# Seeing Two Different Shades of Color Out of Each Eye **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 2, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626 "2011-11-02T14:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/41 "2013-03-29T02:27:23Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > A woman I used to work with was a leftie when she was born. But she also had a problem with stuttering, and they forced her to learn to be right handed. She was cured of the stuttering, and ever since, she has been able to write with either hand, backwards or forwards. She can stand at a chalkboard and write a sentence backward with one hand at the same time she writes is forward with the other, then reverse it and go the other way. And by backward, I don’t just mean from the end to the beginning, I mean mirrored also. It hurt my brain just watching her do it. I didn’t stuffer but I had a psychobat ex nun teaching in a public school who thought all lefties were the devil and would strike me with a ruler. She drew blood one day and I lost my temper and grabbed the ruler and smacked her face, she took me to the principal which was a mistake…the principal was a leftie 😃 Ms psychobat mysteriously went on leave at the end of the week and never returned. (good riddance) Because of that I can write left or right handed, left handed I often write things from right to left (in other words mirror writing) and with concentration, I can write with both hands, backwards with the left and forwards with the right simultaniously. My handwriting however is hideous unless I really focus and go slow because with all the switching around my motor control got iffy. ( I was both read and writing before I even attended grade school, so being forced to change something that fundamentally developed created some problems for me) ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/42 "2013-03-29T02:31:39Z")
I’m on a medication called hydrochloroquinine (for arthritis fibro and it’s sometimes used to treat lupus) and a side effect is it can re-align the rods an cones in your eyes and alter your color perception. If you are very myopic you may have that reddish tint because the retina’s are so thin they are being tinted by reflection from capillaries in the eyes. Heres a question for you. If you lay on your back and close your eyes do you see a very vague movement that looks a bit like a galaxy spinning counterclockwise against your eyelids? ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/43 "2013-03-29T02:48:09Z")
She wasn’t slow at all. She could just write stuff out anyway she wanted with either hand. It was really freaky watching her. But she had a freaky brain in other ways. She has MS and her doctors couldn’t figure out why she was still able to walk. Her brain had deteriorated far beyond what most people could handle. That was when I still worked there. I left that job 6 years ago and my sister ran into her there, still working. ---
**Author:** ![Firefly640](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b3f665/32.png) [@Firefly640](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firefly640)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/44 "2014-02-18T12:00:58Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > If you are insane, then you have company. My vision is exactly the same. Right eye has a slightly reddish hue, left eye slightly blueish. I suspect this is perfectly normal. I actually have the opposite I see bluish out of my right eye and reddish out of my left eye. :dubious::dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Firefly640](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b3f665/32.png) [@Firefly640](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firefly640)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/45 "2014-02-18T12:03:37Z")
> [@antechinus](#): > > You can duplicate this effect by lying on your side for a few minutes and looking at a white field\*. > > From memory, the eye closest the ground sees a red hue. Maybe blood pressure differential causes the effect. > > Does this work for anyone else or is just me? > > - like a white wall or piece of paper, not a paddock Do you think it depends on how good your vision is? ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/46 "2014-02-18T14:28:57Z")
My working theory now is: LCDs. We stare at them all the time, and most LCDs change colour with viewing angle. Might have something to do with polarisation as well. Each eye sees a different colour, when they see the same colour they get confused. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/47 "2014-02-18T16:05:06Z")
Multi Zombie!!! (11/11 -\> 1/12) (1/12 -\> 3/13) (3/13 -\> 2/14) ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/48 "2014-02-18T18:32:47Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Multi Zombie!!! > > (11/11 -\> 1/12) > (1/12 -\> 3/13) > (3/13 -\> 2/14) Let’s keep it going until 20/20. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/49 "2014-02-19T12:42:20Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > My working theory now is: LCDs. We stare at them all the time, and most LCDs change colour with viewing angle. Might have something to do with polarisation as well. Each eye sees a different colour, when they see the same colour they get confused. I first noticed it in myself when in college in the 1970s. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t looking at LCD screens then. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/50 "2014-02-19T20:55:21Z")
Haven’t read this entire thread yet but I get this as well, I thought it is perhaps the minds way of determining true colour by balancing different inputs from each eye in the same way two eyes are necessary to determine depth perception? ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/51 "2014-02-19T23:20:49Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > Haven’t read this entire thread yet but I get this as well, I thought it is perhaps the minds way of determining true colour by balancing different inputs from each eye Yes thats it. Your brain has a colour correction filter. Its not dumb. It even detects shadows. The brain corrects the colour for the part of the image that seems to be in a shadow. This occurs AFTER the two eyes are joined into one image. So if the eye was seeing something like a shadow or the light source, then the correction could affect the entire image. but then after the eye is closed, that shadow or light source goes away, and the correction alters. There’s many "Are these the same colour ? " tests on the web. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626/52 "2014-05-30T10:42:32Z")
This question has now been addressed by Cecil Himself, in this week’s column: [My right eye sees colors differently from my left eye. Is that normal? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3164/my-right-eye-sees-colors-differently-from-my-left-eye-is-that-normal) Please note that this thread was started in 11/2011 through 1/2012, revived in post #38 on 3/2013, and revived again in post #44 on 2/2014. Since it’s now a column by Cecil, I’m going to close this and re-direct your comments to the current thread (started 30-May-2014): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17418376&posted=1#post17418376](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17418376&posted=1#post17418376) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-two-different-shades-of-color-out-of-each-eye/601626.md?page=2)