Seeing In The Dark

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

A few years ago whilst doing a bit of astronomy an astronomer said to us what colour are the planets (that we could see)....turns out that some people can see colours in the dark and some can't...just wondering what the most common is? Or if it is in fact true...

 

[the biffster]

i find it hard to see colour in daylight never mind at night

 

[Carlovel1]

I can see in full colour vision at night!

 

[Curiosity101]

How dark is dark?

Pretty much what you're describing is simple biology. Some of the receptors in your eye do colour, some do black and white. Each type has different brightnesses of light they work best at. The black and white receptors work way way better than the colour ones do in dim light, but in theory you should all still see in colour down to a certain darkness, it just wont be as vivid.

I reckon what the guy may have been hinting at is that some people can see UV light?
There is a certain filter in the eye that, when removed, allows you to see UV. Apparently I think there was some rumour that van gough may have had this filter missing (some people are born without it) and they implied this may well have influenced his work.

 

[AstonN24vantage]

i suck at eating so i dont get too much vitamin a, but i have really amazing eyes. i can see mostly anything. sometimes i see things that aren't there not hullucinations, but if my brother moves his hand to me for example i flinch.

 

[england]

When i see in the dark i beleive what i can see is normal colours just harder to see, but when i close my eyes most nights,i get colour formations, hard to exsplain really,but it starts of yellow then changes to green through to purple,its very odd.lol..but iam odd..

 

[WILDER]

i find it hard to see colour in daylight never mind at night

LOL.
Me too. Was going to say the same thing.

 

[the biffster]

i find it hard to see colour in daylight never mind at night

LOL.
Me too. Was going to say the same thing.

i know how you feel wilder mind you light on
light off dosent make a great deal anyway

i see in monochrome most of the time

 

[Ace Of Spades]

When i see in the dark i beleive what i can see is normal colours just harder to see, but when i close my eyes most nights,i get colour formations, hard to exsplain really,but it starts of yellow then changes to green through to purple,its very odd.lol..but iam odd..

This happens to me as well but when my eyes are open as well as closed.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

They are these apparently.


After reading up on it, That's not what I have. Apparently I have Visual Snow, where I am constantly seeing a basically television static. Look it up, pretty interesting!

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

How dark is dark?

Pretty much what you're describing is simple biology. Some of the receptors in your eye do colour, some do black and white. Each type has different brightnesses of light they work best at. The black and white receptors work way way better than the colour ones do in dim light, but in theory you should all still see in colour down to a certain darkness, it just wont be as vivid.

I reckon what the guy may have been hinting at is that some people can see UV light?
There is a certain filter in the eye that, when removed, allows you to see UV. Apparently I think there was some rumour that van gough may have had this filter missing (some people are born without it) and they implied this may well have influenced his work.

Dark as in you can still see things (very little light) but not pitch black.

I dont know if he meant the UV light thing or not. Because my boyfriend can see colours in the dark and I can't. I see it all in either monochrome or black and white.

Even if I look at something that I know the colour of I can't tell the colour of it; for instance the other night I was looking around our bathroom (no lights on), and I couldn't tell what was what colour . Well I could but on a greyscale.