I bet it’s just retinal fatigue from uneven lighting. When driving down the highway, one eye is next to a window and the other is inside the darker car. That’s enough to fatigue one eye more than the other.
FWIW, I’m lit from the left right now and my “tint” is the opposite of everyone else’s for now.
I don’t think so. I am pretty sure it has always been consistent for me which eye is redder and which is greener.
Still no word on whether or not this has an actual name (if any)?
Hey I was just thinking of this today.
Seeing how well our brain compensates - like if you wear glasses that make things upside down, you eventually see things correctly - I think any color differences due to corneas, glasses etc would be quickly corrected. I believe there’s an advantage to seeing things like this and the brain does it on purpose.
You don’t. It is a myth based on early 20th century, poorly controlled experiments. As I have previously detailed on these boards, more modern experiments have shown that wht you see does not “return to normal”. You learn to cope, that is all.
Well, I can tell you it isn’t universal. I have no such strangnesses. All you wackos must be smokin’ the cheap stuff!
You mean the good stuff. The cheap stuff doesn’t make you see different colors out of each eye.
You know how you can look at those special pictures of two faces/a goblet and see it either way, letting it flip back and forth? When I was a pre-teen, I could do that with right side up and up side down. Basically I could flip my field of vision so it seemed right side up or up side down. I used to read books upside down using this facility, to start conversations… I can’t seem to do it anymore but probably with enough effort I could re-figure out how I did it.
People have learnt to “see” with electrode arrays on their tongue or back. No matter what you call it, the brain can compensate for a wide variety of inputs.
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.
What is your point? As I said, people wearing inverting lenses learn to cope. However, it is a myth (promulgated by the earlier papers on the phenomenon) that their visual world flips back over to seem upright again. Here is a cite for you [PDF].
Likewise, although people who get skilled at using a Tactile Visual Substitution system (the electrode arrays - actually more often vibrator arrays - that you are talking about) may well agree that the experience of using it is more like seeing than feeling, it is still very different from seeing with your eyes.
Cataracts are the most common cause for this phenomen, folks. It’s not at all unusual to have cataracts develop at different rates between the two eyes, and cataracts significantly change one’s color perception.
I experienced this in high school, with better than average vision, so I doubt it was cataracts in my case.
My point is, the brain constantly calibrates input against expectations, so any differences that remain are probably intentional. You don’t feel things are lighter when using your dominant hand. Sounds from a centrally located source appear equally loud. Even touching your nose with your fingers seems simultaneous, despite both signals having different path lengths.
Maybe someone can calibrate a 3D monitor so both eyes see the same color, then watch a movie or something. I believe the difference will return.
Like ultrafilter, I noticed this back in high school, if not earlier - more than 15 years ago, I’d say. I’d hate to think that the half dozen optometrists and eye exams I’ve had for both standard checkups/new glasses and for work-related purposes (pre-employment screening) in that time failed to detect any developing cataracts!
I’m not always aware of it, and just last night I had one eye covered for a few minutes (just randomly positioning myself like that in bed) and when I lifted my head to turn out the light the effect was very noticeable. Right now, I can’t even tell for sure if this effect is occurring.
I think it might be caused by lighting conditions/light orientation/eye fatigue, rather than being a chronic thing.
Perhaps entirely unrelated, but last night, just a few minutes later, I also experienced a “head explosion”. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed a correlation between the two, but I figured if we are talking about sensory/brain weirdnesses, I might as well provide full disclosure.
The explosion was like a doorbell ringing. It’s more often a door slam.
The OP says “slightly”, and it’s something we’ve all noticed happening, so it doesn’t sound like a good diagnostic criteria for that condition.
I also have this pheunomenon. My left eye sees a blueish tint when my right eye is closed and my right eye has a reddish orangish tint when I close my left eye. If I have both eyes open it makes no difference. I see this any time I close one eye, but I have found out that it is really distinct when I look at dead grass or there’s a sunset. I finally found out other people see this too.
I was going to post that all these “me too” people are a bunch of mis-calibrated defective units and should be sent back to the people factory.
I then saw that I already derided them over a year ago, so nevermind.
I noticed this way back in my 20s while teaching biology. Through a microscope, my right eye was better at seeing detail, but the left eye saw more vibrant color.