There isn't much to do in a hospital, so I have been fooling around with my eyes (closing one eye, than the other...exciting stuff) to kill time. This resulted me in remembering that my eyes have different color balance. Not sure if that is a real term, but that's what I call it. My left eye sees the world in a very slight blue tint. My right eye sees the world in a very slight brown tint. My left eye is also tiny bit more clear in seeing at long distances than my right eye. This creates interesting scenarios where I have a visible line on the peripheral of my vision where things are more clear on the left peripheral than on the right. I very rarely notice the color difference though, unless I am looking at a white wall for a long time. So, I have been wondering, what tint is our world? Blue or brown?

There isn't much to do in a hospital, so I have been fooling around with my eyes (closing one eye, than the other...exciting stuff) to kill time. This resulted me in remembering that my eyes have different color balance. Not sure if that is a real term, but that's what I call it. My left eye sees the world in a very slight blue tint. My right eye sees the world in a very slight brown tint. My left eye is also tiny bit more clear in seeing at long distances than my right eye. This creates interesting scenarios where I have a visible line on the peripheral of my vision where things are more clear on the left peripheral than on the right. I very rarely notice the color difference though, unless I am looking at a white wall for a long time. So, I have been wondering, what tint is our world? Blue or brown? Depends on the lighting.

It's yellow. Maybe you're color blind.

If it's on the Unreal 3 engine, brown.

Our world is more blue due to the properties of the elemental mixture of air (actually it may not be the air itself, but the water content in the air, I'll need a fact check on that). The farther away objects appear, the bluer they seem, this is the same reason why deeper water is blue/brown/green instead of clear as if you had some in the palm of your hand.

I'm always thought it resembled sh*t. So....definitely brownish.

Our world is more blue due to the properties of the elemental mixture of air (actually it may not be the air itself, but the water content in the air, I'll need a fact check on that). The farther away objects appear, the bluer they seem, this is the same reason why deeper water is blue/brown/green instead of clear as if you had some in the palm of your hand. Is it? I recall that the sky is blue because, by the time the light hits earth, the bands have separated and the only wavelength we can see is blue. So, couldn't things be more blue as you get farther away because there's more light between you and the object?

For the record, I am not color blind. I am trusting my left eye's judgment more because it also sees better at longer distances. My right eye is a slacker.

I think my eyes do something similar, but not all the time...I think in situations where my eyes have been closed for a long time (like sleepin'...and maybe if one eye was under a bit of pressure, like from my hand or something)...then if I wake up and check both eyes individually, one shows a warm tint to everything, and one shows a cool tint.

Are you currently on any pain medications right now?

It would seem your right eye is a bit nearsighted compared to your left, that's not terribly uncommon. Personally, I have one eye quite nearsighted and one only a little bit nearsighted. As for color differences, what you view can really depend on if you've been looking through a certain color for a while- try wearing some of those red/blue 3D glasses for a while, and after you take them off one eye will view everything with a cold color temperature and the other with a warm temp.

Yeah I noticed this when I was about 12 and spent the rest of the afternoon walking around looking at different things and blinking, must have looked like I was having a seizure or something. Our world is more blue due to the properties of the elemental mixture of air (actually it may not be the air itself, but the water content in the air, I'll need a fact check on that). The farther away objects appear, the bluer they seem, this is the same reason why deeper water is blue/brown/green instead of clear as if you had some in the palm of your hand. Is it? I recall that the sky is blue because, by the time the light hits earth, the bands have separated and the only wavelength we can see is blue. So, couldn't things be more blue as you get farther away because there's more light between you and the object? You're both kind of wrong! This is the main reason for the sky's colours, but only the strength of it depends on the medium. Red light is always scattered more than blue light, because the scattering depends on the wavelength of light. My answer to the OP would be a boring almost philosophical one: You can only define the colour balance relative to another colour balance, so unless you rip out your eye and have turns at replacing it with a lot of other peoples', you're never going to know.

My eyes are the same way with the orange/blue tints. I've always wondered if it was a normal thing that no one really notices/talks about, or if I'm just weird.

My eyes are the same way with the orange/blue tints. I've always wondered if it was a normal thing that no one really notices/talks about, or if I'm just weird. I think all eyes are like this, lot's of people just never notices. I read a theory somewhere that it had something to do with our depth perception but I can't find a decent source for that now.

Our world is in no tint. Color does not exist, it is perceived by the individual. Im also pretty sure you have a type of color blindness in one eye. You seem to be lacking a type of photoreceptor in your eye that makes you see only part of color (brown'ish). Its looking at color in a 2-dimensional view.

Our world is in no tint. Color does not exist, it is perceived by the individual. Im also pretty sure you have a type of color blindness in one eye. You seem to be lacking a type of photoreceptor in your eye that makes you see only part of color (brown'ish). Its looking at color in a 2-dimensional view. Every single one I've pointed this out to realized that they also have a different color temperatures on their eyes. Easiest way to see it is looking at a white wall in indirect sunlight. I'm looking right now at a white wall but with indoor lights and it's pretty hard to see a difference.

I've always noticed my eyes having a red/green tint like old TVs did. Right eye is red/left is green

I've also noticed this many years ago, and I sometimes compare my 2 eyes when I'm bored. There's a difference in color perception between my 2 eyes, but it's very small. You have to pay attention to notice it.

The world is either blurry or covered in strange moving dots. I don't know which is more accurate.

I have it also. I have always wondered about it.

Our world is in no tint. Color does not exist, it is perceived by the individual. I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around this statement.

My eyes vary depending on which one has been open longer (If I close one eye for a while, when I re-open it everything seems a bit brownish compared to the other).

My left eye perceives color a little warmer than my right eye. (or is my right eye seeing things a little cooler than the left?!)

Our world is in no tint. Color does not exist, it is perceived by the individual. I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around this statement. what can really fuck you up is how do you know if what you perceive as red isnt what i percieve as blue?

My left eye sees colors just a tiny tiny bit more washed out than the right. And I would have never known if it wasn't for this thread. Thank you.