or do I see black and you see green, but we both call it yellow?
when we grow up, someone tells us what a color is called, so if I saw orange, but my parents and teachers call it grey, thats what I am told what it is.
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Neato15% Voted for by Ubacubissubej, mellilot, SilverScent, Scrap, mbbg0. (6 total)
Yeah, I’ve wondered that too. Pretty wild, but I doubt we’ll be able to scientifically prove anything either way.
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Maybe7% Voted for by happysassycassie, Piscean Wisdom, pwincessovfantasy.
Maybe this is why everyone has their own favorite color....!
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Yes7% Voted for by ohsweetie970, wbiro, ohsweetie2788.
If you don’t know that, your grounding in reality is weak.
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Wonder...7% Voted for by Kevin, poetic justice two, BeyondTheSurface.
I have wondered this myself. My friend is color blind but she loves to paint. She goes out and buys paint but does not know what color is what? To her…is you pointed to something that was a bright bright bright yellow she wouldn’t really understand the word ‘yellow’ or ‘blue’ or any colors. She says in mostly brown and grey…
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curiousity says yes5% Voted for by ohsweetie970, ohsweetie2788.
we talked about this in school one day, me and my friends, and we decided that no we do not all see the same color, we figured what looks like blue to one person could look like green to another but still be blue to them. we figured this out by thinking of our colorblind teachers and how one can only see reds and greens and the other can’t tell red and green apart and figure that is the brain in its truest form without changing the colors to what they actually are…but that is just out theory…
Ash
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Colorblindness and other stuff5% Voted for by Curve Ball, frndofyaweh.
I have a friend who is colorblind. We like to joke around with him a bit. He is a sanguin personality and usually makes fun of himself as well, but really it isn’t so funny. He sees mostly browns and greys for greens and reds. As an artist that would frustrate me to no end. Some women associate colors with words and numbers they see or hear. Even smells will make them invision specific colors. Like; the smell of Salmon frying, is brown.
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Chemistry/Physics..5% Voted for by Ubacubissubej, mbbg0.
If you get into color addition and subtraction, I think that might explain some of it. But I have considered this question myself
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what about taste5% Voted for by jonesz12, Piscean Wisdom.
I've wondered this about all the senses. Especially taste. Does broccoli taste the same to everyone and it is just a matter of preference or does it truly taste different to people. Colors, who knows. Smells as well. I don't think we can really know such things.
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interesting question5% Voted for by my name here, Piscean Wisdom.
its all about your own perception.ive had numouruos arguements about this!! we’ll never know!!!maybe u do see differnet to other people, like how 1 person likes the taste of something and others dont… do they actually taste the same thing??
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Theoretically can be proved either way...5% Voted for by Walking Wounded, candyecane2002.
In my science class, we discussed this for a few minutes. It’s really mind-boggling that, should I be in your shoes, seeing through your eyes, I could have a hell of a time figuring out what everything is just because of the colour. You could see colours I could never imagine, or vice-versa. We can prove this by taking a brain out of 1 body, leaving receptors for colour intact, and transfer it to another body, re-attaching all the receptors. The person whose brain was moved, but its essentially in another body, could then testify as to whether the world looked identical, similar, or completely different than it had from his own body. I don’t believe we have the technology to do this yet, as I’m quite sure it would have been done. Theoretically, this would work, but theory has often proved itself wrong.
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Ummm...?5% Voted for by candyecane2002, atrain.
I GET IT NOW! It depends on what you were taught. But see… what if the two people were coloring at school ok. What would happen when the teacher told everyone to color the sea green and the one that sees purple colored it purple? The teacher would correct it and therefore he would learn to call it purple. Right?
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Nobody will Know5% Voted for by Keegan A Combes, -TheLoneWolf-.
Nobody will know. We could of learned the colors by looking at them. Does it make sense if you seen the color red. Hey what about the tastes in colors, maybe scientists, can figure that out.
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Hmm....5% Voted for by Secil, Piscean Wisdom.
Wow....you wouldn't believe the useless amount of time that I have put into thinking about that idea years ago...when I was in elementary school I would think about it for so long and always ask people to describe what they see...I never came to find a resolution (obviously) but the idea is very interesting and I'm sure that someday scientists will be able to prove something similar to this. Also, in relation to the idea, I've always thought, do we also see people differently, hear sounds, and taste differently also? Is that why we all have different tastes in food, fashion, music etc?
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do we all see the same color?Voted for by greenfairy.
i think the same thing i try to talk to people about it but they either think im crazy or that i escaped from a mental institute
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laurenVoted for by raven shadow 13.
my best friend lauren (crimsonshadow) asks the same question all the time, and this is how i respond.
“red” is an angry color. it makes you feel mad or passionate. it is not a light color, and it is not a dark color. it is the color of points to cardinal that bird. it is also seen at sunset.
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Perhaps..Voted for by justonewish.
Well, it is obvious that this is not possible if we were to think that it would be controlled by each individual’s pair of eyes – there have been eye transplants and I don’t believe anyone has any reports of seeing totally different colors on everything.
We also have to think about the fact that there would be limits to how the colors are organized in peoples’ perspectives. Dark and light are opposite, and these correspond to black and white. This is one thing that we know for a fact is common to everyone. Black and white must remain opposites, and one must remain dark while the other must remain light (while perceptions of dark and light may change somewhat). Thinking this way, there is most likely only one other way that it can be. I see dark where you see what I would consider dark, and we both call it dark, we both call it black. The opposite would be I see dark where you see what I would consider light, and we both call it dark and black.. yet you see the opposite of what I see. Thinking of our definitions of light and dark, no color other than black or white could be considered light or dark – one would not consider yellow dark and purple light, although they are opposites. Yellow and purple are both colors that make up white light, and in the absence of light there is black.. so logically, there are really only two possibilities as to how colors could be organized in each individual’s perspective.
Hm, I never thought about the whole black/white and light/dark part of this before this.. so I actually believe that if there are only two possibilities, then it is not true that we would all see different colors. It is possible, but now I doubt it.
And sorry if I got a little.. ramble-ly in there. Kind of lost track of what I was saying.
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DefinitionsVoted for by mellilot.
When we define colour as being reliant upon those percieving it then it would be impossible to know whether or not we all see the same colour. However if we define colour as being a certain wavelength of light reflected of the surface of an object while the rest of the visible spectrum is absorbed then you cannot help but claim objectivity.
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Puke GreenVoted for by DrGonzo.
My freind is color bling, he has this puke green suit that is ugly, but he thinks it’s great, because he thinks it’s brown. LOL
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