How People With Bad Eyesight See The World When They Take Off Their Glasses Illustrated In 29 Oil Paintings

You're not alone, Not Quite Infinity! Without my glasses, I am borderline legally blind from nearsightedness, and it makes it really hard to do things that require me to have my glasses off. Like swimming, or going on rides. I have enough phobia about contacts that I have to stick to glasses, so I mostly have just given up anything that requires me to see the world half-blind -- unless it's something I can do with the distance to the object being less than a foot!

xmas trees are decorated with balls of light...can't see the ornaments though. People are nicer looking all fuzzy.

Same!

Same.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, or if you don't see the point.

My OLD friend. Been seeing like this since I was 2. So that's a long time, let's just say that....

How do you know?

I would say it resembles the bokeh in a photograph (the out of focus lighting, usually in the blurred part of the photograph)\

You find this accurate? I think all of the circles reflect a camera aperture, not human vision. Or do you experience this? I think the artist is asking a great question, but has relied on photo-vision instead of actually engaging vision impairment.

Lol

I was thinking the same thing😳

You’re adding plus power when you take off your glasses off. Maybe that’s why?

It's like when i asked a blue-eyed person if he could see everything blue and answered by asking me if i see everything brown.

I'm go to the theater and take opera glasses to put the performers in focus. then enjoy the show... looks like this.. I see the moon and stars like this.

Poor woman- it must be awful?!

I'm curious, how do your contacts effect how you see colour? Can't quite wrap my head around that one. I actually find that I see colour BETTER without my glasses.

We glassy people see art everywhere. We just have to remove our glasses...

why do you love it?

I see those light reflections everywhere if I'm not wearing my glasses, and even with lenses that are supposed to help eliminate them, I still see them even wearing my glasses. So I don't find the artist to exaggerate at all. I think it's from astigmatism more than myopia, however. I can barely drive at night any more, the halos around all the lights are so bad.

I have very very bad eyesight and basically every sort of small reflection or light source is a bubble.

You have one particular way of seeing, which isn't the authoritative way. I find these pictures quite beautiful and very similar to how I see without corrective lenses. I think the artist captured it perfectly.

Now you're just making the mistake of assuming that how you see is how others see. It might not best represent your vision but it certainly does represent mine. I think the artist has captured it perfectly.

Actually, with the severe astigmatisms I have, I see all the circular blobs just as the artist painted them.

That's what lights look like to me, shadow circles