This week was all about vision, again.
I had fun with the whole pirate look while I wore my patch and experienced monocular vision. I did three experiments, including one that I was not really supposed to do. I tried to type, read and somewhat drive in the beginning of last week.
When i was attempting to read, i found there to be no difference. I guess having two eyes makes very little difference when attempting to read. I measured my ability to read based on accuracy and speed. I lost neither with the patch. I also attempted to type while I had the patch on and got to experience monocular typing. It was cool.
I did learn that there was a huge difference when typing with only one eye. It was super hard and I found myself typing the wrong words a lot and with that I typed really typed quite slow. I am used to typing at about 50 plus words a minute, but with only one eye i suffered. I only typed about thirty words a minute, and it was really tedious!
Now when it came to driving, i did not actually drive. I got in the car and tried to see how well I could drive based on how well i could see the road through my mirrors, and various maneuvers. It was awful! At times the whole covered side of the road (eye covered side) was blind to the road, and it was around that time i realized why we were instructed to drive without the patch.
I learned a lot in class this week, but as the old addage says, one learns more by doing and that experimen with the patch was surely proof! I realized why people are permitted to drive with one eye, its possible, but not recommended!
I have no preference about which eye i like, or prefer, but learning how the eye works and how how we need both and use both to process light and images and edges, etc. I really appreciate my binocular vision, now even more.
