The dilation is finally gone after 48 hours. White things definitely look whiter in the new eye. About the same amount of normal little floaters as in the left eye. My mother had huge dark floaters afterwards. She said she kept thinking people were sneaking up on her from the side. They settled down (gravity) in a few weeks for her. My left eye is dominant and I'm right-handed. It's called cross dominant. That explains why I was never good at sports and wasn't very good at shooting a rifle as a kid. That's my excuse anyway, and I'm sticking to it. After months of playing second fiddle to the dominant eye, the right eye is being a bit lazy about focusing all by itself. I may get an eye patch.
I have that cross dominant thing going on too. But it is not just my eyes. You should see me bowl and shoot! Speaking of trees, my best apple tree was totally girded by rabbits and they have started on others. But not plum trees. I wonder if they taste bad. Have a new roll of chicken wire in the barn but it interferes with mowing close in. Told daughter to set out lots of snares cuz she says we have a bumper crop of wild rabbits this year but that may not be a good idea with chickens. When we have a warm up, they head to the garden.
Some of our goats used to like to girdle trees. They preferred sweet gum, but also some good ones. We wrapped the bases of a few of the trees we wanted to save with chicken wire. By the time the tree outgrows the wire, it's all rusted up. Probably too coarse a weave for rabbits.
That's more common than people realize, and--just like color blindness--you may not realize that you have it until the right scenario presents itself.
I am also "cross-dominant" but I'm basically ambidextrous. I always thought I was actually left-handed but forced to use my right hand for writing and stuff as a kid. I do a lot of utilitarian things (knives, etc.) with my left hand. I can use a computer mouse with either hand and I frequently swap back and forth to keep from having carpal tunnel.
I drove my wife's car last night and had no trouble. I DO have trouble driving my truck at night, even with the brightest bulbs I could find short of LEDs. Height off the road surface may be an issue.
My wife has the same problem as, as do at least one of our sons and at least one grandson. Wife was never much of a marksman. I got a 9 mm PC carbine and put a red dot on it, and when she tried to shoot it left-handed, bingo! She suddenly became a crack shot, at least at PC carbine ranges.
I still remember the very first time I shot a rifle (.22). Must have been maybe 7 years old. It was with my cousins at my grandfather's cabin. I was the only one who couldn't hit the target. Finally, my grandmother noticed I was trying to focus the sight with my left eye holding the rifle on the right. To this day I've always wondered how I could have been so stupid. Now it makes sense. I can write with my left hand, slowly. It's more like drawing, and it's not pretty. I can do trim work with a paint brush with the left. Saves moving the ladder so much when you're trimming up at the ceiling.
I'm right-handed, but there are a ton of things I do with my left hand. I had a left-handed brother who they tried to break of the habit in school...they failed. So maybe I got half of that gene. For example, I cannot throw a Frisbee with my right hand. I never could, and I really didn't give it much thought. When I learned how to use an adding machine in the days before computers, I taught myself how to enter the numbers with my left hand so I would not have to keep putting my pencil down to data enter and picking it back up to write down the results. I am speedy-fast data entry with my left hand, and special-needs with my right. When computers came along, I had to get an external keypad so I could put it on my left side...eventually they came out with left-handed keyboards. When people learn how to shoot, one of the first things you do is help them figure out their dominant eye. This woman shows a common method to determine your dominant eye, and discusses how hers shifts from day-to-day: This guy shows another method: I'm right eye dominant.
I had to look this up to refresh my memory, since I don't have cross eye dominance. I only remembered using the patch and learning to offhand shoot. Most of the downsides are if you get in a self-defense situation. -Turn your head to the right and use your left eye --The downside is you lose some left-side peripheral vision -Learn to shoot "offhand" (use the non-dominant hand) --It's a good skill to learn anyway should you lose the use of your dominant hand in a conflict -Try to train your other eye by wearing a patch or putting tape over that lens of your shooting glasses to cover the dominant (usually left) eye --It's tough to do, and the dominance tends to comeback when the patch is removed -Put a red dot (laser) sight on it and ignore the iron sights --It feels like cheating, and is fine until the sight gets damaged or the batteries die This is reminding me that when I first started going to the range, I put a Post-It Note over the lens of my safety glasses (first left lens then the right) to test my eye preference.
Probably easier than swapping sides with a handgun. For me, the issue is to overcome what I would instinctively do. There's a difference between going out an planning on target shooting a certain way, and being in the field when a deer comes along or a bird flushes. In or outside the arena of shooting, it is fascinating how our brains are wired. One wonders if there is an advantage either way. Maybe with a southpaw in the class, the nuns whack everyone else less.
One of my sons can switch his eye dominance. I think he is also a bit ambidextrous as well, but the eye dominance is something learned in Scouts on the shooting range. One of his sons is also the grandchild with the right-handed, left eye dominance issue. I went to the skeet range with them and watched the trouble he had even with a shotgun. He says the technique his dad uses doesn't work for him..I suggested using foggy tape or Vaseline on the inside of the lens of his shooting glasses to force the right eye to be dominant.