>THE PROCESS:
1. Get yourself in a completely dark room with a flashlight, or if the light switch is low then sit next to it.
2. Allow eyes to adjust for 5 minutes(remember complete darkness, even now you shouldn't be able to see)
3. Try to focus your eyes to the depth the thing you're looking towards is.
4. For the next 10 minutes you start flashing your flashlight/lamp as fast as you can. You do the next flash only when the after-image of your last flash is gone.
5. Repeat for 30 days, eventually trying texts as well, starting with large fonts and ending with smaller ones.
>SOME TIPS:
1. Use your first 5min of adjusting to dark to do something(music, brush teeth...)
2. The room can't have ANY light sources. Go as far as toweling the cracks under doors. Complete darkness is needed.
3. Use a flashlight for comfort. Don't try to remember text for the first days.
4. Use large text at the first and smaller text as you progress.
5. Flashlight for as little as possible, you don't want "time-lapse photography".
6. As you flash the light you will see as if it was still bright.
7. Eventually you will know how to imprint a 3D image into your brain like a photo. Able to notice details you didn't see at first glance.
8. Don’t read a book. The absolute best thing to attempt to read is not a book. What works much better is black background with bright and blocky white lettering. Far far easier to try to read.
9. Wink. Part of the frustration you’ll come across with attempting to read your hindsight is overexposure. If you flash the lights before the image is totally dissolved, there is this overlap effect, like double exposed film (I’m not too ancient for remembering what film is, am I?). The solution: wink. Do it with one eye at a time; it has no effect on the process and allows one eye to recover as the other works. Doing this, my overall exercise got to as little as 3 minutes.
