If I close one eye for a few minutes and then switch which eye is closed I see a very (very) subtle difference in hue.
Left eye sees a green tint; right eye sees a pink tint. It’s more obvious when I’m looking at a white wall on a bright day.
I don’t get this effect if I don’t let one of my eyes adapt to the dark first.
That’s because our eyes adapt themselves to different colour temperatures all the time during the day (a tungsten light bulb has very warm (orange) light, while daylight is much cooler (blue), for example, yet white is always white to us). This happens automatically and subconsciously.
If you close one eye for a little while though, it „resets“ back to its default colour temperature. After opening it again, it’ll take a little while for it to start compensating to the correct white point again and thus you‘ll have different hues on both eyes for a little while.
The effect is exaggerated a lot, if you close one eye and then look at a bright monochromatic image with the other one (like a bright red image on your phone, close to your face).
Or, of course, if you wear anaglyphic 3D glasses (that’s the red/green or red/cyan kind) for a while, as one eye will try to compensate for the red as much as it can, while the other one will try to compensate for the green/cyan as much as possible. Result: the eye with the red glass will look much cooler after taking off the glasses, and the eye with the green/cyan glass much warmer.
Generally that effect will balance itself out after a little while. Except for very slight variances of course. Our eyes and brains are far from perfect.
What’s the effect called?
I have a yellowish tint in one eye vs the other. Also one seems to have lower contrast, or one is just more light sensitive.
That eye’s filter is set to “Mexico”. Factory reset and tune from there.
I had this a year or so ago, when I had to have surgery on my eyes and have new artificial lenses put in. They only do it one eye at a time with a long gap in between, and after the first one there was a noticeable difference in colour tone between the two eyes.
Thankfully, once the second one was done, both were back to the same colour tone, but it was a very weird experience having never had it before.
So I’m not imagining it.
I only recently remembered this was a thing and that it might not be common until I searched… there are others!
I just figured everyone’s eyes were like that
I’ve got this too, and it makes the 3D effects of VR profoundly more deep – try virtual reality if you have this!
Also, you’ll probably be motion sick… if you get over it, you get insanely detailed 3D environments with this oddity
Did you ever wear those old-school 3D glasses?
This is ironically how I discovered I had this. I took off the glasses and took turns looking with one eye closed to see the effect. I randomly did it some time later without the glasses on out of curiosity and noticed there was still a slight color shift. Young me thought it was the 3D colored glasses that damaged my eyes.
I may have gone through the exact same scenario. Never was sure.
I have contrast and vision differences between eyes. Probably because for a long time at night when I get up in the middle of the night I keep one eye from navigating the dark and when light turns in I switch. So I guess doing this for years made the contrast of each eye can detect different.
Oh, shit. I’ve been doing this for years and haven’t notice a change yet.
How long were you doing it for? Does it effect your normal vision? Do you regret doing it?
I only ask if I should start switching it up, maybe throw in the other eye every now and then.
Probably sense I was a child as I unintentionally did it for as long as I can remember (bc autism I guess)and only real difference is a very slight difference in prescription in glasses for each eye but genetics make my eyes bad so honestly don’t know. The contrast difference is only noticeable at low light levels as one sees better in the dark which is weird.
That’s a smart idea!
Read this through my left eye in a pitch black room… due to my asymmetrical astigmatism, this is the only way I can use my phone in the dark. Hopefully it doesn’t affect me for a while
i have the same, i always assumed it’s normal. the left eye sees things in an emotional way, thus is has an orange bias. the right eye sees things in rational way, thus it has a blue bias.
I don’t think “thus” means what you think it does
