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a wet camera you grew yourself, lying to your brain in dazzling color
means the organ of the body that detects light and sends visual information to the brain, letting you see.
from From Old English ēage, with deep roots running back through Proto-Germanic *augô (a cousin of German Auge and Dutch oog) to the Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-, a root for seeing that also fed Latin oculus and Greek ōps. So 'eye,' 'ocular,' and 'optic' are all distant relations, sprung from the same ancient word for sight.
- blind spot
- each eye has a hole your brain hides
- fast muscle
- eye movers are the body's quickest muscles
- upside down
- images hit the retina flipped entirely
- color count
- distinguishes around ten million shades
- healing speed
- a scratched cornea can repair in days
great eye of sauron — the all-seeing eye in tolkien's middle-earth, symbolizing the dark lord's omniscient gaze from the lord of the rings
eye of the tiger — survival's 1982 hit song that became the rocky iii theme and boxing anthem
eye of the sahara — the richat structure, a bullseye-shaped geological formation in mauritania visible from space