Inner Muses

It's a weird time for me. Last week I had cataract surgery in my left eye. The surgeon, Dr. Michael Gilbert removed my natural lens (the tan oval shape below) and replaced it with an artificial lens. Modern artificial lenses are very flat since they focus light through density gradients rather than varied thickness. Today when I look through the natural lens remaining in my right eye, everything looks like the Matrix: a blurry, slightly washed-out olive colored world. When I look through my left eye, the whites are bright, blacks deep and colors vivid. My astigmatism is corrected. It's quite weird to be in this transition state. Next week, they'll do the right eye, and my escape of the Matrix will be complete. Red pill all the way. It's normal to develop cataracts, a thickening and loss of transparency of the natural lens. For most people, their cataracts interfere with their vision more severely before they have surgery. For them, the change is even more dramatic. With