Water refracts light (bends/distorts it). So do the lenses in eyeglasses.
If water is at a certain angle relative to your eye, it’s possible for it to function like a crude version of a glasses lens, and partially correct your vision.
I can do it with swimming pools. If my eye is about one inch above the surface of clear water, I get the right amount of refraction to more or less cancel out my short sightedness. I can see what’s under the water with more clarity than I usually get with my naked eyes.
I don’t know if this is a common phenomenon or if it only works for people with really specific kinds of vision problem.
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