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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • Yes, I can focus and unfocus my eyes at will, I too, to razor sharp vision or so blurry that I can’t even make out features on anyone’s face. (Without going cross eyed, which I can also do with any eye at a time).

    It’s a good superpower, as I have glasses that I can wear if I want to which are roughly +3.5, but I rarely bother, because I’ll just use my eye muscles to see perfectly well,so I never freak out when I lose my glasses or whatever. I

    It’s really handy for zoning tf out, too. Which is mostly a blessing, but sometimes a curse, especially as I have the inattentive ADHD where I just go blank faced and stare into the blurry distance whilst totally disappearing inwards.



  • Ha! This happens to me as well! I do have a funny slight extra detail though. I can’t really visualise images in my minds eye (almost aphantasia), but when I’m closing my eyes to go to sleep, and a sudden noise happens, I see a flash of white like you, but also usually some random af detailed image flash in my minds eye. It’s so weird, always different, always amusing, and the closest I get to visualising. It could be anything, like a old woman in a cowboy hat riding a horse or whatever. Also, I have slight grapheme-colour synesthesia, so it’s interesting that you called it wish synesthesia! I wonder if it plays some role!