Kancept
monstrelineIf you wear glasses full time, I’m curious…how many times per week do you end up (intentionally or accidentally) sleeping in them all night?
| WTF? Never. | |
| 1-2 | |
| 3-4 | |
| 5+ |
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So far, I am astounded by these results!
webhat@monstreline I voted never, but that's just because need to take them off when I take my jumper and shirt off
@webhat Interesting. I do as well…but put them right back on 😬
EllenIn Edmonton@monstreline @webhat
It makes a difference that I only wear readers at home, so I remove them many times/day. I have definitely slept with glasses tangled up in my bedcovers, but not on my face.
It makes a difference that I only wear readers at home, so I remove them many times/day. I have definitely slept with glasses tangled up in my bedcovers, but not on my face.
Sarah 🍕@monstreline I would be a little concerned about someone who did this a lot. My dad started doing it when he developed Alzheimers. I've had glasses 35 years and never did it once, not while drunk or exhausted or jet lagged or anything... and I've got chronic illness with brain fog and memory issues and migraines and I'm kind of a mess.
@sarahv I’m pretty sure I don’t have Alzheimer’s or early onset dementia. I’ve been doing it for a decade. I think I just really really hate opening my eyes to wildly fluctuating vision
@monstreline Do you have really cheap glasses? I value mine so much and they are so hard to replace with ones that really fit well. I take really good care of them. I can't imagine thinking it's NBD to sleep in them...
@sarahv I do. My prescription is changing twice a year right now, conservatively. With a replacement schedule that intense, they don’t have time to break.
@monstreline That makes sense. With my headache disorders I am really finicky about glasses and their fit, so once I have a pair working for me they are worth their weight in gold.
🔥Cassandra🔥@monstreline Never - I'm too delicate a sleeper for that.
But it did get me thinking about when I wear them when I don't need to. Like: I could give my eyes a rest while pacing in my apartment.
@Cassandra are you farsighted or nearsighted…I think that has a big influence on one’s ability to do that. Probably easier for the mildly farsighted.
@monstreline Extremely nearsighted.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKsame here - I usually wear contacts during daytime but glasses before bedtime or first thing in morning (I need to put my glasses on to see where my contact lens box is!), and its blatantly obvious if I don't have my eyesight correction..
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@mayintoronto @Cassandra the dream is vision correction! I’m farsighted with heavy astigmatism. I’ve reached the age that for most people is reading glasses but for someone already farsighted who has had the ability to accommodate most of their life…as that accommodation deteriorates, the hyperopia it hid spirals fast.
Right now my prescription is changing twice a year. I know it’s time for a new one because I keep thinking “I need to put my glasses on, I can’t see properly” but I’m already wearing them.
I get being worried about breaking your glasses. I’ve been ordering the cheapest ones possible so i can get a backup pair but cheap online glasses are a pretty recent development.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@monstreline I have a Q, if you have a moment:
▪ do you order progressives? I've wondered how good those are, online.
Ok, actually, two, LOL:
▪ how do you adjust them to fit, without an optician? Fitting progressives is important.
@deborahh @mayintoronto @Cassandra
So I was ordering progressive for the first couple of years, but my prescription is changing so quickly right now that I don’t bother. I just order single vision lenses at the reading strength from the progressive prescription and get the longest use of them that way. Wear the old pair for distance and the new pair for close.
When I did order progressives, I asked a kind friend who also happens to be an optician for my measurement details. He kindly obliged and indicated that a presbyotic, astigmatic hyperope is every optician and optometrist’s nightmare 🤪
Though my mother has been in progressives for 45 years and now orders them from Zenni with only measuring her own pupillary distance roughly herself and hasn’t had any issues with her lenses. She went from paying about $1200 for lenses to $200. Progressives for high hyperopia and high astigmatism weren’t cheap.
@monstreline @mayintoronto @Cassandra good idea to get cheaper, single vision glasses for specific purposes.
@Cassandra then I think it might suck, be dangerous, or both to pace about without glasses 🤓
@monstreline Just in my apartment, where I know what's where.
elverkonge@monstreline Myopic, so if I read in bed just no glasses required.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@monstreline I’m nearsighted so they come off when I get in bed and I don’t need them to read things up close. (Like a book, phone, or tablet.)
@rasterweb great point. And a common one it seems. I’ll have to explore if nearsightedness is more prevalent than farsightedness!
Ronnie@monstreline @Kancept Glasses wearer for 40 years and I’ve never slept over night with them on. Also, I read some other comments and I’m near sighted. I don’t know if that makes a difference.
Angie@monstreline I have never heard of sleeping with your glasses on. But add me to the nearsighted list.
Eliza MB@monstreline Been wearing glasses for 60+ years. Part of the bedtime routine is taking them off and making sure I'll be able to find them in the morning. It doesn't require any more thought than taking off underwear.
🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽@monstreline care of bifocals, my glasses are constantly coming on and off, I am more likely to lose them than sleep in em.
@CowMan been there!
bazbt3 🦣@monstreline @Ronnie Most of the respondents will probably:
1. Never have fallen asleep wearing them because they don't use a device in bed.
2. Have realised that finding the glasses on the floor or mixed up in the beclothes in the morning absolves them from admitting stuff was *technically* on their face all the time.
3. Not be me.
4. Be filthy derty liers! :)
@monstreline @Ronnie My wife drove us to the shops earlier, I tested myself and now know I can't drive without glasses. Not just legally.
I am now a realist. Brutal isn't it.
But it appears I'm a realist today. :)
Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta@monstreline I lay down to sleep in them but I roll around way too much to keep them on more than a moment