Can eyes really change color?

I've heard of this, but it doesn't seem to have any sciency support and I have never seen any theory. It doesn't seem like logic with some eye colors as brown cannot change much unless it were to become darker or lighter. I can see green and blue, because that seems something that is plausible. As you grow older, I feel like the eye colors change and fade slowly, but maybe that is just me. My eyes are brown and have always been brown, but my brothers go between brown and black depending on how much sleep he has gotten.

My eyes were always blue. They got bluer if I cried but that is natural. However, my eyes did change when I spend 28 years in the desert Southwest. Horrible place, bright sun day after day, rarely any clouds or breezes and that sun shone relentlessly most of the year. I was very surprised when I went to get a lasik procedure and the surgeon remarked on my green eyes--what, I asked, they are BLUE!! After some talking, I learned that the strong desert sun can change eye color and damage the eyes. I had a small cataract then, I was only 49!!!! That's what the sun does in places where humans aren't meant to live. I always liked my blue eyes. I'm trying to appreciate the mostly green color they've become.

People's eyes can change colour with age or due to disease. Most people's iris becomes lighter as they age but in the case of light coloured eyes, they can change to darker. The only other way to change the colour of your eyes is with coloured contact lenses.

I know my eyes change colour. I have blue eyes, and my mum says they go very greeny when I'm sad. and I've seen people freak out and run when I lose my temper. I was once led to a mirror shortly after I lost my temper and my eyes are very different. knowing what they look at, and having felt the rush of heat when I get angry and seen people panic and run, I imagine the changeover is pretty scary. but it's easily explainable. when I get angry my eyes, according to witnesses, go very quickly from blue to violet. and this is easily explained by the fact that the blood flow to the eyes increases. I'm sure lots of people have felt a heat in their eyes when they are angry. it's no big surprise that the increased blood flow makes them feel hot, and adds red to blue. if you mix red and blue what do you get? exactly. when I'm angry my blue eyes (and I've been told I have very unusual, wolfy blue eyes) turn violet. which is probably scary if you're not used to seeing that sort of thing.

I have never seen someone's eyes change color. I have heard that they will. I have heard that they will change with the color of their clothes. I do not think I have heard that they will change colors at people's moods.

So far I didn't notice my eyes changed color, it remains brown no matter what my mood is.hehehe. Oh well, those people maybe wearing contact lenses that's why their eyes changed colors.

My son's do. They usually stay within shades of blue or gray. When he's happy they are a bright blue. When the light reflects on them they shine violet instead of red like most people.

I am pretty sure that peoples eye color change. For example my mother has a light brown eye color but as she has gotten older her eyes seem to have more of a green color to them. Also her dad has hazel eyes and I have seem blue and green too so it is true. I guess you just have not met someone that has it. I am not sure if their eyes would change color right before you but hey you never know. Take care and nice topic happy mylotting

I haven't heard about such effect. I don't know anybody who would have an ability to change their eye color just with power of thought. Perhaps some medications are able to have such effect, but I doubt if thoughts can do it. However, I have heard cases, when persons eye color changes over time, for example: person had green eyes when he/she was a kid, but while growing up, the color changed to brown. But it's a long term effect and definitely not the matter of days or hours.

really? i don't think so, i have never seen something like that, the colour? the eyes can tell us so much about the person's mood but i don't think they can change colour, might be get a little red due to flow of blood when angry, but not much. .. anyways, good day.

...Hi olisaur, Some people's eyes may change colors when they get older. One of My uncle's eyes did that. I have gray-green eyes, which have yellow specks with flakes of black in them. Some perople called me cat-eyes, when I was younger. Weird, inherited from my grandmother. My sister and neice went out and got contact lens trying to get a similar color. Terrible. My eyes don't, and I don't think anyone else's eyes, change color. What happpens is, if I wear a certain color, be it red, yellow, blue, green or whatever, my eyes will reflect off that color and appear to have changed. When in reality, much like the color of the sea appearing to be blue, from the reflection of the sky, but it really is not blue, it is clear and grayish, the color is still the same. So eye color in my opinion does not change as far as I know. It stays the same color as it was. Take care.

Oh~that's sounds ridiculous!How can a people's eyes color change with mood?I have never heard about this before and I wonder whether it's true...I just know contact lens can changes it....haha...maybe everyone knows it....

hi! I really don't think eyes can change color. maybe if there is more blood into, they will look red, but if you have no contact lenses I think it is really impossible to change the color of you eyes, and I haven't even heard of that cases!

I never really tell people that my eye color changes but I have been told that they do. My eye color is brown.. but sometimes they seem to look more hazel.. My mom has hazel eyes, my dad has blue.. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it. Maybe they just change a bit in the sunlight. I've never thought about it too much though.

Yes it is true that eyes can change colors, Im not sure what it is based on though. My son was born with gray eyes and they stayed that way until he was one. Now he is two and they are brown, but on some days they are hazel and other days they will be brown and green. I dont know what causes it but I do have other family members that their eyes do the same thing.

My eyes are hazel and they've always changed color due to any number of things. I've found over the years that wearing certain colors can "bring out" the green in them...but not the blue. I've never heard of my mood being responsible for changing my eye color but I'll have to check that out.

No. ppls eyes cant change because of MOOD. Maybe if they are a light blue, then it could slightly look greenish in a different time. because they are similiar colors n according the lighting or time of day it can look tat way. My friend has eyes like that. And me myself, when i FIRST wake up in the morning my eyes are a slightly brighter blue than during the rest of the day. But, i HAVE heard that sometimes little kids who were blonde with blue eyes end up changing later on when they get older to darker hair and brown eyes. This is because of many changes tat arise when u hit puberty or just grow up. (Ex: my hair used to be straight, when i turned 12 it started to curl)

Hallo....I never known that eyes' colour can be changed naturally, I thought it is changed by using coloured contact lenses. I think Asian people's eyes mostly black or dark brown, so we can't notice if there's any changes of colour. Only that I noticed there's some changes in those with lighter eyes' colour , the colour part will become bigger or smaller according to their expression. Along with changes of size to bigger, the colour will be toned down, so maybe I think it is considered as changes of colour as well.

No..eyes generally dont change in colours. May be when we are angry, they may turn red..and when dust falls or when we cry. Rest of these, i dont think it will change colour. Normally eye will be white and black, for some it will be blue.

Some eyes do change based on chemical reactions and hormonal changes within the body most eye change happens when the infant is around one year old although it can happen up to 3ree years of age studies on caucasian twins have shown that eye colour over time can be subject to change most eye color changes have been observed in the caucasian population with hazel eyes