Dramatic changes like blue to hazel are practically unknown. Visual imagery during meditation is proof that you are in an altered state of consciousness.

However, in almost all cases, the change is very slight - gray eyes may look more blue-gray or greenish-gray in certain lights, or flecks in the iris may become more or less visible. Extremely pale blue or gray eyes may also show some variation depending on the blood flow to the iris. In Real Life, human eyes can appear to change color, but it's usually in response to the lighting and/or the colors nearby emotion only has an effect if the person's eyes are watery from sadness, anger, or joy, or if the dilation of the pupil makes the eye look darker or paler. Ethereal or otherworldly characters tend to have this trait. Because the neocortex is the memory bank of the known self. You don’t see a car, a bicycle, a face, or anything that you would associate as known to you. Contact lenses or false/prosthetic eyes for a blind character do not count. The reason we use the kaleidoscope is because, when you gaze into the kaleidoscope, it bypasses the perceptual networks that are associated with stored known information in the brain. Sometimes referred to as Mood Ring Eyes, this trope refers to when the character's eyes change on their own. The 63-year-old music teacher had noted the change just the day before and described it as a dull gray shimmering area just to the temporal side of her central vision, with rare photopsias. This is often lumped as a Mary Sue trait. Laurie Mable came to our urgent care eye clinic complaining of a spot in the vision of her left eye. Other more serious causes of Kaleidoscope Vision include: TIA or stroke- Mini-strokes known as transient ischemic attack (TIA) are caused by a decrease of blood flow to the brain. Any crush, any secret resentment, any boredom during somebody's story, would instantly and undeniable be aired.Īre you writing an original character for Fanfiction? Here's a bit of advice: be careful and consistent with this trope if you want anybody else to take the character seriously. She would never be able to lie about her feelings or secrets. People rarely stop and think about how a fully functional 'Mood Ring Eyes' would negatively impact the possessor's lives. Their eye color might change with their mood or their particular personality, giving a visual cue of what's going on in their head at the time. Oh, no, they have a range of colors and combinations, linked to their emotional or mental state. But some characters don't subject themselves to one particular set of eyes. Both common and uncommon eye colors already give a sense of character from the moment you see them, often with mismatched eyes for the particularly odd ones. Photoshop, yes, but not nature.Įyes say a lot about a person.

Seeing a kaleidoscope in eye