color..important question

I was just curios. When people see things in color it is what they picture it to be in their mind. Is my purple different to the purple you see? could your purple be my red or blue? This may sound confusing. Also color blind people may see different shades of grays. Are they seeing the real world without our colorful minds?

Yes, it’s the same, we talked about this extensively a few times if you want to search. There are special books people look at that assure us we see the same thing.

Recent research suggests that there is a gender component to our perception of color. Guys see things cooler than girls, which explains the “that’s brick” “no, that’s pumpkin” fights my wife and I have.

Color is a word. So is brown. If someone tells you that the color I see as purple is brown, then it’s purple and brown. Color is in the eye of the beholder. I think that means I’m bascially agreeing with everyone on this one.
Also, in a technical sense, color is determinded by the length of a given wave of light, so we would all see it the same.

Mr.Spock said a diffrence that makes no difference, makes no difference.

NOTE: I’m Canadian.

Colour blind people do not see things in shades of grays. Colour blindness occurs when one of the types of cones in our retina fails to work properly. Our cones come in three types: red, green and blue. The most common colour blindness happens when either the red or green cones don’t work properly, or at all. The result is that any colours that invlove red or green may be misinterpreted by someone that is colour blind. They will see more of whatever colour is left after you take out the colour that they have trouble seeing. For instance, yellow might appear greener than it should to a person that was red deficient (Red + Green = Yellow in the additive colour theory).

then why do you spell it gray?

Huh?

Oh, that.

That was merely…a mistake.

Rats.

i see.

welcome, kemijo.