Account for the following:
(ii) One feels blinded for a short time while coming out of a dark room.
In the dark, the pupil is wide open to let in more light. Also, the pigment visual purple
is generated in greater amounts. When we come out int bright light, the visual purple
is bleached and iris muscles contract to diminish the pupil diameter. Since the pigment of rods is bleached in the bright light the eyes take a little time in adapting to the bright light and hence we are blinded in bright light.