Reddit reviews Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions

If you are stereoblind/have monopsis please consider vision therapy. Don't listen to doctors who say you are too old: find one who will treat you. I've now seen in 3D a few times and it has been simply amazing (was born with a crossed eye that ended up turning into a lazy eye.... two surgeries later it looks good but no 3D nor depth perception.

I also highly recommend the book: Fixing my Gaze

I have the same thing. Didn't actually realize it until I was an adult. But in retrospect it explains a few things.


Know those "Viewfinder" things that you would load with these little disks with images? I had no idea that it was supposed to look 3D when you looked through those, I just thought it was a really boring toy. Big deal, you look through it and see an image.

Also binoculars are pretty pointless to me as I can really only look through one eye at a time so I'd do just as well with a telescope.

Terrible at foosball because it's hard to judge then the players are lined up with the ball. Same goes for badminton when the birdie is above my head, can't really judge when it's within striking distance.

You might be interested in checking out this book: Fixing My Gaze by Susan R. Barry. The woman is a neuroscientist with strabismus and she goes through optometric vision therapy when she's in her forties and is able to gain full stereovision. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to do it someday as well.

Consider reading this when you feel better!

Somebody wrote a book about this. It's written from the patient's perspective as an adult with strabismus. VT worked for her.
https://www.amazon.com/Fixing-My-Gaze-Scientists-Dimensions/dp/0465020739/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543362553&sr=8-1&keywords=fix+my+gaze

That's a little oversimplified. It's hardly a settled issue in the field and it's an active research area. There are very view studies that have been completed so of course it isn't recommended until results emerge (if they emerge). Orthopic VT has been shown to be effective for certain conditions, and can help patients with convergence insufficiency, strabismus, diplopia, and with rehab after brain disease or injury. Behavioral VT is where the kool aid gets drunk. Some places claim they can cure dislexia, adhd, etc. with VT.

Edit: I see that you have quite a history of crusading against VT in /r/optometry. I don't think I will be able to change your perspective no matter what I say.

Other techniques include using a piece of string held to the nose! This is a good read:

Fixing my gaze

I think I'm in a similar position; I can either use my left eye, or use my right eye, or use both, but I default to right eye for most distance work, left eye for most near work, and usually only unconsciously default to both if I'm watching a movie with 3D glasses.

I got conscious control of it after reading this book by a neuroscientist who was 48 years old when she learned to see in 3D - https://www.amazon.com/Fixing-My-Gaze-Scientists-Dimensions/dp/0465020739 (She covers much of it in a TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCtphdXhq8)

I just stumbled across this book in the bookstore:

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions

Have you read it? Is your problem the same thing?

So I have a couple.
First is my Cousin, Dan Barry. He's the nerdiest guy I know, but he's still really down to earth and I still look up to him. His wife has written a book about how she managed to cure her stereoblindness that I would recommend to anyone.





My Uncle's best friend is a Tony Award Winning Lyricist, I tried to get him to come talk at my school, but he was super busy.


My Dad's Best Friend's Brother is a guy named Mark Olshaker, he writes books with John Douglas who was the basis for Jack Crawford in the Hannibal Lecter movies. Mark still talks about having to change me as a baby, because that's the kind of stories girlfriends want to hear about when meeting new people...

I'm really sorry for that, man. That's what they said would eventually happen to me as well when I was 14 so I should wear corrective lenses. I hated glasses, not to mention the difference was so drastic that the doc had to prescribe a small number for my right eye as well, so I ended up ditching them for good. 23 years later, the right is still fine and dandy, except for the whole stereopsis thing, of course. Funny thing is, Lasik would totally take care of the defects in the left, but I'd still have the amblyopia, since the brain got accustomed to that one sending utter shit so it ignores it. However, recent research has proved the brain is much more flexible than previously believed and amblyopia can be corrected through therapy well beyond the infancy, like the old literature used to teach. [This book] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020739/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_hIkavb1A4CJ77
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020739/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_hIkavb1A4CJ77) is a wonderful account of how a neuroscientist was finally able to develop tridimensional vision in her forties. Trouble is, the breakthrough therapy is proprietary afaik, and I don't have a few thousand bucks just lying around so it won't happen any time in the near future for me. It would certainly be nice to get a spare eye at some point, though.

You might be interested in Fixing My Gaze, a book by neuroscientist Sue Barry on using vision therapy to gain 3-D vision. It's been at least a year since I've read it, but I remember her discussing how beautiful she found watching snow fall when she could see the space between the flakes.

Barry shares similar experiences in a TED talk. The start of the talk is worth watching for context, but if you want to jump straight to her experience of 3-D vision, it starts at 11:00 minutes.

In the book, she mentions a truck driver who had to quit his job after gaining 3-D vision because he could no longer use his lazy eye to read signs while his dominant eye watched the road. However, I got the impression most people who gain it consider it worthwhile.

As an adult with strabismus (proof) can I recommend a book? Fixing my Gaze
is incredibly insightful and a really easy read.