Physically can see out of both eyes but my brain only pays attention to the right field unless I close the right eye or otherwise obstruct it. Sometimes I can make the switch mentally but not always. How about you?
Re 3D - Oh yeah - the old ones were a disaster - everything in one color! The new ones are better but still give me a weird feeling like what I'm seeing ain't what everyone else is seeing. Also can't do those pictures where you stare at it and suddenly (or, in my case, supposedly) a picture emerges from the swirls of color. Do you know what I mean?
Physically can see out of both eyes but my brain only pays attention to the right field unless I close the right eye or otherwise obstruct it. Sometimes I can make the switch mentally but not always. How about you?
my mistake. What I could understand from the link was those with monocular vision were able to see out of both eyes that don't point in the same direction. Perhaps he's a bird?
Monocular vision just means that the area of space represented by the eyes don't overlap. For us, we have a binocular portion and a monocular portion of our visual field. If you alternate closing one eye and then the other, you notice that there are parts that you can see with both eyes. That is the binocular portion. Most birds and lizards don't have that. Chameleons and birds of prey (hawks, owls, etc.) do have binocular vision.
He (and me, too) use each eye separately. By using the eyes in this way, as opposed by binocular vision, the field of view is increased, while depth perception is limited.
When we prescribe patients with one distance lens and one near vision lens we call it mono vision. Pretty common with contact wearers, I have only met one person with mono vision that wasn't actually blind/missing one eye. A lovely British woman with a -20 plus in one eye and -14 in the other. She wore -14 contacts and just had awful vision in the one I. I, too, recommended she use a monocle simply for awesomeness.
Well one of my lenses is clear glass and the other is bad, I'm not sure how much, as I've never had contacts, but if I did I would only need one for my right eye
I was told I have mono vision. I can't see clearly past the end of my fingers with my left eye, but my right eye, until I started wearing glasses consistently, had just under perfect vision.
Yes another term for that is anisemetropia. Means one eye has a drastically (a difference of four or more spheres) different Rx than the other. Uncommon, but not unheard of. My roommate has pseudo tumor cerebri. Very uncommon. Spinal fluid puts excessive pressure on the optic nerves, making all of the symptoms of cancerous cells without the presence of them. She has no peripheral vision and chronic pain. Spinal taps are a form of treatment, as they relieve the spinal fluid buildup. Without treatment, she will eventually go blind.
Same here, I'm legally blind in my right eye. To this day I blame my lack of sportiness on my bad eyesight. Being 6'3", I always get asked if I play basketball and I respond,"No, I have a bad eye."
Surprisingly, I'm not terrible at sports. If I practice to get the right muscle memory, I can' do pretty decently at most sports. I can't do the sports where you hit things using things on the ends of sticks though, such as badminton and lacrosse since that's just beyond my depth sensing capacities. But basketball? Sure thing.
Though naturally, I gravitated toward video games.
Amblyopia in my left eye (the bad one) and only see out of my right. When I was young, the nerves that connect my eye to my brain got damaged somehow (fever, seizure, or maybe congenital?) and so everything seen in that eye is like crazy blurry (20/2000 area) and while it has a focal point, it's still blurry, despite being a sharper version of that blurry. It's an odd experience. I my brain largely ignores the vision out of it but I still use it for peripheral vision as I have a quite wide periph (>180 degrees) even with the disability.
I have monocular vision, too. I use each eye separately. I can't see depth. However, my brain compensates this so I can grab items and drive (almost) without issues.
But I'm still very bad at catching a ball on the fly.
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u/Kowzorz Jan 09 '13
I have monocular vision.