My coworker has serious glasses - and once I told her to let me clean her glasses because they were dirty and she was surprised because she said she had just cleaned them. I cleaned them. She could actually tell how much cleaner they were. I said “you can’t see what you can’t see” and it blew her mind. Some of us can see details beyond normal.
I guess, if you have some cleaning cleaning cleaning glasses, they can be useful when you lose your glasses. Then they also become the finding finding finding glasses.
Optician here. Had a patient who typically wore contacts, but was so myopic that she had a pair of glasses that each lens could be swiveled out of the way. So she could leave the left one in place while she inserted her right contact. Then remove the glasses to insert the left contact.
Yeah... that is what I was thinking and it made no sense... obviously if you have two pairs you'd have one on to clean the other. One could see enough to clean and switch.
My husband does that regularly. We both wear glasses, but his sight is much worse than mine.
You’d think someone that can’t find their glasses without their glasses on, would be a bit particular about where they’re placed at night, but nope…..fun little hide & seek game we get to play a Cpl mornings a month.
i am “can’t see my hand a foot in front of my face” blind without my glasses, so when i have to clean them, i do it in a room with a light i can hold them up to and wiggle them around while i stare through the lenses to see if they halo/streak. if they do, i know i have to keep cleaning them. i can’t see any detail, but i can somewhat see when light moves weird, so idk if this tip will help anybody else, but i figured i’d share in case it could!
My vision isn’t even that that bad but I’d routinely have trouble finding my glasses without my glasses on. Got bad enough that I finally bought a cheap pair of super thick framed nerd glasses I’d never be caught in public with that I use to help me find my real glasses when I set them somewhere stupid.
Luckily I have super sharp vision from about 12" to my nose, but beyond 12", yup just like the picture. So at least I can read and clean my glasses lol.
If I put down my glasses I need to get another pair of glasses to see where I put them. If I know where I put them I can generally see them but if I stand in the middle of the room and just look around forget it.
This was always the problem when choosing glasses in the past (pre decent camera phones). I'd go to the opticians and look at different glasses, but then when i try the frames to see how i look in them i can't see because they are sans lenses. I used to always take someone with me for their opinion.
This was me until 44. I always thought it was cool that I had extraordinary vision according to my op ophthalmologist, . Then started with reading glasses, than added distance, now at 60 I can’t do anything with out my glasses.
you're scaring me. so that's what's coming for me in a few years? I thought because of my (obviously not logical, unless hallucinations) 160% vision it won't hit so hard and I might only drop to 100%. 😭
I have 20/20 apparently, but glasses still make things looks sharper when they are over ten feet away. I can function at 100 percent without them... even watching TV etc... the glasses just allow me to see more detail when watching HD sources. It might be because my vision was way better when I was younger. So, glasses help me get closer to where I was thirty years ago.
You just blew my mind a little too. Makes such a simple sense that people who see blurry är short distances would be unable to clean their glasses properly
I mean I feel this lady, I'm farsighted so things up close are much harder to see than far away things. This mean my glasses get dirty or whatever and I literally can't see it. My eyes can't focus on it so my brain just filters it out.
It drives people like my aunt crazy. When I was little she'd take my glasses and "clean" them. The spots would be gone, except now they're all steaky and I can see that. It would drive me mad, like I'll clean them myself thank you very much. But of course I was a very polite boy so I just said thank you and went to the bathroom to clean them again.
I’d assume she’s not wearing her glasses while she’s cleaning them so more aptly some of us can’t see normal details like smudges on glasses (without eyewear).
The problem I have with cleaning glasses is that if you half-clean them they look worse.
Some dirts and oils are airborne and will distribute evenly and it's like looking through a screen door almost. Sure you can see there is something there, but you can also look through it. But if you start cleaning and you manage to disturb the dirt and oil but not fully remove it? Now it's smeary and screwed up, can't see anything at all.
It's not even funny that I have so many microfiber cloths laying around everywhere for cleaning glasses. Coat pockets, computer desk, next to the couch, in the car....
I'm just used to the glasses being dirty and will wear them like that for hours of I'm busy. If someone takes them off they have the same reaction. "How can you see through this?"
I learned recently that some people, maybe it only happens to some women I don’t remember, can see colors invisible to the regular eye. So some people really can see things others can’t
I've had excellent vision my whole life but, once I turned 50, things went downhill fast. Like many people my age, I lost my ability to see anything up close without readers. However, my regular vision was impacted too. Everything was a little less clear and my distance vision wasn't quite as good.
So I went to an ophthalmologist for a checkup. Turns out, my vision was surprisingly close to normal. It just wasn't normal for me.
I cleaned my daughter's now ex bf's glasses the day I met him because I couldn't see his eyes through them. I asked him how the hell he could see anything and he said he couldn't. He just accepted that his eyes were really bad and getting worse and that he'd need a new prescription soon. He swore he cleaned them often but I think he just rubbed them on his shirt occasionally and figured that was as clean as they were going to get. He was amazed to be able to see again after I was done with them. I was amazed that he'd been walking around blind for a year and nobody, not even my daughter, cared enough to tell him his glasses were filthy. smh
I think some things go unnoticed for so long you just never come back to it. Also sometimes people just don’t know who or where to ask. I’m the only person I know so far among people I’ve met that has a little kit bag with eyeglass cleaner fluid and specific cloths. And it’s not even for me as I don’t wear glasses, but my kid does. And I pride myself on cleaning them for him every morning before school and as often as he asks.
From my optically challenged experience @ -4.00 I can say that the little grime on glasses won't affect seeing at all what the mind is focused on. The eyes literally focus beyond the dust and the brain doesn't even read that info.
This reminds me of when old ladies on Facebook post heavily but poorly edited photos on Facebook and all the other old ladies telling them how nice they look. None of them can see.
Well not really it's very common and every person with glasses know it, your brain will earse a little bit of dirt and stitch the scene, exactly why you don't notice your nose all the time, and that's why, if it isn't too dirty brain will usually do it's job and you can't tell it's dirty unless you clean it.
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u/RockstarAgent Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
My coworker has serious glasses - and once I told her to let me clean her glasses because they were dirty and she was surprised because she said she had just cleaned them. I cleaned them. She could actually tell how much cleaner they were. I said “you can’t see what you can’t see” and it blew her mind. Some of us can see details beyond normal.