# Sight question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-question/257889>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 2, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-question/257889 "2004-08-02T00:15:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-question/257889/1 "2004-08-02T00:15:15Z")

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I have had to wear reading glasses for years now. I assume I have presbopia. I would look at my computer screen and all of the text would be a blur. But yesterday I looked at the screen without my glasses and discovered I can read the text.

Any idea what happened?

Vision can’t spontaneously correct itself can it?

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-question/257889/2 "2004-08-02T00:35:03Z")

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You didn’t get bitten by a spider recently did you?