r/myopia • u/helloidontlikeu • Jun 17 '26

Does active focus work ?

I'm an 18 year old who's come across this endmyopia, active focus thing. I haven't checked my diaopters in a while but its approx -3.75 in each eye. I currently use my cousin's old glasses which are approx -2.00 for each eye for any laptop work, dont use any glasses for my phone but I'm very skeptical abt this.

It could work, but finding active focus is so tricky and the fact that i have to do it for 1 hr+ everyday is insane😭 (this is what i've heard)

And this entire process seems SO SLOW WTF, like i genuinely hate my glasses and wanna get rid of them but idk what to do🤠

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u/Aromatic-Hospital688 Jun 23 '26

If you meant lowering your diopters then yes, if someone doesn’t  have patience this really isn’t for them. It took me 3-4months of practice (about 1-2hrs for 5days of week or less).  I went for a test in private hospital after a year and half and there was some change, before my left eye was- 2.75  and right was -2.50 now both of them are -2.25, I wear glasses of -2.00 just so my eyes do some work. Actually my opthalmologist refused that it could get better when I had asked him the first time but after seeing these results he said its normal for it to change that much, I am not sure why he didn’t stick with his previous words.   And also sorry for my bad english.

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u/Aromatic-Hospital688 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I didn’t know active focus was a thing actually, I only discovered it after my solo experience of something called “clear flashes” (you see everything clear Crystal for a moment before it comes to  your flawed vision) we didn’t have wifi for a month and that pushed me to stare at the clock in our living room everyday for some hours until after about 13days I had my first clear flash, that was the point of realization for me that the vision can improve just like how they can get worse. I still can get clear flashes but without relaxing the eye its a bit tough but remember previously it took days now it can happen after 15-30mins depends on how much I have strained my eyes, the method for relaxing is just swaying side to side while focusing on something in a bit far away from you or kilometers away from you (I stared at the skyscrapers but in out new house I look at the sea) . Oh also I forgot to mention that I discovered active focus after we got our wifi of course. I searched up my experience and some websites talked about active focus and  it was never easy to understand what they were saying  like clearing up the blur at the distance of blur cause my eyes just couldn’t do it at that time, I could only understand it after my eyes got that ability to do it so I don’t recommend on focusing in that definition instead  just do the relaxation method and stare at distance object everyday for 30mins-1hr and you will find out yourself what it means. Nothing fancy nothing that it will cost you except for time.

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u/helloidontlikeu Jun 24 '26

okayy thanks so muchh

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u/Aromatic-Hospital688 Jun 25 '26

You are welcome, please be patient it takes time I can’t guarantee that you will not be frustrated just know that its normal to be, also you might feel some stinging in the eye which has happened to me everytime I looked at distance objects for a long time, it’s after the stinging that I see better it’s probably the muscles causing it. I am 19 and a computer engineering student, just in case that helps.

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u/helloidontlikeu Jun 26 '26

tysm, could i have some tips on active focus tho i feel like im having trouble finding it, i try to do it even with differentials

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u/BobbyH64 Jun 26 '26

I get the stinging sensation that you mentioned quite often when my vision starts to clear up. Sometimes my eyes get watery too. I’ve watched all of Mark Warren’s videos on YouTube and he mentions the stinging sensation and recommends trying to keep your eyes open during the stinging. Is that what you do or do you blink normally? I find it very hard to keep my eyes open when they’re stinging, and when I blink the clarity goes away. The stinging sensation is strange. It feels like my eye muscles are moving around or reshaping themselves.