# Different colored eyes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [February 6, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300 "2001-02-06T02:40:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![ex-falk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@ex-falk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ex-falk)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300/1 "2001-02-06T02:40:35Z")

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I’ve heard of and seen people whose eyes apparently change color often, like with lighting or their mood even. Cecil didn’t address this so I was wondering if anyone else knows anything about it.

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971205.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971205.html)

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**Author:** ![emeldir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@emeldir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emeldir)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300/2 "2001-02-07T17:54:08Z")

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My eyes change color on a regular basis, ranging from bright blue to grey to bright green and back again. I actually sat in front of a mirror one day and watched it happen over a period of about 1/2 hour. I don’t know why it happens. The circumstances do not seem to be consistent.

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**Author:** ![eirroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@eirroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eirroc)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300/3 "2001-02-07T20:26:52Z")

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I have two different coloured eyes, one blue and one brown. It was interesting reading that link to cecil’s comments, because I also have a twin brother,just struck me as strange. Anyway, I was never popped in the eye when I was younger, as David Bowie was, so it must be genetic in my case, although all my immediate family have blue eyes. A funny aside is, when I was younger, to make me feel comfortable with it my mom would tell me I had been blessed by the gods (\<shrug\>) But I never have felt uncomfortable.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300/4 "2001-02-07T20:37:25Z")

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Hi, folks.

Generally, it is accepted form in this forum to provide a link to the column in question.

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971205.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a971205.html)

You might also notice these other threads on the same topic:  
[Eyes of different colors](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58663)  
[Different Colored Eyes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58509)  
and  
[The eyes have it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58050)

Nobody seems to have an explanation for eyes that change colors by mood.

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**Author:** ![dchamil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@dchamil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dchamil)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-colored-eyes/53300/5 "2001-02-11T02:16:38Z")

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The actress Jane Seymour, nee Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina  
Frankenberg, has one blue eye and one brown eye. This can  
be checked at the website [http://www.janeseymour.org](http://www.janeseymour.org) under  
FAQ/Biography.