Comments on: Objects Are Closer (or Further) Than They Appear. I Just Can’t Tell Which One.

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:54:11 +0000

Jenny, I have HORRIBLE depth perception, so I completely understand where you’re coming from. The problem is fixed with my glasses, but not my contact prescription. I have the opposite problem than you though, I think things are farther away than they are, and therefore i am CONSTANTLY banging into chairs/tables/whatever. My legs and hips are in turn, bruised to hell at all times.

So yes, a new prescription is probably in order for you, my friend!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:51:12 +0000

My brother is blind in his left eye. That leads to some depth perception issues (namely, zero depth perception). I always cringe when he asks to borrow my car.

Well, no, but whenever I’m in the car with him it’s a cringe fest. “Brake. Brake….Brake, brake, brak- BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE!!!”

So, maybe get that eyesight checked. Maybe it’s not that you have really bad depth perception with two eyes, but relatively good depth perception with one eye.

-t

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:36:07 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

By: j to the a to the s - o - n

j to the a to the s - o - n — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:30:14 +0000

marge: i think somethings wrong with bart…
homer: new glasses?
marge (angrily): no, something else…
homer: ‘probably misses his old glasses.

By: kim

kim — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:20:13 +0000

you know i meant to say “you’re just clumsy…” and i’m not trying to “slang” or anything.

By: kim

kim — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:19:25 +0000

that sounds strange. i’ve never experienced anything like that, i think. unless you count the difficulties i seem to have after too much gin&tonic… i hope you can get it figured out. maybe your just clumsy and it’s nothing serious? :)

PS: i think you don’t ever need a real reason to get new, fun glasses anyway.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:27:43 +0000

“The righties that build things are out to get us because they know we fall on the smart end of the intelligence bell curve :-) ”

I like the way you think.

I don’t wear contacts, so I don’t have the switching problem. But I did hit my hand walking to get an iced coffee this morning. Not 10 minutes after I wrote this entry. I literally yelled after I did it “Really?! I JUST wrote about this!!”

I think the building people are scared of me. I talk to myself way too often.

By: ECS

ECS — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:25:27 +0000

I have that sometimes when I switch from contacts to glasses- the difference in the way they feel makes things seem REALLY different at first. I also have that kind of problem when I’m thinking about something while walking, grabbing railings, or closing doors. Whatever is on my mind becomes more interesting than my surroundings, and my auto-pilot is not always reliable. As a result, today I am with a massively sore elbow from mis-judging a car door a few days ago. I’m also a lefty, which has been an alternative suggested to me as a reason for occasional clumsiness in this right-handed world. The righties that build things are out to get us because they know we fall on the smart end of the intelligence bell curve :-)