glasses, day one

[jfb]

1 (Internal). Everything's a little weird, but I'm gradually adjusting. Things look a little closer than they really are, which is mostly okay. The main trouble I have is that the ground seems closer to my head than it usually is, which (a) gives me the bizarre feeling that I've shrunk, (b) somehow makes it feel like I'm moving slower than I should be, like running in a dream, and (c) means that my feet get confused about when exactly they should be hitting the ground on the way down. Walking on the uneven pavement of my parking lot, I may look pretty comical.

2 (External). Maybe it's because of the above, maybe it's because I confuse change in perception with change in appearance, maybe it's because I've always been strangely wary of even small changes in how I look. Whatever the cause, I feel really conspicuous. Then I try to figure out what I'm worried about, I imagine someone nudging a friend and saying, "Hey, check it out--a guy wearing glasses! You don't see that every day," I laugh at myself, and I move on.

Comments

[dongle.livejournal.com]

Having gone from glasses to contacts and now back to glasses, the thing I notice the most about glasses is the lack of peripheral vision. One nice thing about lenses was that a "6-month supply" could actually last me about 2 years, since I can't wear the lens at work. I need to get my eyes checked and renew my disposable lens prescription.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I'm noticing not exactly a lack of peripheral vision, since my vision without glasses is fairly okay, but an interference.

[evandra.livejournal.com]

When I got a new prescription last? year, after having worn an increasingly incorrect one for about two years, I had that same dizzying feeling of being in a different relation to the ground. In my case I felt wicked taller, like I was towering and lumbering on stilts for a while, and like the ground was rushing away from me all the time. It's fine now, though, so you'll get used to it.

Congratulations!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

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