{"id":1055,"date":"2010-02-06T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/02\/06\/a-visual-journey-%e2%80%94-chapter-the-fourth\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:08:20","slug":"a-visual-journey-%e2%80%94-chapter-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1055","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Journey \u2014 chapter the fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I undertook optometric vision therapy at age forty-eight, I could see the misalign-and-suppress mechanism at work in my own visual system. With therapy procedures, I learned to bring the images from both eyes into consciousness and could therefore discover where my two eyes were aiming. Throughout life, an unconscious action had moved the image from one eye out of alignment, making it easier for me to discount the image from the nonfixating eye.<br \/>\n\u2014 Susan R. Barry, <em>Fixing my Gaze<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday I had my third session with Mary Ellen, the therapist selected to work with me on a program of weekly eye exercises. The disciplines are both challenging and tiring. Let me explain that. They are difficult because they necessitate a kind of exertion unlike physical or mental effort. Nevertheless, it does involve muscle and brain activity, which is tiring, but the kind of fatigue that results is unlike anything I\u2019ve known\u2014a dull pressure in the middle of my head. I don\u2019t feel exhausted, but noticeably depleted in a way I can\u2019t put my finger on. So far, any progress I\u2019ve noticed has made me even more aware of the dysfunction. In other words, the double vision is more obvious at times because I\u2019m training myself not to suppress the vision in one eye to accommodate the misalignment. Does that make sense? It\u2019s frustrating and stressful to have my vision more chaotic, but I understand the need to strengthen my singular vision in each eye before I develop an improvement in its ability to \u201cteam.\u201d This will require more fusion exercises that rely on 3D glasses. I also have to do daily patching for individual-eye isolation work. It\u2019s probably best that I avoid \u201coverthinking\u201d all of it and concentrate on applying myself to the assignments. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d feel if I didn\u2019t have confidence in the benefits of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I undertook optometric vision therapy at age forty-eight, I could see the misalign-and-suppress mechanism at work in my own visual system. With therapy procedures, I learned to bring the images from both eyes into consciousness and could therefore discover where my two eyes were aiming. Throughout life, an unconscious action had moved the image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34,80,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}