There are two views on how the eye performs accommodation (the transition of the eye from distant to near objects and vice versa).
According to the official and widely accepted theory, accommodation is done through the lens in the eye, through the ciliary muscle that does it. According to that theory, if the work of the lens “breaks down”, the light will be refracted behind or in front of the point where it should normally be refracted, dioptre occurs, and it can no longer be cured. On the other hand, according to Bates’ theory, according to the numerous experiments he conducted, according to the practice he established and with which he cured many people’s sight, accommodation is not done through the lens, but through the very shape of the eyeball, which lengthens when the eye looks at the near and shortens when the eye looks into the distance (as a camera lens do). This change in the length of the eyeball (eye) is carried out by means of 6 muscles (4 straight and 2 oblique). For example, in myopic people (minus dioptres), the eye is in an elongated state and therefore sees near but not at a distance because the eye does not return to the position required for seeing at a distance because the eye muscles are a little “rusty”.
When a short-sighted person looks at a near plane, the muscles tighten, tense and the eyeball elongates so that he can see objects that are close. But when a short-sighted person looks into the distance, the muscles are still tight, tense, the eyeball is still elongated. That is why such a person sees objects that are near clearly, but does not see objects that are far away clearly. The more myopic, the more elongated the eye is, and such people must put the object they want to see very close to the eye in order to see clearly. As soon as that object moves away a little, the image is unclear and blurry, and with further distance the image is completely blurry or not discernible at all. Nearsightedness and farsightedness are the result of spasm of those muscles in one of those possible conditions.
