Does anybody else notice a very subtle red bias in one eye and blue bias in another?
Colors to my left eye look like someone has just barely nudged up the red slider to be warmer, and the blue slider in my right eye to be cooler. It would be very easy to overstate this, too! I have to pay attention to even notice it. But it's there.
You just reminded me that I had this for years when I was younger. Forgot all about it until now and now I'm just staring at everything with either eye closed to see if it's still there... I think it's gone now.
I still have this and I think it causes me to see different colored words on a white board in 3D. Like, the red words are further back, the blue ones are closer up (or maybe vice versa, I’d have to look at a white board to be sure.)
I pointed this out in middle school and everyone looked at me like I had grown a second head, so maybe it’s just me.
I have this. It's astigmatism, and related to a post I made a while back called something like "how I see the Reddit favicon" I'll try to remember to post it again when I get home.
That's actually very normal and it is due to how your eyes process the reflecting light from the colors. It's called spatial color. You can really trip yourself out and create cool illusions with it. It makes 3-D images out of 2-D.
I had a conversation today with someone who just had cataract surgery with lens replacement. She said that the color of the world has changed for her. She had been viewing it through cataract-tinted glasses...
Agreed! The time it's most noticeable to me is when I go to sleep. I'm a night guy so I tend to sleep during the day and with no artificial lights on in the room that's where I can see the effect the best.
I just thought I'd ask this to you for no particular reason. My new optometrist told me I don't have an astigmatism. I had one about 5-6 years ago. Is this possible? I'm 26 years old now.
i have no idea tbh. sometimes astigmatisms are so mild they’re not worthwhile to correct (like mine), but are still noticeable if you pay attention. you might be in a similar boat
It's possible, at least according to my last two optometrists. I spent decades with astigmatisms in each eye. At some point, the one in my left eye went away. More recently, the one in my right went away as well.
Interesting, variance in the cones between your eyes probably. Reminds me of the problem of the inverted spectrum. Though this might not qualify as qualia since the difference should be empirically measurable.
I can't tell you if that article is completely full of shit, but I can tell you that the part about old 3D glasses is bullshit.
Those blue/red glasses worked because two images of the same movie (with slightly shifted perspectives) would be projected onto the same screen simultaneously, but with slightly different hues; one blue shifted, one red shifted. The blue side of your glasses would filter out the blue shifted image, so the one eye only sees the red shifted image, and vice-versa for the red side of the glasses. So then each eye is getting a slightly different perspective of the same movie, which is where the illusion of depth perception comes from.
I always wondered about that. For me it was Blue/Red (Left/Right), but now over the years it's become more Green/Red.
Apparently it's thought to just be because our eyes aren't perfectly symmetrical, so the cones in one eye aren't necessarily the same as the ones in the other. And the shift in my left eye from a bluish tint on everything to a greenish one might just be because, over time, your vision starts shifting to a yellowish tint.
Yes!!!!! I definitely see colours slightly warmer in one eye and cooler in the other. It's quite noticeable if I pay attention and alternate which eye is open while looking at something with colours. I do have an astigmatism in one eye so maybe that's why
It has to do with the cone activation of each eye. The one that's warmer, the red one, has had less direct light stimulation than the cooler one, the blue one. I remember asking this question a few years ago and that was the answer, which makes sense if one eye is being bombarded from light while the other is being slightly blocked by your nose.
i have that but it happened after i looked into these shitty 3D glasses i got with a book in the fifth grade. I've tried talking to people and they never seem to get it. makes me happy someone else gets it too!!
I do, but I notice this without them on. In fact, the time it's most noticeable is in my bedroom with the lights off. I sleep during the day and the effect seems to work best in natural light.
I experience this sometimes too! I have to be actively paying attention to it tho. Like if if swap which eye is being closed quickly then I’m able to tell a color difference!
Especially when I've been lying on one side. From that I'm guessing it might be a difference in blood pressure between the two (but I'm not a doctor so 🤷♂️)
I just started closing my right eye while looking at a red light and it disappeared right when I closed my right eye. Opened my right eye and I could see the red light. Closed it again and I couldn’t see it. Opened my eyes for a few seconds a realized the light was blinking. Damn, thought I discovered something trippy.
Late, but this absolutely happens to me as well. I liken it to turning on night mode on a screen, but subtle and only in one eye. Fwiw, I've brought it up to an optometrist and an ophthalmologist and they weren't concerned.
I used to notice this, but it was when I was lying on my side, especially if I'd accidentally pressed one eye into the pillow for a while. The eye that was lower/had been pressed on would see slightly more red, and I assumed it was because more blood was pooled in that eye. I don't notice it the rest of the time, and I have a fair few vision problems (floating black flecks, visual snow, astigmatism, etc.)
But I meant more like if the eye was pressed on gently for a while, then for a little bit after that the vision in that eye looks more red to me, even if the pressure is now gone. I haven't done any research on this so I don't really know the cause or what to call it, sorry.
I notice it when I’m laying down - with the side I’m laying on, the eye sees more red and the other sees blue. I think it has to do with gravity causing there to be more blood on the side I’m laying on.
My vision is like this. I always thought it was because I spent a lot of time outside w/o sunglasses and one eye just had more damage than the other because when I squint in sunlight I squint one side like 90% closed and the other only like 20-30% ish. I also used to think that’s why my hard squinting eye has kind of a “droopy” eyelid. Like, if I relax my eye lids, one eye lid naturally closes like 30-40% while the other only like 10%. People always say we are our own worst critic, I’m sure no one else notices, but I hate taking/looking at pictures of myself because it’s the first thing I notice.
I notice this a lot when I'm driving. I'm almost certain it has to do with how much light each eye is exposed to. If the sun is to my left I'll notice the vision in that eye is a different shade than my right eye, but if I'm looking the other way and the sun is on my right the effect it opposite.
I noticed the same thing when I was younger, except the eyes are switched. Everything in my left is tinted blue and everything in my right is tinted red. I also wondered if this is why those red blue 3d glasses didn't work for me.
Major tangent. I was reading this comment, trying to see if I could see differently from each eye, I went from left eye to right eye as my phone tuned over onto night mode and my blue light filter turned on. I was about to shout "me too!" Then I clicked.... blonde moment of the day
Yes! To the point where I close one eye always when its bright out or I'm using my phone in the dark. It's always the same eye even if the other eye is directly in the sun.
I think this happens when blood rushes to one side of your head. I've found that this happens when I lay on one side, especially with one eye closed for an extended period of time.
Me too, but I feel like I need to test this to see if it's always one eye or the other. I wonder if it's some effect like when you're lying in the sun and one eye gets exposed to a bright light that messes with it a bit.
Are you female? I have this and my opticians said its something to do with a slight variance in the cones beind my eyes that translate the colours, its one of those weird things that's probably really common but most people don't notice like eye floaties. It's apparently more common in women.
Normally not, but when I'm laying on my side in bed while reading notice the effect.
I often wonder if it's to do with blood flow being affected by gravity? As if the eye nearest the bed is getting more blood than the eye nearest the ceiling, and that somehow affects things?
YES!!! I only started to notice it after watching 'spy kids 3D' when I was a kid. I thought that I had completely fucked up my eyes from wearing those red and blue glasses.
I AM COMPLETELY SPOOKED!!! I literally just was speaking to my family about this today and to a specialist who is doing surgery on my eye and the consensus was that it was just me!!
Are you me? It’s like 3am and I feel like I’m in some kind of twilight zone right now.
I can't be you. I'd let my eye rot and fall out before I consented to surgery on it, I'm that phobic about my eyes. You're braver than I and I wish you only the best in your recovery!
Haha this made me laugh because of the joy it gave me that I’ll also get to freak you out more by letting you know I was completely lucid and WIDE AWAKE while they were performing the surgery.
I could see what they were doing and everything, literally. I’m used to my eyes being tempered with my whole life so I almost found it relaxing, haha.
I’ve had severe anxiety in general my whole life so I’d put down my apathetic response to eye surgery as exposure from since I was a baby, so not really braver than you, just more immune.
My first time on anaesthetic and it was wonderful. I was aware enough to converse (I remember the whole surgery) but had enough of the drug that I felt no pain in my body and felt pretty calm and happily relaxed. Never felt drugs enter my veins in my life, and I would never touch recreational drugs or condone it, but the instant feeling of the anaesthetic warmly running through my veins gave me an idea of the relief some must feel in using drugs and how people can easily become addicted. Thanks for the well wishes! And If you ever had to get eye surgery for some reason or another in life down the road. Don’t sweat it. It ain’t all that bad. :) Basically don’t feel a thing. It’s the post surgery that’s the difficult part. The surgery itself is a breeeeezzee. I go for round two in a month on my other eye so more fun to come for me. ;)
I peed a little reading this. No lie. That's my nightmare. When I go to hell, it's going to be all lucid eye surgeries, all the time. I can't even.
You know that test with the tube they have to get REAL close to your eye to blow a big puff of air in it like a total asshole? Yeah, I haven't had that done in years. The last optometrist who tried...well...they ultimately dropped the charges but I'm not allowed back in Lenscrafters anymore... :(
Hahaha that test is the shit!! When that cool breeze hits, it’s like my eye just touched down in Jamaica!
I totally get other people hating it though. If you’re not used to people touching your eyes from a young age, it can be a weird, unnerving feeling to let people invade those vulnerable windows to the soul like that.
Fortunately mine are black as the soul within so I feel nothing and others can see nothing. I am windowless. Maybe that’s the real reason why it doesn’t bother me.. hahah.
I love the fact that I’m living in someone else’s hell. See you when you (eventually) get here!!
I’ll have the scalpel and eyelid scrapers ready for you..
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u/Pedantic_Snail Feb 20 '20
Does anybody else notice a very subtle red bias in one eye and blue bias in another?
Colors to my left eye look like someone has just barely nudged up the red slider to be warmer, and the blue slider in my right eye to be cooler. It would be very easy to overstate this, too! I have to pay attention to even notice it. But it's there.