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Low light vision.
I was always very sensitive to bright lights and sincerely fear I'll go blind at my last years but I can see at higher definition under low light conditions.
My vision stops processing color and I get higher definition of contrast. I've walked through dark areas with no difficulty, where others simply said they could not see a thing.
Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light.
Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina.
The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that.
In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren't special.
It should. Seeing in low light is a very useful thing. And we could dispense some of the light polution we create.