Featured Image Credit: Twitter/@sakata_yoshi
Topics: Health, Mental Health, Viral, Reddit, Twitter, Social Media
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Health, Mental Health, Viral, Reddit, Twitter, Social Media
If you've never had the joy of being short-sighted and requiring glasses to function, prepare yourself.
Embarrassed after being prescribed glasses aged nine, I refused to wear them unless I was in class.
However, after many an awkward moment waving back to someone who actually wasn't waving at me alongside getting on the wrong train and ending up in the middle of buck f**k nowhere, I resolved it probably a sensible option to commit to looking like Velma from Scooby Doo.
Now, you may think this sounds dramatic - how bad can it really be? - but just you wait until you see a video which accurately represents the difference in visuals before and after someone pops on their glasses.
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Sakata Yoshi - who works in the optician industry - not only creates glasses but gives insights into what it's like to be visually impaired on social media too.
In a post to Twitter, the glasses seller revealed what it's like for glasses wearers to see without their lenses versus what it's like after they pop them back on, explaining how you can test it out for yourself too.
And it's surprisingly simple - all you need is an iPhone and a pair of glasses.
He wrote: “Take a photo with the camera through your glasses, and on an iPhone, press and hold to lock AE/AF. If you just take off your glasses, you can experience how the person wearing the glasses sees with the naked eye.”
In the video, you can see just how blurry everything is - you might feel a little queasy if you stare at it for too long - and it didn't take long for social media users to weigh in.
After the video was reshared on Reddit in the thread r/Damnthatsinteresting, many users flocked to the post to back up how accurate it is.
One user commented: “Thank god now I don’t need to explain for 20 minutes what I mean by blurry”.
Another agreed with the above and vowed to show people in the future: "Nearsighted as f**k. This is 1,000 percent accurate. I’m going to use this to show people what it’s like since they always wonder.”
And others opened up more about their own personal experiences with their vision.
One user said: “I wore glasses since about age 15 and then developed cataracts at a young age.
"Cataract surgery gave me 20/20 vision. I remember stopping to look at the grass and was amazed at how I could see the shadow of one blade on another. It was incredible. My friends thought I was crazy."
Another added: “I call it HD when I put my glasses on. Needless to say, I don’t pay extra for HD lol."