About 17 years ago I took instruction from a teacher of the Bates Method (as refined by some woman whose name I cannot recall). It’s a lot of work. You can expe

About 17 years ago I took instruction from a teacher of the Bates Method (as refined by some woman whose name I cannot recall). It’s a lot of work. You can expect to put at least an hour a day into it if you want any results. My results were a big improvement, but not an improvement to even close to 20/20 after about a year, so I lapsed and my eyesight eventually deteriorated back to very myopic. I went from -7.25d for 20/20 to -2.00d for 20/40. Not correcting your vision for perfect 20/20 with lenses is one part of the method, and I also tired of never having perfectly corrected vision. "Outdoor seeing" has a big role in the Bates method with emphasis on horizon focusing and outdoor lighting, as mentioned in this article too, but as well as brighter light, Bates put emphasis on full-spectrum natural lighting. I went so far as to buy full spectrum light bulbs for my house. Unfortunately I could never come up with a good solution for doing computer work in natural lighting. Bates had some downright wrong ideas, so his entire work was never taken seriously by established medicine. During this time I also ran across an Israeli teacher of his own method (pretty much the same as Bates), who liked to say he had a blind certificate from the state of Israel and a driver’s license from the state of California, and he didn’t wear any corrective lenses. However, when his son was born with the same defect he had, he had his son undergo an operation removing the lenses and making his son dependent on contact lenses. He said the natural vision thing was just too hard and he didn’t want his son going through it.