Why would sunglasses make me feel 2 feet tall?

[FinallyFridayAgain]

Asking here before I go to the opticians in case I make a fool of myself.

I bought the sunglasses with a pair of prescription glasses from the opticians when they had a bogof offer. I use reading glasses and asked for sunglasses with normal glass (ie no prescription).

I wonder if they have given me reading glasses in sunglasses form. This need not be a problem (it could be useful for reading outside in the summer), but what’s strange is that I can see relatively well out of the sunglasses (maybe very slightly blurry in the distance), whereas my reading glasses are very blurry for anything but reading.

Its just very disconcerting when putting them in for my brain to flip to 2 feet tall and when I take them off to become tall again.

Something similar happened to my friend Alice with cake and mushrooms. Not sure what happened to her.

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If you feel shorter, it’s because you can see the ground more clearly than usual. Your brain interprets this as meaning you have to be closer to it than you really are, which makes you feel shorter! If you are wearing reading glasses they will only make very close things clearer, other things will become blurry. Hope this helps.

Thats an interesting thought. I tried reading with them this morning, but they’re definitely not reading glasses. It’s so weird- like when an optical illusion clicks into place when you’re looking at it (when I take them off, my brain flips again). With my reading glasses, I can’t see the ground - it just looks blurry. I don’t wear glasses other than this.

Happened to me with new glasses, my brain did get used to it, very strange feeling though.

But they’re not supposed to be glasses? Just normal sunglasses.

Maybe they have a prescription in by mistake. I will ask the opticians.

What is your normal vision like, and do your sunglasses change this? If not, then they don’t have a prescription; if they change your vision then they must have a prescription of some kind? And under what circumstances do you wear the prescription reading glasses that you purchased - just for reading, or do you tend to wander around with them on?

My normal sunglasses don’t change my vision, they’re just cheap.

I got reading glasses (with prescription) and a free pair of sunglasses with them from the opticians (I asked for no prescription).

Reading glasses work a treat, but are blurry beyond my book. Sunglasses are maybe not as clear as expected for normal sunglasses use, but I out that down to the tint. When I wear the sunglasses, my brain flips and I feel 2 feet tall. When I take them off, I feel normal again.

I can’t wear my reading glasses unless reading. The sunglasses do feel slightly blurry when I put them on, but hardly at all.

I'm beginning to think there’s definitely a prescription on them by mistake.

@FinallyFridayAgain I once had an identical experience with a new pair of sunglasses. As soon as I put them on the ground would appear ridiculously close, just as if I'd suddenly shrunk to the height of a small child. It was a really horrible sensation.
The difference was that mine were prescription sunglasses. I took them back to the optician and it turned out that someone had accidentally reversed 2 numbers when completing the ordering specification, so the lenses had been made to a completely wrong prescription.
It does sound as if they've given you incorrect prescription lenses by mistake and I would definitely take them back to be checked.