20/20, what's it like?!

20/20, what's it like?

im legally blind and my dominant eye is my right eye. i c 20/400 in my right and light in my left. well anyway, i never understood the concept of seeing 20/20. is it like u see the same object twice when u c it with both eyes? just curious...something i never understood.

thanks a million!!
esh

1 week ago
well, i get the technical answer..the whole seeing wut others c at 20 feet away..i just dont understand wut it REALLY is like

thanks for the answers soo far!! :)

1 week ago
mkay some hav been askin so i'll tell :] im legally blind w/my glasses...my glasses do pretty much nothing, im not sure y i wear them..they really do NOTHING and never have. they dont change my acuity at all, but i dont mind...
i love it!!

Esh, I was 20/400 without correction my entire life...til laser surgery...

You do not see the same object twice with two eyes unless there is a condition called strabismus where the eyes are misaligned...sometimes causing double vision.

Imagine the blade of a pair of scissors...you can feel how sharp and clear it is...that's how 20/20 vision is...no fuzz, no blur, no colors fading into each other. It's more pinpoint.

You know how sharp things are about six inches in front of your nose?? You can see outlines of objects super close to your face....well, it's like that...only you can see that well further and further away. What looks like a green blob on top of a brown stick thing to you, and how I saw a tree when I was a child....you can actually see the limbs, branches, and individual leaves.

Does that help? It's so hard to explain, but the scissor edge is how sharp I see things now as compared to a month ago without glasses or contacts.