Pinhole Glasses -
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Pinhole Eye Glasses
Pinhole glasses are something of a phenomenon. They allow anyone with blurry vision to see clearly - instantly - without the need for corrective lenses.
You can test the concept right now. Make a fist and put it up to one eye, with the other eye closed. Open your fist just a tiny miniscule amount, just enough to create a small hole to peep through. Amazingly, you can now see clearly!
It's a bit miraculous, isn't it? What's more, there is lots of anecdotal evidence to show that wearing pinhole eyeglasses can improve your vision naturally in just 15 minutes each day. While optometrists have been reluctant to carry out the necessary clinical trials to verify this, my personal experience leaves me with little doubt that pinhole glasses can improve vision naturally with daily use.
In fact, I believe that pinholes are an excellent support to daily vision training, which is how I dramatically improved my own vision in weeks.
How do Pinhole Glasses Work?
Pinhole glasses are a natural form of vision correction, that can never harm your eyesight.
In contrast, glasses and contact lenses only correct your vision superficially and are known to make your vision worse over time.
Contrary to their name, pinhole eyeglasses are not made of glass or corrective lenses. They are simply black plastic (or metal) with holes punched through where the lens would normally be.
So, how do pinhole glasses work?
The beauty of pinhole eyeglasses is that they enable a much narrower beam of light to enter the eye. This instantly allows the eye muscles to relax and focus the small beam of light more clearly onto the retina:
1. Myopia / Nearsightedness
Light rays enter the eye and land too far in front of the retina,
causing distant objects to appear blurry

2. Hyperopia / Farsightedness
Light rays enter the eye and land too far behind the retina,
causing close up objects to appear blurry

3. Pinhole Glasses
Fewer light rays enter the narrow pinhole and focus in parallel beams
perfectly on the retina, causing all objects to appear in focus

What are Pinhole Glasses For?
Here are two good reasons to start wearing pinhole eyeglasses today:
1. Prevent Computer Vision Syndrome - if you use computers a lot you will recognize the signs: eye strain, dry eyes, fatigue, headache, blurry vision and double vision. This is all down to intense near point stress. Computer glasses can reduce the glare from the monitor, help relax the eyes, increase depth of field, and increase your natural focusing power (also known as accommodation).
2. Relieve Eye Strain and Improve Your Vision - when I wear pinhole eyeglasses, I get a clear long distance focus without any eye strain. This is very supportive for reducing myopia. In fact, some users report that wearing pinhole glasses for just 15 minutes a day can noticeably improve your vision in 4 weeks. If you have farsightedness, you need simply read and write with pinholes on, while nearsighted people need just sit back and watch TV wearing pinholes.
The Advantages of Pinhole Glasses
There are so many advantages to pinhole eye glasses. I believe everyone who has myopia, hyperopia, aging vision or astigmatism should own a pair. Here's why:
- Pinhole eyeglasses are cheap. If you have mild myopia, you can buy pinhole glasses for occasional TV viewing instead of pricey corrective lenses which make your eyesight worse.
- You don't need to upgrade your pinhole eyeglasses as your vision improves - since they apply to many degrees of refractive errors. In comparison, normal corrective glasses usually have to be updated every year or two as your vision only worsens.
- For occasional use, pinhole eye glasses are better than off-the-shelf corrective lenses for aging vision. These reading glasses can be inappropriate for many people since they have the same prescription in each eye. Pinhole glasses can address different refractive errors.
- If you suffer from Computer Vision Syndrome, computer glasses will reduce the bright glare from the computer screen, helping the eyes to relax and focus better. If you spend a lot of time at the computer and are worried about your near point vision, pinholes can help.
- People who have had laser eye surgery often find their night vision gets permanently damaged. To reduce the glare and halo effect, they turn up the lights to make the pupil shrink and take in less light. Pinhole glasses create this effect naturally without straining your eyes.
- Perhaps most importantly, many people have reported dramatic natural vision improvement from wearing pinhole eyeglasses. Since pinholes help the eye muscles to relax and create a crisp focus, there is plenty of supporting evidence to suggest that pinholes help develop a healthier visual system for life. All this, in as little as 15 passive minutes per day.
Wearing Pinhole Glasses - What's It Like?
Most people adjust to wearing pinholes in minutes. You may experience the honeycomb effect at first (being aware of the holes) but this will lessen and you will only be aware of a dark veil effect. You will also be able to enjoy clear vision instantly without the damaging effect of corrective lenses.
However, if you have severe nearsightedness (over -6.00 diopters) the honeycomb effect may not go away, so pinhole glasses may not be right for you. I would focus on eye exercises until you reach this level, then adopt pinholes too.
Pinhole eyeglasses are ideal for children with progressive myopia and those with special visual needs who rely too heavily on their peripheral vision. Again, this is a much cheaper option than glasses, and kids find pinholes much more fun.
Please note: you should never wear pinhole glasses when driving as they limit your peripheral vision which makes it harder to spot hazards. I only use mine indoors.
Pinhole Glasses by Promolife
According to Promolife, one of the few suppliers of pinhole glasses in the USA, "Pinholes can be used as Sunglasses, Computer Glasses, Myopia Prevention Glasses and for those with Cataracts or Corneal Damage. With what we now know about the environmental cause of acquired myopia, we can make the claim that pinholes have a legitimate use in myopia prevention."

"When used for reading or other close work, pinholes reduce the amount of accommodation or focusing power that the eye must use to see clearly. There is an abundant amount of research that points the finger at excessive accommodation as the cause of acquired myopia.
It is clear that anything that can reduce this accommodative effort, including pinhole glasses, is a useful weapon in retaining good vision. It is for this reason, and the fact that those in the optical business want nothing to do with them, that we have decided to promote the use of pinholes on this website. These glasses could be a major tool in preventing myopia.
Pinholes are harmless; minus lenses MUST be avoided. Some day in the future, putting minus lenses on a young child will be a criminal act. People who don't deserve the title doctor go through life unconcerned about the devastation of ruined vision they leave in their wake."

I myself wear pinhole eyeglasses for at least 15 minutes a day where I can, usually just while watching TV which gives me clear long distance vision with no accommodative eye strain. I strongly recommend pinholes in combination with daily eye exercises for noticeable natural vision improvement.
New to this website? To learn more about how I dramatically improved my vision with eye exercises, read My Story.

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