Movement and 'The Swing', Opposite Movement, Long Swing, Sway...

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To see the opposite swing;

Look at any object; (Start with a close object)
Shift left and right or in any direction on the object. It will 'appear' to jump to the opposite direction you shift to.

The head moving with the eyes improves, increases the appearance of the opposite movement,

But it gets a bit tricky for far objects;

Shift on a far object and note that the object will appear to move with you if the head moves too much. So for far (and for close) ;

Keep the head movement no longer than the shift of the eyes from one point (part) of the object to another. That's your fovea 'central field' moving.

The peripheral sees the movement too; The part of the object you moved away from jumped 'swinged' into and is now in the peripheral.

Close objects show most opposite movement.
Far objects show the least opposite movement.

http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id16.html

Try shifting on a small object, a fine print letter and see it swing opposite; perfect central-fixation!

See this page in this book; For Suggestion #11 on the previous page by Emily A. Bates in Perfect Sight Without Glasses PDF on this page; http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id148.html

Page is after Emily's section, before the end of the book, after her Suggestions page.

Try this one;

Stand in front of a tree. Hang a rope vertical off a branch. Face it, central field. Sway left and right and don't 'fix' the eyes on anything. Let your attention sweep over the far, then close. Note the movement of far and close objects. Close shows most opposite movement. Far shows least, and because it shows so less opposite movement; it 'appears'; to move with you.

You can also do this; Sweeping, shifting across a far tree. The close rope moves opposite. The tree appears to move with you.

Now stop swaying. Just shift on the far tree. Head moves only a little, no longer than the eyes shift. Now you can detect that far opposite movement.

This function is the way the brain determines; distance, depth, size of objects, time, space... time it will take to walk from here to a far mountain.