What does long sighted mean?

Question

What does long sighted mean?

Answer 1

It means ur a googlebrain and need spectaculars!!! LOL

Answer 2

It means you see things much clearer that are further away from you, than those that are closer.

Answer 3

Long sighted or Far sighted, or Hyperopia ( the real term) doesn't just mean reading glasses are needed.

Many hyperopes need their glasses for distance vision also.

When you see someone whose eyes look bigger and magnified behind their glasses...they are hyperopic.

+ power lenses aren't always just for close up.

Most people who reqiure reading glasses are presbyopic, a different condition than hyperopia.

Hyperopia is when the image ( in theory) would form clearly behind the retina instead of on it...

Presbyopia, is when the lens of the eyes lose the ability to change shape to focus at near objects.

Nearsighted ( myopia) is when the image would ( in theory) focus in front of the retina instead of on it.

Answer 4

it means that you can see things a long way from you but close up they are fuzzy.

Answer 5

The medical name is hyperopia. It means that you can focus on things a long way away, but not on things that are close to you. This means that you would need glasses to read.

Answer 6

I'm short sighted. You might think that means I don't see as well as you, but I read and sew and do finnicky things without my specs because I see fine at short distances. This is because the lenses in my eyes are a bit out of focus (squashed, I think).

People who are long sighted have lenses which are out of focus in the opposite way (elongated/stretched). They can see further than you with more clarity, but have difficulty with close work.