Bates Method

[Ralfy]

Sure I had heard of this before in connection with Aldous Huxley. Found the info I was looking for on Wikipedia (number 3 in the contents). The anecdote from Bennett Cerf is priceless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Vision_Improvement

 

[Charlie in Dayton]

So that's what it was all about...

I have semi-notoriously bad eyes (if you use the telescope or binoculars after me, you WILL be refocusing), and when I was a kid, my mom would sit me down in the evening and we'd go thru these 'eye exercises'...never could figger out just what the heck brought all that on...