Do I See Colors the Same Way You Do?

[@Strawburry643725]

OH MY GOODNESS. THIS IS WHAT I ASKED MY BIOLOGY TEACHER AND SHE THOUGHT I WAS INSANE

[@liron_feldman]

+Strawburry643725 Poeple are stupid :p

[@swift7493]

+KSI ' ksi you're fake lol

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

Same :P I swear some teachers are so stupid.

[@piffleTV]

Hi +Strawburry643725. For an animated scientific explanation, check out the video on my channel.

[@kwya]

+Darth Jar Jar i know right

[@Rivergirl2878]

I always try to bring up this argument but I never finish because no one wants to ever have a deep thought provoking conversation.

[@liron_feldman]

+RiverGirl I know that feeling :(

[@evzu5770]

Happens all the time for me :/

[@ImworriedImgettingspyedon]

You're not the only one man :(

[@sp1t666]

+RiverGirl same!!

[@yvesgomes]

There is a book called Consciousness Explained. It treats this stuff.

[@sjcb]

Actually.... that apple looks kinda orange.

[@lollipopfop9965]

To me too.

[@miguelangelv7]

same

[@JonAdamich]

That's how they hook ya.

[@maryamabdi7241]

منم نارنجی می بینمش :)

[@mab3667]

Yeah its kinda orange

[@vivalavenusfromtiktok]

what if that means we all have the same favorite color? mine is blue, by the way, but what if someone whose favorite color is green, is seeing the same color I do when I look at something blue, so we actually have the same favorite color? what if the whole world actually has all the same favorite color?!

[@GabrielAlbriktsen]

So you think some people see blue forrests, apples etc. no that cant be true

[@camdenhughett3726]

Gabriel Albriktsen Then clearly you don't get the concept of what is being said here.

[@GabrielAlbriktsen]

Probbobly not, I think i missunderstood, can you explain Camden Hughett

[@camdenhughett3726]

Gabriel Albriktsen You see the thing is, everyone sees color obviously. But, no one knows if everyone sees colors the same way. Cause some people have color blindness and others don't. So when your taught colors in school they we tell you what the name of each color is, but what blue looks like to them, my be red to you. Or you could mix up colors like blue, gold, white, black. But no one would be able to know cause it's impossible for scientists to find out.

[@oatmeal710]

Or you could not have a favorite color, because it's just a fucking color

[@cianmattern1896]

what if you got an eye transplant of someoneelses eyes

[@SilentZanillya]

+Cian Mattern THIS is an intresting question... As because it are the cones in our eyes that consume the color and our brain processes this, right? What if your brain is used to receiving something else when looking at the same things but with a different amount of cones for each color?

[@jfan3689]

I know that people who got glass eyes have never said anything like this.

[@piffleTV]

+Jane Leenders Ah! Because your brain is 'plastic' (not literally), it can re-wire to adapt to the new input. Check out the animated answer to color perception on my channel, which should answer your question.

[@SilentZanillya]

piffle I get it now, thank you! ^^

[@7257Kevin]

+Cian Mattern if its your brother you get your eternal mangekyo sharingan

[@4Tounces2Freedom]

I feel like I've had this entire conversation in my head before... and I reached the same conclusion :(

[@MrMaxer13]

I do not believe that someone else's green is my blue. It just can't fit in my thoughts. However, if, and only if, something is diferent in our vision, I believe it is the tone of colors and not the color itself.

[@coralaisly]

So... if we all perceive color differently, and how I see red can be how you see blue... what if we all have the same favorite color, but we're pulling that color from different wavelengths on the color spectrum? And it's officially time for bed. I'm having high thoughts and I'm not only sober, but clean. Good night internet.

[@amaadmartin6118]

I've also thought of this but why do people change their favorite color if this is true

[@udderworldly1561]

Dude I've thought about this so much. Like this theory would prove that we're all attracted to the same colors, but we just don't know it. That makes sense to me.

[@Animeman36]

If blue calms people down and orange energizes people, then your decorum is sending some very mixed signals.

[@crypticsou1]

Rex Umbra that's what I said

[@cristianbazurto7028]

But if we all preserve those colors as the same as you do then we wouldn’t be able to tell the different

[@amihartz]

I could notice the difference in the color, and I'm nowhere near close to an artist, nor do I deal with color.

[@ZpeedTube]

Mee too, and I'm also colorblind!

[@Glitchlover87]

Same here!

[@donniehw]

im an artist and i thougt the square two to the right was darker than all the others... guess not xD

[@alexalvarez7904]

I'm an artist I can see at least three slightly different shades of green in there including the one they pointed out.

[@ennatorres297]

We can always blame it on the brightness of our screens.

[@husseinhammoud6403]

i think that since we all have the same cone cells in our retina and they perceive the colors depending on the wave length that the object is reflecting to our eyes (so the wavelength is the same) means that we all see green, blue or any other color, but the number of each cone cell differs with each person, so we see different shades of the same color

[@Justajemstone]

this is what I want to think the answer is lol

[@jovanibatuyong3639]

I think colors are the same for everyone especially since blending colors makes similar colors. For example when you blend red with blue, you get purple which is similar to both red and blue. In addition the color wheel shows us how each color is related to each other. If colors were different for everyone, then in theory the color wheel would also be wrong right? According to the color wheel complementary colors look pleasing next to each other. So if colors were different for everyone, then how come complementary colors specifically, look good together? If colors were different for everyone, I would assume that colors on the color wheel would stay the same, but just spun around, if that makes any sense. So red and green to me would look like purple and yellow to someone else. The colors would still be complementary colors and have the same relationships with other colors, they’re just flipped around. Or perhaps red and green would switch to green to red. But this of course is absolutely wrong. As we know, the rainbow starts off with a primary color, ends with a secondary color, and is in the order of the color wheel. So if the complimentary colors switched around, this would mean that the rainbow would appear to start with a secondary color, but this is impossible, because when mixing primary colors, we get a secondary color, but when mixing secondary colors, we get a tertiary color or something like that, if I remember correctly. So if colors were different for everyone, then the primary colors would switch around, because they make up everything. But what do I know? I’m just a colorblind 16 year old.

[@nikosn0049]

Dude you're absolutely on point

[@ashketchup6443]

I agree. I think it's similar to how some birds, insects, and fish just know where to go when they breed, migrate, or hibernate, without ever doing it before. I think we're all wired to see colour the same way (like we're all wired to do other things the same way), and there's likely only a small variation between everyone due to a difference of types of cones and the placement of them in the eye. For example, even with my eyes, I noticed one eye sees colours slightly darker than the other eye.

[@GuitarMannnnnn]

Okay, if we all perceived colors entirely uniquely, there would never be any way to know because we're all taught which colors are which by being told which colors to call by which names. Even if I saw your green when I looked at blue, we would both call it blue because our parents told us that objects of that color are blue regardless of our perception. The really interesting thing is, this could be true of all senses! Just imagine how many different and unique ways people could be experiencing life without even realizing the differences because they're all lost in our collective symbolic representation of what we think is objective reality! This is often regarded as "The Problem of Qualia".

[@thanedavid1010]

I think we would know if we exchanged eyes. :D

[@kkkansuuu]

Thane David more likely brains :D

[@FUtube-h2y]

Not the parent card

[@elizabethsmith5520]

I saw the square because it was slightly lighter. But I'm not and artist lol.

[@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196]

Elizabeth Smith me too

[@lizanders6194]

Same

[@GoldenEeegz]

Same but my mum was a graphic designer

[@rileyfrenchfri2019]

Me to I was like HOW DID I KNOW

[@LittleLexor]

+Elizabeth Smith Well i saw 3 on the left bottom dark green instead of Light green

[@jimcanterak7349]

So basically, we see the same colors. Just different shades and variations.

[@catz206]

If you do not take a philosophically unstable view of reality then yes. ;)

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Pretty much. To a varying degree, we all have the same equipment for receiving and interpreting colours, so we must perceive them in the same way within a margin of variance.

[@kaylynhandley1920]

I think we all see different colors but in the same hues and variations. That means a sunset might be green to you but is still just as bright as it is for me so it wakes us both up. at least that's just what makes sense to me

[@bluishsquishy]

I'm probably the only person who thinks the dress is blue and gold

[@xNerdyPandas]

I saw light blue and gold too haha

[@bluishsquishy]

虎太郎愛 Yeah but I saw dark blue and gold lol

[@camdenhughett3726]

youaremysquishy Me too! OMAGOSH!!! Lol. My friend thought I was crazy. XD

[@0PowerSlavicTech]

youaremysquishy U're not alone! Light blue and gold :D

[@blackwabbit4367]

youaremysquishy I'm the only one in the universe who sees Violet and Light brown???

[@ToaForrestFire888]

i say that its all the same, heres why if we do see slight variation color patterns may not work. example: red orange yellow is a transition but if you saw what was to me lets say, brown teal maroon, you wouldn't get a smooth transition

[@Asiankid11537]

I know this comment is from 5 years ago but this is my thoughts exactly. The smooth transition and pattern of say blue-purple for everyone cannot be percieved if I saw my purple as purple while someone saw their purple as red

[@sheepish0]

holy rap I got the green square thing right wasn't expecting to

[@sheepish0]

i'm a game designer

[@dakotawaters3259]

I got it right, I'm still in school... My eyes are a special kind of eye.

[@geonoy2909]

i'm a waiter lol

[@archiec966]

Same here!

[@sheepish0]

wow what is the internet coming to that there wasn't a single grammar nazi to comment

[@VOIDSenseMusic]

I think that there are small differences in the *shade* of the color for every person, but not the color itself. For example, if an object looks orange to me, someone else will also percieve it as orange, but it could be a slightly lighter or darker shade of orange. Only slightly.

[@Simo-uh3yb]

My colors are the best , I swear I hope you guys can see them , especially Red and Blue .

[@Sum0fNothing]

I saw the square! I'm proud of myself now

[@cherryvinolivia]

me too!

[@Sum0fNothing]

Hmm, harsh

[@miraansley7875]

I can't because I have Shade blindness. Also I see some browns as greys... If I ever need a certain color I have to take a friend along or take a picture and ask an employee.

[@sphereyahya]

Yeah lol

[@Guineagirl59210]

I thought that the green square was off before he even said that one was off!

[@scorpiomssm]

Me too. And I'm probably one of the least artistic people ever. It made me feel proud ^_^

[@stefnirk]

And me, and i´m colorblind. It has a different shade on it.

[@MidnightClip]

They all look kinda different to me. I don't know what happening but they all look like different shades.

[@bomis181094]

Never been an artist or a designer but still got which square was slightly different. :D I have supervision! Not really :D

[@timphelps3878]

I worked in a paint store where we matched color by eye no machine/computer. After working there for about 3 years the manager and I (who were the most accurate color "matchers") came to realize that I could match the red spectrum better than green and my manager could match green spectrum better than red. So we knew there is a difference between our eyes but our sense of color was extremely accurate. To where most people could not see our margin of error by noticing how far off our difficult colors were. And I've been an artist for 20+ years. You can train your eyes to see color more accurately with a wider range than a person who doesn't work with color, and no people do not see things like your red is my green short of an extreme color blindness. If that were the case no one would match any color by eye or compare it to a computer color match. We had a color blind worker at that paint store (i know i can't believe it either) and eventually he was able to see more color or see color more accurately. He always had a range in the brown/tan/taupe he couldn't see but we taught him how to work around it because we worked with color charts and they are logically set up.

[@KillernuckTokusatsu]

I can tell the green is different,but I'm not an architect or an artist,rather,I am a... Minecraft Builder.

[@CrescentWrench760]

I'm an artist and I thought about it for a while, and I thought I made my decision, but then I focused my eyes on a different square, only to realize that whichever one you look at is darker. I looked around at all of them, but the correct one didn't seem to turn darker. I thought it was probably that one, and I unpaused the video and I was like YUSS!!!!

[@Deathbydietcola]

I saw it straight away, I'm also an artist.

[@margaretmacaluso6292]

Same

[@kevinkollman4907]

I think my eyes are broken :( I see about four shades of green in the picture. Seems to vary depending on whether I'm looking at the center or different sides of the circle of squares too. Strange...

[@TheBronyHipsters]

Get an eye exam

[@kevinkollman4907]

The Brony Hipsters I'll ask my optometrist at my next visit since I wear glasses n' such. I looked at it again and it still looks the same. I think that what's sort of tricking me is the edges of the squares even at 720p. Ones that have sort of blurry edges look lighter while ones with more solid edges look a little darker. Just a thought.

[@AustinPinheiro_uniquetexthere]

may just be the video, i saww variying intensity and when it was on the screen with him in the fore gournd i saw which one it was

[@kevinkollman4907]

Austin Pinheiro I see what you mean. Glad I wasn't the only one :)

[@skweaky333]

I felt the same way. I see different shades.

[@Reddust86]

that wrong square thing was kinda obvious

[@DRDSkidroW]

Guessed it the first time somehow

[@margaretmacaluso6292]

I noticed it right away. But I'm an artist..and I like interior design, sooo xD I kinda fit the description

[@Reddust86]

im a food scientist =/

[@DRDSkidroW]

I'm studying programming >.>

[@Taricus]

I'm colorblind and it looked very different to me LOL!

[@Glitchlover87]

1:55 I saw the color variation, and I'm not an artist. And for some reason red soothes me...

[@jasonp6231]

I found the green square also, they are different because... people have different favorite collars, now I am making a pretty wild guess, but for example, my favorite color is blue, maybe your green is my blue? And that is why you like green?

[@ashleymoore5441]

"Is my red blue for you or my green your green too?"

[@swflegendas6512]

could it be true we see different hues?

[@CorpseRenderGaming]

we more than likely see the same colors because overall people agree on what colors match when picking outfits and such.

[@zzzapi]

You so didn't get the point.

[@DKomnicide]

LOL

[@spiderfran4200]

THANK YOU!!! SOMEONE WHO *UNDERSTANDS*!!!

[@Mjeung]

One useful thing I learned that will truly help in the future, being a future teacher, is that my classroom should mostly, probably, consist of blue and orange tones. Keep them energized (hopefully about learning), but calm (enough for them to pay attention). Hopefully.

[@cassandralewis8389]

I have thought about this a lot! My opinion is we all see a color completely different but because all our life we have been told that color is red or blue we have been brainwashed into automatically saying the item is red or blue.

[@nataliebaldwin7368]

OMG I GOT THE RIGHT SQUARE! i even realised it was different before he said that one is different... my degree in fine arts isn't such a joke, now, is it mom!? still don't have a job... fuck life this isn't fair

[@adgefreeman6091]

me too

[@lucasglasseur2872]

It's funny, because when I as little, I use to think everyone saw the world differently based on the color of their eye. Like, everyone would see red, but if you had blue eyes, you would see red with a ting of blue over it, whereas brown eyed people would see red with a hue of brown. I don't know, it's just me, I know. I mostly thought this, because I have green eyes, and I feel like I see tints of green in everything.

[@HashlandXXX]

I too have green eyes. Well, hazel... However sometimes they turn brown for what ever reason... Point is, I too see a green tinge in black most all the time. Very interesting. Even if the color of the iris isn't the direct cause, it's definitely something that should be looked into.

[@lucasglasseur2872]

Thomas Sexton We're two peas in a pod then. I'm curious. Do you feel like you se brown, too?

[@katty24fallen]

This comment's gonna keep me up tonight because I have brown eyes and my bedroom is brown-themed.

[@lucasglasseur2872]

katty24fallen Have fun!

[@TracyGossett]

I'm sorry but that apple is not even close to red, that's a yellow apple, with an orangish tone and red stripes.

[@Tiger-nb5qn]

left upper corner square, it's juuust slightly lighter than the others. To be fair, it is a lot easier to tell when you have the colors touching each other. The white between them is disrupting. I do digital art and work with colors a lot, but that just makes me all the more aware of how colors "change" based on their environment. There are plenty of optical illusions out there that continue to baffle me with their "Square A is the same color as square B" when one of those squares looks several shades darker than the other. It's bewildering. Being an artist just makes you more prone to screaming "WHY" and throwing your tablet across the room when you get them started on thinking about colors and how they look and their purpose and how they compliment (or fight) each other. Knowing (or rather assuming) that some people have different perceptions of these colors while even excluding color blindness is not a fun one for us. It makes us wonder if our works of art we're proud of most truly convey what we wanted them to. How can we know for sure if the right emotion was captured if there is this "explanatory gap" that Vsauce touches on very nicely? The more I think about it, the more bewildering it is, and the more it hurts me to think about, like a paradox.

[@blackwabbit4367]

If we all see different colors, like my red could be blue to you, then I guess I'm really disappointed in life and I don't know what to do anymore.

[@woodland6406]

I got the square thing right nearly instantly after seeing the image, got it right. I'm only a hobbyist artist; but it's probably because I have close to perfect eye-sight. For now. xD

[@vgpboss]

I'm in no way an artist but I have a normal ability to differentiate shades. You don't need to have something as a hobby/career and/or have a decent eye-sight to notice that the square was lighter.

[@woodland6406]

vgpboss Yeah, it'd be a complete different story if it was pure white compared to #EEEEEE or something. x3

[@BluJuiice]

I'm like art as a hobby and saw the shares too...my fave colour is #11F0BF

[@woodland6406]

BluJuiice Mine's #1AB876 .

[@BluJuiice]

cool :D

[@RaoulWB]

I've immediatly noticed the different square XD

[@rileyfrenchfri2019]

OMG SAME and none of my relatives are designers my uncle is and artists but not profetional

[@RaoulWB]

Riley Frenchfri Maybe you pass a lot of time on Internet, or you do something related to colors on pc.

[@ace2292]

I saw the different square for 2 seconds and when I look at the other squares I couldn't see it anymore.

[@aNaughtyUnicorn]

I got the green box thing right and I'm terrible at art

[@DustyTheDog]

I'm not at artist and I noticed the different green square. I'm an engineering student, so attention to detail is fairly important. Perhaps that's why I noticed it?

[@margaretmacaluso6292]

Most likely. we tend to notice detail easier the more we force ourselves to. If you watch the same movie over and over again, and focus on the background, you'll probably notice more and more things every time you watch the same movie.

[@Schradermusic]

I saw 3 different green tones in that green square circle... :O Also, could you make a video about depth perception and stereoblindness?

[@dZaq]

+Schrader Could be the computer screen too.. Go back and watch that chart tilting your screen if your on a laptop, or look at it at a 45 degree angle on top.

[@ashliberry5495]

My paisley is your taupe. (Isn't paisley a pattern, not a color? I could be wrong, but I have been under the impression that paisley is a really awesome pattern that I like, and not one specific, unique color.)

[@lollipopfop9965]

Yes, that was the whole point of his joke; That taupe is a color, but paisley is not. Its tongue-in-cheek (which does not mean that his tongue is touching his cheek. It means he is saying something a bit silly, but clever, or trying to.) You are being too literal.

[@blushfaerie]

looks dark orange to me xD

[@WyldWolfDragon]

Same lol

[@ashleybreakey9434]

Yes if your referring to red :P I already forgot which color he said to talk about. :)

[@aubrey3952]

I thought it was macaroni yellow

[@RandomPotatoOfficialYoutube]

I'm a graphic designer so I got the green squares thing right immediately XD it pisses me off when I can't match colours perfectly, so that was easy for me.

[@themlgbox8869]

I saw it right away but I'm very bad at art and drawing.

[@Xeno455]

I'm not an artist, actually a musician, but I saw the green square immediately too because of a personal hatred I have for things that are slightly off. I don't mind if a shade is wayyy off or perfectly the same. But if it's only slightly off, it irritates me immensely.

[@themlgbox8869]

Brandon K. do you hate if like a key or pitch is off. sorry im very bad at musical terminology.

[@Xeno455]

TheMLGBoX Immensely. Well, if you're interested, key has to do with the tune of the entire piece. It basically establishes the rule for which pitches you will use throughout the music. Key technically can't be wrong, only the pitch, as you can transpose the key into other keys. For example, D-Major is a key of music, if you're interested in a good example of this "Canon in D" by Pachelbel is a really good song. It's also been transposed to "Canon in C". You can hear the differences but because the pitch is right, it doesn't sound off. In art, Key would be like painting the exact same painting with slightly different shades. Pitch is the individual note. It's the difference between A#(sharp), and A. In art, it would be like painting with Lime Green as opposed to chartreuse (when the key says to use chartreuse). Slightly different, and throws the entire piece off because of the way the notes work together.

[@themlgbox8869]

Brandon K. thanks for the knowledge. i will take that to mind. Are you looking to go profesional? because you seem like you know what you are talking about.

[@camdenhughett3726]

For those of you who are freaking out cause you could tell the deference in green squares and got it right, it's not a big deal. I have been an artist ever since I had the ability to hold a pencil, literally. But that doesn't technically mean that it's cause of my artistic skill. All this means is that some people, I being amongst those people, have a stronger since of color than others.

[@MuhasinV]

This is the same question I had from Childhood.

[@ShaynaMLP]

omfg im 11 and i got the green square RIGHT!

[@jaidenbelle3332]

same here

[@SebRivas]

Me too, i feel so good about myself! :3

[@mastermo141]

An 11 year old got it right and i didn't. *SIGH* I guess my dad was right.

[@ShaynaMLP]

mastermo141 XD

[@mastermo141]

***** Back in my day, you kids would be playing with a stick...........a joy stick.

[@scarfycoolcat]

i am and artist and i see more red in one eye and more blue in the other. But they both look general the same. maybe different by a couple degrees. so in a way we do see things differently. but allot of us see red to be red and green to be green. unless your color blind.

[@gunesonur]

*you're

[@theexoticshard3283]

Onur Güneş really?

[@IzvezenMotiv]

me too ! also, I have a different depth perception in eyes .

[@eirin099]

Tought it was because my right eye had gotten alot of beating or was dry. Well this explains it all.

[@alistairsw]

How can you tell that "a lot of us see red to be red". How can you describe what my red is like in comparison to yours?

[@CENATHON]

I always had this question

[@Dewey_01]

Same

[@paparoysworkshop]

I do know that as I have gotten older, I do perceive color differently. I used to be very sensitive to variations of color but now, not so much. I used to see color quite well at night with low lighting, now, it's more or less just black and white. I see little or no color at night. I'm talking reflected light of course. A red light bulb looks red no matter how dark it is.

[@miss_anthrope5198]

THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ON MY MIND FOR AGES, AND WHEN I TELL PEOPLE THIS THEY JUST SHAKE THEIR HEADS AND THINK I'M INSANE!!!

[@lulylulyanka2676]

i'm like "one is green yellow , why?" than he said one is different and i thought "wasn't that obvious? " -horible beginner artist.

[@galacticdiamondz6425]

Roses are red Grass is green I'm still wondering if your red and green are the same as mine in 2016

[@improvised240]

GalActic DiaMondz how about now?

[@effyleven]

Hmmm... some of the facts concerning the colour of light at certain times of the day are wrong, factually, which means the conclusions drawn are not accurate, logically. Yellow light does NOT come at midday. 1) Early dawn light, such as there is, is very blue. 2) At the moment of dawn the light becomes very yellow, even red. 3) The yellowness fades over the next 2 hours. 4) At noon the light is very slightly blue... how blue depends on your latitude. 5) 2 hours before sunset the light starts to become noticeably yellow again. 6) At sunset the light becomes very yellow, even red... (you may have noticed! And yes this IS the same as dawn, but in reverse.) 7) After sunset the light becomes more and MORE blue.. until full darkness, awaiting a new dawn. The above colours are for clear sun.... conditions of overcast will tend to mask these differences, but not completely.Check out "Colour Temperature of Daylight"

[@rateater420]

Okay we have the same amount of cones I guess.

[@Lila3pro]

I think it also has to do with how we learn which color is what called. Like yellow and orange, of both you have all kind of shades, and some really look alike. so it's no wonder that some people see a diffrent color then you (but I don't think someone sees red as blue or something)

[@hienksor7359]

Then how do we see similar colours like green is close to blue and other people also see that.

[@mirandasimgirl4135]

Omg I was thinking about this for a whole day and I thought I just created that theory myself... Well now I hate life.

[@panicatthetp9586]

SAME

[@Xeno455]

Think of it this way. You came up with a question "ON YOUR OWN" that philosophers have been asking for millennium. That's still rather impressive. Even if you were a little late to the punch, you did it by yourself without being told beforehand that a FEW people have thought this way. That makes you rather unique in a sense. Though I used to ponder this when I was like 6 and learned that each brain interprets information differently, but now I lean towards people all see the same color similarly because of the way our eardrums interpret sound.

[@mirandasimgirl4135]

Brandon K. wow that was deep and made me feel special

[@aardvarkbanana5325]

Same

[@volimNestea]

I thought of it as a kid too but I also went a bit further and thought about shapes and sounds as well as colors. The whole perception of reality could be utterly different from person to person. For example you see a ball and it feels round when you touch it but I see a cube and I can feel it's edges and flat sides when I touch it. And we have no way of communicating this to each other because when you say ball I hear cube but we don't really hear the same thing anyway because what sounds like English to you might sound to me the same way Greek sounds to you. But I believe it's English and you think it's English and it's so fucking confusing...

[@RogueDemonZ]

My question would be, if our eyes were mutated to sense ultraviolet or infrared radiation, what would it look like? It can't be a color that we know of, yet it still would behave like a color. My theory is that it is impossible to know what it would look like. Our brains would be taking in a new type of information.

[@paulwebb2078]

You're right. Currently, it's impossible. But, in the future, once we figure out how to send signals to our brain, though, using technology, (already somewhat possible in deaf people with advanced hearing aids) we'd be able to artificially experience, and "feel" what these colors would look like.

[@cuckoonest168]

Here's an interesting concept: Magenta isn't a colour. What?! That's right, magenta isn't a colour. It's a concept thought up by our brains when we see equal parts red and violet, the two opposite ends of the colour spectrum. Check it out... usually when we see 2 colours of the spectrum, like red and yellow light, our brain sees orange, the colour in between. The colour in between red and violet is green, which isn't very close to red or violet. So our brain invents a new one, magenta :D

[@MissJazzmineS]

I've asked this question ever since I was a child - everyone always told me to shut up I was making their head hurt from confusion lol. Also, I saw the green square immediately. I'm far from an artist.

[@elriels2416]

+Jazzy Ziggy i also saw the green square immediately and i wear glasses

[@MissJazzmineS]

+Elena DiLaurentis so do I

[@Vickyispickyy]

+Jazzy Ziggy same

[@blendertutor5069]

People tell me not to think of stupid questions like this

[@MissJazzmineS]

blender tutor Don't listen to them. A mind that questions and wanders about things outside of the box is a brain capable of discovering great things. So keep thinking!

[@3aklausen]

I once got into an argument with a friend over wether a minivan was dark green or blue. It clearly looked dark green to me yet he insisted it was blue.

[@efhbke]

I'm fairly certain that blue (especially lighter blue) is the wake up color and yellow (to orange- to red) is the drowsiness colors. Blue is morning and midday and yellow is sunset leading to night.

[@Encentix]

I am an artist and i can differwnchiate these colors! :D #goals

[@hippityhopotus7475]

Daleeny im not and even i saw it

[@Encentix]

Dillon Hooker well that's cool!

[@typograf62]

I also spotted the diff even before the question. That means I must be an artist. Or a troublemaker.

[@hanthala9214]

same, tho im not an artist and have next to no artistic talent.

[@hippityhopotus7475]

Hanthala neither do I, whatsoever.

[@TheAwwWtf]

My red is fucking amazing. Just sayin.

[@geonoy2909]

lol

[@WaddIes]

is 'red' code for something? o-o

[@randomnestutorials]

i saw the green square that was different

[@kateA1445]

I think we see colours pretty much the same, think of like royal blue, its such a beautiful colour, if everyone saw it different wouldn't more people be likely to dislike it, or the rainbow, it only transitions right with the colours in the right place.

[@shay8502]

Myself, at least one of my siblings, my mom, and her sister all see colours slightly differently in each eye. For me, my left eye sees less of certain shades of blue or green light, making a lot of things appear slightly more red or orange. Compared to my left eye, which sees colours as warmer, my right eye makes a lot of things look relatively cold. The difference isn't all that big or obvious, but it's still significant enough to notice (especially if I'm looking at plants or colourful patterns. Certain colours stand out depending on which eye I close). With both eyes open it's kinda in-between, so if I'm having trouble distinguishing between two colours (like with the green wheel), I close my left eye because my right has better colour vision.

[@lilsnackcakez3140]

so my shit could be pink

[@kandyfan3441]

ahahahaha

[@patricksmith308]

iam not and Artist but i solved it right

[@KingNefiiria]

The color palette threw me off, because my screen doesn't show the same shades of color consistently due to the fact that I view it at an angle, no matter how "straight ahead" it is. Sooooo the whole time I was looking at it, I saw different shades of green everywhere. :(

[@TheUKNutter]

I have something confusing to confess... In Y8 (Grade 8), my teacher got a green circle and a red circle in science class, and put one of the circles behind the other; the teacher then asked us what colour they saw. For everyone in the class, they all saw black, but I still saw the two same colours; they hadn't changed for me. Do you know what that could be?

[@Driftwood]

he didnt have to pick a blue apple to explain this

[@extronmc7345]

These kinda of question make my head hurt

[@shadowfire04]

found the different square easy, although i am an artist. learning sketching/proportions also helps you see more detail in subjects and places, especially if you're planning to draw them later.

[@MikeRosoftJH]

I've been having a serious trouble finding the correct square. Looking at the circle as a whole kept confusing me, there's probably some kind of optical illusion involved. Eventually, I helped myself by comparing three adjacent squares each time, and guessed the different one correctly.

[@strongpowerthankyou5020]

that apple looked kinda orangish to me I saw red lines and orange lines

[@mtneves77]

I think the answer has to be yes, If we saw entirely different colors we would notice inconsistencies when colors are mixed. So if we did see colors differently the only options would be the normal color spectrum, and the inverted one.

[@bridgetthoward3976]

I actually find this incredibly interesting because I've noticed when I close one eye everything is tinted more green, and if I close the other eye and keep the first eye open everything is tinted more red. I always wondered why but never really thought it important enough to research. I suppose now I know. :)

[@poke-talia268]

While it isn't so extreme as red appearing green or blue looking like yellow, my eyes perceive color differently from one another. My right eye sees things in more reds and yellows while my left picks up more blue tones.

[@demonic5787]

MY FUCKING BRAIN HURTS I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR THE LONGEST

[@perez2k144]

ive been thinking about this for a whole month because I kept asking myself, do we all see the original color or not.

[@speedfreakDaniel]

I was able to identify that square in 1 or 2 seconds and I'm not artist or painter... Never was. Does that mean I have more cones and rods?

[@alek4ever91]

I knew someone that after an accident saw colors differently, he still saw every color of the rainbow, the colors had just been switched around. Thus making it weird for him when I said something was blue, and for him it was brown, I say something was green, and for him it was purple.

[@FaithBetta]

That's awesome!

[@MoleDownunder]

On the square test I saw squares randomly popping up inside the circle with a very light purplish colour.

[@funky3ddy]

Spotted the green, but guys, it depends on what monitor you have. On a lot of panels those colors would be indistinguishable. A lot of artistic people have better monitors, that's why they'll see that color right away, most folks have TN panels, which have their limitations.

[@TheTeethInTheNight]

I've noticed that whenever I see a darker pink, others tend to see a lighter red. It's when the color of red is so close to pink or magenta I seem to experience arguing with someone on what the color actually is lol

[@Nagem1617]

I got the green square because I do work with colors a good chunk of the time. I also have been pondering the color question and guessed pretty much what you said here. There are only slight variations, so none of this "my red is your blue" but more so of "my red is your red-purple or red-orange" depending on the variations.

[@BigRalphSmith]

Barring color blind people or those with obvious defects in color perception, I contend that we all see the same colors... basically. Yes, I don't doubt that there are slight variations from person to person but I don't think that one persons blue would be red to a second individual who could see the actual color being experienced in the head of that first individual. We are all basically the same with the same biological sensory systems and the same basic types of brain structures with the same basic neural activity. Your reds are my reds, your yellows are my yellows, etc.

[@nandee1fuery]

I actually couldn't tell which square it was on the first try, but I suspected it was the one they picked. I don't even know why, it just seemed off.

[@warlord733]

Why is it that I get energy when I see blue light and lose it when I see red light?

[@warlord733]

@@عبدالرحمن_الناصر please explain

[@kataztropheemusic]

I'd say it's probably close enough to call it the same at the end of the day. For example, compare the color between your left and right eye. Slightly different, right? I'd imagine there's a similar variation for every (full color) human eye.

[@jonaszero6279]

I believe it has been over a year since i had thought about this, but i had taken it a step further and attempted to question the differences in the colorblind. Now, i know a few colorblind people, and yes, it is very obvious that i see something much differently from them, but one thing that i also had to question, is what if what i see, is the wrong thing, and what we think of as colorblind, is actually how we should perceive things. I thought about it, and realized that if you think about the way light travels and the color spectrum's, that is ludicrous. So i crossed that out, but i also came to a theory that didn't completely knock it off the shelf. I was thinking about it after watching this video and how you said that our brain fills in the gaps for us. Now what if, the way we perceive color is all just to separate our background from the foreground? The way colorblind people see things is a way that seems more efficient in this time and age, seeing as back when we were supposed hunters and gatherers, we would have to separate our background and foreground with specific colors to be able to determine berries that we could harvest, suitable game to hunt, and when to see different colors in the background that could be a warning for people to avoid the areas because or predators. That is just my complete and random guess that i have been dwelling on for a whole, not being a critic. Go ahead and comment and prove me wrong or something, i need to fix a few theories of mine, and i cant do it alone.

[@fizzicist7678]

Actually that IS true, but it doesn't really hit you until you are say 40-50, but then it's more of how focused is the light rather than having to do with color and brightness.

[@sbcuber9618]

I believe that there are some variation. But just more redder or greener. But I believe that we all see them the same, but with colors looking just a bit differently. My opinion.

[@ilayg100]

WHAT IF: we all see different colors but we like the same colors, so therefore everyone has there own favourite color...

[@jimcanterak7349]

I got the green cub test. But I have never actually done anything artistic. Maybe I should start?

[@TheSummerDolls]

So if students were given homework that was blue, would that be able to help keep stress levels down when they look at the paper?

[@gilllybee]

I've had this question since I was little- thanks for answering it!!!