Glasses with blue lenses

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Has anyone tried wearing glasses with blue lenses to help you cope with eye contact?

How do they help?

I've been wearing blue lenses for years. It never occurred to me that they might help with eye contact, I'll have to try and see. But I do know that they're a tremendous relief with sensory overload. Without the blue lenses, the world looks ugly mustard glaring. With the blue lenses, the world looks 'normal.'

I had trouble with the guy at the optometrist's office - he was convinced that I wanted blue lenses for some sort of new age reason - he didn't want to sell them to me. So I switched to buying them on-line from Zenni. I use 10% blue.

i wear ones that are lightly tinted purple. the color is not only calming to me, but helps me deal with the ill effects of fluorescent lights in public and helps as a bit of a buffer or barrier between others and myself. i've been wearing my original ones for over 10 years. they've developed a little crack, so found another pair that i find comfortable. i still wear the cracked ones, though. they're my favorite.

I have one lens tinted purple. It helps me differentiate between colours.

I wear rose-tinted glasses, which I purchased off a sunglasses rack at a drug store. The shade makes everything more tolerable and mitigates a lot of the visual issues that seem to be autism-related or more generally related to my neurology. I've tried other shades but they are generally uncomfortable, don't help with visual issues, and sometimes cause headaches.

Sounds like Scotopic sensitivity syndrome to me.

Irlen! That's what the guy at the optometrist's thought I was trying to do with blue lenses. And he tried to refuse to make them. But the optometrist's wife wears blue lenses so I won.

During a 10day meditation retreat
the 10hr a day meditation hall
was painted blue with blue drapes

Calming and concentrating

I have blue lenses. I requested them instead of having to use a blue overlay for reading. They also help a little with white cloudy days. I never thought about eye contact though..not sure how it would help.

for me, the preference of color of my lenses helps with all of the glare and distraction and visual stimuli overload i would experience without the purple glasses..... fluorescent lights not only shed a blue/purple light, they also flicker. incandescent lights generally give off a more glaring light blue light unless they're full spectrum lights and halogen lights tend to show in the bright yellow to orange range. i've not experienced how my purple lenses fare with halogen lights as yet.

as far as the eye contact goes, i noticed the tinted lenses had the added benefit of defraying unwanted eye contact.... perhaps they are giving people a broader focal point than to be able to see directly into my eyes. i also consider that my own eye movements may not be as noticeable to other people. whatever the exact cause and effect of the tinted lenses truly may be, i find they help greatly.

i've never experimented using other types of "sun glasses" (i use that term reluctantly, because i don't need to wear my tinted glasses outdoors unless where there may be many people), but i would hypothesize that if a person is comfortable with the more common colors of tinted lenses like yellowish brown or greenish brown, that those glasses would have a similar effect with defraying unwanted eye contact.

When I told my chiropractor about my light sensitivity she recommended red lenses. Incidentally, as I have poor balance, she mentioned that the patients she has with poor balance often have the sensory isssues too (not sure if they are on the spectrum). I bought some red lenses from Amazon and they do help a bit. I strongly believe I have scotopic sensitivity (Irlen Syndrome/Mears Irlen Syndrome) which is known amongst people with autism and other disorders, as the online test I did I ticked virtually every box.