the question of whether people see colours differently has been brought up in gq, yet again, and it leads me to wonder something else…
when i close my right eye and look at something, then open the right and close the left, i notice a slight difference in hue and brightness.
i mentioned this to my optometrist who referred me to an eye surgeon, who, after many tests and visits, pretty much gave up.
so, i just wonder if we all have this, and no one’s been bored enough to realize, or if it is something weird that was slapped on me.
so… do you notice a difference?
if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean.
Nope, nothing special about me… despite what my mother tells me.
“Penises don’t belong in the mouth, girls and boys. You’ve got the wrong hole there. Just like you wouldn’t shove pizza up your nose.”
-From the Brother Jed flyer-
I see a slight difference in hue. My left eye sees things slightly more blue and the right slightly more red. No difference in brightness. My eye doctor doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. When you go for an eye exam, do they do that test where half the eye chart is green and half red? I don’t remember what that is for, but my eye doctor always uses it to adjust something for my prescription.
for me, things in my left eye are slightly more blue, and slightly more yellow in my right. i’m not completely sure if there is a difference in brightness, or if it is simply me being thrown off by the different hues.
and no, no christmasy chart for me.
if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean.
Actually, I just tried that, and my eyes seem to be the same way yours are: right sees slightly more yellow tones, left more blue. My left sight seems much brighter, too. The right is noiceably duller.
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” --1984
The only time I’ve noticed it happening to me is at night, just after I’ve turned off my bedside light.
And the answer I gleaned from this experince is that the bedside light, being on my left, affects my left eye. While my right is mostly shielded by my reading position.
My eyes have done stuff like that TEMPORARILY–for maybe a minute–after reacting to light in some way. If one eye has been in more light, it will be dilated. Or, the response to a particular color may temporarily “burn out” for similar reasons. Hmmm, I’m going from memory–should experiment with this.
Normally, or at least, in the past, I had the bluish/yellowish thing going, but my vision has been decreasing so much lately that all I notice is that my left eye is a little sharper than my right.
–Tim
You can’t accidently create a handicapped baby whilst smoking pot.
