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Let's learn interesting facts about the eyes. "The human eye was created to see into the distance"

Thanks to the visual apparatus (eye) and the brain, a person is able to distinguish and perceive the colors of the world around him. It is quite difficult to analyze the emotional impact of color, in comparison with the physiological processes that arise as a result of light perception. However, a large number of people prefer certain colors and believe that color has a direct effect on mood. It's hard to explain that many people find it difficult to live and work in spaces where the color scheme seems off. As you know, all colors are divided into heavy and light, strong and weak, soothing and exciting.

Structure of the human eye

The experiments of scientists today have proven that many people have a similar opinion regarding the conditional weight of flowers. For example, in their opinion, red is the heaviest, followed by orange, then blue and green, then yellow and white.

The structure of the human eye is quite complex:

sclera;
choroid;
optic nerve;
retina;
vitreous body;
ciliary belt;
lens;
the anterior chamber of the eye filled with fluid;
pupil;
iris;
cornea.

When a person observes an object, the reflected light first hits his cornea, then passes through the anterior chamber, and the hole in the iris (pupil). Light enters the retina of the eye, but first it passes through the lens, which can change its curvature, and the vitreous body, where a reduced mirror-spherical image of the visible object appears.
In order for the stripes on the French flag to appear the same width on ships, they are made in the proportion 33:30:37

On the retina of the eye there are two types of light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors), which, when illuminated, change all light signals. They are also called cones and rods.

There are about 7 million of them, and they are distributed over the entire surface of the retina, with the exception of the blind spot and have low light sensitivity. In addition, cones are divided into three types: they are sensitive to red, green and blue light, respectively, reacting only to the blue, green and red part of visible shades. If other colors are transmitted, for example yellow, then two receptors are excited (red- and green-sensitive). With such significant excitation of all three receptors, a sensation of white appears, and with weak excitation, on the contrary, a gray color appears. If there is no stimulation of the three receptors, then a sensation of black color occurs.

The following example can also be given. The surface of an object that is red, when illuminated intensely with white light, absorbs blue and green rays and reflects red and green rays. It is thanks to the variety of possibilities for mixing light rays of different spectrum lengths that such a variety of color tones appears, of which the eye distinguishes about 2 million. This is how cones provide the human eye with the perception of color.

On a black background, colors appear more intense compared to a light one.

Rods, on the contrary, have much greater sensitivity than cones, and are also sensitive to the blue-green part of the visible spectrum. The retina of the eye contains about 130 million rods, which generally do not transmit color, but operate in low light levels, acting as a twilight vision apparatus.

Color can change a person’s idea of ​​the actual size of objects, and those colors that seem heavy noticeably reduce such sizes. For example, the French flag, consisting of three colors, includes blue, red, white vertical stripes of the same width. In turn, on sea vessels the ratio of such stripes is changed in the proportion 33:30:37 so that at a great distance they appear equivalent.

Parameters such as distance and lighting have a huge impact on enhancing or weakening the eye’s perception of contrasting colors. Thus, the greater the distance between the human eye and a contrasting pair of colors, the less active they seem to us. The background on which an object of a certain color is located also affects the strengthening and weakening of contrasts. That is, on a black background they appear more intense than on any light background.

We usually don't think about what light is. Meanwhile, it is these waves that carry a large amount of energy that is used by our body. The lack of light in our lives cannot but have a negative impact on our body. It is not for nothing that treatment based on the influence of these electromagnetic radiations (color therapy, chromotherapy, auro-soma, color diet, graphochromotherapy and much more) is now becoming increasingly popular.

What are light and color?

Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between 440 and 700 nm. The human eye perceives part of the sunlight and covers radiation with a wavelength of 0.38 to 0.78 microns.

The light spectrum consists of rays of very saturated color. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300 million kilometers per second).

Color is the main feature by which light rays are distinguished, that is, these are separate sections of the light scale. The perception of color is formed as a result of the fact that the eye, having received irritation from electromagnetic vibrations, transmits it to the higher parts of the human brain. Color sensations have a dual nature: they reflect the properties, on the one hand, of the external world, and on the other, of our nervous system.

The minimum values ​​correspond to the blue part of the spectrum, and the maximum values ​​correspond to the red part of the spectrum. Green color is in the very middle of this scale. In numerical terms, colors can be defined as follows:
red - 0.78-9.63 microns;
orange - 0.63-0.6 microns;
yellow - 0.6-0.57 microns;
green - 0.57-0.49; micron
blue - 0.49-0.46 microns;
blue - 0.46-0.43 microns;
purple - 0.43-0.38 microns.

White light is the sum of all waves of the visible spectrum.

Outside this range are ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) light waves, which a person no longer perceives visually, although they have a very strong effect on the body.

Color characteristics

Saturation is the intensity of a color.
Brightness is the number of light rays reflected by a surface of a given color.
Brightness is determined by illumination, that is, the amount of reflected light flux.
Flowers have the characteristic property of mixing with each other and thereby giving new shades.

Distance and lighting influence whether a person's perception of contrasting colors increases or decreases. The greater the distance between the contrasting pair of colors and the eye, the less active they look and vice versa. The surrounding background also affects the strengthening or weakening of contrasts: on a black background they are stronger than on any light one.

All colors are divided into the following groups

Primary colors: red, yellow and blue.
Secondary colors that are formed by combining primary colors with each other: red + yellow = Orange, yellow + blue = green. Red + blue = purple. Red + yellow + blue = brown.
Tertiary colors are those colors that were obtained by mixing secondary colors: orange + green = yellow-brown. Orange + purple = red-brown. Green + purple = blue-brown.

The benefits of color and light

To restore health, you need to transfer the appropriate information to the body. This information is encoded in color waves. One of the main reasons for a large number of so-called diseases of civilization - hypertension, high cholesterol, depression, osteoporosis, diabetes, etc. can be called a lack of natural light.

By changing the length of light waves, it is possible to transmit to cells exactly the information that is necessary to restore their vital functions. Color therapy is aimed at ensuring that the body receives the color energy it lacks.

Scientists have not yet come to a consensus on how light penetrates and affects the human body.

Acting on the iris of the eye, color excites certain receptors. Those who have at least once been diagnosed using the iris of the eye know that it is possible to “read” the disease of any organ. This is understandable, because the “iris” is reflexively connected with all internal organs and, of course, with the brain. From here it is not difficult to guess that this or that color, acting on the iris of the eye, thereby reflexively affects the vital functions of the organs of our body.

Perhaps the light penetrates the retina and stimulates the pituitary gland, which in turn stimulates one or another organ. But then it is not clear why such a method as color puncture of individual sectors of the human body is useful.

It is likely that our body is able to sense these radiations using receptors on the skin. This is confirmed by the science of radionics - according to this teaching, vibrations of light cause vibrations in our body. Light vibrates during movement, our body begins to vibrate during energy radiation. This movement can be seen in Kirlian photographs, which can be used to capture the aura.

Perhaps these vibrations begin to affect the brain, stimulating it and causing it to produce hormones. Subsequently, these hormones enter the blood and begin to affect the internal organs of a person.

Since all colors are different in their structure, it is not difficult to guess that the effect of each individual color will be different. Colors are divided into strong and weak, calming and exciting, even heavy and light. Red was recognized as the heaviest, followed by colors of equal weight: orange, blue and green, then yellow and lastly white.

The general influence of color on a person’s physical and mental state

For many centuries, people around the world have developed a certain association with a certain color. For example, the Romans and Egyptians associated black with sadness and sorrow, white with purity, but in China and Japan white is a symbol of sorrow, but among the people of South Africa the color of sadness was red, in Burma, on the contrary, sadness was associated with yellow, and in Iran - with blue.

The influence of color on a person is quite individual, and also depends on certain experiences, for example, on the method of selecting colors for certain celebrations or everyday work.

Depending on the time of exposure to a person, or the amount of space occupied by the color, it causes positive or negative emotions and affects his psyche. The human eye is capable of recognizing 1.5 million colors and shades, and colors are perceived even by the skin and also affect people who are blind. During the research conducted by scientists in Vienna, blindfolded tests took place. People were brought into a room with red walls, after which their pulse increased, then they were placed in a room with yellow walls, and the pulse sharply returned to normal, and in a room with blue walls, it noticeably decreased. In addition, a person’s age and gender have a noticeable effect on color perception and a decrease in color sensitivity. Up to 20-25, perception increases, and after 25 it decreases in relation to certain shades.

Studies that took place at American universities have proven that the primary colors that predominate in a child’s room can affect changes in pressure in children, reduce or increase their aggressiveness, both in sighted and blind people. It can be concluded that colors can have a negative and positive effect on a person.

The perception of colors and shades can be compared to a musician tuning his instrument. All shades are capable of evoking elusive responses and moods in a person’s soul, which is why he seeks the resonance of vibrations of color waves with the internal echoes of his soul.

Scientists from around the world claim that the color red helps the production of red cells in the liver, and also helps to quickly remove poisons from the human body. It is believed that red color can destroy various viruses and significantly reduce inflammation in the body. Often in specialized literature one comes across the idea that any human organ is characterized by vibrations of certain colors. The multi-colored colors of human insides can be found in ancient Chinese drawings illustrating the methods of oriental medicine.

In addition, colors not only affect a person’s mood and mental state, but also lead to some physiological abnormalities in the body. For example, in a room with red or orange wallpaper, the pulse noticeably increases and the temperature rises. In the process of painting a room, the choice of color usually involves a very unexpected effect. We know of such a case when the owner of a restaurant, who wanted to improve the appetite of visitors, ordered the walls to be painted red. After which the guests' appetite improved, but the number of broken dishes and the number of fights and incidents increased enormously.

It is also known that even many serious diseases can be cured with color. For example, in many baths and saunas, thanks to certain equipment, it is possible to take healing color baths.

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  • The pupils of the eyes dilate almost half when we look at the one we love.
  • The human cornea is so similar to the shark cornea that the latter is used as a substitute in eye surgery.
  • Each eye contains 107 million cells, all of which are sensitive to light.
  • Every 12th male representative is color blind.
  • The human eye is capable of perceiving only three parts of the spectrum: red, blue and yellow. The remaining colors are a combination of these colors.
  • Our eyes are about 2.5 cm in diameter and they weigh about 8 grams.
  • Only 1/6 of the eyeball is visible.
  • On average, we see about 24 million different images throughout our lives.
  • Your fingerprints have 40 unique characteristics, while your iris has 256. This is the reason why retinal scans are used for security purposes.
  • People say “in a blink of an eye” because it is the fastest muscle in the body. Blinking lasts about 100 - 150 milliseconds, and you can blink 5 times per second.
  • The eyes transmit a huge amount of information to the brain every hour. The capacity of this channel is comparable to the channels of Internet providers in a large city.
  • Brown eyes are actually blue under the brown pigment. There is even a laser procedure that can turn brown eyes blue forever.
  • Our eyes focus on about 50 things per second.
  • The images that are sent to our brain are actually upside down.
  • The eyes load the brain with work more than any other part of the body.
  • Each eyelash lives for about 5 months.
  • The Mayans found squint attractive and tried to make sure their children were squinted.
  • About 10,000 years ago, all people had brown eyes, until a person living in the Black Sea region developed a genetic mutation that resulted in blue eyes.
  • If you only have one eye red in a flash photo, there is a chance that you have an eye tumor (if both eyes are looking in the same direction towards the camera). Fortunately, the cure rate is 95%.
  • Schizophrenia can be detected with 98.3% accuracy using a conventional eye movement test.
  • Humans and dogs are the only ones who look for visual cues in the eyes of others, and dogs only do this when interacting with humans.
  • About 2% of women have a rare genetic mutation that causes them to have an extra cone retina. This allows them to see 100 million colors.
  • Johnny Depp is blind in his left eye and nearsighted in his right.
  • A case has been reported of conjoined twins from Canada who share a thalamus. Thanks to this, they could hear each other's thoughts and see through each other's eyes.
  • The human eye can make smooth (not jerky) movements only if it is following a moving object.
  • The story of the Cyclops comes from the peoples of the Mediterranean islands who discovered the remains of extinct pygmy elephants. Elephants' skulls were twice the size of a human's, and the central nasal cavity was often mistaken for the eye socket.
  • Astronauts can't cry in space because of gravity. Tears gather in small balls and begin to sting your eyes.
  • Pirates used blindfolds to quickly adapt their vision to the environment above and below deck. Thus, one eye got used to bright light, and the other to dim light.
  • There are colors that are too “complex” for the human eye; they are called “impossible colors.”
  • We see certain colors because this is the only spectrum of light that passes through water, the area where our eyes originate. There was no evolutionary reason on earth to see a wider spectrum.
  • Eyes began to develop about 550 million years ago. The simplest eye was particles of photoreceptor proteins in single-celled animals.
  • Sometimes people with aphakia, the absence of a lens, report seeing ultraviolet light.
  • Bees have hairs in their eyes. They help determine wind direction and flight speed.
  • Apollo mission astronauts reported seeing flashes and streaks of light when they closed their eyes. It was later discovered that this was caused by cosmic radiation irradiating their retinas outside of Earth's magnetosphere.
  • We “see” with our brains, not with our eyes. Blurred and poor-quality images are a disease of the eyes, as the sensor receiving the distorted image. Then the brain will impose its distortions and “dead zones”.
  • About 65-85% of white cats with blue eyes are deaf.

The structure of the human eye resembles a camera. The lens is the cornea, lens and pupil, which refract light rays and focus them on the retina. The lens can change its curvature and works like autofocus in a camera - instantly adjusts good vision for near or far. The retina, like photographic film, captures the image and sends it in the form of signals to the brain, where it is analyzed.

1 -pupil, 2 -cornea, 3 -iris, 4 -lens, 5 -ciliary body, 6 -retina, 7 -choroid, 8 -optic nerve, 9 -blood vessels of the eye, 10 -eye muscles, 11 -sclera, 12 -vitreous.

The complex structure of the eyeball makes it very sensitive to various injuries, metabolic disorders and diseases.

Ophthalmologists of the portal "All about vision" described in simple language the structure of the human eye, giving you a unique opportunity to visually familiarize yourself with its anatomy.


The human eye is a unique and complex paired sensory organ, thanks to which we receive up to 90% of the information about the world around us. Each person's eye has individual characteristics that are unique to him. But general structural features are important for understanding what an eye is like from the inside and how it works. During evolution, the eye has achieved a complex structure and structures of different tissue origins are closely interconnected in it. Blood vessels and nerves, pigment cells and connective tissue elements all provide the main function of the eye - vision.

The structure of the main structures of the eye

The eye has the shape of a sphere or ball, so the allegory of the apple began to be applied to it. The eyeball is a very delicate structure, therefore it is located in the bony cavity of the skull - the orbit, where it is partially protected from possible damage. In front, the eyeball is protected by the upper and lower eyelids. Free movements of the eyeball are ensured by the external oculomotor muscles, the precise and coordinated work of which allows us to see the world around us with both eyes, i.e. binocularly.

Constant hydration of the entire surface of the eyeball is provided by the lacrimal glands, which ensure adequate production of tears, forming a thin protective tear film, and the outflow of tears occurs through special lacrimal ducts.

The outermost layer of the eye is the conjunctiva. It is thin and transparent and also lines the inner surface of the eyelids, providing easy gliding when the eyeball moves and the eyelids blink.
The outer “white” layer of the eye, the sclera, is the thickest of the three eye layers, protects the internal structures and maintains the tone of the eyeball.

The scleral membrane in the center of the anterior surface of the eyeball becomes transparent and has the appearance of a convex watch glass. This transparent part of the sclera is called the cornea, which is very sensitive due to the presence of many nerve endings in it. The transparency of the cornea allows light to penetrate into the eye, and its sphericity ensures the refraction of light rays. The transition zone between the sclera and the cornea is called the limbus. This zone contains stem cells that ensure constant regeneration of cells in the outer layers of the cornea.

The next layer is the choroid. It lines the sclera from the inside. From its name it is clear that it provides blood supply and nutrition to intraocular structures, and also maintains the tone of the eyeball. The choroid consists of the choroid itself, which is in close contact with the sclera and retina, and structures such as the ciliary body and iris, which are located in the anterior part of the eyeball. They contain many blood vessels and nerves.

The ciliary body is part of the choroid and a complex neuro-endocrine-muscular organ that plays an important role in the production of intraocular fluid and in the process of accommodation.


The color of the iris determines the color of a person's eye. Depending on the amount of pigment in its outer layer, it ranges in color from pale blue or greenish to dark brown. In the center of the iris there is a hole - the pupil, through which light enters the eye. It is important to note that the blood supply and innervation of the choroid and iris with the ciliary body are different, which is reflected in the clinical picture of diseases of such a generally unified structure as the choroid.

The space between the cornea and the iris is the anterior chamber of the eye, and the angle formed by the periphery of the cornea and the iris is called the anterior chamber angle. Through this angle, the outflow of intraocular fluid occurs through a special complex drainage system into the eye veins. Behind the iris is the lens, which is located in front of the vitreous body. It has the shape of a biconvex lens and is well fixed by many thin ligaments to the processes of the ciliary body.

The space between the posterior surface of the iris, the ciliary body and the anterior surface of the lens and vitreous body is called the posterior chamber of the eye. The anterior and posterior chambers are filled with colorless intraocular fluid or aqueous humor, which constantly circulates in the eye and washes the cornea and lens, while nourishing them, since these eye structures do not have their own vessels.

The innermost, thinnest and most important membrane for the act of vision is the retina. It is a highly differentiated multilayered nervous tissue that lines the choroid in its posterior section. The optic nerve fibers originate from the retina. It carries all the information received by the eye in the form of nerve impulses through a complex visual pathway to our brain, where it is transformed, analyzed and perceived as objective reality. It is the retina that ultimately receives or does not receive the image, and depending on this, we see objects clearly or not very clearly. The most sensitive and thin part of the retina is the central region - the macula. It is the macula that provides our central vision.

The cavity of the eyeball is filled with a transparent, somewhat jelly-like substance - the vitreous body. It maintains the density of the eyeball and fits into the inner shell - the retina, fixing it.

Optical system of the eye

By its essence and purpose, the human eye is a complex optical system. Several of the most important structures can be identified in this system. These are the cornea, lens and retina. Basically, the quality of our vision depends on the state of these structures that transmit, refract and perceive light, and the degree of their transparency.
  • The cornea refracts light rays more than any other structure, then passing through the pupil, which acts as a diaphragm. Figuratively speaking, just as in a good camera the diaphragm regulates the flow of light rays and, depending on the focal length, allows you to obtain a high-quality image, so the pupil functions in our eye.
  • The lens also refracts and transmits light rays further to the light-receiving structure - the retina, a kind of photographic film.
  • The fluid of the eye chambers and the vitreous body also have light-refracting properties, but not as significant. However, the condition of the vitreous body, the degree of transparency of the aqueous humor of the eye chambers, the presence of blood or other floating opacities in them can also affect the quality of our vision.
  • Normally, light rays, having passed through all transparent optical media, are refracted so that when they hit the retina, they form a reduced, inverted, but real image.
The final analysis and perception of the information received by the eye occurs in our brain, in the cortex of its occipital lobes.

Thus, the eye is very complex and amazing. A disruption in the condition or blood supply of any structural element of the eye can adversely affect the quality of vision.

How does a person see?

Human vision is a very complex multi-level process of processing images of surrounding objects, which makes it possible to obtain information about their shape, size, color and location. Vision should be considered from the point of view of optics, physiology and psychology. Therefore, it is hardly possible to explain in a nutshell how a person sees. Let's look at this process in detail.

Optical nature of human vision


The main optical organs of the human visual system are the eyes, which, with their photoreceptors, perceive rays of light reflected from various objects. This happens as follows: entering the eye through the pupil, the rays are refracted in the lens and fall on the retina, which lines the fundus of the eye. It is in the retina that there are special cells that are able to perceive light. When light photons hit them, they cause a number of chemical changes in the receptors, thereby creating nerve impulses that are transmitted along the optic nerves to the brain. In the visual center, which is located in the cerebral cortex, the received encoded information is deciphered, processed, and as a result of this process the image that we see is formed.

How a person sees: a physiological point of view


  • The lens is located opposite the pupil inside the eyeball and is a small biconvex biological lens through which light rays are refracted. In a healthy person, the lens is very elastic and can change its refractive power by as much as 14 diopters. This allows a person to equally clearly see those objects that are literally under his nose and those that are far away. The minimum distance at which we can clearly see an object is approximately five centimeters, and the maximum strongly depends on the amount of light emitted by the object. Scientists claim that a human figure can be distinguished at a distance of three kilometers, and the flame of a burning candle can be seen as far as seven kilometers away. Sometimes it happens that the lens loses its ability to accommodate and cannot correctly focus the image on the retina. If the focus of the image is behind the retina, the person is diagnosed with farsightedness, and if in front of the retina, then the person is diagnosed with myopia. Now these defects are easily corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
  • The retina of the eye covers approximately 70% of the entire area of ​​the inner surface of the eyeball. It is in it that all the light-sensitive cells are located, divided into cones and rods. The rods are responsible for the operation of the night vision mechanism. With their help, a person can see in semi-darkness, but the image they provide is devoid of color and resembles a picture on a black-and-white TV screen. Cones, on the other hand, are active in more intense lighting and are responsible for daytime vision, which allows us to see the color of all objects.;

How does a person see the world in color?


The retina contains three types of cones - color receptors that are most sensitive to the red, blue and green parts of the spectrum, respectively. The correspondence of cones to these three primary colors provides a person with the ability to recognize thousands of different shades of color. If, due to a lack of a certain type of rods, a problem appears in the retina with the perception of one of the basic colors, a person develops a vision deficiency called color blindness. He does not see a certain group of shades, and they all seem gray to him. Now that we have talked about how a person sees, it is time to talk about the basic properties of his vision.

Basic properties of human vision

Stereoscopic vision

In addition to color, a person is also able to see the volume of space. This is achieved due to the effect of image merging when looking at an object with both eyes. Such vision is scientifically called binocular.

Light sensitivity

The ability of the human eye to recognize different degrees of brightness of light radiation is called light perception. Maximum sensitivity of the eye to light is achieved after prolonged adaptation to darkness. It is believed that prolonged exposure to red light can increase the light sensitivity of the eyes for a period of time.

Visual acuity

The ability of different people to see different amounts of detail of the same object from the same distance is called visual acuity. Visual acuity is mainly determined genetically and depends on a person’s age, the width of his pupil, the elasticity of the lens and the number and size of cones located in the retina.

It is with the help of vision that a person perceives most of the information from the surrounding world, therefore all facts related to the eyes are interesting to a person. Today there are a huge number of them.

Structure of the eye

Interesting facts about eyes begin with the fact that man is the only creature on the planet that has whites of eyes. The rest of the eyes are filled with cones and rods, as in some animals. These cells are found in the eye in the hundreds of millions and are light sensitive. Cones respond to changes in light and colors more than rods.

In all adults, the size of the eyeball is almost identical and is 24 mm in diameter, while a newborn child has an apple diameter of 18 mm and weighs almost three times less.

Interestingly, sometimes a person can see various floaters before the eyes, which are actually threads of protein.

The cornea of ​​the eye covers its entire visible surface and is the only part of the human body that is not supplied with oxygen from the blood.

The lens of the eye, which provides clear vision, constantly focuses on the surrounding environment at a speed of 50 objects per second. The eye moves with the help of only 6 eye muscles, which are the most active in the entire body.

Interesting facts about eyes include the fact that it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Scientists explain this with two hypotheses - a reflex contraction of the facial muscles and protection of the eye from germs from the nasal mucosa.

Brain vision

Interesting facts about vision and eyes often have data about what a person actually sees with the brain, and not with the eye. This statement was scientifically established back in 1897, confirming that the human eye perceives surrounding information upside down. Passing through the optic nerve to the center of the nervous system, the picture turns over to its usual position in the cerebral cortex.

Features of the iris

These include the fact that each person's iris has 256 distinctive characteristics, while fingerprints differ in only forty. The probability of finding a person with the same iris is almost zero.

Color vision impairment

Most often, this pathology manifests itself as color blindness. Interestingly, at birth all children are colorblind, but with age, most return to normal. Most often, this disorder affects men who are unable to see certain colors.

Normally, a person should distinguish seven primary colors and up to 100 thousand of their shades. Unlike men, 2% of women suffer from a genetic mutation, which, on the contrary, expands the range of their color perception to hundreds of millions of shades.

Alternative medicine

Considering the interesting facts about it, iridology was born. It is an unconventional method for diagnosing diseases of the whole body using the study of the iris

Darkening the eye

Interestingly, pirates did not wear blindfolds to hide their injuries. They closed one eye so that it could quickly adapt to the poor lighting in the holds of the ship. By alternating one eye between dimly lit rooms and brightly lit decks, pirates could fight more effectively.

The first tinted glasses for both eyes appeared not to protect from bright light, but to hide the gaze from strangers. At first, they were used only by Chinese judges, so as not to show others personal emotions about the cases under consideration.

Blue or brown?

The color of a person's eyes is determined by the amount of concentration of melanin pigment in the body.

It is located between the cornea and the lens of the eye and consists of two layers:

  • front;
  • rear

In medical terms they are defined as mesodermal and ectodermal, respectively. It is in the front layer that the coloring pigment is distributed, determining the color of a person’s eyes. Interesting facts about the eyes confirm that only melanin provides color to the iris, regardless of what color the eyes are. The shade changes only due to a change in the concentration of the dye.

At birth, almost all children have this pigment completely absent, which is why the eyes of newborns are blue. With age, they change their color, which is fully established only by the age of 12.

Interesting facts about human eyes also state that color can change depending on certain circumstances. Scientists have now established such a phenomenon as a chameleon. It is a change in eye color when exposed to cold for a long time or in bright light for a long time. Some people claim that the color of their eyes depends not only on the weather, but also on their personal mood.

The most interesting facts about the structure of the human eye contain evidence that in fact all people in the world are blue-eyed. The high concentration of pigment in the iris ensures the absorption of light rays of high and low frequencies, due to which their reflection leads to the appearance of brown or black eyes.

Eye color largely depends on geographic area. So in the northern regions the population with blue eyes predominates. Closer to the south there are a large number of brown-eyed people, and at the equator almost the entire population has a black iris.

More than half a century ago, scientists established an interesting fact - at birth we are all farsighted. Only by the age of six months does vision return to normal. Interesting facts about human eyes and vision also confirm that the eye is fully formed according to physiological parameters by the age of seven.

Vision can also affect the general condition of the body, so when the load on the eyes is excessive, general fatigue, headaches, fatigue and stress are observed.

Interestingly, the connection between the quality of vision and the carrot vitamin carotene has not been scientifically proven. In fact, this myth dates back to the war, when the British decided to hide the invention of aviation radar. They attributed the quick detection of enemy aircraft to the keen vision of their pilots, who were eating carrots.

To test your visual acuity yourself, you should look at the night sky. If you can see a small star near the middle star of the handle of the big dipper (Ursa Major), then everything is normal.

Different eyes

Most often, this disorder is genetic and does not affect overall health. Different eye colors are called heterochromia and can be complete or partial. In the first case, each eye is colored with its own color, and in the second, one iris is divided into two parts with different colors.

Negative factors

Cosmetics have the greatest impact on the quality of vision and eye health in general. Wearing tight clothes also has a negative effect, since it impedes blood circulation in all organs, including the eyes.

Interesting facts about the structure and functioning of the eye confirm that a child is not able to cry in the first month of life. More precisely, no tears are released at all.

The composition of tears has three components:

  • water;
  • mucus;

If the proportions of these substances on the surface of the eye are not respected, dryness appears and the person begins to cry. If the flow is excessive, tears can directly enter the nasopharynx.

Statistical studies claim that every man cries on average 7 times per year, and every woman 47.

About blinking

Interestingly, the average person blinks once every 6 seconds, mostly as a reflex. This process provides the eye with sufficient hydration and timely cleansing of impurities. According to statistics, women blink twice as often as men.

Japanese researchers have found that the blinking process also acts as a reboot for concentration. It is at the moment of closing the eyelids that the activity of the attention neural network decreases, which is why blinking is most often observed after the completion of a certain action.

Reading

Interesting facts about the eyes did not miss such a process as reading. According to scientists, when reading quickly, the eyes become tired much less. At the same time, reading paper books is always a quarter faster than reading electronic media.

Misconceptions

Many people believe that smoking has no effect on eye health, but in fact, tobacco smoke leads to blockage of the retinal blood vessels and leads to the development of many diseases of the optic nerve. Smoking, both active and passive, can lead to clouding of the lens, chronic conjunctivitis, yellow spots on the retina, and blindness. Lycopene also becomes harmful when smoked.

In normal cases, this substance has a beneficial effect on the body, improving vision, slowing down the development of cataracts, age-related changes and protecting the eye from ultraviolet radiation.

Interesting facts about the eyes refute the idea that monitor radiation negatively affects vision. In fact, excessive strain on the eyes is caused by frequent focusing on small details.

Also, many believe in the need to deliver only by Caesarean if a woman has poor eyesight. In some cases, this is true, but for myopia, you can undergo a course of laser coagulation and prevent the risk of retinal rupture or detachment during childbirth. This procedure is carried out even at the 30th week of gestation and takes only a few minutes, without having any negative impact on the health of both mother and child. But be that as it may, try to regularly visit a specialist and have your vision checked.