Reddit mentions: The best books about eye problems

Eyes are complicated, but basically, they don't detect every color individually. Your eye has three sets of cones; ones that detect the blueness of the light that hits it, ones that detect the redness, and ones that detect the greenness. If the light reaching a green cone has a wavelength that's near green, the cone sends a message saying it has greenness. The closer the light is to the ideal green, the louder this message is. For mixed colors like yellow, the green cones send a loud message, the red cones send a medium message (since yellow wavelengths are closer to green than to red), and the blue cones send a whisper or don't speak at all (since yellow is closer to both green and red than to blue). The brain then interprets this arrangement of volumes as the color yellow. The brain interprets near-equal volumes in all three cones as colors in greyscale. If the light is bright and equal, it's interpreted as a shade of white. If it's dark and equal, it's a shade of grey or black.

It's really a lot more complicated than this. You should pick up a book on eyes and vision. It's interesting stuff. I'd recommend A Natural History of Seeing.

That was awesome. I'm reading A Natural History of Seeing so its especially cool to see footage illustrating what I just learned about.

A camera is a mechanical image-making device. Different types of cameras can make different kinds of images. You see in 3D, most cameras don't. Some cameras see the infrared spectrum, you don't. Is a two-dimensional photographic image of the real, 3-D world not "realistic"? Does a camera that can see part of the spectrum that you don't see more realistically than you do because it captures a larger slice of the electromagnetic spectrum than your eyes do?

Also, when we say a camera "sees" and when we say we "see", the word "see" means two different things. A camera can change light into information, but it has no intelligence to work on that information. Your brain, refined over billions of years of evolution, is constantly working on the raw stimulus that is coming in through your eyes and helping you to understand it. Oliver Sacks writes about some of this complicated wiring in an entertaining way.

Catherine Murphy is an artist who works in a highly realistic style which doesn't look like photography. She doesn't use photographs in her studio practice. She says that there is simply too much that the eye sees that cameras don't.

This is from my earlier book, VISION rEVOLUTION, http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Revolution-Research-Overturns-Everything/dp/1935251767/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

If your including the UK in this then The minds eye by oliver sacks please.

I think it's from this book: The Vision Revolution

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0684814382/

You might want to check out The Mind's Eye. It chronicles the author's slow loss of vision, and goes over his and many other people's cases of living without stereoscopic vision.

Here's information on eye exercises to help start fixing any vision problems:

Focus Pumping
Edge Tracking
Print Pushing may be necessary to start, until far sight is gained

Starting out, I didn't know how to use my eye's muscles, as I wore contacts for maybe 17 years (I even kept them in 24/7). I did follow those initially, but after gaining experience, I started doing my own thing, and came up with my own exercise methods. I fixed my vision slowly over the 2 years of urine fasting (improves eyes faster, also), never wearing any prescriptions once.

(That website uses information from this book, which you can check the reviews on for some legitimacy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/0684814382/)

Leading people to believe bad eyesight is genetic is a very bad movement that is causing a lot of damage to young people. There was an old study done on an Alaskan settlement where the small eskimo population had absolutely 0 people with myopia (near sightedness). The town had schools established and kids start reading books, and suddenly cases of myopia started appearing where there was no genetic possibility of it occurring, proving that it was close up eye strain that was the root cause of developing bad eye sight.

There are the actual rare cases of eye problems, though it's less than 1% of myopia cases (which would be the eye socket of skull is faulty). Old age causes far sightedness, which is the eyes getting weaker, while myopia is caused by the muscle becoming too strong and getting permanently strained. The eye muscles are the strongest muscle in the body pound for pound, so them straining is a big issue.

Glasses worsen the condition of the eyes, absolutely. Eye exercises do work, as the inner eye muscles are a real thing. When you wear glasses, you are making it so your eye's muscles no longer work as normal. Instead, it exacerbates the condition, as it magnifies everything closer to you. Myopia is from the eye's inner muscles becoming strained, and are stuck at focusing in up close. So you're stuck focusing in all the time permanently, unable to unfocus your eyes back out. Relaxing them would allow far vision normally, but they can't untighten (caused by bad eye habits or excessive near sighted eye usage when young). Magnifying everything closer with glasses, then using a computer (or book or cell phone) means you're focusing close up on an magnified image, straining the eyes even more further, causing increased levels of near sightedness.

(If farsightedness, you just have to strengthen the focusing muscle, which weakens with age)