New eyes, old fear.
Posted by Danjanon on Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Under: True Story
Hey you!
As you may or may not know, I had my eyes checked last week by an optometrist. Turns out I need glasses, which I wasn't expecting which was stupid because I knew I couldn't see as well as I used to.I picked up my glasses and started wearing them straight away. The eye doctor said it may look a bit weird and a little disconcerting to start with, but even having heard that I wasn't prepared. Apparently, what happens, is that your brain is still correcting the bad eyesight that the glasses have already done before the image you are seeing gets to the brain. So, the result of this was that things like DVD cases, which usually look rectangular, became rhomboids. Not only that, but flat surfaces were at an angle and I kept expecting my food, or coffee to slide. Having said that, only a day and a half has passed and things are already starting to look normal. I also think they look pretty if I don't say so myself. You may have already seen, I'll put a photo on the front page.
Over the weekend, I was at my girlfriend's house and by the time I went to take a shower, there was no hot water. This is completely fair, as she has two housemates, one of who has a girlfriendand two other friends stayed over. Suffice to say, I wasn't too keen on a cold shower and I planned to have a shower and next morning instead. My girlfriend would have none of this, and she decided to wash my hair in the bath. But some reason, firstly not known to me, I really didn't like this idea. I knew the fear was irrational, so I decided to show my trust in her and let her do it. As I kneeled over the bath waiting for her to pour water over my head, I felt a great dread in the pit of my stomach. As she poured the water over my head, I began to shake with fear. As soon as I recognised that this fear was exactly how I'd felt when my hair had been washed as a kid, the shake of fear became an uncontrollable shake of laughter. Seems it was a fear that was never fully faced since I got promoted to washing my own hair in the shower.
Well I thought it was amusing anyway. Guess you had to be there.
Carry on
As you may or may not know, I had my eyes checked last week by an optometrist. Turns out I need glasses, which I wasn't expecting which was stupid because I knew I couldn't see as well as I used to.I picked up my glasses and started wearing them straight away. The eye doctor said it may look a bit weird and a little disconcerting to start with, but even having heard that I wasn't prepared. Apparently, what happens, is that your brain is still correcting the bad eyesight that the glasses have already done before the image you are seeing gets to the brain. So, the result of this was that things like DVD cases, which usually look rectangular, became rhomboids. Not only that, but flat surfaces were at an angle and I kept expecting my food, or coffee to slide. Having said that, only a day and a half has passed and things are already starting to look normal. I also think they look pretty if I don't say so myself. You may have already seen, I'll put a photo on the front page.
Over the weekend, I was at my girlfriend's house and by the time I went to take a shower, there was no hot water. This is completely fair, as she has two housemates, one of who has a girlfriendand two other friends stayed over. Suffice to say, I wasn't too keen on a cold shower and I planned to have a shower and next morning instead. My girlfriend would have none of this, and she decided to wash my hair in the bath. But some reason, firstly not known to me, I really didn't like this idea. I knew the fear was irrational, so I decided to show my trust in her and let her do it. As I kneeled over the bath waiting for her to pour water over my head, I felt a great dread in the pit of my stomach. As she poured the water over my head, I began to shake with fear. As soon as I recognised that this fear was exactly how I'd felt when my hair had been washed as a kid, the shake of fear became an uncontrollable shake of laughter. Seems it was a fear that was never fully faced since I got promoted to washing my own hair in the shower.
Well I thought it was amusing anyway. Guess you had to be there.
Carry on
In : True Story