HI EVERYONE! Okay…a few days ago I was talking with one of my friends and the subject turned to eye color. Well she said that her eye color changed everyday. One day they would be brown then hazel then green. Well I never really noticed her eyes changing colors. My eyes on the other hand change hues. My eyes are blue, but somedays they are pale gray then other days they are deep sapphire. I notice they get really bright blue when I’m happy or when something festive is happening and they are also blue when I put in my contacts (but they have a blue-ish tint to them so I can find them if they get dropped so that explains that) Anyways, back to my question. Can your eyes really change colors? If not, then can they change hues of the same color? Has there ever been any recorded proof of this phenomena happen?
Eyes changing colour…I have a feeling it may be that people PERCEIVE them to be changing colour. It may be that different kinds of light bring out the different colours in the iris (I know a number of people whose irises aren’t a single colour, but are specks of different colours).
Kind of like how you can see a rainbow depending on the angle of the sun vs. water. Sometimes its there, sometimes its vivid, sometimes not.
But all of that is just a WAG. But I can’t see how our irises would just suddenly change colour, and certainly not as frequently as you suggest.
Don’t forget that what you wear can give the illusion of changing your eye color.
I have eyes that look green when I wear green, and look more blue when I wear blue. The eye color isn’t changing, just my perception of it.
I do know some people who’s eyes have change drastically over time. They picked up a lot more yellow. I recently found out the yellow specks in the iris are due to lipids.
My eyes go from deep brown to to a kind of muddy green. I’ve just always chalked it up to being red-green color blind and mark brown where they ask. I’ve asked other people who claim to notice it, but I have the feeling it’s like hearing stairway to heaven backwards. If you have the preconceived notion, it’s more likely you’ll see what isn’t there. Just a wag though.
I would like to hear an optomistrist view on this, seeing as I’ve had some debates over it.
I have a family member whose eyes turn from grey-green to vibrant green when they are angry. I’ve noticed my own change hue on the odd occasion too. This of course requires a reflective surface or opposable eyeballs. The only suggestion I have is that iris size may change with emotional state.
If you have brown eyes the outer layer of the iris contains melanin and what follows is not applicable, since this obscures the middle iris layer.
The middle iris layer consists of muscle fibres, a blood supply and various fatty deposits and tumours which cause colour variation. The coarseness of the fibres affects the shade of the iris. As the iris changes in size this might cause the fibres to stretch or fatten, altering the shade of the iris.
Perhaps the blood flowrate also changes under times of emotional duress and this influences the shade of the middle iris layer too.
This is not my field and these are not definitive answers, only suggestions. There is plenty of info out there on why your eyes are the colour they are but nothing I can find on why it might change. Unless it’s a site selling contact lenses. Or a New Age “science” sit saying that eating a carrot diet for six months causes your eye colour to lighten. Anyone want to change their eye colour for 24 hours? I know a site that gives you a spell to do it. All you need are three candles, an altar and a good chanting voice.
The Master has spoken on this subject. Additionally, I submit yet another bit of anecdotal evidence: my (normally hazel) eyes have been known to vary in color despite the fact that I invariably wear black and look into the same mirror in the same room under the same (artificial) lighting. Sometimes they turn much greener than normal, other times they fade to a grayish shade. I suspect that the green coloration–being related to fatty deposits–are more subject to change than the brown pigment (which is the result of melanin). As a result, dietary changes could change the amount of green over time. Dilation/constriction of blood vessels might also affect eye color (except for brown eyes, as fatbutter pointed out), with increased blood flow darkening the color; this could possibly connect changes to emotional state.