I can blur my eyes.

[twinkleeyes]

Hello I am a 23 yr old female and I finally decided to poke around and see if I could figure out if what I can do with my eyes is natural.
A little history. I was born with a "lazy eye" as they call it. When I was little 4,5 and 6 yrs old I wore bifocals and from time to time I had to wear a patch. I do remeber wearing the patch on my right eye, which leads me to believe my left eye was the "lazy" one. But now a days when Im tired or on my one I can cross my left eye while leaving my left one straight.
But what I ponder is...I can blur my eyes on command. It's not something that happens on it's own. it's something I can make happen. Very simple...clear, blurry, clear, blurry, clear. just a quick as you can read this I can blur and clear my eyes (blurry to the point that I can't read 2 inch type 6ft away). I've been able to do this ever since I was a little girl, but never mentioned it, because I assumed it was normal.
I also do not have to wear correctine lenses anymore, I haven't had to since I was 6 yrs old, and I had a minor eye exam roughly 2 weeks ago, and I can read very very small type. Oh but I don't have any depth perception.

Could someone please tell me if it's a condition, a natural thing in some people, and maybe a name for it?

I would greatly appreciate it.

[achillea]

True, but alas, Doc, it is short on juju.  

[JohnHaganMD]

Double vision is normal. If you hold a finger in front of your face about 6 inches and extend your hand and hold your thumb up and they are in line. If you focus on the close finger you will see two distance thumbs. If you focus on the distance thumb you will see two near fingers. this is normal and called physiologic diplopia.

When we converge our eyes to see at near they also focus for near. This is called the accommodation/convergence reflex.

[Zeusifer1973]

I can make it soI see two of both.

[apatefausea]

yes but they are talking about double vision in an abnormal situation.

[TheMAdMan2013]

Forgot to add I learnt to blur my eyes with them 3d opticle illusion books, it wasn't my aim but damn i loved them books.
I think the trick to doing the books if being able to cross your eyes but keep your eyes in focus on something closer?

[TheMAdMan2013]

I too have the ability, not that amazing i know but i have put some thought into whats actually going on and some possible misconceptions.

Some people in this post are saying they get double vision, surly this would only occur if your crossing your eye's "like if you look at your nose", but with the difference of adjusting in between.
some people believe they have control of the muscle in the eye that focuses.
i think when crossing your eyes to certain degrees people naturally focus for that distance.

I think having control of both the crossing of your eyes and the focusing independent from each other would allow you to see under water, there's some tribe of people somewhere that can do it "Underwater vision" i remember hearing about.

So me being able to unfocus my eye's is probably just a by-product of crossing then. Not sure but it makes sense in my mind.

What do you think?

  

[JohnHaganMD]

At this point its probably a good idea to restate that we cannot damage our eyes by voluntarily blurring them and that it is normal for anyone to be able to blur their distance vision by activating their normal focusing mechanism.

JCH MD

[apatefausea]

at this point i dont take you seriously because of all the bullcrap comments you made earlier that show you just jump right in and comment without even thinking about what the person said. is that profile pic even your real picture?

[lexi1515]

I can blur my eyes.  But i have bad vision and always thought it was from blurring my eyes.