So if I understand you correctly, when suddenly going from a bright to dark environment or vice versa, the adjustment period is caused by our rods and cones adjusting the rate of photopigment production to return the photopigment to ideal operational quantities.
So when we go into a dark room, there aren't enough photopigments to catch what little light enters our eye and no signal gets sent to our brain and we're effectively blind until the photopigments get to high enough levels to detect the low light.
And in the reverse situation, there's too much photopigment so all our light cells are blaring/bleached and we're again blinded until the photopigment levels drop.
I forget which US state it was (I think it was featured on Last Week Tonight), but the revenue from their newly introduced lottery did technically go to education, it's just that an equal amount was then taken out of the education budget.
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So if I understand you correctly, when suddenly going from a bright to dark environment or vice versa, the adjustment period is caused by our rods and cones adjusting the rate of photopigment production to return the photopigment to ideal operational quantities.
So when we go into a dark room, there aren't enough photopigments to catch what little light enters our eye and no signal gets sent to our brain and we're effectively blind until the photopigments get to high enough levels to detect the low light.
And in the reverse situation, there's too much photopigment so all our light cells are blaring/bleached and we're again blinded until the photopigment levels drop.
Is that right?