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Vision is a blessing that allows us to not only participate in our favorite activities, but also the simple, daily tasks such as driving to work. Imagine you couldn’t see the road signs to direct you to the correct exit, or the speedometer to monitor safe speed. Lack of clear vision while driving is a danger to yourself, other drivers, and even pedestrians.

Stress is the body’s natural response to any demand for change that interferes with its normal equilibrium. Whether the response is physical, mental, emotional, or visual, stress affects all of us to one degree or another. When the body is stressed, your sympathetic nervous system causes your pupils to dilate, allowing more light to enter so you can see potential threats more clearly.

Most people don’t know how their eyes really work. In simple terms, your vision is really your eyes processing light – your brain then translates the light into pictures and visualization! In a number of ways, the human eye works similar to a digital camera. Ready to break it down? Check out the process.

Do you suffer from obstructive sleep apnea? This is a condition where muscles in the airway relax during sleep and keep you from breathing, often for a few minutes at a time. Symptoms include loud snoring, gasping for air, feeling sleepy during the day and waking up with a headache. If you are aware that you have sleep apnea, you are likely cautious of other health conditions it may lead to such as high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. But did you know that if you have sleep apnea, you are also at a significant increased risk for developing glaucoma?

Seeing double doesn’t always stem from a mimosa brunch or a Friday happy hour. This short-term double vision is usually not any cause for worry. There are other more serious instances where double vision, or diplopia, is sudden or long-lasting. Double vision can be present as a condition of its own or a cause of an underlying health issue such as a stroke, head injury, eye problems like cataracts and keratoconus, or cranial nerve palsies. Each of these conditions requires serious, immediate attention. Never ignore the sudden change of vision.