Lurking behind the scenes....

[halfshellvenus]

Work, family stuff, and writing projects continue, and I keep thinking I'll post but don't get around to it.

Lowlights from last week include a dream with Sam and Dean, and skinnydipping in someone's private grotto (!!!). I don't know if I was "me" in that dream, but I was soon after-I was wandering around with my son and eventually trying to cram

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[halfshellvenus]

But they are SO BIG. I hated them - could not get my eyes open enough, hated having to "pinch" my eye to pull them out. People have tried to convince me they're more comfortable than hard lenses...ugh.
People used to tell me that too, though the soft lenses always felt scratchy-- even months later. And the hard ones you just blink out, and put them in by laying just a bit of them on the eye-- the wet suction does the rest. Soft lenses? Jamming them under the eyelid (or they fold and dribble down your cheek), and the removal was just disgusting. So much hate.

Even with the sound on, this is pretty effective, especially for car and mobile phone ads.
No kidding! Singing children-plants, unicyclists with spinning umbrellas, fake-neighborhood-vortex... and those were just the car ads in the last couple of years!

[lilycobalt]

Candy corn! I want some now, but I don't trust myself to avoid going overboard. I am regretting the fact that it is Monday.

[halfshellvenus]

I need to stop imagining I have any control with the stuff. The chocolate kind (Indian corn) is very inhalable, and the candy apple kind completely so! Argh.

I'm regretting that it's Monday, too. The weekends are never long enough!

[lilycobalt]

Candy apple candy corn? I am not familiar with this! That might be for the better, though.

I agree! At least I get to do some traveling for work. That will shake things up a bit.

[halfshellvenus]

If you've never run across candy-apple candy corn, forget you ever heard about it. It is SO addictive. My autumn Achilles' heel, now. :0

[whipchick]

I've only ever had soft lenses, and I guess it's what you're used to! So no, I haven't had that dream :) But I remember the days of my mother having a steam unit where her lenses had to be heat-sterilized in distilled water...

[halfshellvenus]

!! I can't believe it-- nobody seems to have that dream but me, and I hate it. Especially that it's a recurring dream, and really, none of my recurring dreams are good. At least that one is just annoying, as opposed to anxiety-based or something.

[realpestilence]

I wore hard lenses in my teens, sometimes. I hated them-they hurt, they made my eyes itch madly, and they'd slip off my cornea and get suctioned against my eyeball so i'd have to pry them off.

I tried soft lenses a few years ago. I liked the feel of them, as they were much easier to adjust to, and didn't slip off like the hard ones did. But I very much didn't like how I had to practically poke myself in the eye, getting them on and off-much more difficult than the hard ones. Very flimsy, too, and easy to turn inside out or tear.

My eyes are just funny-shaped, I guess. I've given up trying to wear contacts. Too uncomfortable. D:

[halfshellvenus]

I wonder how you'd do with the hard lenses now? The gas permeable ones are much more comfortable than the earlier plastic lenses, and they rarely slip off. Mine were always weighted, torric lenses anyway because of the astigmatism, so maybe that helped.

But all the downsides of soft lenses you describe above... that's exactly how I feel about them. Getting them out was awful, especially if they didn't want to come out, and I could never tell if I'd accidentally reversed them. I used to do quantum-level calculations on how "regular" the bowl shape was, to try to determine whether the lens was flipped or not. ;)

[clair_de_lune]

LOL, from someone who has only worn soft lenses, no dream whatsoever or rubby, giant lenses. Being used to those, I think smaller ones would make me freak out anyway :-p

[halfshellvenus]

Apparently, I'm the only one having those dreams!

The smaller ones go in easily, once you learn the knack of laying them against the cornea (the wet pull of your tears does the rest). You would have to practically be squinting to not be able to fit those in.

As opposed to the soft ones, where you can open your eyes as wide as possible and you'll still be jamming the corners down until your eye dries out and closes a little, and then the lens folds up and falls out. So.Much.Hate. ;)

[clair_de_lune]

So.Much.Hate. ;)
I can see that *g* But I've had soft lenses for about twenty-five years so the whole putting them on/removing them stopped being an issue loooong ago - luckily.

You would have to practically be squinting to not be able to fit those in.
You know, I think it's part of the reason why I wouldn't be comfortable with hard lenses: how can they stay in place if you don't slip them under the eyelid?!! Logically, I know it's not how it works, but logic has no business here ;) And I admit I ran into the issue of the lenses folding in two and getting stuck under the eyelid.

[halfshellvenus]

how can they stay in place if you don't slip them under the eyelid?!!

Because they're rigid and shaped like your cornea, so the wet suction of your tears actually keeps them in. I've only had them fall out one time, under extreme (symphonic!) circumstances.

and getting stuck under the eyelid.
Aaaaaah! That sounds almost worse then my recurring dream! :0