Color blind awareness! 3 wives surprise their husbands with EnChroma glasses Stockholm Sweden

This video is intended to raise awareness of color blindness. Many people don't even realize they are color blind. Many children can be ridiculed for it. Most normal color vision people have no idea what the world looks like to color blind people. Have a glimpse at how red-green color blind people experience the world, and hear from their families how it affects them, as three women surprise their severely color blind husbands with color blind glasses for Christmas.
If the side-by-side pictures look the same to you, you're probably color blind. There are different types of color blindess and this video focuses on red-green. Our husbands took the test at www.enchroma.com.
Filmed in Stortorget, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden.
Original song "I'll Stay" lyrics by Jenny Syquia Skarne

[@WallStreetPanda]

The guys were like Ok, yeah, cool, whatever... I want to imagine them, later on, closed in the bathroom crying while reading a comic book...

[@who798]

The comparisons were a great way of helping understand what it’s like. Well done

[@pinkiemitchell8296]

Could have kept the background singing too much

[@lexithomas9694]

You can see for yourself by using the flashlight on your phone.. Close one eye TIGHT and put the light up to it for 30 seconds or so than look at something red. Its completely different. Make sure you keep the other eye closed. Than go back and forth opening one eye at a time to see the difference.

[@mikiohirata9627]

Very well presented video and to me the reaction of these men are so very Swedish and quiet which is kind of expected and charming in their way.

[@YourRoyalMajesty.]

I completely agree. Very well put

[@racheldavis8070]

Thank for the comparisons! Now I can really see what it’s like.

[@tossitaround814]

Yes I had no idea it was like this!

[@michaelsoderstrom1682]

TANKE YOU ENCHROMA FOR my NEW VISION OF LIFE!

[@tossitaround814]

Thanks for watching!

[@rosliromasarms2111]

Subhanallah... The world so colourful...

[@StrawberryCopper]

The most anti-climactic reaction I've ever seen......

[@tossitaround814]

Thanks for your comment :) I hope the video raises awareness of what life is like for color blind people so that people with normal color vision can be compassionate about their challenges. These men are all severely color blind so it can take weeks for their brains to adjust. They will probably never know the beauty of purple but did see changes in red and green.

[@mikiohirata9627]

Let's just say it was very reserved. They are Swedish (or lives in) and they are not well known for open emotions.

[@catkatt2855]

No kidding.... are all Swedes that stoic?

[@tobiasgunnarsson1047]

@@catkatt2855 No, there are people in Sweden that has grown up in another culture that are much better att showing emotions. We can learn a lot from them 😅❤️ But it's interesting. In some way emotional or not having control of emotions is being weak. Swedes are very aware and trend sensitive. The commercials shows strong masculine men and the movies shows strong men. And then that becomes our role model. This is true in some, but not all ways. Interesting with cultural differences and how they occur.

[@staciesheppard2048]

I'll play devil's advocate and say something sexist ... There was no way three men were going to break down and weep in front of each other and in the middle of the city.

[@artistocracy]

For over a week I have been studying videos like this because my husband is colourblind, and is an amateur artist....a naive artist perhaps because his colours are a bit off. He grew tiny Roma tomatoes this year and never knows when to pick them except that they might look darker. He does paintings of around our home and garden and last week finished one which had a small patch of tomato plants in the scene, and the garden painting is wonderful, but he told me he guessed what the red was like and put lots of red dots all over the plant! I've ordered his enchroma glasses and here in Australia it's summer so he will finally see our large garden and a sunset and all things in colour....even tomatoes. I've not seen what he sees before this....all those dead colours. It makes me feel so sad, it breaks my heart. I will film him maybe in a week..I can't wait! Thank you for your heartfelt and poignant story of your husband's experiences and yours with them.

[@giggleherz]

So did you make a video?

[@soccergirl7134]

I learned a lot about being color blind that I never knew. These videos usually just show the reaction of people but this one shows how the colorblind people see stuff so that’s cool. Plus glad I’m not colorblind!

[@ruthpearsall2618]

I learned just as much about being a Swedish man!!

[@otallono]

It's not like there's a way to know what another person sees. These are just images edited in Photoshop. We all technically sees somewhat different from person to person. Just not as drastic.

[@Arthurwan]

I agree! I did the same too

[@chellesama8256]

I love the comparison pictures! There is a beauty in how they see the world, but to see it all is amazing.

[@fsv8826]

A very emotional moment in a swedish couple: swedish wife: my love, i have a surprise. I am pregnant. swedish husband: really? how nice... swedish wife: yes,... we are going to have our first kid ... swedish husband: yeapp! swedish wife: are you happy? swedish husband: yes, i am. .. but lets heat the dinner, i am starving.

[@yoursweetesttaboo8712]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sarco64]

What it's really like to be colorblind: 1) You have an anxiety attack when you approach a traffic light, hoping that you will be able to distinguish among the slight color differences. 2) Similarly, you're driving down a street and you're surprised when one of the street lights suddenly turns yellow (or is it red?). 3) You look at the map on the TV weather report and try to figure out which type of warning your location is in, because the weatherman is claiming that there are multiple colors on the map. 4) You look at a diagram which shows where to connect each of the different colored wires, but all of your wires are one of only two colors. 5) Etc.

[@alvashoemaker8536]

Oh, GEE…If I win the Lottery, I’ll BUY MANY Enchroma glasses & distribute them so color blind people can experience the true world…. 👍🏼👣🩴

[@jamesmcseattle]

I'm hoping that in private these men showed more appreciation.

[@autumnequinox7777]

Wow

[@bevtooth]

I was expecting more of a response from them all

[@Straaker]

What an uplifting video, thank you!

[@dasun13]

So welly produced and thought out.. such a gooooooooood job with this.. Simply amazing and I've seen hundreds of these videos.. Love from DC

[@latashastrahan4297]

Cool video. A bit of a "ok, now what?" feel with their reactions....but I'm hearing it's because they're Swedish (I think). Do one with a Texan, a Bostonian and a dude from Detroit. That! Will be an awesome "watch this" video.😄

[@sbranson23]

As a colour blind person, the comparisons are interesting. At first I thought them useless as they were obviously different but by midway through the video, almost all of them basically looked the same. Sometimes I could see that the red had been muted like in the dog and balloons photo but the paintings and the cityscapes basically all look the same to me... hmm... My kids make fun of me when I screw up... and we all have a good laugh but it would be nice to see what the rest of you all see.

[@nk361]

Have you gotten a pair yet?

[@fermageehamiltonthompson1402]

And then there are those of us who are super color seers, Tetrachromats. We can see almost 10 million more colors or shades of colors than the average person. Only women are known to do this.

[@parallaxperth8688]

Very cool, but also funny whenever the comparison pictures came up, they looked identical to me! I should get a pair of these glasses!

[@jenniferlong808]

That was about as exciting as a cardboard box.

[@kaarlimakela3413]

Nice to have buddies to experience it with you. I think I've seen that plaza in a flash-mob video.

[@martidee3305]

I’m sure they got emotional in private at home in a locked room on their own. Good grief those dark winters months are problematic.

[@grytlappar]

LOL

[@cornishmaid5073]

Lovely video. I wish, though, that more time was given to their reactions, which are the really emotional part of watching. X

[@rridderbusch518]

Great wives!

[@tossitaround814]

:) Thanks! :)

[@bear693]

Great job guys and thanks for the comparisons but whatever you do never ever sit me next to these three guys at a party! 😂😂😂

[@Vermilionbaits_tackle]

wow this was the best "seeing color reaction" video ive seen yet! thanks for putting the effort in trying to show what he sees too, its so hard to imagine what color blind people see

[@community1949]

All 3 of those men are holding their emotions back and that is what is wrong with the male culture.

[@wswillett]

The guys were less than excited....like yeah, whatever

[@patlim9953]

I am so happy for the 3 guys, and also for their loved ones as they can all enjoy the wonders of our colorful world together!

[@bethshadid2087]

I've seen so many of these videos and the colorblind trying to explain how they see...so to see your examples put it in another category and helps ppl see what they actually see so thank you for the video 🕊️💗 from Georgia USA

[@williamwebb7917]

Interesting video as many other color blind videos are. However the most impressive thing to me is how the Swedes have mastered the English language, better than many Americans.

[@a17des]

Did you notice much difference between the indoor and outdoor glasses, were the outdoor ones more vibrant with colours?

[@sandramoore8903]

Excellent video. You really can't appreciate what they are living with, unless you can see it for yourself.

[@lindahendricks1868]

The song was beautiful. Hope they enjoy colors like we do.

[@orjanblomster]

Var köpte ni glasögonen någonstans? Jag är intresserad av ett par.

[@clojjan]

Love this! :D

[@tossitaround814]

Thank you! :)

[@clarekuehn4372]

Wonderful!!!

[@tossitaround814]

Thank you! :)

[@musiccancount5135]

Great awareness video! I had no idea color blindess was like this!

[@texanpistol]

A MOMENT IN TIME----PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@someoneelse6934]

Stoic Swedes! Nice video to raise awareness. Good looking families too!

[@shotgunbettygaming]

🤣Stoic Swedes. Nothing can shake a Viking!😂

[@martinnaylor]

I couldn't see any difference between the two photo comparisons because I have red green colour blindness. ☹️

[@properdukes9091]

I got more emotional than those guys.. lol.. I feel like a wimp now.. thank you guys very much

[@cnote459]

“What are these gray balloons?”😢😢😢 they were being for real ❤ God bless everyone

[@moishglukovsky]

I'm always impressed by these people speaking flawless idiomatic English. It's astonishing!

[@terry970]

With the comparison photos, they look the same to me! I wish I could see normal colors!!!

[@sittingindetroit9204]

Do they work at night when it is darker out?

[@jotucker700]

I think the guys might have had more of a reaction, if they had received them in the context that they had needed to see color more. Like the guy seeing tomatoes, other guy cooking a stake & the guy on his boat seeing the bouy colored lights & the ocean water. Loved the pic comparisons & the stats on colorblindness!

[@gloriagehring8676]

Happy New Year in Color's

[@tossitaround814]

Happy New Year! :)

[@sudsee]

Oh they didn’t cry. They are so calm

[@Cjv123]

To see the world with 90% more color has got to be like re-discovering 90% of the world one thought they already knew.

[@Serai3]

Now make something like this for monoscopics - people like me who cannot see in three dimensions. To us, the entire world is flat, like looking at a screen where a movie is projected. Nothing is solid. Make us something that will bring the world to life.

[@-Cece]

I love these people!

[@thechauch2879]

what about tritan type it is bleu and yellow trouble

[@cspringer333]

What a good looking group of people!

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

Every time I put on my sunglasses and I can see reds become more rich & vibrant I think about how lucky I am to be able to see colour at all. Bizarrely I’ve never known or taught anyone with colourblindness, I’ll re phrase that to no one who knew they were. 1 in 200 Is a lot!

[@arunmuktan6988]

Hello, my name is Arun, I am from Nepal, I am also color blind because of this color blindness, now I have lost many good jobs.

[@meemahmcdoogle]

We need glasses to take away color, so we can be so much more appreciative for our color vision. I love these stories of love❤

[@latashastrahan4297]

Can't we just close our eyes? 😄

[@bazookabums]

53 people need to check themselves...really lacking compassion! Love these happy moments in a very sad and strange wOrld!

[@tossitaround814]

Thank you for your kind comment! I hope the video raises awareness and absolutely compassion :)

[@tfkoincognito]

i've never seen a video without dislikes, its odd. Even when its a most wonderfull thing.

[@davidbaughman6323]

I expected a little more excitement from the guys, didn`t seem all that impressed.

[@wanderleycamy1247]

Muito bom. Interessante como os europeus não expressam suas emoções, parecem feitos de pedra!!

[@marilynumali530]

Thank you for this video....Im aware now what color blind is....

[@johnnysparkleface3096]

Now we know why the Grinch hated Christmas! All he needed was Enchroma glasses!

[@Krzeszny95]

This should be possible using a computer program that would change the colors on the screen

[@mattymatt2323]

They should make glasses for people who can see color that makes the see the world as a colourblind person

[@baldbearded9601]

I wasn't aware of how it also affected the perception of distances! Thank you for sharing this!

[@canislupus3655]

Sophia roasting Michael for not being able to tell rare from well done is probably a sign of a good marriage! She loves her husband enough to get a light jab at him and not have it come across as vindictive.

[@angelarivard8326]

I really wish I could get these for my son! His dad was color blind so he didn’t have a chance. He wanted to be a pilot.

[@roger0929]

If your son is colorblind, he got it from you not his father.

[@angelarivard8326]

@@roger0929 I don’t know why you would think that. His father is red green color blind, I can see every color. I actually never met anyone who was color blind before his father.

[@emilyjones1211]

I am also colourblind, my dad is colourblind but my mum isn't, however, she had to of had a particular gene apparently for me to have been colourblind. If my dad wasn't colourblind though then I wouldn't have been. Hope this makes sense? 😀

[@giggleherz]

WW2 Colour deficient people were used as spotters from planes because they can find edges easier then normal vision. From birth the eyes are lacking in the red green spectrum so the brain washes everything together. When you are not distracted by colour you learn to spot edges in a flat surface, just like the mushrooms. Then they mentioned how the distances changed, (ie depth perception). Being suddenly able to see colours they realize things are not as flat as they thought. Its quite fascinating to see because so many have the very same reaction. You will notice they dont use the word shades because they dont see much but grey or brown. The real proof that they worked is when they say "do you guys see this all the time" or "is this what you guys can see?") Ten percent of males are colour deficient but only one in two hundred females will have it. The females have a backup set of genes to fill in for any damaged or missing DNA and is also the reason why so many males like my son have Autism. Any videos of women trying these glasses is worth gold, they usually turn to mush get weak in the knees and cry like babies.

[@timbaxley383]

great video, music and colors!

[@elgauchopistola2276]

So much preparing the surprise and none of the three showed any emotion hahaha

[@amirgedon]

The underrated invention..

[@S.L.S-407]

These guys didn't seem to be particularly impressed at all by their news glasses.

[@ianbrown3598]

They don't seem very excited ! Long video waiting for a great reaction but almost nothing happened.

[@SilverFlame819]

Every time I watch videos where people are like, "That building is so red!" I just think -- how would you know that building was red without asking someone, if you've never seen red before?? Bizarre.

[@emilyjones1211]

I am colourblind of red & green but I can see red, I think it depends on the tones & shades of a particular colour. For example, if I had lots of red colouring pencils in different shades and someone put a brown in with them I probably wouldn't be able to tell but again depending on the type of shade/tone. So I could still see that the building in this video was red but it may look duller than to someone who isn't colourblind. Hope that makes sense 😀

[@kellycoleman715]

They weren’t as emotional as other people I have seen in videos.

[@ahatjallabaisen8413]

Lykke til i Sverige 😎👍

[@ajporoznik3217]

Pretty amazing.

[@WeirdRdr2TV]

🤔😅 Which huuuuge Happyness...they ruined the whole Clip, with their cold Reactions...😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣

[@actross89]

Why are they speak Eanglish so good... I know Nordic people's speak 4-5 languages..but they speak good much better then in Finland

[@michelefisher5171]

Red and green are opposite colours. Ig makes sense that people can’t see both in a natural way

[@TheMakyac]

Typically Swedish ppl reaction

[@TheMostPwettyiestPwincess]

Dang it, the ninjas are slicing onions again.

[@slimpickens7822]

This video is more about the wives than the husbands.

[@siopu6206]

I need colour blind glasses

[@stevegray1308]

The video is not to raise awareness, it's an advertisement, be honest.

[@MattSellsStuff]

The normal pictures and color blind pictures are identical in color to me

[@jasikagrover3368]

So maybe u r colour blind too

[@lourdesfarias598]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@maverickrhodes9892]

Yeah, I was expecting a bigger reaction, and, it was just as full as their view of the world they are used to..

[@jamesoliver6625]

Why do people always ask the same ill considered questions. If you've only lived in the Sahara, it's silly to ask if you've ever missed snow. Then, when you change someone's objective reality, to ask them "what do you see" when they need to literally stop and spend the next twenty minutes processing and assimilating a significant paradigm change, is at best shortsighted.

[@vduval52]

Very underwhelming reactions.

[@marie-andreebourgeois3335]

vicki duval 100% 😂

[@user-zm9yc2kb8x]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@solarnaut]

7:18 " I haven't tried . . . I haven't been picking mushrooms . " also, 5:49 without? "I have no idea, it's my only life" We humans have 100+ Super Powers. I've heard of how people with some "lack" tend to compensate with other strengths, but I'd never heard of the mushroom super power before. Interesting ! Do you imagine that snakes pity humans since we can't see thermally ? B-)

[@tampazeke4587]

This was my very favorite of all the Enchroma videos right up until the big reveal. Kind of anti-climactic. LOL

[@aruns794]

Here I am watching this reactions and can't find any differences between the normal and colorblind comparison pics... Because I am colorblind 😢

[@tfkoincognito]

[@speakitintoexistenceke2736]

Some cool ass dude’s 🎯

[@zzxxenith]

These guys are as dry as cork lol

[@mormacfey]

So they see the world like dogs do? Interesting. Do they make these glasses for dogs?

[@Tito-sq1kb]

They put the glasses on at 7:35

[@rridderbusch518]

It was actually *quite interesting* from the beginning to 7,35!

[@virginiosavani]

Hanno avuto una reazione molto....Svedese.

[@gloriagehring8676]

I just can't see very well 😕