Lasik Eye Surgery: Weighing the High Tech Optical Gorilla Laser eye surgery. It sounds almost surreal – too good to be true. It sounds something akin to Superman’s X-ray vision or the devices the doctors on Star Trek would wave over a patient’s arm to heal a deep gash in the skin or a broken bone. It sounds like a fantasy, but it’s not. Lasik eye surgery is real. Lasik eye surgery is a procedure that re..