March is Nation Save Your Vision Month

March is National "Save Your Vision" Month!
Without good vision, our ability to read, see, and learn about the world becomes difficult. Many vision problems begin when we are young, so it's very important to take good care of your eyes now. Untreated eye problems can get worse and lead to other serious problems as well as affect learning ability, personality, and success in school.

Some tips for maintaining healthy vision:

• Have a regular eye exam to make sure that your eyes are healthy and that you have the correct eyeglass or contact lens prescription (if necessary).
• When working at the computer or reading for a long time:
  
  • Rest your eyes
  • Remember to blink!
    
  • Use eye drops if your eyes feel dry

Sometimes our eyes can play tricks on us!
Check out these fun, visual illusions:

Barber Pole illusion The Barber pole illusion is a visual illusion that reveals biases in the processing of visual motion in the human brain.

Albert Einstein Marilyn Monroe Illusion When you look at this picture close range you see Albert Einstein. Now stand up and take several steps back, roughly 15 feet away, It will become Marilyn Monroe.

Right or Left Window Is this window on the right or left of this building?

Rotating Dot Whirlpool Try staring at this for more than 5 seconds without going crazy. Then try following it around! Curves constantly die out and then re-evolve as part of another curve.

Tallest Soldier Illusion Can You Pick Out the Tallest Soldier? Did You Find Him? Hmm... They Are All the Same Height!

Reversible Picture What do you see in each picture after it is flipped... Look Closely!

You can check out more interesting visual illusions here: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005949/fun.htm


Try some fun games about eyes and vision: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002330/