No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca cheese_greater @lemmy.world 3 days ago

Do blurry glasses exist that you can just randomly buy?

It would be nice to have a pair of glasses I could use to tune out and blur my surroundings or what I watch but I'm not sure exactly if its a thing...

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Used to do this to my shooting glasses, just put Scotch tape on my non-dominant eye so I could leave it open while shooting open sights.

I'm "wrong eyed" so my brain always tried to look down my gun with my left eye. The tape solved it. With practice I can now shoot well with regular glasses, though it's still more comfortable to use taped glasses.

Don't listen to the wrong prescription talk as it will hurt your eyes. Tape is cheap and safe.
Do you... do you have eyelids?

You should have eyelids.
- Haha "u got me"
  
  Nah, blurring is subjectively a different experience that I think has its place, certainly for me
Seriously though, blurred glasses seems like a recipe for a nasty headache. You would probably be better off with nothing, like eye covers for sleeping.
- Ah, the original glacier glasses
A pair of off-the-shelf reading glasses will make everything other than what's right in front of your face blurry. But please don't use them to blur distant things you actually will be looking at for long stretches. Your eyes will still try to focus on those blurry distant objects, and that will cause ocular muscle strain. If you did it for a few years, you could cause permanent changes to the shape of your eyeball. Then you will really need glasses.
- Oh shit, thats right :) Wow, I forgot that they are like magnifying glasses and magnifying glasses blur non close range.
  
  Thanks, that might be it or the drunk goggles
You mentioned open eye meditation... My mind jumps to kaleidoscopes at the mention of that.
You really don't care about your eyesight do you... this will absolutely wreck your eyes.
- Its not for chronic use, just for relaxing and zoning out for a little bit, like open eyed meditation
  
  Still absolutely terrible for any length of time.
Glasses with wrong strength should focus the incoming light wrongly and therefore effectively blur things.

If you can, I'd recommend trying out someone else's glasses. It can give people headaches when their vision is blurry, because they'll try to focus their eyes really hard.
- Right but i can't have their glasses and I doubt the insurance company would take too kindly to my endgame here lol
  
  You know what happens to the glasses that used to work, but no longer do because your eyes have changed? People archive them to the bedroom drawer just in case someone like you might one day show up. Ask anyone who wears glasses for an old pair they haven’t worn in the last decade. Usually, you get to choose from several options.
  
  BTW, the headache thing is real, but you’ll learn that soon enough.
You could buy cheap plastic ones and scuff them up with high grit sandpaper, diffusing the Lenses.
- The cost wouldn't be an issue haha, but thanks for thoughtfulness
Search “drunk goggles” on ebay - looks like there’s a plethora.
- This is the answer haha 🥇 I will have restraint with my usage folks
  
  Love username btw. Settle down and rest with meeee

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