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[Bastet]

That was an interesting site...we moved towns at the start of the year my eyes/hair changed colour. I wonder if that would count as "environmental influences"...

 

[Saw11_2000]

That was an interesting site...we moved towns at the start of the year my eyes/hair changed colour. I wonder if that would count as "environmental influences"...

Lots of different things that can make that happen.

Environmentally sunlight can change your hair, as well as genetics.

Environmentally not much can be done to change your eye color except maybe lighting conditions and stress, as well as genetics, again.

 

[Master Vigil]

Yeah, they think I have more rods than usual. Especially because normally at night the center of vision is darker, for me its all the same. So its almost like, when light hits the eye and the pupil shrinks to block out the light for those rods, it can't block out the light for the rods in the center of my eye no matter how small it gets. And when they dilated my pupils, it didn't seem any brighter, it seemed normal. And then the pupil didn't shrink for like 24 hours. Giving me my first real bad migraine. You know, the ones you throw up because of. Does that make sense?

 

[Saw11_2000]

Yes, it does.

You might want to go here to learn more about it or I'll just pull out the important parts of the rods section.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.html

The rods are more numerous of the photoreceptors, some 120 million, and are the more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color. They are responsible for our dark-adapted vision. The rods are incredibly efficient photoreceptors. More than one thousand times as sensitive as the cones, they can reportedly be triggered by individual photons under optimal conditions.

Since the rods predominate in the peripheral vision, that peripheral vision is more light sensitive, enabling you to see dimmer objects in your peripheral vision. If you see a dim star in your peripheral vision, it may disappear when you look at it directly since you are then moving the image onto the cone-rich fovea region which is less light sensitive.

I don't think there's a way to really cure that, but I know they have like Imitrex for migranes and stuff which you might be able to take.

 

[Master Vigil]

They wanted to put me on this old epilepsy drug. But they didn't because they found gall stones and had to remove my gallbladder. I never went back because I was sick of doctors. I just figured I'd deal with it. Wear sunglasses and stay in my dimly lit apartment all day.

 

[Saw11_2000]

They wanted to put me on this old epilepsy drug. But they didn't because they found gall stones and had to remove my gallbladder. I never went back because I was sick of doctors. I just figured I'd deal with it. Wear sunglasses and stay in my dimly lit apartment all day.

The only thing with living in a dim environment, is that it can mess up your body's biological clock. When it's dark, your brain releases melatonin, which causes you to be sleepy. So if it's dim in your apartment a lot, you can be making lots of melatonin at all hours of the day, so you can be drowsy throughout the day, and when it's really time to go to bed, it's harder because it has been at a regulated amount the entire day rather than just when you need to sleep.

 

[jimbob]

I can do an impression of a constipated cat.:areyoucra

 

[Master Vigil]

The only thing with living in a dim environment, is that it can mess up your body's biological clock. When it's dark, your brain releases melatonin, which causes you to be sleepy. So if it's dim in your apartment a lot, you can be making lots of melatonin at all hours of the day, so you can be drowsy throughout the day, and when it's really time to go to bed, it's harder because it has been at a regulated amount the entire day rather than just when you need to sleep.

I understand. That does happen alot. Luckily with sunglasses I can go outside during the day. But normally I have a migraine by the end of the day, and that sometimes gives me an excuse to sleep.

 

[QTpi]

I can do an impression of a constipated cat.:areyoucra

Really? I don't think I have ever seen a constipated cat.

 

[Green Gaia]

Which is.....?

Elizabeth

 

[Linus]

I just won an award for "best supporting actor" in the annual film festival here at school.

 

[Green Gaia]

Way to go, Linus! :woohoo:

 

[Master Vigil]

I just woke up, and its 1:30 in the afternoon. I didn't fall asleep until 5 in the morning.

 

[Prima]

Yesterday, I slept the latest I ever have - 3 pm. I either have mono, or it's a side effect of my meds. But it was so strange.

 

[Master Vigil]

Yeah, I'm actually surprised I woke up this early, yesterday I woke up around 2:30 which was still kinda early for the weekend.

 

[Prima]

I love waking up early, and hardly ever get to.

I'm about to go get my birthday presents, and see a bad movie, and eat at Carrabba's.

 

[Saw11_2000]

I am not a morning person. My ideal time to wake up on the weekends is about 4:30 PM.

 

[Green Gaia]

I'm listening to Andy Gibb right now. :woohoo:

 

[Master Vigil]

I'm listening to the Last Samurai soundtrack right now.

 

[Lookingformeaning]

I just won an award for "best supporting actor" in the annual film festival here at school.

Good job, Linus!