Okay, so I had Lasik surgery in November, and I don’t need glasses for anything but reading and close-up work now. In fact, I can actually blog without my glasses (though it feels a bit weird). And lately, I’ve been noticing—sunbeams. More often than ever. Every time there was a significant cloud cover, and holes in it, I could see the sunbeams. Now, it’s not that I couldn’t see them when I wore glasses; I could. But not nearly as frequently. So I was wondering—did my surgery not just correct my vision, but make it so good I was seeing things I never really saw before?
And then, last week, the answer struck me on the way home from work with my friend Chris. Polarization.
I bought new sunglasses, a different kind from the clip-ons I’ve been using for my prescription glasses. They enable me to see the light beams more clearly.
Ooooooooooh.