How to Attain Super Night Vision

Super night vision is a power that many comic superheros enjoy. However, total night vision is difficult to achieve naturally, since the eyes require light to view objects in the purview. Still, there are ways to improve your night vision and to make yourself more capable of seeing things in the dark.

Things You'll Need

• Sugar cube
• Red-filtered light
• Eye vitamins with bilberry and vitamin C
• Vitamin C

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Instructions

• 1

  Avoid bright lights, such as flashlights or headlights, which impair your ability to see in total darkness. To acclimate your eyes to the dark after exposure to light, close your eyes and count to 10 slowly. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

• 2

  Use your peripheral vision. Scan the landscape ahead of you, noting both objects directly in front of you as well as in the margins of your purview. Constant scanning will help to prevent your eyes from adapting to light sources, which impair night vision.

• 3

  Identify shapes, contours and movements, instead of colors and other details. In the dark, humans are nearly colorblind. Therefore, to see better in the dark, train yourself by using eyes to decipher large shapes and general movements.

• 4

  Move low to the ground. Crawl along the ground or squat down and waddle, so that objects are backlit by a light source, such as the moon or artificial lights. This ninja technique is known to improve ability to notice objects in the dark.

• 5

  Consume a sugar cube and shine a red-filtered light in both eyes for 10 seconds immediately upon entering the dark. This technique is known to improve night vision by raising blood sugar levels.

• 6

  Take daily eye vitamins, which compensate for deficiencies in the diet by providing necessary nutrients to maximize and preserve vision. Specifically, take a supplement with bilberry, a pigment found in blueberries, that is thought to strengthen the purple pigment in the retina, which is used for night vision, and improves circulation in the blood vessels of the eye. Take Vitamin C, which is believed to strengthen collagen in the eye.