Originally posted by: Vic
I wear both glasses and contacts (though never at the same time 😛 ). With my relatively high prescription (-7.75), I find that glasses provide slightly sharper vision (especially for my astigmatism) while contacts provide much better depth perception and (of course) peripheral vision.
Never had that "phantom glasses" problem you described, but I do hate driving with my glasses on.
I wore glasses for something like ten years. By the time I switched to contacts, my vision was something like -6.75 and -6.50, with a severe astigmatism (I don't remember how they rate those). Because of the astigmatism correction, my glasses badly distorted everything in that they made things look very, very small. A 17" monitor looked like a 15", and from looking at myself in the mirror for all the years since I developed the astigmatism, I perceived myself as very small and short (I'm 5' 11", which isn't tall, but certainly isn't short).
When I finally got contacts, the first thing I noticed was that everything was so much
bigger, and so much clearer and brighter, since I had been wearing light sensitive tinting glasses since I never got prescription sunglasses. My field of vision was expanded to like 180 degrees. What a difference. Contacts made everything vision-based so much easier.
So anyway, to address the actual topic of this thread, yeah, I did go through a period where I'd try to adjust the glasses I was no longer wearing. I'd try to nudge the arm of my glasses and miss. It was pretty funny, and I'm sure I looked stupid. Thankfully, that went away within a couple weeks. Surprising, since it's a habit I had for ten years.
