So, I'm going to ask about 2 statuses. Glasses and heavy gamer. I want to see if heavy gamers are more likely to have glasses or not.

(Heavy gamer >20 hours a week)

In Year 8, my Maths class made a table on the minutes you spend gaming. I spend about 1500, which is roughly 24 hours gaming. I was by far the highest there. Maybe because I was in B (yeh, my school started having graded classes since Year 8)... And I'm short-sighted. I'm 2 in my left, and 3 in my right. At this rate, I'm proably getting to about 5 or 6 before I stop. It's just gaming is so addictive.

- A procrastinator

Contacts, but, either way, I still need "corrective lenses" - but, I don't know if games had anything to do with this, when I was young (about, 5 or 6) I just became nearsighted, and I didn't spend that much time with my SNES, or watch T.V. up close.

I do not wear galsses but I think with my long hair they would look pretty swell.

Why is it that you want to know if we wear glasses. Is it something to do with they amount of time we spend looking at a screen. I think I would play for maybe18 hours a week, depending on the amount of homework I have.

No glasses, but I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my eyes. Can't focus on far away things for that long. Maybe it's just the pollution, who knows.

My eyes are awesome. No problems here.

I'm far sighted, always have been since about 10-ish, long before I played video games for any amount that could be classified as heavy.

At first it was for 'as you need them', but due to laziness, I now have to wear them all the time. It's been over two years since I had to update my prescription though, so it seems my eyes have gotten as bad as they'll get. For now.

I think im about on the border between light and heavy gaming, but my eyes have been bad for a long time.

Yep i wear glasses, however glasses are pretty much prevalent in my whole family even though I'm the only heavy gamer so i would guess they're unrelated.

Damn... I'm a very heavy gamer and I can barely read anything thats over 3 metres away from me. I need some glasses soon.
In fact, alot of the time I find myself getting dizzy and about an hour later I get serious nausea, though I guess my no-lifing hasn't helped in any shape or form.

I wear glasses, used to have perfect vision though. I blame staring at the sun as a kid, and I'm going to get laser eye surgery when I'm 18. Nearsighted.

Interesting topic... I am a heavy gamer with no glasses, though for all I know I may need them. I don't have any eyesight problems, though.

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Yeah, contacts here. I have near-sightedness. Started when I was 10 or 11, I think. It's only gotten worse with the years.

I just wanna point this out. As it stands, the current majority is Heavy, glasses, nearsighted.

I forgot. I do have glasses. Started after gaming.

i am almost certain computers caused my shortsightedness. The only history in my family has been long sightedness and my yes were always great until i started using computer screens a lot.

I am borderline heavy/light gamer.

Also it was not a gradual thing. My vision got bad fast so i am guessing the stress of screens caused this.

i do play alot of game and im long sighted. However i have been since birth so i dont think that games really have anything to do with it. But hay why not vote anyway.

I have contacts or glasses, whichever mood strikes me. light gamer I guess...not sure what makes a heavy gamer or light gamer. If you go by hours played or what not...Oh I'm also nearsighted. hehe

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It's not much of a surprise that heavy gaming causes short sightedness now is it?

I don't need to wear glasses, but since my screen is so damn small, it helps.

Have needed glasses since before my gaming addiction set in, and family has a history of bad eyesight, I personally blame our ancestors for all that time spent outside in the sun playing....

I'd classify myself as a heavy gamer, and so far no glasses/contacts/whatever. I do switch up between PC and console, though, which does make for a bit of a change in focal lengths and that may help keep the ol' eyeballs limber.

-- Steve

Sib:
It's not much of a surprise that heavy gaming causes short sightedness now is it?

You have any data to back that up? Because I wasn't a heavy gamer as a kid, and my sight has been deteriorating fairly consistently up until I turned 20 or so. The optometrist tells me my sight's stabilizing now, or at least it's not getting so bad that I need a new perscription every 2 years, like I did as kid/teenager. Oh, and I think it's safe to say I gamed as frequently, if not more, in college than I did as in middle/high school. If anything, I stare at a computer screen much more now than I did back then. I find my eye condition to be dependant on several factors, not just how much I play games in one week.

You might think I took that a little too seriously, but it's thinking like this that causes people to make incorrect associations. Like video games make us all violent people, for instance.

I do not use glasses, and is playing way too much games.

I've worn glasses since I was about 10, when I was spotted in a routinue primary school eye-test, although it was fairly obvious in hindsight that I had a problem with my far-vision (After all, when it takes you 3 times longer to copy stuff down from the board because your having to run up and look at it before returning to your seat, there is something wrong, heh). Anywho, I did try lense's, but after few years, decided to stop wearing them as they were uncomfortable.

As for gamer, I put Heavy, although my pattern of play varies lot as it goes though stages of activity.

I had glasses before gaming. Blame a tree and a high speed impact.

Heavy gamer, near-sighted with 20/40 vision.

My question is:
What are the actual percentages of people with eye problems?

I don't think that gaming and glasses are really co-related. Although I could be very wrong, as following posts will likely show.

Heavy gamer, glasses, nearsighted, although i started wearing glasses before i became an heavy gamer. I actually have been getting better. When i got my drivers license i was required by law to wear glasses while driving, whereas now i don't.

I was a heavy reader long before I was a heavy gamer, but had glasses since before I was a heavy reader... Your results prove Correlation, but not Causation...

Wearing glasses since age 10. And that's before there was such a thing as home computers. As do all the rest of my family, some strict non-gamers in there.

maybe its something to do with the glasses that makes people a heavy game, has anyone though of that huh?

and no i dotn have glasses, on the cusp of heavy 20/20 vision