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chershaytoute · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

With strabismus, one sees two images, never a single image. The lion and cage exercise is to teach the eyes to bring the two images together into a single image...

One could see it, in a way, as a parallax view, I suppose...
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Languorous Lass · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:

Hm. I have strabismus too, but I don't see two separate images -- my right eye has pretty much taken over. If I want to pay attention to what my left eye is showing, I have to close my right eye. Probably because I have the cross-eyed version.

I had the eye patches, but never got the lion- (or monkey-) in-the-cage exercises. I think I was too young for the medical establishment to have figured out what to do with the condition back then. Or else I just had lousy doctors. Sad

Either way, I still have the condition, and as a result I don't have 3D vision. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to see the world in three dimensions, but I guess I'll never know.

chershaytoute · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

Lass, I had surgeries on both eyes - at age 5 and again at age 14...and I still do exercises, have prisms in my glasses, etc. My eyes went, and still go, outward... It's the Marty Feldman look (well, maybe not quite THAT bad)... <rueful grin>

From what I understand, if they hadn't operated, one eye would eventually have become dominant, suppressing the other so as not to produce the doubled image. They have all kinds of info on this on the Strabismus part of the Optometrists Network website... <smile>

I went to a special ophthalmologist...and to an orthoptist. They started treatment when I was 2 or 3 - I don't remember not going.

I have trouble with 3D, but in another way. I have 3D vision with glasses...or without, as long as I'm not tired. If I'm tired, I have doubling still. But don't take me to one of those 3D movies... One of the things they used for exercises involves the red-green glasses they use for 3D movies and learning to pull your eyes IN. When I go to one of those movies, my eyes spend so much time trying to pull their split images together, I end up with a killer headache that's migraine quality within the first 10 minutes of the show.

Uhhhmmm... I'm really off-topic, huh? Very Happy

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imagin · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

ApotheosisAZ · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject:

Given the good standing of the forum participants who are posting off-topic in this serious discussion after having been reminded by Flautapantera that this is a serious thread, I am somewhat shocked.

Please return this serious discussion to the topic of unsolved plot developments in the Lonelygirl15 story.

Thank you for your time.
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