Glasses

Have just received my first set of glasses, and, of course, me being me, I had to get the frames off Ebay and the lenses off these people, they being the only ones who would provide what I wanted. Wearing them was weird; as the optician said, "Trees will have leaves again!". He didn't predict the weird feeling of unreality, something like stereoscopic HDR, or the brief but fairly intense headache that only fully faded away after about an hour of wearing them. I'm still finding it a little harder to judge distances - perhaps my brain was partly relying on how fuzzy things were to identify how far away they were. And talking to people is rather odd, since my eyes want to wander over interesting creases in their faces, to absorb the extra detail now available. They are going to come in fantastically useful when driving/at events, though. It really did surprise me how large the difference was, and I still haven't got tired of lifting them up to see how blurry even moderately close things look without them.



and here they are,


along with me wearing them.