It would be crazy if we all saw colors differently. Like, my blue was actually your red. We'd never be able to prove it, though, amirite?

Clearly this was written by someone who hasn't taken a biology... Color as we call it is the frequency of the particles that are there contrasted with the light. Colors aren't actually different. Just the waves they give off differnciate them...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ahaha. That's actually really funny because I am, no joke, majoring in Biology. Bahahaha. And I know exactly what you are talking about, but saying "if humans perceive colors differently" isn't near as clear and simple as just saying, "if humans see colors differently." You understand what I mean just the same. And it IS, in fact, a possibility that I see blue when you see red.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Bahahaha that's funny cuz if my blue was your red: roy g biv wouldn't gradually fade into eachother white wouldn't be the most contrasting color red and white wouldn't be the most noticable color combination (why it's used for stop signs) bahaha It's really funny, haha, how you're a biology major like every other person on the interwebz with a story for why they know what they're talking about. Bahaha Makes you look really immature. ahaha. you should probably concider the fact that nothing you said was funny. haha.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

@1220219 (BluntsAreGay): exactly. there can be variations in color (were looking at the same blue paper but maybe yours is slightly lighter than mine, get it), but my blue being your red? no.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You major in biology eh? But, if we're not able to prove it, what does that have to do with anything? I agree with bluntsaregay. The colors of the rainbow gradually fade into eachother, and you have a back up story for why you know what you're talking about, and you don't look old enough to even be out of highschool.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What age people look doesn't mean much, though. I know someone who's about 20, and she looks about 13... :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How does colour blindness work then, if it's so impossible for people to perceive colours differently? :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Obviously it's not impossible, and if people KNOW they're color blind, then we know we see colors the same. think: red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. for a color blind perosn, some of the colors might not gradually fade into eachother. for everybody else, it does.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think what OP is trying to say is that perhaps you are both looking at the same "blue" piece of paper because, as you were growing up you were taught that that color was in fact "blue". However, to your eyes you see it as what I would call "red" because our eyes see the same color differently.There's really no way to prove it,but it's pretty cool to think about.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes, and i mean I just learned that from high school biology, the perception is like how people are Color blind, you could just point to something that you see as red.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...To prove it, I don't think someone would lie about that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, no. It's not about someone LYING about it. It's just that you would never even know YOURSELF if you saw a color differently. I've just been raised thinking the color I see as blue was called blue and it's the color of the sky, etc. But you could be seeing red, calling it blue, seeing the sky red, etc. But you would never know anything different. Does that make sense?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes!! I think about it all the time, & I've tried to explain it to my friends but they just look at me like I'm crazy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. All of those colors gradually sort of fade into eachother. If my red was your blue and my indigo was your yellow, you wouldn't see them fading into eachother.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, because it's bound to come up another time in your life time where you point to something blie to someone andthey say no it's red.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They wouldn't say it's red. For example someone who can't see the the color red and you told them that the tinted gray (or whatever color they see) color is red, when ever they see that color they'd call it red even if they see it as what gray looks like to you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I understand completely. 'Tis a "trippy" thought.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Did you get this from Dan Brown, the youtuber? (Not like he's the first person to talk about this but he's the one I hear talking about it the most.)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I understand what you mean. But, if my brown was your pink and vice versa, and I said "brown is darker than pink", you would say "no, pink is darker than brown", because we see them differently.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thats true, but maybe even what call light and you call dark are different.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What else could they be?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Switched the other way around

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well then we only have 2 different sets of colors, so it's not like most people are different.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We probably do see them differently due to the amount of cones in our eyes

by Anonymous 12 years ago

they vary in hue, but the color is the same.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I once herd that brown eyes see colors darker than what they really are and gray eyes see colors lighter than what they really are. I'm not sure if this is true, but it makes sense to me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10239783/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/everyones-eyes-are-wired-differently/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

and http://www.amirite.net/583301 read the first comment too

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Of course there are certain light frequencies that are seen in a rainbow, but all of our eyes can't be identical. You could point to the same blanket, and we would both agree that it was red, but what if what I was seeing was actually more of an orange color because of my eyes. What if I learned as a kid that that orange-like color was red becaue people pointed at a red apple, and that is what I saw with my unique eyes. We couldn't prove it because yes, everyone would say it is red, but we would have no way of knowing if what they saw as red was a different color than what we saw as red.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

speaking of the rainbow... if my red was your purple and your geen was my orange, then the colors of the rainbow wouldnt go gradually for everyone.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, if people see colors differently, what they see as a rainbow could be completely different, too. If my red is your red shifted by 2, then my whole rainbow might be shifted by 2 so that it DOES go gradually.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think about this almost every day... -.-

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've had this thought for the longest time. Wouldn't it be cool?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Can't you just compare two things that are said to be the same color?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dude, I've always wondered about this. It's like you read my mind, then stole my thoughts and used them to create this post. Freaky.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What if instead of the colors being switched around, they're completely different. Like if I saw what someone else did, I would have never seen any of the colors before and wouldn't know what to call them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I thought about this when I was 10 and me and my dad had a very long and interesting discussion about it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago