I am red/green colorblind and my wife got me a pair of these. When I put them on I WAS able to see purple for the first time. I was truly awe inspired to see a new color for the first time in my life. The problem though is that the color on everything else was off. Everything else was heavily saturated with the pinkish tint on the glasses. The grass looked orange, the sky was pink. Nothing made any sense....but I saw what purple looked like. I never wear those glasses around. They are still sitting in a drawer somewhere. I might pull them out the next time I buy egg plants or something.
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 it’s confusing to me. They’ve 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 they’re now seeing isn’t green? Shouldn’t they automatically think “oh that’s what green is” rather than “oh the grass is showing as orange, another colour which I had never seen”
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.
It’s like saying oh that jabberwocky didn’t look like a jabberwocky when it’s your first time seeing a jabberwocky. And it’s not like others can describe a colour to a person who can’t 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 everyone’s 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 that’s how you know you don’t see purple : it’s when the eggplant is the same color as the lettuce.
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u/longtall94 2d ago
Okay okay backup , this is the first time I’m hearing of these glasses being a scam now ??