Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
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Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
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Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#2Questions:
(a) Does this study sound plausible?
(b) Would staring at the correct red color on a monitor work? Or would that not work since monitor colors are generated by mixing R, G, and B pixels and therefore not a pure wavelength?
(c) Would it be reasonable methodology to test one eye to see if it improves over the other eye?
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#3Questions: (a) Does this study sound plausible? (b) Would staring at the correct red color on a monitor work? Or would that not work since monitor colors are generated by mixing R, G, and B pixels and therefore not a pure wavelength? (c) Would it be reasonable methodology to test one eye to see if it improves over the other eye?
I have one of those aviator LED flashlights that has the red LED for chart reading at night without destroying your night vision.
I'm going to give this a try!
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#4Since I returned to commuting, I've been watching far more red lights. Finally I know why my sight is improving!
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#5This seems dubious. What in world would be the mechanism?
On the other hand, I don't see the harm in doing this and it seems easy to replicate. Hopefully others will quickly try to replicate it, and if they do, try to figure out why.
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#6I have Phillips Hue and turn them 100% red at night as we're going to bed, sometimes for a few hours, no idea if it's helping my eyesight though. Been doing it for a few years.
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#7Mechanism is by reducing the blue light hazard right? This is the same thing as why red light is used is the astronomy community to preserve night vision.
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#8I wonder if our eyes need campfires when we are older, just like they need bright sunlight when children in order to properly develop and function. (Myopia is caused by insufficient bright light as a child.)
Campfires have a LOT of deep red light.
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#9I'm not sure why the comments here seem so dismissive. The mechanism that eyes need red light for regenerative processes is known for a long time I think. I remember a friend working in optics telling me about that a decade ago. Eyes are adapted for sunlight, which is more than plausible.
It's just not popular because it implies that screen use is bad and those unpopular scientific topics are often pushed under the rug.
Re: Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
#10So I guess I can’t just make a red image on my phone and stare at it. Right?