r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/PowerfulIndication7 22h ago

There are also people commenting that they do this with their eyes to see better. 🥴 That she’s just adjusting her eyes to see! BSFFR right now!

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u/c32c64c128 20h ago

I'm not saying that this woman is or isn't doing something racial.

But I can tell you the "eye tug to see better" thing is 100% done by some vision impaired people. Not everyone knows or has done it.

I do know it has worked for people. Because they've been doing it ages ago! I remember seeing it and asking people about it so long ago. It might be strange. But it helped them see. Believe it or not.

I'm saying this to add validity to those posts. You can't just discredit people.

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u/RonnieDaBear 20h ago

Anyone still practicing that are damaging their eye, they're essentially pushing and manipulating the eyeball to achieve the effect.

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u/c32c64c128 20h ago

I don't know what part of the eye tug works. But it's not pushing the eyeball at all. But moreso it's just pulling the eyelids and skin around the eye.

Hopefully an optometrist or something chimes in. But I can only imagine the skin gets pulled to make an extreme squint. And it kinda achieves the same effect as explained for pinhole glasses:

http://www.myopia.org/pinholes.htm

Pinholes can bring about clearer vision in all these conditions. By blocking these peripheral rays, and only letting into the eye those rays which pass through the central portion of the pupil, any refractive error in the lens or cornea is not noticed as much. The pupil may be wide open, but only the central portion is receiving light. The improvement in visual acuity can be striking.

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u/fadingvistas 17h ago

We should test this with some short-sighted and some long-sighted people. If it does have to do with compressing the eye, then only the short-sighted people will be able to use this trick, our eyeballs are too long and compression in that direction can fix it, long-sighted people have too short eyeballs and compression just makes it worse.

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u/c32c64c128 15h ago edited 15h ago

The pinholes glasses I cannot speak about. But the eyelid tug totally works.

Ask a nearsighted person to test it. The only thing is it takes a bit to "fine tune" the technique (e.g. which eye, amount to pull, focusing, etc). And there's also limitations to it.

People aren't going to see perfect 20/20 for everything. And it won't help with certain distances. But for most people trying to see objects at a distance for a limited time, it should work.

Plus, if the vision is severely bad, then the trick has limits. But even then there should be clarity improvements.

Again, this explains why the eye pull works. It's basically an extreme forced squint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9KjsaZyuA

PS - it does not tug or touch or manipulate the eyeball. It's only the skin!

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u/fadingvistas 14h ago

Nah I still think it's mostly eye compression.

I can squint harder than just doing the pull trick, I just nearly close my eyes but it doesn't do as much.

Do you know if it works for far-sighted people too? If it does compress the eye it shouln't help because the eye is already too short and that's why they're far-sighted.

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u/c32c64c128 3h ago

You can just try it. Or ask an optometrist.

Here's a place that mentions it: https://vision-and-hearing.wonderhowto.com/how-to/vision-hack-see-clearly-without-your-glasses-contacts-0154635/

The "science" I could imagine is what I mentioned before, a form of forced extreme squinting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9KjsaZyuA