Apparently my vision is weird in a way that's weirder than the opthalmologist has ever seen before. His nurse got all worked up because my glasses are just prisms, not focusing lenses, as if I were trying to scam them or something. I explained the whole seeing two overlapping images thing, and it confused her no end. "You mean you see two overlapping images? All the time? How long has this been going on? Have you ever seen a doctor about this?" I wonder if she thought I just made up my glasses prescription for the optometrist.
And after all that, I have no new glasses prescription, because my eyes were so confusing to the doctor that he referred me to his colleague the pediatric opthalmologist -- because my double vision is a childhood condition. The funny/surreal moment was when we were sitting there talking about the double vision and he said, "Well, I don't treat pediatric conditions; I handle adult eyes." I just blinked at him. Apparently, like the graduate schools I applied to, he feels that 33 is a trifle young to be out on your own.
Anyway, I have an appointment with the pediatric opthalmologist next week. And now I get to spend the rest of the day with dialated pupils TWICE.
As a side note, he was surprised to see that my corneas are very large (13mm; as large as they can be and still on the normal end of the scale). In fact, they were so large to him that he measured them with a teeny pair of calipers. This may or may not be related to the double vision.
