Do you think everyone sees different colours?

[_Seth]

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Like blue to you could mean what I see as green, but we'd never know because we where taught what colours where called what. It's confusing, but really interesting.

[Stacey.]

Yeahh, ive thought this too :laugh:
its really Strange :confused:

[Marc]

I'm confused :D

[Lewis.]

Nope. LOL.

[Lewis.]

Actually.. then again it could be? We just might not know...

[Enid]

Unless you are colour blind, everyone sees the same. Colours are just light reflections.

[_Seth]

^But we'd NEVER know. Like you could see the Simpson's skin as purple but to you it'd be called yellow.

[Braden]

Yeah I always think about this,
like normally i would see something as orange,
but somone could be brought up to think it was purple

[Tom]

I don't think it to the extent that what I see as blue someone else sees as red and we both agree its blue but I think we all see slightly different shades

Apparently women see colour better than men

[Tom]

Yeah I always think about this,
like normally i would see something as orange,
but somone could be brought up to think it was purple

Thats not seeing a different colour though, thats just being taught that a colour has a different name than what it actually has

[InOne]

It's sort of like the perception of beauty, someone could be ugly to one person, yet beautiful to another

[Jords]

At first I didnt have a clue what you meant but I do now. Ive never thought about it before and cant be true.

If somebody was describing yellow as warm and bright, and sombody some yellow as purple, you would know because they would describe it the complete opposite :tongue:

[Marc]

If you think about it... how can you describe a colour? Its hard! Without drawing any examples.. e.g. Red - Blood.

[Stu]

Well colour is like pitch in music. It dosen't actually exist at all. There's no such thing as colour in the real world. Colour is just part of your brains interpretation of the world just like we interpret and process pitch and volume in our brains. Without our brains there are neither.

I think all humans see colour the same, but different mammals see colours in different ways. I think that's a very interesting idea. Nobody actually knows what the world looks like from an outside perspective.

[LemonJam]

I've thought this before. It's hard to explain though :p

[Patrick]

^But we'd NEVER know. Like you could see the Simpson's skin as purple but to you it'd be called yellow.

Uh, yeah you could know.

I could ask my mate if he sees the sky as Pink, if he says Blue then obviously its the same as me and this point isnt right.
:D

[Captain.Remy]

Nope because we were taught the same thing in school as far as colours are concerned. Colours are universal.

But sometimes I can stare at myself in the mirror and thinking "Do I really look like that ? Or do people see me differently ? Is everything happening now or is it a dream ?"

[Stu]

Everything is perception. The likelyhood that all reality is a shared illusion to me is far more credible than any particular religious doctrine. I have been in situations I consider out of this dimension on a few occasions, and I am convinced there is more.

For instance, when you take psychedelics their purpose on the brain is to basically widen the channels of communication that are normally filtered and that's how people 'trip' - information overload and senses get mixed up. All you see before you is a filtered version of the world. You brain has to filter it, to make sense of it all.

The OP's point is a bit daft though. Obviously our idea of blue is universal because we can cross check with each other that different things are in fact blue, and we all have the same idea of it.

[Niamh.]

Everything is perception. The likelyhood that all reality is a shared illusion to me is far more credible than any particular religious doctrine. I have been in situations I consider out of this dimension on a few occasions, and I am convinced there is more.

For instance, when you take psychedelics their purpose on the brain is to basically widen the channels of communication that are normally filtered and that's how people 'trip' - information overload and senses get mixed up. All you see before you is a filtered version of the world. You brain has to filter it, to make sense of it all.

The OP's point is a bit daft though. Obviously our idea of blue is universal because we can cross check with each other that different things are in fact blue, and we all have the same idea of it.

I have to disagree with you about the OP's point being daft. I've thought the same before as well. I mean if you have something that is blue and you show it to a child and say this is blue, they could see it as what you call green but will now call it blue cos you told them it was blue and you both will think that you're seeing the same thing but you're not! (that sounds really confusing, hope you understand what I'm trying to say!!)

[Stu]

I have to disagree with you about the OP's point being daft. I've thought the same before as well. I mean if you have something that is blue and you show it to a child and say this is blue, they could see it as what you call green but will now call it blue cos you told them it was blue and you both will think that you're seeing the same thing but you're not! (that sounds really confusing, hope you understand what I'm trying to say!!)
You need to apply it to more colours though. We can cross check colours. It's not as if I see a blue thing as blue and you see it as green. We know universally what blue is because we all see the sky during day, a blue car, blue wallpaper, and everything blue all as blue.

[Enid]

But you're taught all that at school.

If you're told to colour something in blue, and it turns out the whole class have been using different colours, something is up. That has never happened though.

[Niamh.]

You need to apply it to more colours though. We can cross check colours. It's not as if I see a blue thing as blue and you see it as green. We know universally what blue is because we all see the sky during day, a blue car, blue wallpaper, and everything blue all as blue.

yeah but who's to say that the sky looks the same to everyone? we'll never know cos you can only see the world through your own eyes

[Enid]

It's too easy to be proven true or false. You don't think scientists have ever considered this? :P

[Jords]

I know what Niamh means. If an adult points at a colour and says this is 'yellow', and it is actually yellow, but the child sees yellow as purple, the child will learn the colour name of purple as yellow and will not know different. Unless you descibe the colour, where the adult will say bright, but the child would say dull.

[Stu]

yeah but who's to say that the sky looks the same to everyone? we'll never know cos you can only see the world through your own eyes
Because if I call the sky blue you know I mean the colour of the sea as well, which I also know as blue. We all have the same idea of what blue is because we all identify multiple blue objects as being blue.

You obviously see the sky the same as me, and everyone else, because we both see it as blue, just like we both see blue paint as blue. Simple, really.

[Chels]

i've thought about this before!
i've also thought about if people hear the same sounds as you.

[Niamh.]

Because if I call the sky blue you know I mean the colour of the sea as well, which I also know as blue. We all have the same idea of what blue is because we all identify multiple blue objects as being blue.

You obviously see the sky the same as me, and everyone else, because we both see it as blue, just like we both see blue paint as blue. Simple, really.

I'm finding it very hard to explain what I'm trying to say! It's clear in my head but it's almost impossible for me to explain it lol:conf:

[Tom]

Nope because we were taught the same thing in school as far as colours are concerned. Colours are universal.

But sometimes I can stare at myself in the mirror and thinking "Do I really look like that ? Or do people see me differently ? Is everything happening now or is it a dream ?"

No, you don't.

1) The human mind is taught to basically fancy itself, so most people think they look good even if they won't admit it

2) We pick out our smallest faults so if you had a spot on the end of your nose and thought it was the worst thing ever, chances are noone will even notice