Mar 08, 2006 13:24
When viewing stars, the moon, and looking at city lights recently, I've noticed that my left eye vision isn't quite as sharp as it used to be. I've grown used to having perfect vision on both eyes, so it's something that has bugged me a lot. What's more annoying is that I see a kind of fainter ghost image slightly beneath, and/or to the left of bright lights. It's not much, and I usually don't notice it unless I'm looking for it, but it's somewhat in the way when looking at stars and the moon through my recently acquired astronomical binoculars (yes, I've been bitten by the astronomy bug, I might write more about that later).
I went down the a local optician today to have my eyes checked. My vision is still very good on both eyes, and I don't need any glasses (though I quite like how I look in them). However, I was surprised to find that the ghost imaging didn't seem to have anything to do with the common blurryness of vision; even though the test glasses improved my vision a miniscule bit, they actually worsened the ghosting. The optician couldn't give a reasonable explanation, and thought I could talk to a doctor about it if I wanted to find out more, as it could have to do with how my optical nerve works.
This isn't something that I'm particularly worried about, it's just annoying.