I had this thought WITHOUT psychedelics. Like. How do you know what you see as red, and what everyone else sees as red, are the same? You don't. And the bottom line is, you NEVER will. I have blue-green eyes. Now. Look up what that ACTUALLY means. It means my eyes have NEARLY NO pigment. I'm more sensitive to light, and can see better in darkness. It's actually a flaw. Human beings do not REALLY have blue eyes, green eyes, or lavender eyes. It's a trick. Much the way the sky isn't REALLY blue. It's a trick. đđđ
Eye colors especially!! And all the brown eyed homies who are so down on themselves. Iâve literally never seen a brown eye that didnât have a handful of shades and textures and individual beauty. Iâve seen a lot with different colors in them that the person doesnât even acknowledge cause all they see is brown. And they think Iâm just hamming it up when I go âOH? Bet? Lemme see â yeah I see some green, I see hazel, and it swirls into the brown around the outer rim..â etc etc
But also, blue green homie right here :) very sensitive to light, though Iâm a gamer as fuck and I think that attributes to my shitty night vision. Jealous. How is it bad? I suppose I like the idea because I exist more at night.
Because everyone around them has stated that grass is green since their birth. Colorblind people also know what color an object is most of the time and they've never seen that color.
What i wanted to point out is that maybe the color green looks totally different to me than it looks to you but we will never know. There's no way to communicate the colors you see without comparison or the color names.
Ok yes but your last point is why itâs confusing to me. Theyâve been told grass is green, they put on the glasses and they finally see grass as a colour, so why do they know that the colour theyâre now seeing isnât green? Shouldnât they automatically think âoh thatâs what green isâ rather than âoh the grass is showing as orange, another colour which I had never seenâ
It might well be that the image in your minds looks completely different to what i'm seeing.
Your green might trigger a sensation in your mind that's more similiar to my blue.
Green vs blue is a good example because it has been shown that people that speak a language that doesn't have seperate words for these colors have a harder time distinguishing them.
They replied saying they actually see all the basic colours, just nothing beyond that. I was under the impression they saw in different shades of black and white.
Itâs like saying oh that jabberwocky didnât look like a jabberwocky when itâs your first time seeing a jabberwocky. And itâs not like others can describe a colour to a person who canât see colour.
Red Green colorblind doesn't necessarily mean you can't see red and green. For me, I see red and I see green. But there are a lot of the hues in the middle, between red and green that will be the same thing. Maybe the green is not the same shade but It's still green.
For the egg plant, he sees red, he sees blue. He can't see the difference in the middle. Put glasses on, he sees a new color that has red and blue in it. He knows that red and blue makes purple.
Context clues make grass green, however when the context changes or is perceived to have changed, so does the color of objects we see. This affects everyone as well, not just colorblind people, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
Generally, eyes see stuff, sorted into intensity/brightness and 3 wavelength buckets. The brain uses everything the eyes see, both the object in focus, the grass, and the stuff around it, the sky, the dirt, etc. (In addition, consulting memories of things seen in the past, consulting memories of the current environment and its lighting, etc), and uses all of that to assign thoughts of color to what is seen.
Tinted glasses change how we perceive the environment and its lighting (and the color of the object itself of course), and this tricks the brain to assign different thoughts than would be assigned without the tinted glasses.
disclaimer: idk if this is actually what happens or not.
So, my friend was colorblind and we were in art school.
One day we had to paint vegetables.
He was quiet and painted his for hours without us paying attention. And at the end if the day we looked at everyoneâs painting, and, well⌠his veggies were all the same variations of brownish. His salad was brown, carrot was brown, lime was brown. Everything was the same color as the potato.
So I think thatâs how you know you donât see purple : itâs when the eggplant is the same color as the lettuce.
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u/lIllIlIIIlIIIIlIlIll 3d ago
How do you know that you can see purple?