Trials of the monocular
Oct.02, 2008, filed under Miscellany
I currently have a bad head cold and concussion. The concussion is a lot better than it was…
Look. Don’t try unlocking your bike with an improperly fastened messenger bag on wet, slippery cobbles while fairly inebriated at 03:30. What happens is you land on your head and end up with a colourful black eye as the resultant internal bleeding drains down the side of your face.
It’s not glamorous and it’s not clever.
You don’t get double vision when you have concussion and only one eye. You get this weird effect that’s like a crappy webcam with a slow refresh rate.
The other thing that happens is that your distance judgement goes. I don’t have any 3D. I lack the necessary stereoscopic vision. What I’ve got is a lifetime of learning to compensate. It took me years, but eventually I figured out that I calculate distance using minute movements of my head to provide the necessary differentiation. That calculation goes right up the spout when suffering the after-effects of severe head trauma.
I’m going to be spilling things for a while.
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