So I understand we see things because light is reflecting off an object and that light is hitting our eye. It gets focused by our eye onto our retina. So it makes sense to me how someone can have bad eyesight, where everything goes equally out of focus. But how can a person be near-sighted, where light travelling a shorter distance (ie reflected from a closer object) is in focus but light travelling a farther distance is not in focus? And the reverse for far-sighted? How does the distance the light is traveling affect whether it can be in focus? It seems to me like everything should be able to be equally in focus, or equally out of focus
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Your eye can’t focus on things properly.
So most commonly, either you can see things in the distance fine and close stuff is blurry. Or you can see close things and far stuff is blurry.
I can’t focus on things far away, so I need glasses to help. So I’m nearsighted.
It’s got something to do with how my eye adjusts it’s shape and it’s focal range. It can’t do a certain thing very well.
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