How well do you see? Do you wear glasses? Contact lens? Have you had laser surgery? How often do you get your eyes checked?
At my age, vision has become a necessary concern. I’ve worn glasses most of my life because of a lazy eye. A Lazy eye (amblyopia) is reduced vision in one eye caused by abnormal visual development early in life. The weaker — or lazy — eye often wanders inward or outward. Amblyopia generally develops from birth up to age 7 years. It is the leading cause of decreased vision among children. I remember being called cockeyed, as a child, wearing a patch, and then glasses with a magnifying lens that earned me the nickname Big Eye. People can be cruel.
Unfortunately, amblyopia is a hereditary disease. My youngest grandson suffers from it, as does my grandniece. In my grandson’s case, while he has diminished vision in one eye, the eye doesn’t float around. He has glasses, which he rarely wears, and while he’s supposed to patch a few hours each day, he doesn’t–but then I was the same at his age. My grandniece on the other hand required surgery and must wear her glasses. Like everything else, there a degrees of vision issues. I baby my one good eye because I can’t imagine not being able to see. I’ve done that, patched the good eye trying to exercise and improve the bad one, and it’s no fun.
Today’s letter is V for Vision. There is more than one kind of vision and while the one involving the eyes may be the most common, I want to talk about the kind most closely associated with dreams. In my paranormal series, visions are a way for the characters to learn things about themselves and others. Sometimes those visions are in the form of dreams, both daydreams and night ones, at other times, they can take the form of hallucinations. Whichever vision sequence works is the one I’ll use, but as a rule, I prefer dream and nightmare sequences, although I have used trances, too. In Listen to the Stones, a critical part of the story occurs with Marina in a trance.
There is a third type of vision worth mentioning, and it goes along with personal character.
That’s it for V and vision. Tomorrow, we’ll look at W. Here’s your song for the day,
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Living the Dream 
How did I miss you had two blog challenges… My son was born with a turned in eye. We patched… very hard. He had surgery at 6 months and later again at 16 to re-lign the eyes. Luckily his girls weren’t affected. There was a cousins son who also had this, but other than that, don’t know of any other family members. Wonder if there’s a DNA trait on this I missed.
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Talking of DNA I was very short sighted but no one in my family including my DNA father had problems with their vision. My husband is also short sighted and both my children are. Not sure about the grandchildren yet. I had laser surgery which made me long sighted so I needed glasses to read. Now I just wear bifocals. There’s a small cataract developing so I suppose I will have to do something about it one day. I treasure my eyesight and have my eyes checked annually.
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Both hubs and I do the same. Eyesight is precious.
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