Eye excercises

Oracle · 6 Apr 2006 at 18:42

OCdt Stringy said:
Being born short/long sighted, and then tending towards the opposite end with old age I think that is.

Shhhh, I was trying to give glass wearers something to hold on to!!

TripleT · 6 Apr 2006 at 19:12

Hold a pen at arms length, stare at the pen and bring it closer to your face. Help strengthen the muscles in your eye

Amp34 · 6 Apr 2006 at 21:18

D4VE said:
Do you have any reason to suspect that your eyesight isnt good enough for the RAF?

Not particularily but I know you need pretty much perfect vision to become a pilot, (although i am thinking of other jobs in the RAF as well) so want to know if there are any ways of improving my chances. The last time i went to the opticians (about a year ago) they just went "yep your fine" and that was it, I am going to go again and specifically say I want to know if they are good enough to join the RAF, hopefully then they will tell me about my vision in more detail. As OCdt Stringy said it would be rather annoyiing to pass all the other tests and then find my eyesight wasnt good enough.

David _b · 6 Apr 2006 at 21:29

I have a 6 page document about how to keep eyes healthy and various techniques to improve vision. It was sent to me by a chap the last time this topic came up.

If someone wants to host it for download i wil e-mail it to them. I would host it myself but my pc with ftp settings stored on it has died.

sunlitsix · 6 Apr 2006 at 21:56

i will host it for you

, email below sig

Stringy · 6 Apr 2006 at 22:55

Amp34 said:
As OCdt Stringy said it would be rather annoyiing to pass all the other tests and then find my eyesight wasnt good enough.

Yeah, you wouldn't have caught that happening to me. Hang on....

ScarySquirrel · 6 Apr 2006 at 23:01

vonhelmet said:
Sellotape binoculars to your face.

first proper lol of the day from me

classic

AthlonTom · 7 Apr 2006 at 00:17

One of my eyes has some wierd condition, I have to patch my active eye for a lil bit each day and just use my lazy one to make it do stuff - tis ok though im having a giant lazzer pointed at it soon - apparently it can set fire to curtains at 3 miles

Blackstar · 7 Apr 2006 at 00:21

LionOfJudah said:
there are lots of exercises for the eyes but the question is are they relevant to you? The most common exercise I give are for convergence/divergence insufficiency.

Tis what i've got, stupid eye.

AthlonTom · 7 Apr 2006 at 00:24

before an eye test if its massivley important you pass - take lots of deep breaths, more oxygen will imporve your vision ever so slighly (this is why your eyesight may suffer when using drugs/really tired), additional oxygen can provide a lil bit more seeing power

LionOfJudah · 8 Apr 2006 at 19:37

pen to nose or 2 pens at different exercises are all convergence exercises. these won't help improve your visual acuity.
patch over the eye- that's because you have a lazy eye and by covering the good eye hopefully the vision can develop a bit better in the lazy eye.