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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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  • I was ok with the eye tests at first but I haven’t been 11 years because the last time I went I nearly fainted. I kept seeing all my blood vessel reflections which made me faint. I thought I was going to be ill in the opticians but I wasn’t ill until later that night at home. I’m defo taking after my dad with the squeamish stuff 

  • in reply to Elfilis

    I was going to say next time you go, don’t look! Sweat smileLOL  Seriously though, I don’t know how you would get round that one.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    lol I don’t think I can avoid looking at my own blood vessels reflection as everywhere I looked I saw them Rofl ironic thing was when I was little going the opticians never bothered me but I can’t say if I remember doing that thing with the light and seeing the blood vessels thingy. I was told to think of a road map and now I’m scared of road maps lol! I have also seen a SpongeBob episode recently and normally in the uk this particular scene would be edited out but not on paramount and well im even more squeamish with eyes now! 

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    lol I don’t think I can avoid looking at my own blood vessels reflection as everywhere I looked I saw them Rofl ironic thing was when I was little going the opticians never bothered me but I can’t say if I remember doing that thing with the light and seeing the blood vessels thingy. I was told to think of a road map and now I’m scared of road maps lol! I have also seen a SpongeBob episode recently and normally in the uk this particular scene would be edited out but not on paramount and well im even more squeamish with eyes now! 

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