How does wearing colored glasses affect the way we see before and after we take them off?

Question

How does wearing colored glasses affect the way we see before and after we take them off?----I'm using this question for a science fair... help please! Also if you're nice, you could design an experiment for me...that would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

While you're wearing them, they filter out all other colors besides the one they match. (blue colored glasses only let in blue light, etc) This makes the world around you seem to be colored strangely. Objects without the color of your glasses appear black when you look through them.

While you're wearing them, the receptors in your retina that respond to the color of the glasses continue to be stimulated by the light entering the eye through the filter, but the other colors' receptors would not be receiving much stimulation. When you remove the glasses, the receptors that weren't being stimulated will react more strongly than those that never stopped receiving light. This would cause the world to appear colored as if you were wearing the opposite color glasses.

If you wore green glasses, the world would appear more purplish than normal once you removed it.

If you only had one colored lens, and left the other one completely transparent, then you could see the effect more obviously. Put on the glasses and look around for a few minutes. Then remove them. For the next few seconds, if you look at the world with only one eye open, and then change eyes, you'll see things changing colors. This is most apparent with a white sheet of paper. The old red and blue 3d glasses are perfect for this. After you take them off, looking through your left eye, the world will look blue, and the right eye will look red.