On Fri, 02 May 2008 09:32:41 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>> rewiring of our eyes
> 
> You can rewrite your eyes if you want. :-P

Oh, good, my wife will be pleased to hear this....

(She's got ocular albinism, which means the rods and cones aren't fully 
developed, she lacks pigment in her iris, and the wiring to her brain is 
different than everyone else's - what this means is that she has very 
poor depth perception and the combination of the wiring problem and the 
lack of pigment in her iris results in high contrast changes (usually 
dark->light) will literally blind her for anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 
minutes.

Which makes driving at night a real pain the ass for her.

Not to mention the nystagmus - though for many this is a problem, my wife 
actually has managed to harness this somehow and as a result reads very 
fast.  But she wonders how other people actually see words on the page 
because she knows she's not reading the text linearly.

Jim

Post a reply to this message