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Brain not "showing me" my peripheral vision

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@88lance You're welcome. I was thinking about this and comparing my vision and what I do as an artist. I have a lot of spacial awareness and 3 dimensional understanding of the world and I think in 3 dimensions. I'm always translating that into 2 dimensions when I create artwork. You are a bit opposite because the periphery and spacial understanding cuts in and out for you. I hope exercising that with a bit of art therapy will help. If you enjoy art, you may want to go look at some great art in museums. There is a lot to be learned when you study how the artist did something and it may inspire you.

You may also have a dominant eye. I know I do, and my brains gives it preference in processing the image. At one time when I had contact lenses, one eye was corrected for distance and the other for close up, and when my focus changed, my brain automatically switched eyes. If you cover up one eye and try some rapid eye movements, you can find out if your eyes are different in the way your brain processes.

I really like this "Art for Healing" discussion on Connect? You might enjoy it. (You may find out something about me on the first page, and I have contributed fairly often there.)

-Art for Healing
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/art-for-healing
Will you update me with your progress on your drawings? Good luck in your quest!

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I think I forgot to tag you in my last response, sorry. (You may want to read it first) I wanted to mention an idea that my neuro-Opthalmologist had that we are trying at the moment, as it seems like an interesting idea. So far I've not seen any effect though or improvement.
We switched to prism glasses, with the prisms focus all the way around my peripheral.
As you probably know, prism lenses are usually used for people that have a spot missing out of their vision from brain damage or a stroke, and the extra light directed in from the prisms at that spot forces the brain to pay attention to the missing spot, and from what I've read it seems that it usually works very well in making the brain start acknowledging the missing spot again.
I've had the glasses for 2 days now, and so far have not seen any improvement.
We did do a test with the glasses, measuring my balance on a very sensitive board that somewhat resembled a scale. Although I could not tell any difference in my balance with the prism glasses compared to without, the board measured even the slightest movement in my feet and determined that my balance is actually better with the prisms than it is without them.
Since the brain uses vision and the view of things around you to balance your body better, he determined that from the test the prism lenses were in fact giving my brain more information than my normal glasses. Basically the prism lenses were letting my brain get more information from my peripheral, and put that to work to improve balance.
The remaining question was whether my brain would use this additional information to give me my peripheral back or not, which so far has not, but still is a pretty interesting theory and test .
Anyway, just wanted to add that, since it seems to be an interesting test and experiment.