Amazing moment colourblind dad sees daughter's eyes

Travis Brindley was reduced to tears when his Father's Day gift allowed him to see colors for the first time. 

The father-of-one from New Hudson, Michigan, is colorblind and was surprised with a special pair of glasses that allowed him to see the color of his favorite college sports team.

Brindley realized after he put on the glasses that the trees, grass and shirt he was wearing were all green - a color he had never seen properly before.

The emotions overcame him when he took a look at his young daughter Kyler and her hazel-green eyes, forcing him to wipe away tears.  

Brindley's wife Annaliese uploaded the special moment to her Facebook and wrote: 'Travis got the gift of being able to see color this Father's Day!'

She later explained that Brindley was born colorblind to the colors of red and green.

Because Brindley compensated so well, his parents didn't discover he had the condition until he was a teenager. 

Annaliese decided to give her husband a pair of EnChroma sunglasses, that filter and separate muddled colors using a technique called chromatic contrast enhancement.

The lenses add a new dimension to vision and allow colorblind people to see the colors separately.

Annaliese wrote: 'It is the first time he has ever seen the true beauty of the world around him.

'Now, he is awed by the brightness of simple things like traffic lights and this manly man even stops to stare at flowers. 

'The best gift of all has been seeing his daughter's beautiful green-hazel eyes in their true colors.'  

In the video, Brindley is unaware that his glasses will allow him to see colors that he's never seen before. 

He unwraps the gift while holding his daughter on his lap and puts on the shades.

Brindley begins to laugh as soon as the sunglasses are on because he realizes what they are. 

He begins to look around him while laughing and leaning back in his seat.

Someone off camera asks if he notices anything different and Brindley says, 'Oh yeah, just a little bit.' 

Brindley's parents ask if he can see the different colors on their tie-dye shirts and he says that he can.

His family brings over rainbow colored balloons and Brindley is overwhelmed, wiping away tears behind his glasses.

The development of EnChroma glasses came in 2010 and allowed dozens of colorblind people to see a full range of colors for the first time.

In the United States, around eight percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness.

People who have color blindness have a problem with the cones in their retina. 

Men are much more likely to be colorblind than women because the genes responsible for the most common, inherited color blindness are on the X chromosome, according to the National Eye Institute. 

Source: Daily Mail.