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Optical Elusion

ArchaeC

Having procrastinated for over a year in arranging an overdue eyesight test at the opticians, a recent visit left me shaking.

I sat on the chair and positioned my head on the chin rest of the autorefractor. The optometrist shone a light in my eye and peered at it from point blank range. At this point my head started trembling.

This has happened to me every time I go for an eye examination, yet my body and arms remain steady which is strange.

Do other people find eyesight tests difficult?

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  • Yes, I always have to take painkillers with me in case I get a headache.

    They do this test that puffs air into your eyeball to check for pressure behind the eye, I tell myself it's coming and to stay still, but I don't, my reactions are to fast and too strong, I manage to mess it up and it takes several goes in each eye to get a reading and even then sometimes they can't do it.

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  • Yes, I always have to take painkillers with me in case I get a headache.

    They do this test that puffs air into your eyeball to check for pressure behind the eye, I tell myself it's coming and to stay still, but I don't, my reactions are to fast and too strong, I manage to mess it up and it takes several goes in each eye to get a reading and even then sometimes they can't do it.

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