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Orisitabagel t1_iwupc9u wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in do we know how chameleons "see" Things with two independent eyes? Is it integrated? Side by side? by VivendusMoriendumEst

Fun fact. If your eyes don't work together you see like this all the time because your brain ignores one eye constantly. So you see two different images with both eyes.

Source: my own personal experience cause for some reason or another my brain never developed the ability to see with both eyes at once and reform the separate images into one. So it decided to constantly ignore one eye. It's like being blind in one eye all the time. But I can still see out of both. I can "switch" to seeing out of one eye or the other. Weird.

So I'm a chameleon?

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Corrupted_G_nome t1_iwvigdt wrote

Humans actually have dominant eyes like dominant hands. Its hard to notice unless there is a case like yours. People who have different prescriptions per eye with glasses have two different images depending which eye is dominant in that moment. Closing one eye over the other I have different levels of clarity/blurryness but when both are open the default is my dominant eye's prescription.

To test a peson can hold their arm out stright forward then close one eye or the other. One eye when closed will cause the image to shift and the other eye when switched will show your arm where it is when both eyes are open.

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Orisitabagel t1_iwvjjnm wrote

Ah that is cool! I never knew about dominant eyes. What you described is my case exactly. Different prescriptions for each lens in my glasses, and the image shifts a bit to the left or right when I change which eye is covered. I usually default to my left eye even though it is apparently the weaker one.

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