do contacts make things look bigger?!

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No.. They just make them look clearer.

Glasses for nearsightedness make things appear smaller due to the distance between the lens and the eye. Since contacts sit directly on the eye, you get the benefit of the focusing without the side effect of the vertex distance distortion.

Glasses make the image size on the retina about 1.5% smaller (nearsightedness) or larger (farsightedness) per diopter of power.

You've never noticed the effect before because you could only see the world clearly with glasses. Now, you're getting a second perspective.

Technically, the contacts don't make things appear larger... it's the glasses changing the apparent size.

Its interesting to read teh explanation from xbone. That is one of my first impressions with contacts as well - things are a lot bigger than I thought.