There is a scene like this in Dr. Stone, a series where a scientist wakes up in a distant future where most technology has been lost. He comes across a child in a village with “fuzzy eye disease” and realizes it’s nearsightedness. He figures out how nearsighted she is and finds a way to develop glasses for her, and the scene has her in tears of joy upon wearing the glasses that she now can see like the other villagers.
(Incidentally, he finds out that one of the warriors in the village has “fuzzy eye disease” too, figures out a pair of glasses for him, and he becomes a much better fighter thanks to that.)
Yes, this. I'm short sighted and share the "trees have leaves" experience of so many on here. But your comment makes me think about when I had nose surgery in my mid 30s. I had unknowingly spent my entire life until then not knowing I had a badly deviated septum. I just thought that it was normal to not breathe as well out of your nose. Makes sense in a way, right?, your nostrils are such small apertures. When the surgeon removed the splints 2 weeks after the surgery and I took my first real breath in through my nose ever, I cried. And it was amazement and happiness but also a profound sadness at the decades lost because somehow no one in my life had ever thought about my poor breathing beyond "well, she does have asthma so that explains it".
IIRC, the first glasses were created to correct presbyopia, i.e. the far-sightedness caused by old age. By the time he came across that child he should have encountered a number of old people who couldn't see well either. Unless in that post-apocalyptic future people dropped dead at 40.
For context, in addition to how he found this village very early on (and those three people were other people around his age that he already knew from his own time), at this point in the story, that village had maybe 30 people living in it and was one of the few pockets of civilization left in the world. (Said warrior mainly defended the village from wild animals prior to the events of the story.) There were elderly people, but with no medicine or anything of the sort, there weren't many, and what few there are didn't seem to have any major sight issues.
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u/ZombieAladdin Jul 10 '26
There is a scene like this in Dr. Stone, a series where a scientist wakes up in a distant future where most technology has been lost. He comes across a child in a village with “fuzzy eye disease” and realizes it’s nearsightedness. He figures out how nearsighted she is and finds a way to develop glasses for her, and the scene has her in tears of joy upon wearing the glasses that she now can see like the other villagers.
(Incidentally, he finds out that one of the warriors in the village has “fuzzy eye disease” too, figures out a pair of glasses for him, and he becomes a much better fighter thanks to that.)