Eisbaer
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Probably not so much: usually poor / blurry eyesight comes from changes in the anatomy of the eye that lead to the image being focused in front of or behind the retina instead of nicely on it.
The increase in acuity psilocin etc are known for are expected to come from change in how your eyesight is processed as visual perception - so more like software than hardware considering psychedelics primarily act on the brain and not the eyes (yeah cannabinoids can affect ocular pressure I think but not really relevant).
If the eye does not focus well there is lacking detail information, and sharpening and crisping it up in after-processing won't give you back the loss just like photoshopping a quite blurry image will have limited results compared to the 'original'. Data may be filled in and averaged. Actually not only photoshop often works that way, but our visual information circuits also apply 'averaging'. Maybe if eyesight problems are so mild that enhancement can compensate, then perhaps to some extent it may look sharper... but I'd mostly say that psilocin will make objects and colors pop out more clearly, and if your eyes miss detail information that e.g. on an eye chart is needed to see the difference between two very similar looking letters, then it does not help if your visual processing is 'guessing' / averaging, it would still be guessing that a sober blurry-sighted person may do consciously.
Native tribesmen would use this advantage in hunting because in the visual mess of a jungle it can be of great help if an animal pops out more - but I wonder if it works for everything and if it would work just as well with an eye chart. I'm convinced this enhancement works particularly well to hyper-detect some things like animals, faces etc - better I guess than symbols maybe. Because we have specialized brain regions that help us detect some things, we have evolved to be especially excellent at a number of particular things that have given us advantage for a long time like detecting animals present. Faces / social detection would have evolved later, and language even later.
And there is always the matter of dosage before distortion overshadows increase in acuity, functionally speaking, I wonder if with symbols too high a dose can more easily become a problem due to hypersuggestibility and hyperinterpretation of what exact symbol you might be seeing.
With noticing an animal in the jungle, I imagine it is less relevant if it gets distorted a bit - it should still help detect.
Maybe the ophthalmologist version of native tribesmen would test your eyesight during a hunt in the jungle, and would say that yes mushrooms help/cure your eyesight, but our western ophthalmologist with his eye chart may say they do not... For those reasons ^
That is an interesting application to this, if anyone hunts, it could really help them spot animals a lot quicker. Or if anyone is wandering in the forest, they might be able to spot bears or wolves quicker and be able to evade them quicker than someone without this chem.
However, could these substances cause HPPD?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_perception_disorder
I'm mainly thinking that it could because of distortions in vision, but is the chance for HPPD very small from low doses of less intense chemicals from the 5-meo group?