Does anyone here suffer from headaches / migraines from 3D Movies?

[Kane Hart]

I wanted to see if I'm alone in this area. I always get splinter brain I call it watching 3D movies. I'm quite blind myself I wear some strong prescriptions near and far is totally shot without my glasses I could walk the right direction but I could not see anything I'm doing and not only that I would get ahead without my classes for more then 30-60 seconds. 

Anyone else suffer from something similar?

Is it also not insane that in my city here Barrie, Ontario not one movie theater has The Martian playing in 2D.

This is a concept that is flawed when I googled it via research point of view but it's just a fad. I'm actually 30 and when I was younger was it when I was 8ish? not sure if it was younger or older we also had a crazy 3D phase and I guess it's back again.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I can't watch 3D movies anyway. I had a work accident back when I did construction and am blind in my right eye.

 

[EternalShadow]

I can't watch 3D movies anyway. I had a work accident back when I did construction and am blind in my right eye.

That moment when you realize the eagle is half-blind o_o

 

[Kane Hart]

I can't watch 3D movies anyway. I had a work accident back when I did construction and am blind in my right eye.

That really sucks. I hope you don't mind me asking a odd question but has your brain been able to adapt to the injury overtime so it does not quite feel like your closing one eye and gives you a better view from the one eye? I was read some years back the amazing powers are brain has to sort of rewire it'self to cope with such injuries overtime. 

 

[Astel]

Sometimes... and also feel silly wearing the 3D glasses over my glasses

 

[Mellye]

I'm stereoblind since birth, so I never even tried watching a 3D movie.

Though I've read about stereoblind people that supposedly got cured from their stereoblindness after doing just that. Must be a weird experience, to have your vision permanently changed after watching a movie.

 

[Athryl]

I don't always but I do frequently get bad headaches from 3d movies. 99% of the time I will go to a 2d screening over 3d. But honestly I get headaches from 2d as well, or anything that involves a lot of sensory overload (concerts, festivals, even just kid's birthday parties and stuff). I have to REALLY want to see/do something for it to be worth it.

One 3d movie that didn't bother me so much was "Up" because the 3d was so mellow, just adding depth for the most part.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

That really sucks. I hope you don't mind me asking a odd question but has your brain been able to adapt to the injury overtime so it does not quite feel like your closing one eye and gives you a better view from the one eye? I was read some years back the amazing powers are brain has to sort of rewire it'self to cope with such injuries overtime. 

I forget most of the time that I only have vision in one eye. The only times its really noticeable is when I don't catch something in the periphery on that side, when I'm messing with very small things very close up (I have trouble soldering circuits because of depth perception (electronics is my actual area of education)). Outside of things super close though, I've adjusted heavily with using perspective to determine distance. In reality we only use stereoscopic vision to determine distance within about 10 ft, so its an extension of that to adapt to not having it at all.

And no, I don't mind talking about it.

 

[Kane Hart]

I forget most of the time that I only have vision in one eye. The only times its really noticeable is when I don't catch something in the periphery on that side, when I'm messing with very small things very close up (I have trouble soldering circuits because of depth perception (electronics is my actual area of education)). Outside of things super close though, I've adjusted heavily with using perspective to determine distance. In reality we only use stereoscopic vision to determine distance within about 10 ft, so its an extension of that to adapt to not having it at all.

And no, I don't mind talking about it.

Thanks for that, and it's quite amazing how human body adapts.

I don't always but I do frequently get bad headaches from 3d movies. 99% of the time I will go to a 2d screening over 3d. But honestly I get headaches from 2d as well, or anything that involves a lot of sensory overload (concerts, festivals, even just kid's birthday parties and stuff). I have to REALLY want to see/do something for it to be worth it.

One 3d movie that didn't bother me so much was "Up" because the 3d was so mellow, just adding depth for the most part.

Oh yeah I sort of forgot that. Last time I saw a lot of action and movement in a movie I actually got quite the headache. I can't find 2D screenings anymore around my area. For example at least pre-order tickets to the new Star Wars movie is 100% 3D.

 

[Athryl]

Yeah if they were not showing 2d in my area I think I would just have to wait for it to come to video (I usually wait anyways because of how sensitive I am). Luckily, I'm in a pretty big city (Portland, Oregon) so you can find a wide variety of shows. Sucks you can't find a 2d showing in your area

 

[BCj]

I can't watch 3D movies anyway. I had a work accident back when I did construction and am blind in my right eye.

Hmm what do you "see"? I only have like 40% sight in my right eye. But 3d movies are really "flat" to me. Like, everyone was fawning all over Avatar and I was like "meh"

 

[Mellye]

Hmm what do you "see"? I only have like 40% sight in my right eye. But 3d movies are really "flat" to me. Like, everyone was fawning all over Avatar and I was like "meh"

Someone once struggled to try to explain to me the difference between a 3D movie (which I hadn't and haven't seem yet) and a normal movie.

After a while they noticed that they were basically trying to explain to me the difference between a normal movie and actually looking around in real life.

And I still don't know what the difference was supposed to be.

I guess I see my entire life in the same way that people see non-3D movies and such, which must be "flat" for their standards.

 

[EternalShadow]

Well, I have pretty bad depth perception and can't see 3D rendered objects on a flatscreen properly, like the 3D rendering model programs and that sort of thing. I can see 3D cinema without issues though, but that's a trick with the glasses and screen rather than shaders and etc.

 

[Mellye]

Well, I have pretty bad depth perception and can't see 3D rendered objects on a flatscreen properly, like the 3D rendering model programs and that sort of thing.

That's interesting - I too have bad depth perception, but I have no issue when I'm looking at 3D stuff rendered into a flatscreen; I even like to work on 3D Modelling as a hobby.

I do have issue when, for example, I need to judge how far a moving object is from me in real life. Don't throw stuff for me to hold, I won't be able to get it.

I imagine there are different type of issues that can arise from the lack of depth perception, then.

 

[EternalShadow]

That's interesting - I too have bad depth perception, but I have no issue when I'm looking at 3D stuff rendered into a flatscreen; I even like to work on 3D Modelling as a hobby.


I do have issue when, for example, I need to judge how far a moving object is from me in real life. Don't throw stuff for me to hold, I won't be able to get it.


I imagine there are different type of issues that can arise from the lack of depth perception, then.

I have been known to put chairs midway into floors

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I can still catch objects with no stereoscopic vision. I've always had good hand eye coordination though, and it is harder for me than it used to be.

 

[noctiluca]

I can't watch 3d movies very easily. I have eye problems that affect my perception of objects and give me migraines anyway, and have to wear glasses when I'm doing life drawing or working on the computer for extended periods of time or I start to see double (reading, watching regular TV etc is ok though). Not an easy problem to have for artists.

Before I got glasses I used to get migraines so bad I would almost faint after a 4 hour still life drawing session. But I have better than 20/20 vision on the quick eye tests so it took ages before I got prescribed something :/