Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I suspect I need to call the eye doctor and schedule a new appointment. For some reason, my right eye isn't letting in as much light as my left eye (when I look through my right eye, it's like I have on a pair of cheap, mostly-for-show sunglasses, with perhaps a faint blue tint).

I first noticed it late yesterday afternoon on the computer screen, when it suddenly occurred to me to wonder why I was using my left eye so exclusively (I rarely use both at the same time, unless I have a pressing need for depth perception for a minute or two), and a quick switch from left eye to right eye and back again revealed a definite shading in the right eye, that amounts to a sense of almost inadequate lighting for fine work, and a faint suggestion of a bluish tone to the white backdrop on the screen.

I suppose it could have been that way for a while without my noticing it on a conscious level, but I don't like to think so.

Anyway, watching TV last night confirmed that it's not just the office lighting: the picture on my TV looked fine through my right eye, until I switched to my left eye and discovered how much pinker the skin tones of Riker and Picard actually were, as if the color and brightness had been turned up a notch for my left eye only.

Today has been no different -- barely a difference in really bright light, but more noticeable inside when looking at the computer monitor, etc..

This has never happened to me before, and it's kind of freaking me out. My right eye has also been watering up more than the other lately, for no apparent reason. And it can't be sun-damage, I don't think, since it's the right eye that I automatically squint shut in bright sunlight, and have since I was a child (how much sunlight could it have been exposed to, under those conditions?).