>>13680259Bates method is inferior, as the other anon said.
What you want is the "reduced lens method" branch of vision improvement.
"Active focus", better defined as "awareness of vision", be it vision itself or the physical sensation of your eyeballs, is the key to improvement.
In short, the method is deceptively simple: stay at the edge of blur, and engage in active focus all day long.
But in reality there are several factors involved. For starters one should recover their full focusable range, which requires some time and effort if you have spent a decade staring at screen for 10+ hours.
Normal eyes have a limited capacity to flatten the lens beyond the point of rest.
Unofrtunately, if you abused your eyes for so long, this ability will take tens of second to finish its attempt, moreover, due to how slow it may have gotten you could easily have lost the unconscious ability to do so.
That's why they call it "active focus", because you have to actively let your eyes do their attempt. Without blinking, of course, unless you have rehab the muscles enough that the focusing no longer takes tens of seconds.
It's not normal for eyes to sting and tear up so quickly while focusing slightly blurry imagery, it may take months to get them back to a useful shape.
Another important factor in this practice is finding the "useful blur", which is easily said than done. Some people improve with very little blur, while other need more. Since there aren't any proper studies, this is up to the individual to figure out.
My experience is that improving with closeup glasses requires engaging in a little more blur than what they'd let think.
Specifically, I have been clear up to 66% of a glasses pair and no more, despite a little blur still being available. Might be different for you, but you should take in consideration that there could be a threshold of useful blur and take notes adjusting accordingly.
