okay… so i read the thread from may (?) of 1997 about different colored eyes. Here is my deal. I am 24. I always thought i had hazel eyes., and when i cried they turned green. One day when i was with some friends one of them told me that i had different colored eyes. I thought that was impossible. We went to the bathroom and I looked in the mirror. Sure enough, one eye is green and the other is hazel. I wear contacts and I took them out. It made no difference. They said i had David Bowie eyes. Now is it possible that my eyes have always been two different colors or that they have changed. Now i know you may also think this is crazy… but i am telling you that i think i see different shades out of them. Like when i look at my floors when i close my right eye the wood looks brown. and when i close my left it is a slightly lighter shade. Please let me know if i am crazy of if i make some bit of sense… thank you for reading this
I don’t know about your eyes changing color, but I’m with you on the seeing different shades thing. My color vision is different from eye to eye. Colors are brighter and more vivid in my right eye, and noticibly more subdued in my left. As far as I can remember, it has always been this way. I figured that everyone was like this to some extent, but I’ve never asked anyone else about it.
thank you for the reply… I have talked to a few people about it… and they think im crazy. I am glad there is atleast one other person who is on my side… thank you
kadey
Ditto on seeing things in differnt shades. For me it’s VERY subtle. The only time I really notice it is looking at something that’s mostly white. My right eye will see it just a bit oranger (warmer) then the left eye (cooler). The easiet way I’ve found too see this is to put my hand (open fist) against my nose with my palm between my eyes. Concentrate on one spot and move my whole head back and forth keeping my eyes on that spot. It works alot better to do it that way then any other because there isn’t any delay time to let my eyes focus. Also the light has to be just right. I always noticed it most at my parents house on the bathroom floor tile.
Eyes can change color throughout life. My own eyes have changed color fairly recently (nothing drastic, they went from a light blue-gray to a darker blue-green; the difference is probably noticeable only to me), so I did a little research on the topic. Usually it’s not a big deal, although if your eyes have noticeably lightened, that is a cause for concern.
My old drama teacher had eyes that were split down the middle - green on one side and hazel on the other, on the same sides in both eyes. It was pretty cool.
One in 50,000 (or is it 100,00? I am too tired and lazy to cite this) people have different-colored eyes. It’s called heterochromia. Two people that I went to high school with have one green and one blue eye. I’ve heard that is by far the most common combination. I imagine it would be possible to have one hazel and one green eye.
Most people have a dominant eye. The way to tell which eye is dominant is to pick an object, put your index finger up lining up with the object, focus on the object, then close each eye in turn. The eye you’re looking at it with when your index finger is lined up with the object the way it is when you’re looking with both eyes, is your dominant eye.
And, coincidentally, I have hazel-green eyes, that turn bright green when I cry.
Eye-colour and your perception of colour are two different issues.
If this colour perception difference is something recent - ie something that you have not had your whole life - then you need to get it checked out. Any odd changes to your vision should be attended to. Chances are it is absolutely nothing, but given that several progressive eye diseases are treatable (or at least haltable) then you should get a consultation.
I went to school with a girl with one brown eye and one blue eye. She always said that it was because she got hit by ball lightning when she was little. No way to confirm that.
My eyes are hazel. They sometimes appear to be very green. I always thought that they would “green up” based on my mood or some other internal mechanism. Once I got a pretty bloody eye injury boxing. The entire white of my eye was blood red.
Everyone was telling me “I never noticed how green your eyes are.”
Yep my eyes “greened” when they were in varying states of bloodshoted-ness. It could be that your hazel eyes turn green after crying for the same reason.
My wife has one brown and one blue eye. They always told her that she had a freckle on the brown one. She has a lot of freckles so it’s possible I guess. It used to wig me out, but I got over it.
I had a girlfriend in 1989 who had an unusual eye color: it varied with the ambient light. Sometimes they were blue, sometimes green, sometimes hazel. I’m fairly color-blind, but trusted others attested it was so.
Her (Maryland) driver’s license did not specify an eye color.
