Why is it hard on our eyes to look at headlights IRL but not when watching a car in a movie?
In: Biology
When you’re watching a movie, the brightest light it can emit is the same as when the screen is just all white. And I’m sure you’ll agree that a white screen is much less bright than actual car headlights.
So it’s just a down to the fact that headlights are brighter than screens.
The lights are real and play with your eye balls, while on a movie it’s not real and you’re watching the lights that’s picked up by a camera and thrown back at you through tiny little lights that make up a bigger picture that represents the image recorded.
If you think about it, you can do this with all the senses in your body.
Basically the tv screen can’t reproduce that level of light intensity.
Your brain perceives “brightness” as the difference between the lightest and darkest areas in the scene, so a car headlight in a movie can still appear “bright” but there aren’t as many photons going into your eyes as a car headlight in real life.
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