The Origin and Purpose of Blue Eyes 

I disagree. I can't stand warm light and tend to get headaches. I have all cool tone light bulbs but I also like them dimmer. Too bright and it hurts my eyes. I don't think the color tone has much to do with eye color but brightness sure does. On the plus side because cool tone light bulbs are generally brighter at the same wattages as warm ones (or at least I perceive them to be so) I need even lower wattages on mine then if I was using warm ones so I do spend less on electricity. And honestly I don't even always turn on the lights. It's soothing to be in a dim lit or dark room.

I have blue eyes and l use subdued lighting in my home, with low wattage bulbs or dimmable bulbs everywhere. And l just don't understand why my brown eyed children need to use electric lights in the daytime indoors. Very interesting! 🤔

Me too. No led in my house. Halogen or old incandescent.

Same here

Agreed. Lighting in my house is very subdued and yet it's more than bright enough for me.

I didn't notice that at all when I was in. I have brown eyes and I am sensitive to light.

@@floridaman318 It's all relative. On an individual basis, you wouldn't know the difference unless you could actually make a direct comparison, which you can't (have blue eyes, then switch to brown eyes). The scientific conclusion is simply based on statistical comparisons.

wow, that's cool! Of course---I think our sensitivity isn't an asset in intensive Sun

i doubt it, the light goes through the pupille i think the iris (that what the eyes makes colorful) has nothing to do with the light incoming.

I have Blue Eyes and bright lights and Summers hurts my eyes 😮

Brown-eyes, here. Same issue. Don't need or won't the flashlight for night-time light conditions - especially in town. I used to walk 1-5 km cross country every other night, when my fieldwork was in the desert. It was more dim then dark for me. Sometimes the shadows on the ground would be impenetrable - particularly on a moonless night but the rest of the time, just dimmer. Back then I had no difficulty reading an 8 point font under moonlight. Around town, though, the light pollution is so high it's never dark.

Same thing with headlights. With how bright they've gotten over the years with the leds, I can hardly see to drive at night because those things blind me so horribly, especially when out of the city and in the mountain passes where it's not lit at all other than headlights. In those areas, I'd rather drive without lights at all and see better than with them on. But that oncoming traffic....I've taken to having to wear my sunglasses at night to help me deal with the headlights (only helps a little bit, not enough). I can still see fine in the dark even with my sunglasses on. Cloudy days are an absolute must for sunglasses because of the glare caused by the clouds.

@@Moraenil A trick I learned with headlightes is to avert my eyes and attenuate. The glare is still horrible, but when I'm focused on other things (like what those headlights are illuminating) I find it makes a big difference.

@@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting You've never driven on unlit, curvy, mountain passes have you? One minute you're driving along, 45mph, using all your range of vision keeping a watch out for deer, bear, mountain lion and other critters. The next second, you're blinded by lights from the opposite direction and can't see a blasted thing except the spots in your eyes. There's no getting used to that, or having time to try to adjust from almost no light (my headlights are very dim which is how I like it so I can see off the side of road and it isn't just black outside the headlight range) to being blinded. Hell, couple years ago I was suddenly blinded by flood lights that should not have come on from a backyard on the other side of the road, triggered by me walking, and I fell over the speed bump in the road (no sidewalks and I was at the side across the street), and broke my shoulder. Sudden bright led lights are blinding and there's no getting used to it when it's dark until they suddenly shine directly in your eyes.

​@@Moraenilthat's why I always close one eye during approaching oncoming headlights then afterwards swap which one's closed until my pupil dilates again.

Wow me too!!!

Did you get them on Ebay?

A few years ago My wife and I went camping in a very Dark place in The San Rafael Swell Utah......it was so beautiful with the light coming from the Stars, to me it was slightly dimmer than twilight. We were also tripping on shrooms 🍄

@@graciefreebush394 nope, straight from the factory

Speak your truth, king.

Love it😅

Who cares, she was basically a prosteetiut

Lol.

More likely she had blue eyes than that she was black at least.

Blue-eyed as well I must always wear sunglasses when I am out in the sun or I get wicked migraine headaches I can see great in the dark as well

I definitely agree being blue eyed I like cloudy days also and snow is definitely not a friend of mine because it's instant headache for me

Same except for the headaches. I live in Mississippi and its very sunny here fro march to October. I squint constantly. My eyes haved turned dark blue over time though.

Red, pink, or rose colored glass helps with snow reflection.

yea most of us can testify that we have migraine. i had it worse a throbbin headache from migraine. never been better now

Blue eyes are as beautiful as the blue skies or ocean - my favorite.

@@annemurphy9339 Its true. People with blue eyes stand out more in dating scene(if they are decent looking ) . Since I was a child I got praised for my blue eyes and at that time I found it very annoying . When I was child my parents worked for few yrs in Iraq and in a evening some Iraqi women tried to stole me hiding me under their skirts . After I got married my wife confessed that she pick me because I was the only one with blue eyes in my group. Now I have 3 kids with blonde hair and blue eyes .

As a red head (ginger) with Blue eyes, I agree 😊

literally worth fighting for

I’m with you on that one. I am a heterosexual man, but one of the most striking of my workmates had faded red hair and piercingly bright blue eyes.

​@MorTobXD where do you think your food come from? Unless you're vegan... than I'm sorry. I was 2 yrs. And felt terrible. Super skinny, teeth rotting, stomach destroyed...

@@RickAmey-wc3dxeven if they are vegan it’s a fail diet they need what vegetables & fruit can’t give them

Just to be clear; I was referring to hunters back when we were hunter-gatherers.

Also, the light conditions I mentioned in nordic countries are during the dark half of the year. At midsummer the sun never sets, so summers are a whole different thing.

@@MorTobXD Say that when you are stranded in a snowy wilderness with no supplies & no phone.

That shit is literally debilitating when I'm driving as I have gotten older. Living in Florida sometimes during mid day my eyes will water like crazy if I forget my sun glasses.

Glad to know it's not just me that hates oncoming traffic at night Sure some people just drive around with the main beam on oblivious to other drivers

This is me too lol

​@@johnschofield3418nope, you're not alone

The same. It happens few times I forgot to turn on the lights and even didn't notice it...

I have brown eyes but need sunglasses too 😢

@Mattilainen45 it's your superpower too then 🤣 we blinded out here 😆

Not just sunglasses, glacier glasses. I always have two pairs of Julbos, a main pair and a backup, even though they're expensive, and sunglasses slip through my fingers like lube-coated teflon!

Yep.

Same here, I NEED polarized lenses.

therefor its a disability

Yes, bright days leave me squinting. I hear blue eyes go blind more quickly too.

Same here

I met a native American whilst in Oklahoma and he had green eyes. Is that common?

Very interesting cheers from Sherwood forest England

@@noahtylerpritchett2682it is only possible with a parent who is of pure European heritage. I’m half Apache and half German and my hair is dirty blonde, thick, not much body hair or facial hair, green hazel eyes, and tanned skin when I’m in the sun a lot like the summer. But then I’ll get very white in the winter. So I’d say no it’s not common amongst anyone in the americas without having some European blood. But I’ve seen what you’re referring to. I think green and brown are more adaptable for us Natives as blue is very very rare with our people.

@@BARBARYAN. got it. OK. I was just curios. Thanks for answering

Howdy

That's what occurred to me. I come from a family with a long history of technical trades, like blacksmithing, clockmaking, leatherworking, etc. We still do a lot of those things as hobbies, and I vividly recall my grandfather's workshop being dim because it was relatively small and tucked into the interior of the house so that people couldn't just bust a window and steal all of your professional tools, trade secrets, etc, some of which had been in the family for generations. I also remember my grandfather telling me that he had it good with his ancient shop light from the 1940s because *his* grandfather had to work by lamp or candlelight. Seeing these studies in the video, I immediately imagined generations of people sitting at workbenches doing delicate work in low light conditions.

Exactly what I thought!

What about candle light? The dim lights from candles and not being able to see everything in a room? 🤔🤷‍♂️

I absolutely agree with the idea of seeing better in a poorly lit cabin. That was the standard, even in castles, up until the past century.

I have crazy blue eyes and have light sensitivity im also a night person and see like a racoon in the dark

Doesn't explain why blue eyes developed far before the ability to read and write. Also, darker eyed pooulation have figured it out too, so it doesn't seem like a prerequisite.

@@alainerookkitsunev5605the ability to read and write? My dude, u have never heard of cave paintings?

Blue eyes were around long before anyone had time to craft though

I’m not a welder but I live in a snowy place and snow glare kills my blue eyes. I have to wear sunglasses. So I see what you’re saying and it makes sense. Also, I have trouble driving at night during traffic for the same reasons as you. All of the super bright modern headlights mess with my eyes.

I never drive at night due to the glare of oncoming headlights which I find very distracting. Blue eyes here.

@@patriciadunmore9767 I too can not see to drive at night due to oncoming headlights , in fact in the rain it is down right dangerous .

Those cheapy yellow tinted glasses that block blue light help me a lot.

Blue eyed welder here also. Have to watch that flash burn on cloudy days.

That's a lovely memory !

Very Sweet

Beautiful memory! 😊

Awesome

So your father wasted his beautiful genetics by marrying your mother. R*ce mixing is ugly. (unfortunately, I don't have blue eyes either)

I can walk my whole house in darkness.😊

Me too!

Same here!!

Same here, though I don't think it has much to do with my blue eyes, I can't say I can really see where I'm going I just have the layout of the house memorised lol.

I seem to see better at night. Also all the little lights on everything are so annoying

Me too. Ever since I was little I remember being sensitive to light.

I love that too! How strange, but you are correct. It's like daylight without the glare of the sun. I love winter night snow.

So night hunting in a snow covered landscape would be possible with blue eyes. It would also make it easier to spot predators who hunt at night and that certainly would confer an advantage on blue eyed people.

I know what you mean. A moonlight night and nice white snow on the ground and you can see everything. Even in a forest because the lights shines down and the snow acts like a reflector of the light. The ground is pretty visible. Also at home when I got to sleep and there was a lot of light at first it's pitch black because so much light was taken into the eyes. But after a few minutes and then open the eyes I can see everything. yes it is dark but I can see with no problem. And it can be a pitch black room. Maybe some tiny LED light from a clock in a corner or something.

Samesys with all these!

That Roman Legion that got massacred by ambush in the German forest were probably at a greater disadvantage than they'd figured for .

Honest follow up question: I am a blonde haired blue eyed female with primarily Swedish ancestry. I find that babies often stare at me. Does this mean they find me beautiful or weird? 😂

​@@allejune Beautiful! True story: My aunt and I were in a market a few years ago and there was a beautiful young woman who happened to be pregnant. We were born and raised in California where we saw Movie stars all the time and were not impressed by such people, so we never stared at anyone. But we couldn't stop looking at her. She had shimmering reddish blonde hair, bright green eyes and a peaches and cream complexion. Finally, we knew we must be making her uncomfortable, so we went over to her and told her we were sorry for looking at her so much but that she was so beautiful, we couldn't help it! She had thought we were staring at her because she was pregnant. but that had nothing to do with it. She immediately relaxed. I'm sure if babies are staring at you, you should feel good about it. They are known to cry if something is scary or ugly. They just appreciate something beautiful to look at!

I am the same.

Never put lights on if I get up during night can see perfectly well in the dark but have noticed that often people calling in the evening will say "by its dark in here"

Same

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I hate the constant questions of why I go for walks at night or when my job needs me to work mornings. "Aren't you afraid of animals at night? " no "how do you see?" How do you see during the day? I only like the day if I'm at the beach so I can chill my body and be like an crocodile and sit in the sun. Otherwise I'm a vampire I guess

Same. I wonder now how much "lark vs owl" division correlates with eye color. It would make sense we feel more comfortable at night, so we tend to shift to avoid (sleep through) as much of the light of day as we can.

*THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE* 🌩 🌩

Welshman whose family immigrated to US only 2 generations ago. Several of us such Grams and Gramps, their children and their children and al aunties and uncles, cousins-- all with blue eyes can see really well at night, love the snow and winters, hunt and have dimly lit homes.

My green eyed mother always wore dark eyeglasses. I barely ever saw her eye color. Quite green.

Same!!

Similar for me, except my eyes are green and I’m not always hugely sensitive to bright sunlight, sometimes the angle of the sun is a factor.

Im finnish. When i was in military most of us agreed that at small distances it was almost easier to see without NVG sometimes.

I made the same observation decades ago, only it was in a beer garden where I was squinting in the midday sun while all the brown eyed people on my table (everyone but me) seemed fine with it. Lead to a discussion and we concluded it was my pale blue eyes that was causing it. Seemed a logical deduction. Sunglasses are mandatory for me on sunny days - even in the winter.

@@jamesmason8436I know what you mean. Having blue eyes is just bad luck. I sure wish I had brown eyes. Brown-eyed people are the lucky ones.

@@nativetexanful can't say it's particularly restrictive, provided I wear my sunglasses.

I regularly walk through the woods to my hunting spot during the pre-dawn darkness with 0 lighting. Never put any thought into why I can see, but my night vision is very good.

It's due to the color of your eye, but your eye has no advantage in low light, because dark eyes pupil dilates in low light to admit the same amount of light as in a blue-eyed person. It only causes problems in bright light, that's all.

​@@annaclarafenyo8185 Source?

Always heard you're more susceptible to cataracts with lighter color retinas. I try to keep polarized shades handy all the time, especially in winter.

You must also have European ancestors too

My experience is almost exactly the same. I dislike the summer and the beach (and deserts). I also feel more adjusted in northern climes. But i don't have issues in the rain. Glare affects me from my astigmatism.

Me too,but I have brown eyes

I get that night driving glare gotta to keep my eyes focused on the line opposite the traffic. Now i can tell my partner why he didn't understand it. Glad it's not just me

Same here! People make fun of me bc sometimes I wear sunglasses indoors bc of sensitivity

Ditto

This is why humans are going to wind up all 8 feet tall with chronic back problems.

Irrelevant, Humans aren’t Peacocks. Men have been the sexual selectors for 99% of Human History. It’s only in the past century that things changed and Women became the sexual selectors

Why do humans males have facial hair and larger penises than other apes?

@@Survivethejive it's kind of crazy human males are better endowed than Gorillas down there. Clear what human females preferred 😅

​@Survivethejive I actually watched a documentary on this, chimps had larger penises than humans and gorrias had smaller, it was theorised that penis size relates to the fidelity of the females. The more loyal the females the smaller the penises, the less loyal the larger the penises so that ejaculation occurred deeper increasing the likelihood of fertilising the female.

I wear sunglasses in some stores because I can barely see in brightly lit areas

That's what my vision was. I miss that. My Dad went in at 80 to renew his driver's license and the clerk said "you forgot to put glasses down". he said "I don't use glasses". She looked puzzled and said "oh you wear contacts." He said "No!"

I have blue eyes and such shit vision I can't see more than a foot in front of my face. I don't think it was the blue eyes that helped him it was the 20/15 vision.

​@MamaMOB if you are not a premature baby, then you can usually fix your eye vision naturally. On a 4x4 piece of paper, put a dot in the center. Hold it approximately 18 inches from your face. Look past the card, but focus on the dot with your peripheral vision. Now move the paper in a square pattern, to start. Your eyes will burn after 5 minutes. Congratulations you are strengthening your eye muscles. Try it. I'm not selling anything. I was told I had 50/20 vision when I was 10 years old and needed glasses, I found this hack from an old book in the library. When I went back to the eye Dr to get my glasses 4 months later, I had and have eagle vision, 20/15. Every 5 years or so I have to readjust my vision back to eagle. Glasses allow your muscles to weaken. Like when someone has a lazy eye, they put a patch on the good one to excercise the muscles in the bad eye.

Though I have worn glasses since a child, I have always been corrected to 20/15 since 20/20 gives me "problems". Now at 84 years old, and recently having cataract surgery, I have not been able to be corrected to 20/15, but 20/25 and I "seem" to feel that I don't see well now!

i think this also happens you look out at far distances outside. most people are indoors a lot and dont look out miles away.. and if you think about eagle eyes theyre looking for mice a mile down.. @@user-ux2vk3lq5p

Ah thx for clarifying the mechanism, I'd been wondering how anything other then the pupil size was contributing to light control. From what your describing its the inner side of the Iris which is really what matters, not the outer side which other people see, so if the iris was dark on the inside it improve low light vision without being visible to others.

The flipside is NOT true, because blue eyes don't admit more light in dark conditions, when the pupil is fully dilated. If you were really an eye doctor, you would understand that.

Interesting to hear the full effect of the iris, I only know of bits of information for the iris and retina and pupil from going to the eye doctor with my husband, he has blue eyes but also has to wear contacts due to the sunlight.. one thing I noticed though is as he has gotten older his eye color or being a bright blue went to kinda more of a grayish blue. Why is that? I'm just curious his prescription is the same as before so he didn't lose more eye sight.

I wonder if they would find the same difference in pale brown vs dark brown eyes. I heard once from a sports trainer that most vitamin D is absorbed through the eyes, and it's been theorized that light skin/dark skin is from a tradeoff between UV protection (ie tanning) and vitamin D absorption (which is easier through pale skin). So combining that with the eye being a primary surface for absorbing vitamin D from sunlight, the blue eyes and pale skin of northern Eurasians would both be evolutionary adaptations to a lower light environment: in the north, where the sun is less strong, requiring less pigmentation defence, the adaptation pressure shifts to absorbing more vitamin D from the lower light environment, via depigmentation, and hence you get light skinned, blue eyed people in the northern parts. What about eskimoes, you ask, well that vitamin D theory I read proposed that the eskimo diet provided ample vitamin D for them, thus there was no selection pressure for them to depigment to get the vitamin D from the sun. It makes me wonder though, do eyes get a tan in the summer? And if not, why not.

@@system-error ok so let me get this right, they say people who come from much colder places can't get much of a tan and they have blue eyes..... We'll see the problem with that theory I see is this, you take and Italian who has blue eyes, have you seen one.. I have and yes while it's true that in winter in much colder areas one will lose a tan but the second that they get out In the sun during sumer they get darker then a person that lets say blonde hair blue eyes, see I personally think that blue eyes were yes if Scandinavian dna traits that actually belong to the indo European line , but the real defiant of an indo European trait is brown eyes and dark hair, now trace indo European back to where they came from.... They come from the Ukraine / Russian area... A pretty well known area for harsh winters... You tell me, I for one personally think that it's a trait that was sought for because of how rare it was considering it was only Scandinavian people who had that trait to start with.. idk I'm not eye scientist or eye surgeon or eye doc.. but I'm basing it only on what i know i can see and historic evidence.

Yep, the grey really sets you apart much further. I often feel regular pain just looking at objects exposed to bright light. But I'm also incredibly comfortable in dim light conditions.

Same here my man. I have eyes that are never a set color. They change colors from grey to blue to green. I deal with the same issues with bright light and I tend to see decent in darkness

Samesies, color varies by mood, garments, time of day, and yes, I've always seen better in the dark than anyone I knew

@@nicoruppert4207 Same. Except I can't see very well in the dark. So I'm pretty much screwed either way 😂

@@Pork98 I mean, nobody sees well in the dark, some just do better.

The Baltic has a lot of Swamps

Ah, back when the BBC had a point!

Britain getting rid of most of our grammar schools was a huge mistake. I'm lucky enough to live in a county that still has them (Kent) and three of my four kids either went to them or are currently attending (the 4th is only 8, but she will probably go to grammar as she is the brightest of the four... they get it from their mum), and we constantly see how much better the education is at grammar schools versus the regular secondary schools friends' kids go to. Plus, our town is being overwhelmed by people moving here so their kids can attend grammar schools. The biggest issue I hear about is bright kids being held back by their less willing class mates. Every kid at a grammar school chooses to go there, which I think makes them more committed to their education. If we went back to having grammar schools across the country, as well as technical colleges to teach plumbing and other practical well paid jobs, the country wouldn't feel likes it is falling apart everywhere I go.

Likely because saying blue eyed people are born with certain innate advantages was considered taboo at the time and still is.

"The Great Egg Race " hosted by Professor Heinz Wolff? "An elegant solution " (in German accent) was his oft used conclusuon

Blue eyes have a few advantages I have found over the years. Seeing better in low light is one, but my eye doctor told me that blue eyes are known for better visual acuity. We can see subtle movements and color differences easier than other eye colors, and blue eyes tend to get less instances of cataracts.

Doesn't make sense I'm the only one in my family that doesn't need glasses

You didn't realize you could see better at night? and light that is too bright is annoying, unless you wear sunglasses.

@@truedepth3 Didn't know I could see better at night? I've never had another pair of eyes to compare to.

Same here! I’m so sensitive

Same here

I thought it was a matter of my eyelids being thinner than most people...

Me too!

Same!!

I agree. Both my parents had blue eyes as well. I find navigating in low light is much easier for me than for some people. I often go into moderatately low-lighted rooms to find or do something quickly, and others ask me why in the world I'm wandering around in the dark when I could turn on the lights. I usually answer that I didn't think it was necessary, and I could see well enough to do what I planned to do. I do think the theory of the low light of dense forests and shorter daylight hours was an important element of natural selection for light-colored eyes in that period!

Cats in northern regions have blue eyes, white fur. The phenotype maps the same for humans as it does the wildlifeas it does the terrain topography. Compare a snow leopard to one in the Savannah, A Lynx to a Desert Cat, , etc etc.

It also seems like we can see things at a distance better than our brown eye counter parts. I often get the question when spotting things at a distance: "you can see that?!"

I have green eyes and harsh sunlight just absolutely kills me. I need sunglasses faster than most people. No idea if there is a connection or it's because I was to curious as a kid to look at the solar eclipse without special glasses.

Same. I wear sunglasses to drive even when cloudy. Very sensitive to bright light.

I love the sun and still have blue eyes...but they aren't bright blue, they're extremely dark blue. Only extremely bright light will hurt, which is why I like trees in my yard.

@@TheLordOfNothing I love the feeling of the sun, not so much the light. My eyes tend to shift in shade between light and dark. not really sure how that works but I'm assuming there are various factors involved, but the light sensitivity stays the same.

Same lineage and same experience. Dawn and Dusk are the most pleasant times to be outdoors.

I've felt light as painful like that. Once I was sat in a conservatory having lunch with freinds on a sunny day and the light was so blinding I had to put my shades on. I could barely keep my eyes open. I also cannot peel onions, it's agonizing. I have to peel them in water or leave the room if someone else is peeling them. Luckily I can't eat them as i'm sulphur intolerant.

I have light blue eyes, live in England, and can't go outside on sunny days, it's unbearable for me. I'm an indoors person in summer, and I also truly despise the winter sun, especially low on the horizon that everyone else raves about. It's intolerable and painful

Except on sunny days. My blue eyes are so sensitive to light, it’s quite uncomfortable when it is very bright, while brown-eyed people don’t have this problem.

@@artugert Sunglasses. They have been around for centuries and evern the Inuit wear them.(their own version)

​@@artugertI have hazel eyes with brown/green and I am very sensitive to light. My optometrist said something about my eyes being the same as someone with light colored eyes. I wish I had asked more questions about that. Both sides of my parents family's have blue eyes.

​@@artugertTRUTH!

Be careful you could be canceled for saying that.

you have something. land of the midnight sun. long cold/dark more cerebral due to pressures and the power of thought demanded of survival. great perseverance and experience result being intelligence and insight. a general rule.

Also twilight lasts longer at latitudes further from the equator.

Yeah but why the Populations in Siberia and Greenland do not have Blueeyes at all?

My noght vision is pretty good and I habe brown eyes, but I iminge itbwouod be better with blue eyes. I like looking at the sun somtimes tho 😎😂

Between mountains, bogs, and much longer nights in the North, blue eye selection in the Nordic region makes sense.

@@DawaLhamo Google image search the word "steinur" and then imagine navigating that by moonlight. If you can't do that you wouldn't survive in Norway before electric lighting

Maybe its better on an individual sense? Less so you just having blue and them having brown.

I have the exact opposite experience. I have dark brown eyes and I often go jogging during the night in the forest without a headlight.

I have dark brown eyes, and i see very well in the dark.

After reading your comment it reminded me of a time the exact same thing happened to me. My sister in law & I had been at her parents, to get back home we could have walked the road (probably a 35min walk) or taken the trail that comes out by our homes cutting that time in half. I told her it was getting dark so the trail might not be a good idea, she thought we’d have time to make it. We didn’t. It got dark when we were probably 7-8mins from home & she started freaking out because she couldn’t see a thing. I told her to stop freaking out because I could see, but also being raised on the trails, knew I wouldn’t have any problem navigating back. I had to take her arm & lead her the whole way home 😂& she has brown eyes, I have blue eyes

Yeah, then there’s also snow blindness. I think it’s temporary but interesting.

That also makes sense yet as a blue eyed one, not for me, as needed a 2nd round of drops n wondered why we are waiting in a room w bright led lights? I went outside after the 2 reasons, to take one med mostly may help speed up the effect. Either way, blue eyes will always be more constricted (not good when cops looking) lol yet always had my dad laugh an say as others why not turn a light on, im like... never thought too as I can see. Or daamn please turn some lights off. To much.!! Yet night driving neber bothered me as avg non blue eyes. I think more plays into it, yet interesting as yes many ancestors are from european amd surrounding areas as aka pure Mut!!!!! Lol

My green/blue eyes are an exception here. It takes 2-3 instillations of drops to achieve dilation adequate for exam.

Probably same reason. Dilation is for seeing in darker conditions. If you live in Canada, UK or Scandinavia there are months in a row you have to endure the sun setting at 4pm or earlier and its still so early in the day you havent even gone home from work yet. We do way more stuff in the dark. Its not surprising these people's eyes have stronger dilation ability

I've often been asked on Sunny days if I'm ok, apparently my pupil goes to the size of a pin head. Which, I guess, would look pretty freaky! Too bright and I want to hide, because it hurts my eyes. I had 20/20 vision for most of my life. Until age 43. Now, I miss 20/20 very much!

@@1stRiggerChick In the summer I have a lot of pain in my eyes on a bright sunny day around noon and sometimes i cant keep them open even though Im in public and need to see lol

Same. I go nowhere without my blu blocker sun glasses 👍🏼

I had this happen a few times before, especially one day was so bad when with a hat and sunglasses. My eyes were killing all day and crying

Blue eyes will be the first to sneeze when stepping out into the direct sunlight.

You may want to try using drops for dry eyes before you go out.

Same

"No one bites back as hard... on their anger" either.

noone knows what is like to be a dust bin... in shaftsbreed...with hooligans...

Nice! Great comment,sir.

​@@stevencarter385none of my pain an woe will show through ..

No one knows what it's like To be the bad man, to be the sad man Behind blue eyes

Actually Netherlands, Baltics, Denmark are mostly swamps lakes and forest that are super flat and somthimes even below sealevel. So no, this could only be true for the British rocky highlands or Scandinavian mountain range, which are both farely small

"Oh it's dark in this room you're perfectly comfortable doing something in! Don't you want this eye scorching floodlight pointed directly at your face?!" *instantly blinds you*

Totally agree. My specialist eye doctor told me he can't even exam my eyes properly because they are so sensitive to his little probing light. I have to wear sunglasses or tinted prescriptions year round. Especially in winter. The snow glare is painful.

Mine put tint requirement on my prescription as well, and said I needed to get anti-glare coating as well. In my bedroom my bedside lamp has an orange bulb that's less hard on my eyes and my phones always have several blue light filters running to reduce brightness and blue tones

I think your parents do not have brown eyes, but hazel. In the area I live in Wisconsin often a hazel eyed person is called brown eyed simply because there are so many with bright blue eyes and in direct comparison look brown next to the bright blue. Next to someone from say Central America with real brown eyes it is clear the eyes are not brown but hazel. On top of you will never get blue eyes out of two that have brown eyes.

Migraineur, here. My family has become accustomed to seeing my arm reach around a corner, into a room, to turn off or dim the lights before walking in. 😂

My husband has pretty 'doe' brown eyes, but I still feel like they are a bit of a wall between us. I feel much more comfortable talking with fellow blue eyed people as I feel I can read them better. (My husband is chatty and quite philosophical, and as I mainly lip-read anyway I don't need to look at his eyes very much). On the down side, because I absolutely do need to resort to lipreading when meeting someone new or don't converse with much, someone with an accent, or is talking on a subject I know little about, people tend not to like me too much because I don't meet their gaze.

Great explanation.

Well that’s interesting.

It's something that works in a high-trust, high functioning society. It's disruptive to lower tribal societies where deception is just normal, and they often don't even have words in their languages for trust, truth vs lies, or even the future.

@@VeritasEtAequitas What is a 'lower tribal society'?

I used to drive at night and forget to turn on my headlights because I could see well in the dark. I later found that my uncle was also this way.

The same with me. I could always out see everyone else with brown eyes in the dark, I forget to turn lights on, and I bring sunglasses with me everywhere I go. Bright sunny areas glare me blind, especially in the snow.

I’m the same way. My wife has brown eyes and has difficulty seeing at night. I have blue/green eyes. I walk around the house at night without turning on the lights so I don’t wake her up. I see just fine…

Me too!!!

When I was little I was absolutely terrified of the dark. I now think it's because I could see shadows that other people just couldn't.

people always ask me why im sitting in the dark. if im supposed to go to a room i either dont turn the lights on or try to only turn on a fe but not all of the lights. people always turn on all the lights like it has to be a bright as possible. the library by my house used to be pretty dim then they made a new library that was super bright and i dont like it. i miss the old library. i prefer accent lighting rather than big bright lights. that being said im a photographer and cameras prefer super bright lights..

I dig it. I like night hikes in the woods for that reason. Everything is so still, yet the earth and trees and mountains feel so comforting.

O.K. Reading in the dark.

My eyesight started t come bac while living in SC. I could get up in the early mornings and get ready with the dogs to walk.

Agree. Seems like the aesthetics is more important than the practical item. Probably the majority of people will find blue color more attractive than brown. Blue is less common in a nature, its like rare gold while brown is like more common iron.

@@jus_sanguinis Personally I'm more attracted to brown eyes. Thankfully my husband likes my blue eyes so i suppose it works out. My sister have brown eyes and she must had got them from grandma, being the only close relative other then my sister with brown eyes. I probably got my auburn reddish-brown hair from grandma since all other close relatives have some shade of blonde. Genetics are really interesting when it skips a generation like that.

What color is your your kid’s eyes?

Hopefully your kids keep blue eyes

Try wearing sunglasses when driving at night. It completely cuts the star radiance that lights give off at night.

get checked! there's a specific condition that makes bright lights glare way too much

This!! My night vision has recently started going down. I work nights so driving in the dark is pretty common. But I've been having difficulty with it. Not because of the darkness but because of the headlights. I'm trying to see around the bright light!

Test it by going to the countryside at night, I can see perfectly fine in a pitch Black Forest but not in my lit up city at night bcs of light pollution

its not blue eyes.. thats silly.. see a doctor

@@johnnyllooddte3415 Light colored eyes (blue, green) are more sensitive to light - that has been proven for quite a while (just a quick google will enlighten you). It also varies by person. I have very light blue eyes and sunlight and headlights at night really bother me - just like @tailoredGenesis describes.

I am also blue eyed and very sensitive to light. Sunglasses year round

My eyes have been described as black because of how dark brown they are, but my experience has been the same as yours. I have driving sun glasses, and my eyes take forever to adjust to light, but as a kid, I was the hide and seek in the dark champion because my dark vision is great.

You misunderstood, he was speculating the opposite, that snow glare perhaps reduced the need or usefulness of blue eyes.

Yeah, that's what he missed. In a world without electricity, but too cold for great big windows, the fact that you and your family can do more in a dimly lit home is an absolute game changer.

Thats funny because I have darker eyes while household is blue eyed, & I thought it was just me getting old but they barely use any lights in the house with no problem whatsoever!!

@@SocietySkin age definitely plays a role, when I was younger I only had prescription sunglasses, so I would wear them at night and still see better than most in the dark. I could read books by the moonlight with sunglasses on, I can't do that anymore but I still see better than most, if not all of my dark eyed younger coworkers in the dark.

HAVE MORE CHILDREN!!!!

Dude, I think I just put it together. Not only can you see in the dark, you can be seen in the dark. LOL

I have dark brown eyes and I’m one of the most photosensitive people that I know. I especially can’t stand artificial bright light. I use all soft bulbs in lights in my home and have frosted and tinted more things than I can remember to soften my lighting environment. …I’m wearing yellow tinted lenses right now while looking at my phone screen, which is set to dim lol.

Try amber glasses.

@@scallopohare9431 lets analyse the lies which are world wide believed: lie: schools are of use (fact. schools keep slavery alive and stands for dumbing down the population of mankind) lie: moon and mars landings, (fact: even masons know they cannot leave - earth is closed system, unless you want to drown, there is no other place created for us to live in.) lie: news channels share truth (fact: these are for politic propaganda) lie: voting matters (fact: politic propaganda) lie: money has a value of its own (fact: it is just a tool of this world, which value has been agreed upon world wide) lie: NASA lies (globe and all....) (fact: NASA stands for TO DECEIVE and 2 members expose their own lies, one is still alive, the other (Wernher Von Braun) place a clear clue on his own gravestone) - you havn´t searched - have you? lie: the lgbtq++++ propaganda (fact: it is a part of masonry depopulation agenda, 500 000 000 souls, thats their goal.) lie: Evolution and the dinosaurs. (fact: mankind is not hybrid kind) to keep stating that there was an evolution, then we ain´t humans, we aint then mankind, we are then hybrids. Are you a hybrid? Lie: holidays (xmas, Halloween, new year eve and so on) (fact: PAGAN HOLIDAYS, to praise BAAL, the god of this world) lie: U.F.Os (fact: they are demons/evil spirits in high places, against whom we fight daily = spiritual warfare) lie: rules and laws rule the world (fact: signs and symbols of masonry do) lie: believe in being educated (fact: found daily living with the lack of knowledge) lie: religions are ways to heaven (fact: JESUS CHRIST is only way to heaven. Religions, no matter its name = masonic garbage) lie: our dead loved ones stay around to “ghost” (fact: hunting and ghosting is job of demons, not of humans. We, humans, come from GOD and return back to HIM and all the stories of having been seen a ghost - terrifying, scary, dark, cold - again no job of analysing been done here by you- right?) Lie: Humans have no immune system and we need vaccines as these save lives (fact: humans HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEM and vaccines are created for one or two purpose: to kill or to cripple) lie: there is no GOD (fact: There is GOD, who redeems sinners and created us directly from the dust of the earth: Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.) to keep claiming that there is no GOD and we aint created directly from the dust of the earth, we soon run out logic, regardless to we place “evolution” in our claims or not.) lie: 911 was terror attack (fact: 911 was an inside job, meaning the work of your loved government) lie: Tv watching is of use (fact: television (TV) = tell a lie vision, a weapon for our minds, keeping it under MK ULTRA) half lie/half truth: earth is a stage where everyone plays rolls (fact: earth is stage, freemasonry checkerboard, where both side, black and white are masons and humans both in politics and regular souls = the naive public gets daily played) 18,5 lies, should i go on? This world ain´t deceived, out there to deceive?

This is why Koreans all need glasses

So funny, me too. I constantly fight with my wife who’s South American about the house lighting situation. I’m always turning them down and she’s always turning them up GO TEAM NEANDERTHAL

😂me too

Multiple things are true at the same time. That in combination with widespread adoption of blue LEDs for headlights is dangerous.

Pale grey-blue eyes here. Yellow-lens night driving glasses are a must for me.

The worst part is when some brown eyed person shines their high-beams right into your blue eyes. What a great way to blind someone.

This seems like shit. I’m blue eyed and I shine my high beams into the eyes of delusional fuckwits all the time.

I always found brown eyes or darker eyes on men and blue or lighter eyes on women to be more attractive

I’m 16 from the Netherlands and I expirerende the exact opposite, with being almost blind in peak summer bcs of the light and getting headaches, but in the night or in the winter i see better then all my brown eyed friends, also my girlfriend has beautiful green eyes.

Congratulations! My daughters birthday is Aug 6 but she is 22 years old! Enjoy your little one! They grow fast!

A beautiful combination of

You're a lizard vampire?

No, I'm not Peter Thiel, neither addicted to Adrenochrome too...

Tolkien elves had Grey eyes a loved walking around in the evening.😊

It would be interesting to add to this study the sleeping patterns of blue eyed people also. I would much rather be out for the sunset instead of the sunrise.

Interesting take. If modern humans go back at least 300,000 years as current research suggests, the blue eye genes could be much older as an adaptation to low light conditions. Instead of actual genetic mutation the DNA/RNA would already be recorded as backup until triggered by environmental factors. Neotany would back up a bit and pull blue/greys on the DNA shelf as needed.

Yes the starting with blonde hair thing is interesting. In South Africa at age 5 almost all the kids have blonde hair but a minority blonde on graduating high school. Never seen this discussed by evolutionary biologists. Although those folk are more interested in being woke these days than being scientists.

This is my preferred hypothesis out of the bunch. Neoteny as an evolutionary strategy happens all throughout the animal kingdom. And those points you mentioned really cement the whole argument.

Do people actually change eye color when they grow up? I never heard about that. The other thing about kids almost always having light hair which then turns darker as they age is absolutely true though, at least where I live.

​@@Hungabrigoo i'm actually surprised some people don't. I thought everyone did. I was born with blue eyes and later as I grew they changed to a weird grey-green-hazel mix

Yes! My partner has brown eyes and he would make comments getting into bed in our dimly lit or darkened room, saying he couldn’t see where he was going.. meanwhile I would be surprised and say “I can see just fine.” (Grey-Blue eyes here) Makes more sense now.

@@Brittany_L ... 😂... I have blue eyes and I walk round in the pitch black, I see fine in the total dark, people say to me how the hell can you see it's totally black.

@@martinwebb1681 😂

I have brown eyes and prefer dim lighting. My eyes are more light brown than normal brown eyes, though.