Will lazy eye affect lucid dreaming?

**Lemm1w1nkz** · 02-13-2008 02:10 AM

I have yet to become lucid, but one of my worries concerns my lazy eye. At birth my brain for whatever reason decided to ignore my left eye. It is a perfectly normal eye that is parallel to my right eye, functions, and looks like a normal eye but my brain will not use it. The only vision I have out of my left eye is peripheral (everything that I see out of that eye is of the same quality as if your were looking at something out of the corner of your eye)

Besides that my vision is good, my field of vision is good enough where I can have a drivers license, play sports, or what ever. It does not affect my life at all. I am just afraid that being half blind will make it harder to become lucid. Will it be harder to spot HI, or if I do become lucid will the resolution of my minds eye be half of what it is?

I am concerned because it is my brain not accepting the input, the eye works perfectly fine.

**Clairity** · 02-13-2008 02:15 AM

I really don't think your eye will have a negative effect on LDing.

In real life I wear contacts/glasses but my vision is perfect (if not better) when I LD. I don't ever recall even wearing glasses while lucid.

**ExoByte** · 02-13-2008 02:24 AM

Shouldn't be a problem at all. Lucid Dreaming is all in the head, and HI and such you're to see behind closed eye lids anyway! You shouldn't have any problems with LDing because of a lazy eye.

**Wavefunction** · 02-13-2008 05:37 AM

I agree with them, it shouldn't affect your dream vision.

Welcome to Dreamviews!

**Moonbeam** · 02-13-2008 01:51 PM

to DreamViews, Lemm.

I also wear glasses, but see fine in dreams. Some people use that as a reality check--if they can see well without glasses, they must be dreaming. Or, they check to see if their glasses are on (most people can see them out of the corner of their eyes if they pay attention) and if they aren't on, they must be dreaming.

Good luck with your dreaming! Let us know how it goes.

**AmazeO XD** · 02-13-2008 01:56 PM

Same. I wear glasses, but I see fine in dreams. Don't worry about it!

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 02-13-2008 02:42 PM

Yep I wear glasses and it's interesting that everyone who has glasses doesn't notice them in lds, I guess it's because you don't actually see and think about you're glasses alot. I don't ever remember seeing my glasses in a dream and in my lds my vision is super sharp.

Lemm1w1nkz, if you see fine in normal dreams then lds should be no different. Lazy eye shouldn't be a problem at all.

**Lemm1w1nkz** · 02-13-2008 08:30 PM

Thank you all very much for your input. It makes me feel a lot better to know I can lucid dream. I was very worried about that, but it does make sense. I have done a lot of things in dreams that I would normally need my glasses for.

**Angelmouse** · 02-13-2008 08:54 PM

Hi.

Welcome to Dreamviews.

My son is a prolific LDer, he has a stigmatic squint which he wears glasses for. He can switch his sight between eyes, which is pretty cool, but he's never had any problems.

Hopefully you'll find that out for yourself soon enough.

**Photolysis** · 02-13-2008 09:32 PM

I have a lazy eye myself and can lucid dream just fine.

I also am long-sighted, but that doesn't really affect anything related to lucid dreaming!

By the way, in dreams/HI you don't see with your eyes. The brain is probably using the same parts that process images, but it's not being detected by the eye and so you should see it fine.

In fact, if you're blind, providing you had sight at some point, you would be able to see fine in dreams.