Do you wear eyeglasses?

I do wear corrective lenses, and have needed them since 7th grade. I prefer to wear soft contact lenses, but will occasionally pop on the frames when my eyes need a rest.


Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Jochie

Contacts seem even worse, but maybe I'm just being ignorant. Put little thingies right on my eyeballs? I don't know...

For the most part, your eyeballs cannot feel them (or much of anything else, except for the sensation of dryness...). Its your eyelids that have to get used to wearing contacts. The first few weeks of wearing the lenses, you notice them pretty much all of the time. Eventually, you develop calluses on the insides of your eyelids that make wearing the lenses more comfortable, and then you don't notice them at all. After that, you just need to make sure that when you put them in your eyes are nice and lubricated, and the surfaces of the lens are free of debris. Even the smallest speck of dust or hair on the lens will feel like you have a boulder in your eye. You also have to make sure that there are no tears in the lens, and that you aren't putting them in inside-out (soft lenses have a bevelled edge that will scrape against the inside of the eyelid if you put them in wrong. Not damaging, but annoying as hell)

The thought of touching your eye might make you squeemish, but you get used to it. I can push my eyeball around all kinds of ways with my (clean) index finger.

There's nowhere I can't reach.