kontextmaschine:

So one thing about my degrading ability to resolve both eye views into a single picture of the world, I’m remembering back to my childhood about relaxing into double vision or hyperfocusing to make my pupils flicker back and forth

And I’m starting to wonder maybe I never fully got into binocular vision and I’d just been better at suppressing one of the images and faking my way through on parallax

this hypothesis would account for why my reflexes and aim are a lot better at pinball (where the playfield is perpendicular to the field of view) than I remember in games based on objects flying towards or away from you

the biggest counterproof I can think of, I learned to fly when I was 13 or so (enough hours to solo and then license, but I was too young and the Jessica Dubroff thing happened so the FAA wasn’t giving waivers) and I didn’t hear any issues about my maneuvering in 3d space then

(no wait, my instructors did say I was looking too much at the instruments and not enough out the glass, but I was just an apple-polisher who wanted to get the metrics right)

might have been sufficient distance involved that the issue was negligible