{"id":6358,"date":"2025-07-21T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/a-simple-test\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:15:53","slug":"a-simple-test","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/kolommen\/a-simple-test\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-07-21T12:51:00+02:00\">21 July 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pessimists say they couldn\u2019t live with just one eye. The optimists say everything will be all right. The know-it-alls say you can\u2019t drive, that you can\u2019t see colors or depth, but that your hearing is better. These comments are surely well-intentioned, but they don\u2019t help me at all.     <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Want to share experiences  <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do appreciate comments that come from genuine interest. Sometimes that comment comes from someone who first closed one eye for a moment to experience what it\u2019s like to see with just one eye. Then I\u2019m happy to explain that I can see well with my one eye, that I\u2019m able and allowed to drive, and that I\u2019m not colorblind. I explain that my field of vision is narrower, but that I can expand it by turning my head more. I also mention that I rely more on my other senses\u2014for example, by listening when I want to cross the street, and when I\u2019m out walking in nature, I often smell certain prickly bushes and bodies of water, which helps me avoid walking into the prickly bushes or into the water.      <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you see depth?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most frequently asked question is: Can you see depth? The answer is: No, that\u2019s actually only possible if the brain combines the two images that each eye sends to it into a single image. So you can\u2019t do that with just one eye, but over time you\u2019re supposed to get used to it. Now, after 10 years, I still haven\u2019t gotten used to it very well, and I don\u2019t see differences in depth and height very well. I find that hard to explain to someone who can see depth. But on the children\u2019s show *Topdoks*, I saw something brilliant.       <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children held a pencil in each hand and had no trouble bringing the tips together. They did it again, this time with one eye closed. The tips didn\u2019t meet, but slid past each other\u2014one in front of the other. With this simple test, you can let people experience what it\u2019s like to be unable to see depth!     <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anita Hol-Bubeck  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get all kinds of reactions when people find out that I see with only one eye. Sometimes they spontaneously start telling me that they also know someone who sees with only one eye and how that came to be. Others just as spontaneously offer advice on what you can and can&#8217;t do with only one eye.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6360,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[112],"class_list":["post-6358","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-kolommen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}