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Posted: 7/14/2016 9:41:48 PM EDT
mine is terrible. always has been, but it's actually getting worse
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Actually it's pretty damn good! I can out see and out hear my wife who is 9 years my junior.
Yet I'll confess that I'm beginning to notice occasional floaters in my vision, the end is near! |
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mine is terrible. always has been, but it's actually getting worse View Quote 42 yo, my reading vision is shot, but I can still make out dark blurs against other dark blurs at night ... Sometimes. |
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After wearing contacts for a while my eyes have gotten very sensitive to light. If I am the only one on the road no issues yet headlights get to me now. Plus the fuckers that drive with high-beams on really fuck with my sight.
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I have good night vision and excellent peripheral vision. Everything else sucks, but those are good. |
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I THINK it's good. But I don't really have anything to compare it to.
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Bilberries and beta carotene helps with night vision. It takes me like a minute to be decently dark adapted and about 5 minutes to really see in the dark.
I've noticed the difference when I stopped taking them. Also, WW2 RAF pilots flying night missions ate bilberries for NV. |
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I'll be 60 years old at the end of this month.
My night vision has been getting worse over the years to the point that I now hate driving at night. I'm not unsafe at night but it REALLY puts a strain on my eyes - especially when there is an oncoming vehicle that don't dim their headlights or the REAL fuckheads that put HID lamps in without changing the reflector. |
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I read that it decreases with age, to the point that an 18 year old's night vision is more than twice a 40 year old's. Mine has definitely gotten worse as I've aged.
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used to have dry eyes and bugged the shit out of me at the end of the day if had my contacts on. Using Restasis or something, shit works
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Just get 20 menthol kools and dig up a doctor to do shine job. My NV is good without that though.
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Mine started going down when I hit 45,I'll be 54 next month.....so shitty.
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Pretty good. Sometimes I wear sunglasses when night driving.
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It used to be great 20 years ago. I'm 41 now and it is bad enough that I don't really like driving at night.
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With glasses it's pretty good, without glasses I can't see shit at night.
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I have some trouble driving at night.It takes my eyes a LONG time to adjust to different light intensity...like oncoming headlights.
But,I'm coming up on 71 years old in a few weeks so shouldn't complain too much. |
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i have great night vision but i have blue eyes. i guess the trade off is that i cant go out in the sun without sunglasses or i get a headache real quick.
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Not so good for me...
Story about night vision... I hired a fishing guide in FL for snook fishing. Well, if you don't know much about snook fishing it's far better at night, so this was a night trip. We are in his boat starting out on the trip and this guy is running around in pitch dark like 60 MPH and dodging buoys and and docks and junk that I can't even see at all in the dark. We get to a spot and he gives me a rod and somehow ties a bimini twist knot and lure on in 10 seconds in pitch fucking dark (no flashlights or interior lights on board this boat it seems). He says cast to that fence by the shore... I say "what fence???". Can't see shit. I can barely move around in his dark unlit boat on a moonless night, but it might as well be daylight to him. It turns out that this guy fishes only at night and sleeps during most days. With being out so much at night in the dark his vision is superhuman. My friend and I both couldn't believe how much better he saw in the dark than we did. It shocked us both. |
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I have fabulous night vision and I can see things that my friends and family can't. But sadly as age progresses on me, I am slowly loosing it.
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I did alot of predator hunting at night in college. I could see alot of things in pitch black dark and would alert the guys with lights to shine. I had lasik and all that went away.
My eye doctor actually wrote me a prescription for a Pvs14 on his script pad as a joke to take home to the wife. |
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I had Lasik back in 2006, that hurt my night vision some, but it's still better than everyone else I know. I can see and even read in light levels that most people can't identify basic shapes.
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I do a lot of night hog hunting, and on a full moon or close to it night, I sometimes go 4 or 5 hours and use my flashlight about 30 seconds all night.
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Bilberries and beta carotene helps with night vision. It takes me like a minute to be decently dark adapted and about 5 minutes to really see in the dark. I've noticed the difference when I stopped taking them. Also, WW2 RAF pilots flying night missions ate bilberries for NV. View Quote Where, exactly, would someone who has never heard of bilberries aquire them? |
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mine is abnormally good.
I may or may not on occasion drive at night without headlights on. Never had the need for NVGs. Couldn't afford them if I did though. |
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Really good I'm partially color blind and have unusually large pupils. Too bad I'm basically blind uncorrected.
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mine is terrible. always has been, but it's actually getting worse View Quote How old are you? My night vision has always been poor, but I have cataracts now and I am not safe to drive at night. Scheduled to have the first one fixed on the 25th. |
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Quoted: I'm 50, been getting worse since 45 View Quote when young, my night vision was almost supernatural, used to run through the woods at night, dodging sticks, rocks, branches. anyone following would be shuffling along, bumping into trees, feeling their way along. . Twenties, used to drive with headlights off for miles at night, dodging moose, cows, no problem seeing the road, except transition when turning lights ON for oncoming traffic. went down hill after mid 40's |
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Bilberries and beta carotene helps with night vision. It takes me like a minute to be decently dark adapted and about 5 minutes to really see in the dark. I've noticed the difference when I stopped taking them. Also, WW2 RAF pilots flying night missions ate bilberries for NV. View Quote I thought they fed them lots od carrots |
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Almost 45 and have to use the flashlight on the phone to read menu in really dark/dim restaurants.
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My natural night vision is so good that it almost makes up for tinnitus, that cruel mistress...
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Where, exactly, would someone who has never heard of bilberries aquire them? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Bilberries and beta carotene helps with night vision. It takes me like a minute to be decently dark adapted and about 5 minutes to really see in the dark. I've noticed the difference when I stopped taking them. Also, WW2 RAF pilots flying night missions ate bilberries for NV. Where, exactly, would someone who has never heard of bilberries aquire them? GNC, Vitamin Shoppe, online suppliers sell them in capsules. |
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A couple of years ago, I was kneeling in front of my 2 year old in a room that was pitch dark to me. Total blackness. She reached up with one finger and touched me on the nose.
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I have always had superb night vision
It took a long time to realize that my wife and kids really couldn't see at night without light I roam all over the yard, pasture and creek without light and can see almost as good as daytime When walking at night with my wife, I have her walk several yards in front of me because I CAN'T SEE SHIT because of her flashlight |
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It's terrible. Wife laughs at me constantly because she can see so much better at night than I can.
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I have way better night vision in my right v left eye. I stopped bringing it up because doctors look at me lol me I'm fucking with them
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Mine's pretty bad, way worse since I had to switch to bifocals. I have some single vision glasses for driving, but they don't help all that much. I hate driving at dusk, and full dark.
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Pretty damned good - Had some serious practice chasing the goddamned dog across the yard at midnight these past few years.
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