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nAi.PrOtOsS
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada784 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-17 10:23:14
January 17 2011 10:06 GMT
#1
This is a story about how I received my G1 license in Ontario Canada, and how your faith in the governments driving system should be completely destroyed.

The incident occurred while taking the eye examination, which requires you to look into a device that resembles binoculars.+ Show Spoiler +
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I put my face up to the binoculars and look down a dark tube which ends in a small lit square. The person then asks me to announce the letters in order from left to right, to which I reply "alright put them up" to my astonishment she answers that the letters are already shown. I squint my eyes and see that there are indeed small black dots on the lit square and I attempt to distinguish them, I take blind guesses on each small black dot and then confess that I am having a difficult time reading them.

She then presents me with another line of letters that are slightly larger than the last. I am joyed to discover that I can make out black dots without squinting my eyes, and with the help of squinting can to some degree read them. At this point I have a little bit of decision making to do, is that letter an E or a F? Is the next one a g or a p? After missing the first two I recover and hesitantly correctly answer the next three, my mother is beginning to wonder what is happening, and begins asking questions, "Why can't you read it?", "is the thing broken?", "let me see". I remove my face from the black tube and let my mother take a look to which she shouts, "HOW CAN YOU NOT READ THIS???".

I look back down the binoculars apparatus and the light at the end seems much brighter, and all of a sudden I begin feeling a little bit light headed. My mother and the lady at the counter both tell me to put my face back on the binoculars, but my mind begins to turn to slush and although I hear their words I could not determine their meaning. The light headed feeling becomes much much stronger.

Imagine that you have drank way to much alcohol, the mixture of exhaustion combined with the stomach-ache and head-ache are crippling your body and you physically cannot stand any longer. So you find any place at all just to rest for a moment, until you feel you can begin the journey back to your bed. Now imagine standing back up just a few seconds after collapsing. That is how I felt.

My mother then said something that pulled me back to reality but all i managed to comprehend was "hat", I slowly moved my hand up towards my head and grabbed my hair thinking that the hat was on my head. I then see my mother waving the hat in front of my face.

All of a sudden little black squares start creeping their way across my vision from the very outside of my vision field, it was as if my vision was a TV and the pixels on the outside edge were turning black and then infecting pixels on the next row and turning them black as well, until everything went black.

I ended up falling forwards and breaking my nose on the desk in front of me.

Good news though, + Show Spoiler +
I PASSED THE EYE EXAM!!


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On a side note I didn't realize how bad my vision was until I took this eye exam. The world is a much prettier place when you can see things other than blurry colors.


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YiukeDukem
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States125 Posts
January 17 2011 10:08 GMT
#2
So what the hell happened? You kind of just...leave EVERYTHING hanging...
quye
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
January 17 2011 10:29 GMT
#3
LoL I thought this would be a story, not a description of what it's like to pass out >_>

But good on you for staying alive and somehow passing a test that you should have failed
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HeaDStrong
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Scotland785 Posts
January 17 2011 11:22 GMT
#4
LOL, how are you doing now?

And i join the query on what happened? Do you have stuff like that happening often or was it the pressure you felt from the test? Were you on some (recreational) medication or anything like that?

Well for you and everyone on the streets around you I wish you better luck on the driving part!
Danjoh
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden405 Posts
January 17 2011 11:42 GMT
#5
I've passed out 3 times myself whit no apparant reason.

First time was just after I had been at the dentist, it wasn't so bad, but for some reason, afterwards, I remember getting really sad, crying on my mothers shoulder, and then waking up on a couch with 2 dentists looking at me. (Was 5 years old at that time I think).

Next time was when I was 8 years old, we were training for the graduation ceremony or what you call it (before each summer holiday, all school classes sing some traditional songs, not really a graduation). We were in the middle of a song, and I remember my mouth getting dry, and I'm getting really warm, and harder and harder to keep balance, and then I wake up with everyone casually walking towards the exit, and then my teacher noticing me and dragging me out the emergency exit.

3rd time I was10 years old, was during a class, so it was same symptoms as last time, but since I was sitting down, it was a bit easier to stay concius, and I would keep pinching myself until I couldn't feel anything anymore (not sure if I got numb or if I got too weak to pinch myself, and yea, I was very mannered, didn't interrupt the teacher while she was speaking just because I was passing out). Wake up, whole class staring at me, teacher tells them to get me some water, I get water in a dirty glass and a hair gets stuck in my throat... I say thanks and say I think I need to get some rest.

The feeling of passing out was very similar to what you described, but everytime after I regained conciusness, I felt really sick and wanted to puke, but couldn't.

Got checked up by a few doctors who didn't find anything, except for possibly epilepsy, but never got any medication for it. And I get similar symptoms of wanting to pass out whenever there's loud bass that beats in a rythm (like a disco or at a concert), or when I'm singing myself.
What boggles me tho, is 2 months ago when I was having a surgery, I told the anesthetics doctor about this, and he said it probably wasn't epilepsy and it was quite normal O.o.
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
January 17 2011 12:13 GMT
#6
I passed out once when I was 9 from about 20 ft? (7meters?) with my head landing on the ground first and I didn't get a single scratch. Admittedly it was on some kind of rubber floor outside so I had lots of luck that I didn't die. I didn't remember a thing. I then happily just continued my day like nothing ever happened untill others were saying how lucky I am that I'm still alive etc.
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AnodyneSea
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Jamaica757 Posts
January 17 2011 12:23 GMT
#7
what the hell? why do we even have that eye exam then... im scared dont drive near me lol
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TheKing
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia186 Posts
January 17 2011 12:32 GMT
#8
Happened to me once at school when we did this vaccination thing. I hate needles.
Copenap
Profile Joined October 2010
723 Posts
January 17 2011 14:43 GMT
#9
Happened to me before as well, really creepy when you know your eyes are open but everything is black...
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32046 Posts
January 17 2011 14:52 GMT
#10
uhhhh, they cave you a license to operate a several thousand pound vehicle when you randomly pass out from straining your eyes too hard??? what the fuck canada
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BuuGhost
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands340 Posts
January 17 2011 18:40 GMT
#11
Atleast you didn't pass out while driving the car :p
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Lexpar
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
1813 Posts
January 17 2011 18:59 GMT
#12
I wouldn't have gone with my mother. Sounds like she added way more stress to the situation than is healthy or required. Or maybe I'm just imagining my mother in this situation.

In any case, us Quebec-folk know that you Ontario-types are all shitty drivers anyway.
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
January 17 2011 19:00 GMT
#13
When I first took my eye exam (for prescription glasses), they showed me a picture of an airplane and I thought it was a barn because my vision was so bad.
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polgas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1752 Posts
January 17 2011 19:56 GMT
#14
You passed out after getting yelled at by your mom. She must know the Lion's Roar.

Congrats on passing the test!
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a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
January 17 2011 20:32 GMT
#15
Huh, I didn't take an eye exam for my g1 ... I did for the g2 though
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bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
January 17 2011 21:38 GMT
#16
What the hell? You passed out during an eye exam and the government gave you a license to drive?

Geez, I really have no excuse not to do it then.
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Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2109 Posts
January 18 2011 00:41 GMT
#17
That's a marvellous description of what passing out feels like, I remember passing out in a dentist, I wasn't even getting my teeth done, I was leaning against a radiator, which was on at the time, watching my one of my family get checked, and I feeling like I was going to boil from the inside out, I initially thought it was the radiator, so I moved away from it, but then I got light headed and I just got hotter and hotter.
I then staggered out into the hall way, my vision tunnelled hardcore, I bashed the door to the reception and promptly collapsed on a bench.
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Insanious
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1251 Posts
January 18 2011 02:15 GMT
#18
On a similar note, I wear glasses but wanted to try the eye exam without them. If I passed, then I wouldn't need my glasses to drive (just in case they broke and I was stuck some where with a car I guess...) I couldn't see anything, guessed my way through and passed.

It was stupid, I shouldn't of passed, but I did... now i don't need glasses to drive, but I sure as hell still wear them for my own safety.
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Coramoor
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada455 Posts
January 18 2011 04:06 GMT
#19
most people i know can pass the last line before glasses by squinting, it's also a common technique used by fighter pilots who have vision problems, at least it was prior to laser eye surgery, fortunately i'm reasonably confident they build in a failsafe layer, so that most people who can read the last line by squinting would in fact be fine legally driving under normal conditions

I don't see how this should ruin your faith in the driving regulations
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