Is your RED! My RED!

[Luke_2009]

Right have you ever wondered if the colors that you see are the colors that everyone else see`s, for example if my red wasn't the same as your`s but we always new it to be the same because of what it has been labeled, so i could see black where you see my white but to you it would be black, so we all know color to be the same but to our selves we could all have a different pallet to work with...

It is a rather interesting idea, but what do you have to say?

[ficti0n]

hey that is a really interesting idea.

But you would have thought by now we would have realized it, because of the ways we describe colours. Like white yellow as a bright colour, where as someone who saw yellow as green wouldnt think its bright, or something like that....

[Luke_2009]

Yeah, but the object of brightness would always have been described as the name of the colour and not what is actually seen, for example if i grew up being told that a gray colour is red, i am still told that is the color of my blood, which it is... and that would also relate to any color...

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[ficti0n]

Yeah i suppose we cant tell. Its an interesting idea.

[X.HollyPop.X]

I have heard this too much :)
With the jesus Guy.
But luke you do have a very good point.
I think U might have a point
But its still a bit too overwhelming to think about for long.
Messes with your head.

[Luke_2009]

haha safe holly, as interesting as it though, we will unfortunately never know, we may all see the same or differently.
but what do you think?

And is it really that simple?

[Tommeh!!!]

well i had a chat with my dad about this, cause hes colourblind to red and green....so i asked him what he saw as red and green....and he replied red and green.

[PrincessAlice]

this really really confuses me

[Tommeh!!!]

well, i shall try and explain. :)

basically when you were growing up...people would point at something and tell you it was red, blue, green, whatever...that is how you know the colours, however how do you know that the colour you see through your eyes is the same as through someone elses?

For example, my dads 'colourblindness', he is colourblind, yet if something is red..it is still red to him cause the colour he sees, although its not the 'red' that you and i would see, is still red to him cause thats what was pointed at his whole life as red.

Oh yeah, and i forgot to say earlier, we do see pretty much the same red unless you are colourblind for shizzle...well...if youve done 'dot tests'....http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/images/447782a-f1.2.jpg
This is the red-green test, my dad wouldnt be able to read this.
...it fucks with your eyes a lil, but blur your sight and its fine.


Anyone remember having this done...about the age of 11 i think?

[Shane]

well, i shall try and explain. :)

basically when you were growing up...people would point at something and tell you it was red, blue, green, whatever...that is how you know the colours, however how do you know that the colour you see through your eyes is the same as through someone elses?

For example, my dads 'colourblindness', he is colourblind, yet if something is red..it is still red to him cause the colour he sees, although its not the 'red' that you and i would see, is still red to him cause thats what was pointed at his whole life as red.

Oh yeah, and i forgot to say earlier, we do see pretty much the same red unless you are colourblind for shizzle...well...if youve done 'dot tests'....http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/images/447782a-f1.2.jpg
This is the red-green test, my dad wouldnt be able to read this.
...it fucks with your eyes a lil, but blur your sight and its fine.


Anyone remember having this done...about the age of 11 i think?
I'm actually colourblind. What does it say? Tried for ages. :/

[Thesimpleone.]

non gene?

[jennyeatworld]

I think it says 'non gene'. I'm not colorblind but that's what I see.
I have a friend who is colorblind to red and green as well. We found out with tests that he sees his green as our blue. One of my friends and I were driving one day with him and we were talking about his colorblindness and my friend was like "if he is colorblind how does he drive?" because she assumed he couldn't see the traffic lights but I explained to her that green looks blue to him so blue means go! Although he looks at our blue as green.