What Is The Bates Method of Vision Improvement? Is There Anything Useful in It?
I had so much trouble with the regular vision training homework, as I stated before, that I did look into it when I started training again, at age 45. I do find it useful, to a certain extent. I read about the Bates Method in a book by Aldous Huxley, called The Art of Seeing. I knew that Huxley was a brilliant man; I had read many of his novels, and I had heard that his book on the Bates method was easier to understand than the one written by Bates himself. When Huxley was a teenager, he suffered an attack of keratitis punctata, an acute infection which left him with opacities in his cornea, farsightedness,and extreme blurriness. He was actually almost blind for 18 months. After that, his vision was still extremely poor; he was barely able to detect light with one eye, and only just barely able to see the largest letter on the Snellen (eye) chart at 10 feet. He used a hand magnifying lens at first, and then was promoted to eyeglasses. He suffered continual strain because it was such a
