People opened their eyes wide, trying to refocus them, as if waking up from a long nap.
In so doing, your eyes keep trying to refocus, and cannot succeed, but keep trying to do so.
"Whaaat?" your visual system thinks, "That car should be coming into focus!" But it doesn't and it won't for the foreseeable future, and meanwhile every time the focus changes, or the shot changes, or the camera moves, or the characters move, your eye is attempting to refocus, to change its shape.
When objects are only a few inches away from each other, your eyes don't need to refocus.[13].[13]
This keeps as much of them in focus at once as possible; your eyes won't have to refocus as you glance around.
Crossing your eyes is a very natural technique that allows you to focus on something that is very near you, and as soon as you bring your eyes away from that object (in this case, your nose), your brain will automatically try to refocus your eyes on more distant objects, thereby uncrossing your eyes almost immediately.
To refocus the eyes, just stare at a distant object for a few minutes.
"You have to refocus people's eyes on a property that has been on the market," said Ms. Kleier, who worked with Ms. Fisher on the sale.
For objects closer than a few meters, you have to refocus the lens in your eye using the ciliary muscles.
Sometimes the best we can do is to take a step back, allow ourselves to refocus and proceed again with fresh sets of eyes and clear heads.
Under Mr. Carpenter, Bausch & Lomb sold its sunglasses, animal research and hearing-aid businesses in 1999 to refocus on contact lenses, ophthalmic drugs and eye surgery instruments.
