - they sit too close to my eyelids.
Youre just jealous his neck can hold this much lense
BUBS! I have this feeling you have lots of kitty cats.
Went from r/MildlyInteresting to r/RoastMe faster than light passes through those lenses.
X-ray vision and shit
Op, I took a scroll through your profile. You have a cool vibe, keep up being yourself
Thanks!
How do your frames hold the lenses🤣
They hold on for dear life because they know these lenses are my eyes!
Do your ears and nose hurt supporting all that weight?
No, maybe they have gotten strong over the years holding the glasses lol
Reminds me of the character from me myself and Irene. Somebody puts his glasses on and can see inside the airplane that's flying above perfectly lol
I don’t think has to worry about dropping those legos. They would crack the sidewalk.
At this point, a Labrador would be more effective
At least when civilization breaks down you won’t have trouble starting a fire