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Your eyes perceive color as flags. There are chemical tubes in the eye that contain flags for the color that you see around you. For example when you see a blue ball your eyes pick up the color blue via the chemical tubes. The chemical tubes entrusted with capturing the color blue "flash" and send signals to the brain which the brain intreprets as being blue. While this occures the chemical within the tube deplets, the amount of depleted chemical marks the intensity of the color in terms of brightness. So if it were a very bright, shining blue then the chemical withing the tubes deplets more and signals the brain to intrepret the ball to be very shiny. Thus this explains why you temporarily become blind when you look into the sun. When you look into the sun, the light coming from the sun is white meaning it has all of the colors of the visible spectrum, thus all of the chemical tubes become active in the eye, and since the sun burns with a great intensity, the chemical within thse tubes deplete very quickly and completely, hence in one sense your are not technically blind but are actually seeing every color of the spectrum at the same time. Then in a couple of minutes, while looking away from the sun, the chemicals in the tubes return and once again you can see.

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