Re: ATM Bilberry works - Feedback?

["Chris Rowland" <chris@sapiens.nildram.co.uk>]

I heard that the British always claimed it was carrots, I suppose we had
more of them than Bilberries.
Rumour is that the main effect was that some German fighter pilots turned
orange...

Chris

> Brian,
>
> Exactly my experience. Recovery from bright headlights, glaring planets ,
> Moon in eyepiece, etc. etc. Not enhancement, but sustenance. I will ask an
> acquaintance who was a Lancaster bombardier, later POW, about the military
> part -- folk tradition supports this kind of casual use, in any case.
>
> Barlow
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> >
> > Hi:
> > In reading the posts about the effects of Bilberry products on night
> vision,
> > the real effect of bilberry and other items that contain anthocyanosides
> and
> > other precursors needed for the production of visual purple.
> > I don't know where the idea that bilberry and related items "Enhanced"
> > night vision came from. Bilberry and related products is
> > quoted as a cure for "poor/bad " night vision, in other words if you
> > took Bilberry you weren't going to be able to roost in a tree and
> > see meeses crawling through the underbush, just see normally what
> > your vision would support, I think the "Enhanced" came from certain
> > segments of society that have PP diets take took supplements and
> > could have normal night vision and that amazed the hell out of them.
> >
> > Now one thing that does happen when you dose yourself with the
> > proper dietary percursors is that the more anthocyanosides you have
> > in your body to make visual purple the more times you can recover
> > from lights that tend to bleach it out, so it enhances the length
> > of your night vision over a given period.
> > This is also part of semi-myth that WWII aviators used it to enhance
> > their vision, it wasn't that they were enhancing their vision but
> > increasing the ability to recover their night vision, when they were
> > going on night bombing misssions, arriving at the targets they were
> > subjected to bright flares, bright flack bursts, giant searchlights, etc
> > and their VP was bleached out, and due to their freeliving life style
> > their night vision was virtually gone, so on the flight back they had
> > problems spotting enemy fighter planes and  they arrived back at
> > poorly light landing fields in England CSS, had problems landing,
> > so the story the way I got it was they were given Bilberry Jam
> > sandwiches to help perserve their NV, not make them flying owls.
> >
> > This is the main thing that tests that test night visual acuity
> > and contrast sensitivity miss they don't measure the persistance
> > and ability to recover NV under adverse conditions.
> > --
> > Aloha   159 30 W, 21 55 N
> > Brian   Middle of the Pacific,