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3RAILKICK

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I'm getting old, my vision is not sharp, I wear reading glasses all day in front of a computer screen.

Playing pool, I have trouble maintaining visual 'focus' transitioning from cb, ob, cb, ob, cb,......ob-then shoot. The ob remains fuzzy after the back and forth.

Moon-I was looking at the near full moon the other night. I couldn't see it clearly. With both eyes, there is a bit of ghostly overlap at the edges. With either single eye-better definition(one moon), but still not in focus. All this, while looking straight at the moon.

Observation: I tried squinting, and looking more through the top of eyes while holding head still-it took away a lot of the 'double exposure' effect, and took away some of the 'fuzzy'.

Question: Other than being nuts(which is the most likely answer), is there a physiological reason that this could happen? Does looking up, and squinting use a different part of the eyeball back wall that isn't as worn out? or something? Anybody squint playing pool because it helps you see? Or, does getting low on the cue make you 'look up' to see ob, and somehow help you see the ball better?

Kind of off the wall, I agree.

Maybe I just need some pool glasses with gigantor size lenses that cover most of my forehead. That is not my first choice, but maybe that's what it takes.
 
I experienced the double vision thing also, needed different glasses.
See your eye doc. By the way could be something with age since I'm 70.
 
3RAILKICK said:
I'm getting old, my vision is not sharp, I wear reading glasses all day in front of a computer screen.

Playing pool, I have trouble maintaining visual 'focus' transitioning from cb, ob, cb, ob, cb,......ob-then shoot. The ob remains fuzzy after the back and forth.

Moon-I was looking at the near full moon the other night. I couldn't see it clearly. With both eyes, there is a bit of ghostly overlap at the edges. With either single eye-better definition(one moon), but still not in focus. All this, while looking straight at the moon.

Observation: I tried squinting, and looking more through the top of eyes while holding head still-it took away a lot of the 'double exposure' effect, and took away some of the 'fuzzy'.


Question: Other than being nuts(which is the most likely answer), is there a physiological reason that this could happen? Does looking up, and squinting use a different part of the eyeball back wall that isn't as worn out? or something? Anybody squint playing pool because it helps you see? Or, does getting low on the cue make you 'look up' to see ob, and somehow help you see the ball better?

Kind of off the wall, I agree.

Maybe I just need some pool glasses with gigantor size lenses that cover most of my forehead. That is not my first choice, but maybe that's what it takes.
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I have the exact same problem and I am 29 years old. Thing is, it only happens occasionaly but when it does I can't make a ball. I'm curious as to what others do to deal with this problem.
 
Before you start spending your hard earned money on some fancy optomtaris...optomaress...eye doctor, consider this. You may be having what is known as a White Out.
White Out, or coitus abstinence, is a condition caused by not having sex on a regualr basis. It's symptons include double vision, and the pupils of the eyes turning a milky color (hence the name). In addition, howling at the moon is not uncommon.
The cure for this malady is simple, albeit sometimes dangerous. Go to the pool hall, do a couple of shots of Cuervo, and ask the first girl you see if she wants to have sex in your car.
If the rendezvous is successful then the recovery will be relatively rapid. You'll either begin feeling better in the back seat of your auto, or at the Emergency Room after her boyfriend has punched out your headlights. :)
 
I'm betting on an Astigmatism. I have one & it causes focusing problems, especially those objects that are far away. For example, my opt put some slight correction in front of my eye & a distant street sign went from mildly blurry to razor sharp. The same could be causing the refraction issues you have with the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism_(eye)

EDIT: BTW, I am 20/15 with this Astigmatism. I can see pretty well, it's just that my vision can get "soft" at specific distances. I've not noticed a problem at pooltable distances though...but you never know until you try it with correction.
 
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When you see an optometrist make sure you ask them to check you for "double vision/prism correction".

I've had the same thing for at least 25 years but it was so slight I never really noticed it -- until I began playing pool. I'd look at the OB down-table and see two of them: the right one and another just slightly to the right of it.

It kind of ticks me off that in 25 years of going to an optometrist once a year, they never checked for it. Prism correction lenses eliminate the problem. At first I thought I'd just where the glasses while playing pool, but now I'm wearing them all the time because it makes my vision more comfortable.
 
3RAILKICK said:
I'm getting old, my vision is not sharp, I wear reading glasses all day in front of a computer screen.

Playing pool, I have trouble maintaining visual 'focus' transitioning from cb, ob, cb, ob, cb,......ob-then shoot. The ob remains fuzzy after the back and forth.

Moon-I was looking at the near full moon the other night. I couldn't see it clearly. With both eyes, there is a bit of ghostly overlap at the edges. With either single eye-better definition(one moon), but still not in focus. All this, while looking straight at the moon.

Observation: I tried squinting, and looking more through the top of eyes while holding head still-it took away a lot of the 'double exposure' effect, and took away some of the 'fuzzy'.

Question: Other than being nuts(which is the most likely answer), is there a physiological reason that this could happen? Does looking up, and squinting use a different part of the eyeball back wall that isn't as worn out? or something? Anybody squint playing pool because it helps you see? Or, does getting low on the cue make you 'look up' to see ob, and somehow help you see the ball better?

Kind of off the wall, I agree.

Maybe I just need some pool glasses with gigantor size lenses that cover most of my forehead. That is not my first choice, but maybe that's what it takes.
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My eyes are getting progressively worse as I age. I used to have 20/20 in everything, but when I hit 50, I needed glasses for computer and reading. I could still see distance 20/20, though. :cool:

Well, approaching 60, this is all changing for me. I can still drive without glasses, but if I am tired, sleep deprived from my job, things at a distance are now not as crisp and clear as they once were. I fear that I will have to get glasses for both distance and close up soon. :(

Also, I do have an astigmatism in my left eye. It hasn't bothered me much, but about 10 years ago, I started to get a couple eye floaters. They were annoying. You think you see a bug flying around you, and you swat it, only to soon realize it's an eye floater. :embarrassed2:

Now the eye floaters in my left eye, not the right, have gone from a couple black dots to one black vein-looking squiggly line. I'm used to it and don't notice it much, but a lot of times, it feels like I have sand in my eye or dry eye. I can really see it if I look up in the sky or at white snow. :rolleyes:

I also suffer from optical migraines. They don't hurt with pain. All of a sudden a flash of a comma-shaped spot with multiple bright colors comes forth, and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and then floats away to the side. If I am driving, I have to wait 15 or 20 minutes until the comma shape gets bigger and bigger and then disappears to the side.

It would be awful to be playing pool and have this happen. You'd have to ask your opponent if you could take a 15-minute break. :eek:

They look kind of like this.
 

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