Training The Brain To Overcome The Effects of Presbyopia

It makes sense to me, I have an additional blind spot near the center of my right eye, it is a blind spot, not macular degeneration. My brain fills in the scenes with which I am familiar but I lose stereopsis when I look at something unfamiliar.

I have a distant recollection of some eye doctors who claimed that if someone exercised their eyes, they could avoid the need for glasses. I looked but this was all I could find. They nix the eye patch over the stronger eye.

I associate the eye patch with pirates who wore them over different eyes depending on whether it was light or dark.

Your link "scientific study" scared the crap out me, I had to increase the magnification 150% just to read the PDF at arms length! And that's with my glasses on

Interesting stuff, I wonder how long the effect lasts after training is halted. The papers didn't explain how it works exactly, but they always referred back to newspaper print. Does that mean the training only helps for seeing characters in particular fonts and sizes?

There are alternatives. I'm terribly near sighted, I can't focus on anything further than 4 (+/- 0.5) inches from my eyes, the world is just a bunch of blotchy colors. That is until I put in my contacts and my vision reverts back to better than 20-20. Many years ago my opthamologist said I was a candidate for monovision, and he adjusted my contacts so that one eye was set for distance the other for near vision.

The brain does all the processing that enables me to smoothly transition from my laptop to across the river and everything in between, seamlessly and in real time, no glasses or training necessary. The only way I can tell which eye is set for distance is to cover one of them and then I know which is which. The eyes have different strengths and the lenses are only 0.5 diopters apart.