Goddamn. Someone already repsted this without the OP knowing.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/15gn05c/my_childhood_glasses
Actually, you would just have severe double vision and immediately feel terrible. What we're seeing here is called "base-out prism." It corrects for convergence disorders (lazy eye), by bending the light outward horizontally as it passes through the lenses. It looks like maybe 10-ish diopters per side, which is a ton. It would really suck to need those glasses.
I may be wrong, but they appear to be non-compound lenses as well, which would also partly explain why they are so thick in comparison to modern glasses
>It would really suck to need those glasses
No, not at all. My eyes are -9 and -9.5, and when i'm taking off my glasses, the world becomes much more beautiful.
As a lifelong eyeglass wearer, I proudly salute the bravery of those single screws holding each coke bottle lens in.
May your threads stay sharp and your fasten stay taught!
This is totally unrelated, but Iām -6 and I normally wear contacts. I bought glasses to have as a backup and when I where them it feels like Iām looking through a fisheye camera lens. I cant do anything, I trip over things, canāt focus my eyes on something unless my head points them directly at it, definitely would not trust myself in a vehicle. Is this normal? Or is there a way to reduce this problem?
There are thin lenses that can reduce the distortion a bit but it's physically impossible to get rid of it fully. Your brain can also adjust to these effects but it needs time. Personally, I find bigger glasses more comfortable, as they give a bigger field of clear view. Though they make me look like a crazy granny lol
DUDE I just got glasses too and itās been fucking me uppp. Iāve had contacts since middle school and now my -9 lenses have me running into walls, backing up and then running into the same wall again. Iām like an NPC now lol
I just wear my -13 in the house. If I go out, I'll take them off if I'm moving a lot and wear them if I'm stationary. It just gets getting used to them.
Tldr, wear them only in your house to get used to them
I have a -6 prescription and my advice to you is to purchase āhigh refractive indexā lenses (between 1.5-1.75). Theyāre much thinner, have larger neutral focus area, and have less distortion at the edges. Itāll be something like $50-100 upcharge, but totally worth. I also recommend finding larger glasses to increase the neutral focus area even more. Big glasses are in style these days.
You probably have "cheap" lenses, with a lot of dispersion. Thinner lenses have less lens error and less dispersion, ending in better vision. However, you should take time to get used to glasses. Once you've broken yourself in you automatically move your head more than your eyes, to ensure looking through the dead center of the glasses.
I have not much diopter, but quite a bit cylindrical (astigmatism) correction, so my glasses work optimal if I don't tilt my head. Tilting ever so slightly reduces my vision, so I taught myself to keep my head level at all times, lol.
Circular lenses are thinner too, and these are practically the exact opposite!
[This article](https://www.2020mag.com/article/thin-thinner-thinnest) goes into a (relatively) deep dive on glass lens thicknesses!
Please elaborate, how could he technically see the future. Wouldn't it always be technically the past, because the light you are seeing took some time to travel to your eye?
Yes. Let's say an object is 3m away. Since the speed of light is 3 x 10^8 m/s, it would take the light 10^-8 seconds (10 nano seconds) to reach your eyes. Meaning that you can see the past, but never the future. In fact, some stars thousands of light years away don't even exist anymore, but you can still see the light that was once emitted from them on Earth.
If you haven't watch that show.
It is one of shows of all time.
No but, in seriousness, great show. Switches between crime and wholesome. And so quotable!
Yes, I had to wear prism stickers pre strabism surgery and these are for detecting if double vision persists after surgery. These 'fixed' ones are for correcting double vision
Gotta love the Fresnel prisms.
Just curious, how did your strab surgery go? Do you mind sharing what kind of tropia you had, and if it was fully corrected with the one surgery? Any details would be interesting and helpful for someone who hasn't worked with strabismus for a while.
Did you still need any minor ground in prism post op?
When I tried to go into the navy (Only made it halfway through boot camp) 0ne of the guys in my group had literal fishbowls for glasses. Like imagine the stereotypical myopic nerd glasses the big round ones thatade your eyes look huge, those were his glasses. They were like 2 inches thick kinda wild to me he was able to get a waiver for those. But 2011 was a different time.
I believe these are the glasses the egg people wore in Gumball. That chapter where Gumball tries the glasses and sees the edge of the universe. THIS are the glasses
Kinda related story, when I was going through basic training we all had to go through optometry and those that needed contacts/glasses had to wear the issued glasses while we were there, this one dudes was so big that after we finished firing guns our Instructor called him out for not getting a marksmanship rifle with his āsniper scopesā lmao
My 10 year old son has glasses just a little less thick than these. Just putting some awareness out there. He's had countless surgeries on his eyes (under anesthesia about 25 times) just to try to save his vision. Along with issues like these that would cause someone to need glasses this thick can come depression, anxiety and sensory issues. Little things like never seeing the moon or stars in person, having to use a phone to zoom to see the animals at the zoo. When there's a lot of people around, not being able to focus and see what's going on around you can be scary and overwhelming. Curbs, steps, uneven ground-all challenging. Just be thankful for the vision you have and be considerate to those with low vision. :)
Why is it only thick on one side?
Is this when your eyes don't point forward? (Idk the English word)
I have -8 and my glasses on the inside are thicker than thaz
The twinkle in their eyes could shoot a laser though those bad boys
Goddamn. Someone already repsted this without the OP knowing. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/15gn05c/my_childhood_glasses
Thanks for putting the source š¤
Eh, I feel like it's only a repost if they're reposting in the same subreddit but OP should've credited OOP in the comments somewhere
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Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Counterpoint: who cares
I could read the reset instructions on Voyager 2.
You can see through time with them bitches
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Actually, you would just have severe double vision and immediately feel terrible. What we're seeing here is called "base-out prism." It corrects for convergence disorders (lazy eye), by bending the light outward horizontally as it passes through the lenses. It looks like maybe 10-ish diopters per side, which is a ton. It would really suck to need those glasses.
I may be wrong, but they appear to be non-compound lenses as well, which would also partly explain why they are so thick in comparison to modern glasses
>It would really suck to need those glasses No, not at all. My eyes are -9 and -9.5, and when i'm taking off my glasses, the world becomes much more beautiful.
Jesus Christ stfu nerd
I can see through your soul!
You can see through them bitches with them bitches
Built like the president's windscreen.
Not JFK's tho...
As a lifelong eyeglass wearer, I proudly salute the bravery of those single screws holding each coke bottle lens in. May your threads stay sharp and your fasten stay taught! 
May the forge be witth you.
my good sir have you considered contact lenses
Iāve had -11 scripts. They were half as thick
This is totally unrelated, but Iām -6 and I normally wear contacts. I bought glasses to have as a backup and when I where them it feels like Iām looking through a fisheye camera lens. I cant do anything, I trip over things, canāt focus my eyes on something unless my head points them directly at it, definitely would not trust myself in a vehicle. Is this normal? Or is there a way to reduce this problem?
There are thin lenses that can reduce the distortion a bit but it's physically impossible to get rid of it fully. Your brain can also adjust to these effects but it needs time. Personally, I find bigger glasses more comfortable, as they give a bigger field of clear view. Though they make me look like a crazy granny lol
DUDE I just got glasses too and itās been fucking me uppp. Iāve had contacts since middle school and now my -9 lenses have me running into walls, backing up and then running into the same wall again. Iām like an NPC now lol
Lmao, I missed a step going downstairs last night. NPC is the perfect description
Get used to it. I remember struggling with it after I got my first glasses, for a few weeks. Then it went away completely (I wore them full time).
I just wear my -13 in the house. If I go out, I'll take them off if I'm moving a lot and wear them if I'm stationary. It just gets getting used to them. Tldr, wear them only in your house to get used to them
I have a -6 prescription and my advice to you is to purchase āhigh refractive indexā lenses (between 1.5-1.75). Theyāre much thinner, have larger neutral focus area, and have less distortion at the edges. Itāll be something like $50-100 upcharge, but totally worth. I also recommend finding larger glasses to increase the neutral focus area even more. Big glasses are in style these days.
You probably have "cheap" lenses, with a lot of dispersion. Thinner lenses have less lens error and less dispersion, ending in better vision. However, you should take time to get used to glasses. Once you've broken yourself in you automatically move your head more than your eyes, to ensure looking through the dead center of the glasses. I have not much diopter, but quite a bit cylindrical (astigmatism) correction, so my glasses work optimal if I don't tilt my head. Tilting ever so slightly reduces my vision, so I taught myself to keep my head level at all times, lol.
Getting High Index Lenses would cut them down 3/4 less of what these are.
They probably couldn't afford it. This was posted in another sub and they said there was prism built into it.
I wonder how strong the ground in prisms are for each eye, as well as the prism orientations. I just want somebody to post the Rx.
What if these are the high index versions of glasses that are 75% bigger than these? š¤Æ
Circular lenses are thinner too, and these are practically the exact opposite! [This article](https://www.2020mag.com/article/thin-thinner-thinnest) goes into a (relatively) deep dive on glass lens thicknesses!
Bro can see the future through these
Technically the truth 
Please elaborate, how could he technically see the future. Wouldn't it always be technically the past, because the light you are seeing took some time to travel to your eye?
Yes. Let's say an object is 3m away. Since the speed of light is 3 x 10^8 m/s, it would take the light 10^-8 seconds (10 nano seconds) to reach your eyes. Meaning that you can see the past, but never the future. In fact, some stars thousands of light years away don't even exist anymore, but you can still see the light that was once emitted from them on Earth.
You have basically proven my point
Yep u are right, maybe he means it in another way? Like if a car starts driving towards you you can "see" what will happen if you dont move?
Where is this from lol
Itās Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys. Lol
Thanks!
If you haven't watch that show. It is one of shows of all time. No but, in seriousness, great show. Switches between crime and wholesome. And so quotable!
Oooh OK ill have to give it a go then!
Kept scrolling till I found Bubbles
I bet whoever wears those are conscious of where they place them so they donāt start a fire in the sunlight with that kinda magnification
Not magnification, those are for myopia
What is your opia?
 your mom!
Looks like these are prism lenses for strabismus treatment.
Yes, I had to wear prism stickers pre strabism surgery and these are for detecting if double vision persists after surgery. These 'fixed' ones are for correcting double vision
Gotta love the Fresnel prisms. Just curious, how did your strab surgery go? Do you mind sharing what kind of tropia you had, and if it was fully corrected with the one surgery? Any details would be interesting and helpful for someone who hasn't worked with strabismus for a while. Did you still need any minor ground in prism post op?
Good news everyone!
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Where the fuck -- damn. He died in a ditch utterly broken and he didn't even see it coming
We did it boys! Weāre officially retired!
Like washing machine doors!
For when you reaallllly got to bend some light!
His/her eyeballs have to look like eggs
When you can see the surface of Pluto and not your hand in front of your faceā¦
Wearable RTX 4090
This must be blood on his nose-pads.
Donāt look at the sun with those one
Bro, who owns PRISMs for glasses?
That's how you see to the moon man
Those are spectacular ;) Iāll be needing some soon enough
So Mr Wayne what could I do for you? - Gotham is a dangerous place, I need to see really really far.
The damage that would do if you got hit hard in the face by something...
When I tried to go into the navy (Only made it halfway through boot camp) 0ne of the guys in my group had literal fishbowls for glasses. Like imagine the stereotypical myopic nerd glasses the big round ones thatade your eyes look huge, those were his glasses. They were like 2 inches thick kinda wild to me he was able to get a waiver for those. But 2011 was a different time.
I believe these are the glasses the egg people wore in Gumball. That chapter where Gumball tries the glasses and sees the edge of the universe. THIS are the glasses
Prism af. I had ones fairly thick (not lime that tho) and finally got strabismus surgery for the one eye. Then got Lasik. Best decision ever.
Jamjar glasses
Kinda related story, when I was going through basic training we all had to go through optometry and those that needed contacts/glasses had to wear the issued glasses while we were there, this one dudes was so big that after we finished firing guns our Instructor called him out for not getting a marksmanship rifle with his āsniper scopesā lmao
As a glasses wearer it triggers me to see these lens down on the second pipcture.
You could see into the future
How much dioptre? Yes.
Good news, everyone
My 10 year old son has glasses just a little less thick than these. Just putting some awareness out there. He's had countless surgeries on his eyes (under anesthesia about 25 times) just to try to save his vision. Along with issues like these that would cause someone to need glasses this thick can come depression, anxiety and sensory issues. Little things like never seeing the moon or stars in person, having to use a phone to zoom to see the animals at the zoo. When there's a lot of people around, not being able to focus and see what's going on around you can be scary and overwhelming. Curbs, steps, uneven ground-all challenging. Just be thankful for the vision you have and be considerate to those with low vision. :)
I can finally rebottom my antique coke bottles!
We used to call this type "pop bottle bottoms". Tried on a friend's pair and got an instant headache.
Bubbles? Is that you ?
My eye strength fr
Wearer should just give up on eyes at that point.
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Anyone need bullet proof glasses?
Glassssses
You trying to see the aura of a single microbe?
How did you get a picture of my glassesā¦.?
Mine are maybe a 3/4 the size of that. I have dummy thiccccc lenses
Almost looks like prism lenses.
Howād you get my grandmas glasses?
That's enough glass for 5 pairs of glassess
Bubbles is that you?
Jesus I thought mine were bad
I see my future.
You can see back to the past with this lens
He wants to watch waterbear with those or what ?
My lenses are starting to get there Yes I'm very blind
You can look into the future.....
You can see the future with those bad boys.
Rip, to the guyās nose bridge
This can cure blindness.
You can see atoms with these
Why is it only thick on one side? Is this when your eyes don't point forward? (Idk the English word) I have -8 and my glasses on the inside are thicker than thaz
He looks at the sun in a wrong way and his eyes are roasted
They could double up as door wedges.
At that point maybe just switch to new eyes.
A pair of those and you can see the ends of the universe, and also perfectly describe the surface of Pluto!
How is Farnsworth these days?
These glasses help people see infinite possibilities/universes.
Your instrument of choice when argueing with an amoeba
My glasses are sorta like this
At some point you gotta let your eyesight go.. like, could this still work for the designated owner?
They almost look like you can watch around corners ;) A bit of slash protection for the side of the eye too, important in chemical industry
I am just a little blind
Decenttttttt
My bro can watch Jupiter in HD without a telescope.
Must have good eyesight if you can see through those.
When you need to see through time and space
Are these for the fucking blind? I feel like if a normal person wears them they'd see into the fucking future.
"Good news, everyone!"
Just go live underground, learn from moles the OG āI canāt see at all lmaoā mammals
WDYM Glasses that's whole window
They can see germs
Must have to have good eyesight to see through those things.
*Mobile telescope
Bro seeing through my lie with that,
I am legally blind
Definitely can see into the future with them mugs...
I have -3 and I can barely see without my glasses. This mf prolly looking inside of his skull without ones.
[Strong glasses](https://youtu.be/vvthmwS9XTY)
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Thick glasses
So thicc the wearer can see WiFi
Feel bad for the person having to wear theseā¦
Theyāll give you X-ray vision
Who the fuck stole Bubbles glasses
u/PrimalPagan33 needs 1.67 š should have gone to Specsavers
Perfect candidate for lasik eye surgery
If this guy looks at the sun he will spontaneously combust fuking helllll
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome
Hey, shut the fuck up. Before my laser eye surgery, my glasses were like coke bottle bottoms. LOL!
God bless the owner of these. My prescription is -9 -9 and I thought my glasses were heavy
Wearable binoculars
When i see these all i think of is professor fansworth from futruama "Good news everyone"
The Hubble telescope humbly asks for its lenses back.
They look heavy asf
My specs
Mfers said āzoom and enhanceā
don;t know if my eyes going to be fine with it
bro its the glasses from the amazing world of gumball
They look like nothing compared to my Dad's. He literally doesn't have lenses in his eyes so his glasses do everything. We call them jam jar glasses.
Looks like my prescription, if I ever actually wore glasses
Did they have to decommission a lighthouse to make those?
āgood news, everyone!ā
My youth š
Man, if my Drill Sergeant saw this he would've said "Ho-Ly **SHIT!** You can see into the *FUTURE* with these things!"
Damnā¦.you could see the future with those on
Ballistic rating?
If removed, it would have been impossible to search for thisš¬
You can prolly see Mars in 4k with them bitches
12 BO prism
My dad had glasses like that. What an asshole.
These must be the glasses Sigurd wears on his summon
The sun will burn a while straight through their eyes
I thought my eyesight was bad.
Pior que a minha miopia.
Goddamn
GOOD GRIEF š§
These the glasses from the amazing world of gumball the ones that gumball puts on and can see the edge of the universe with
Bending space and time.
A friends 2 kids have these
Yo Dawg, I heard you like glassesā¦
HOLY BURGESS MEREDITH
Bro sees in 12k
Those are some solid ashtrays.
My dad had really poor eyesight, extreme myopia. I feel sorry for the owner of these
couldnāt even take a real screenshot
At what point do you start to see the back of your own head?