What Color is the Dress?
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Thank you- that's what I've been seeing and thought I was odd Spidey out!
If you are, then you have company.
I wonder how many other things we all see differently?
I still see gold/white. Sometimes a blue hue...
I still see gold/white. Sometimes a blue hue...
Until now I've always preferred to see under the dress.........
White and gold. Sometimes light blue and black...
Early it seemed white...minutes later a definite blue....and now it appears as a lavender blue, lighter blue than earlier this morning.
This is fascinating. I studied this extensively in psychology and physiology.
There are 3 main replies to this: white and gold, light blue/purple and brown/brownish gold or blue and black.
So let me give you a piece of info that will shed some real light on this. I have an eye disorder called keratoconus. I wear a hybrid silicon hydrogel lens in my left eye and a rigid scleral lens in the right eye. This is because my corneas are misshapen causing light to scatter when it enters my eye. Due to this, bright lights are blinding to me and I prefer darker rooms and very muted lighting when I have no lenses in. With them in, I prefer brighter lighting and outdoors. Due to this, for many years when I did not wear lenses due to a series of factors, I became much more of a night owl, though I was already kinda. Since starting to wear lenses again, I've shifted back to an earlier waking schedule, but still stay up a little late, but not "night owl" hours.
My wife is a day child. She likes bright colors and lights and sunshine and is usually out by 9PM if she sits still for a few minutes. She has excellent vision and has never had any issue with her sight.
So what did we see? When I first looked, I had yet to put my contacts in. I saw a royal to medium blue and black dress. We were looking at the same exact thing. My wife saw a gold and white dress. Now I didn't know anything about this and hadn't seen it. So my wife had said come here and tell me what color this is. I didn't know there was a whole "thing" about it. I just answered black and blue and she was astounded. "Not gold and white?" she asked. Nope, blue and black.
So about an hour later I put in my contacts and looked at the picture again. This time I see very light purple and brownish gold. Same picture, very different colors. I took my lenses out. Blue and black.
If you know how and why rorschach tests work and what they determine, you know this is a related concept. This has to do with how your brain constructs vision. The most primitive and basic form of vision is shades of grey and shadows. Adding the color and texture information comes after your brain makes the shadow and shades of grey skeleton of whatever you're looking at. The colors are added on top. This of course happens in nano seconds, faster than thought, so it's imperceptible to you. But the tests are black and white so that you construct only primary reactions to what the shape is to you. Which removes the higher processing needed to color and texture the pictures. The colors and higher visionary functions are tied to memories, emotions and cognitive bias they create. As such, if the pictures were colored, you'd consider them more and the answers would be more complex than a dog, a biker, a fly and other such rorschach responses. Responses to detailed color pictures often include a basic premise such as "she looks sad", but that is WAY more complex than seeing the shape of something you recognize. Understanding sadness requires applying it to understand that emotion, how it externalizes and to some degree a further set of things that could mean.
Another scientific area where this lands is in evolutionary process that have been documented in the development of sight by animals over the history of earth. It starts with basic crude vision and evolves to complex color and textured 3-D vision such as we have. Think of eagles. They are known for their incredible vision. They see in color similar to the range we do, but they have an extra point of focus in their eyes that only processes shades of grey and basic vision to an unbelievably sharp level. Their color vision also operates as ours does and constructs the shade skeleton and then paints the colors on top, bu they essentially have double the possible input for basic shapes and movement, which exponentially boosts their distance vision and sighting the slightest change sin shading or movement from up to miles away.
In humans, this basic premise applies with this: if you're a early riser and day person, then you'll probably see white and gold. If you're a night owl, you'll probably see blue and black. If you're a bit of both, you'll see light blue/purple and brownish gold. To some degree also an optimist will see white and gold, a pessimist will see blue and black and a centered person will see purple and brown. We tested this with our kids too. My 17 year old daughter is a night owl and bit of pessimist. She saw blue and black. My 14 year old son is a early riser day person who is usually pretty optimistic. He saw white and gold.
Fascinating topic.
There are 3 main replies to this: white and gold, light blue/purple and brown/brownish gold or blue and black.
So let me give you a piece of info that will shed some real light on this. I have an eye disorder called keratoconus. I wear a hybrid silicon hydrogel lens in my left eye and a rigid scleral lens in the right eye. This is because my corneas are misshapen causing light to scatter when it enters my eye. Due to this, bright lights are blinding to me and I prefer darker rooms and very muted lighting when I have no lenses in. With them in, I prefer brighter lighting and outdoors. Due to this, for many years when I did not wear lenses due to a series of factors, I became much more of a night owl, though I was already kinda. Since starting to wear lenses again, I've shifted back to an earlier waking schedule, but still stay up a little late, but not "night owl" hours.
My wife is a day child. She likes bright colors and lights and sunshine and is usually out by 9PM if she sits still for a few minutes. She has excellent vision and has never had any issue with her sight.
So what did we see? When I first looked, I had yet to put my contacts in. I saw a royal to medium blue and black dress. We were looking at the same exact thing. My wife saw a gold and white dress. Now I didn't know anything about this and hadn't seen it. So my wife had said come here and tell me what color this is. I didn't know there was a whole "thing" about it. I just answered black and blue and she was astounded. "Not gold and white?" she asked. Nope, blue and black.
So about an hour later I put in my contacts and looked at the picture again. This time I see very light purple and brownish gold. Same picture, very different colors. I took my lenses out. Blue and black.
If you know how and why rorschach tests work and what they determine, you know this is a related concept. This has to do with how your brain constructs vision. The most primitive and basic form of vision is shades of grey and shadows. Adding the color and texture information comes after your brain makes the shadow and shades of grey skeleton of whatever you're looking at. The colors are added on top. This of course happens in nano seconds, faster than thought, so it's imperceptible to you. But the tests are black and white so that you construct only primary reactions to what the shape is to you. Which removes the higher processing needed to color and texture the pictures. The colors and higher visionary functions are tied to memories, emotions and cognitive bias they create. As such, if the pictures were colored, you'd consider them more and the answers would be more complex than a dog, a biker, a fly and other such rorschach responses. Responses to detailed color pictures often include a basic premise such as "she looks sad", but that is WAY more complex than seeing the shape of something you recognize. Understanding sadness requires applying it to understand that emotion, how it externalizes and to some degree a further set of things that could mean.
Another scientific area where this lands is in evolutionary process that have been documented in the development of sight by animals over the history of earth. It starts with basic crude vision and evolves to complex color and textured 3-D vision such as we have. Think of eagles. They are known for their incredible vision. They see in color similar to the range we do, but they have an extra point of focus in their eyes that only processes shades of grey and basic vision to an unbelievably sharp level. Their color vision also operates as ours does and constructs the shade skeleton and then paints the colors on top, bu they essentially have double the possible input for basic shapes and movement, which exponentially boosts their distance vision and sighting the slightest change sin shading or movement from up to miles away.
In humans, this basic premise applies with this: if you're a early riser and day person, then you'll probably see white and gold. If you're a night owl, you'll probably see blue and black. If you're a bit of both, you'll see light blue/purple and brownish gold. To some degree also an optimist will see white and gold, a pessimist will see blue and black and a centered person will see purple and brown. We tested this with our kids too. My 17 year old daughter is a night owl and bit of pessimist. She saw blue and black. My 14 year old son is a early riser day person who is usually pretty optimistic. He saw white and gold.
Fascinating topic.
I see white and gold and when I see anything other than that, it looks like shading of the same colors. Like one picture she is the sunlight; the next she is standing in the shade.
The mind blower of all this... the dress is actually blue and black. It's the back light contrast in the photo at question that creates the reaction from your brain. Don't believe me? Here is the dress in another picture.
I still see white and gold, but really all this?
It's a butt ugly dress anyway. This time I saw the blue/black. 
I see a blue pair of pants, a white shirt and a black tie.
What is? Use the Reply button, n_n. I dunno whether that's Frank or not.
