Why do I see color differently through each eye?

Question

If I cover one eye, I see colors as though they are sort of cold; blue or green tinted.

If I switch the covered eye, everything looks warmer and more red tinted through the other eye.

Is this normal? What causes it?

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Answer 1

It depends on the amount of rods versus cones that you have in your eye. Because the amount of rods and cones you have affects how you see color, everything you see may actually be more yellow, red, blue, etc, than someone else because each eye varies. Cones are sensitive to color, where as rods are not. There are also various sizes/tyes of cones in the eye, which changes the color which you "see."  The setup of cones in your retina also affect the colors which you see.

Basically, it's normal, so no worries. :) When I'm bored and reading I cover one eye, then the other, and I'm always amused at the color differences. :)

Answer 2

When you realize that vision is processed in the brain in several different area and in different modes and you combine that with the trouble that you described earlier in another question (possible mini-seizures), it is almost easy to see how this could happen.

So you have another reason to see a neurologist... unless you don't mind the symptoms that you have.

Answer 3

it depends on the state of refraction of every eye , red color is of longer wave length focused more anterior to the retina , while blue is shorter focused behind , if one eye is less strong the focus of red will go backward and you see more warm with this eye and vice versa [ the eye is toned for focusing medium wave-lenght light like blue-green ]