# My glasses make me look positively goofy!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 25, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-glasses-make-me-look-positively-goofy/490728 "2009-03-25T13:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-glasses-make-me-look-positively-goofy/490728/21 "2009-03-26T18:36:19Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> Not really a problem for me. There is a joke in my family that we all have gigantic heads. I think we inherited that from my grandmother. My sister looks like a popsicle.
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> Since getting my glasses, I see dead people. Well, ghosts. OK, ghost images of bright objects, that appear to be several inches away from the actual objects. And when I turn my head, my whole world distorts. I used to have to pay $4 a hit for that effect.

The ghosting could be reflections (do you have an antireflective coating?) from lights around you. That took some time for me to get used to as a glasses wearer. The AR coating can be had for around $40. I find it makes the glasses smear more easily, but I get around that by never ever ever touching my lenses. Ever. I like the lack of reflections. (If you don’t have this coating, it’s not too late)

The other culprit may be the [abbe](http://www.geocities.com/ed_ka2fwj/abbevalues.html)value of your lens material. I had cheap polycarbonate lenses once that made all black print on white pages have non-charming blue and yellow fringes around them. It made things hard to read.  
The high index lenses I have now do have a little distortion, but I only notice it in the reflection of car headlights in the rearview mirror.

The distortion may be a lens defect, but it could just be glasses in general. No eyeglass lens, no matter how perfect, is going to 100% mimic 20/20 vision without lenses.

I envision your sister as a twin-pop.

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