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If you wore glasses, you'd get it. It's an almost universal image shown inside of a glaucoma test device, which puffs a quick burst of air into your eye. It doesn't really hurt, but it startles you and initiates your blink reflex and causes your eye to water. The blink reflex part is the kicker, though, because blinking before the test is done will invalidate the test and they'll have to do it again. I've sat there upwards of six times through this torture device. Lately, though, my eye doctors use a bump test after putting numbing drops in the eye. I think it's probably more accurate, and it doesn't initiate a blink reflex like the puff test does.
I wear glasses and never had a glaucoma test in my life. It is not necessarily common here to get your eyesight tested at a doctor's though, rather it's tested at a "glasses shop".
Yes, at a glasses shop, where the doctor is. You can choose to opt out of glaucoma testing. They're probably just automatically checking the opt out box for you to save time, but if you ask, they'll give you the test.
No, there are no doctors at the shops. And even if the shops usually opt you out, my point still stands that wearing glasses doesn't necessitate getting this meme.
OP doesn't realize that an optometrist isn't an ophthalmologist. Optometrists check your vision. Opthalmologists will also check medical conditions like glaucoma.
And opticians make/sell glasses