Colours Theory

[Valjean]

Yes. Color, like everything else we perceive, occurs in our heads.

 

[Red Pill]

I wondered about this back when I was young. I decided I thought most people see color the same- the only test I could think of was that colors affect people with some similarities -i.e. red is exciting or makes one mad, green is calming, yellow warming, blue is cooling. If I saw red as blue, I don't think the new red ( blue) would affect me the same as real red does.
Just my thinking
Did I use the correct word- affect or is it effect? I can never remember the rule

 

[texan1]

I have wondered about this kind of thing before. Perhaps we do perceive colors differently. I mean, we taste foods differently. We could all eat a plate of broccoli and some of us will hate it and some of us will like it. Perhaps we see colors a bit differently too. We'll never really know I guess.

 

[cardero]

I think you're absolutely right. The reason I think so is that I've got a really, really good eye for color and those who know me well are quite amazed by it. I can look at a color and memorize it so that when I don't have it in front of me, but am trying to match it to something, I can visualize it perfectly, whereas most people only approximate it. To me, it's kind of like perfect pitch, except that it's visual. I can detect minute differences in shade or value that a lot of people don't seem to be able to.

It sounds like you have "color"-graphic memory Katzpur.

 

[rojse]

It sounds like you have "color"-graphic memory Katzpur.

Synesthesia, I would think.

 

[DisneyGirl]

Good theoery.

 

[Women_Of_Reason]

Synesthesia, I would think.

Synesthesia is about cross wiring of the brain (seeing sounds or seeing the number five in red) I don't know why you think that's the case here.

 

[Darkwater]

Maybe that's why some people are better at art and stuff... like chosing how to paint a picture. It's not that some people don't know which colours look best together... but just that the colours look different to them.

As well as your briliant points Hannah,some places have great light,say Venice.Great Light attracts artist's from all over to study it.

Scotland is usually *dark*

 

[DawudTalut]

My mom and I have a theory, that maybe not all people see colours the same. I'm not talking about colourblindness... but people who can see all of the colours...

For example... THIS is Blue... But maybe what you see is that colour, but when I see the same object, it looks like THIS to me. To me, the sky is THIS colour, which we've all been taught is called Blue. But some people see blue as looking like THIS or maybe like THIS... or who knows...

How would we ever know how other people see colours?? Do you get what I mean? Maybe all of our eyes interpret colours differently, but since we are all taught which colours are called what, how would we ever know if my green looks the same as your green?

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet...
or
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet...

But it would probably be more subtle, because we know red+blue=purple... and blue+yellow=green... so the difference may just be a slight thing... but how would you ever know??

Maybe

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet

Yeah... That works. So you just have to switch out the three primary colours... You would never know if someone sees that instead of what you see... But since they were little, they saw the sky as looking like THIS but everyone told them it was called blue...

Maybe you can just take the opposite of each colour...

Let's try it...

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet

Nope... that doesn't work with the mixing thing... because THIS + THIS does not equal THIS...

What do you think about that?

Peace be on you.
""I think we can say for certain that people don't see the same colors,"" --- says a colour vision scientist.
http://www.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists.html

 

[whereismynotecard]

How did you find this million-year-old thread?

 

[DawudTalut]

very long story........Once upon a time.......

 

[whereismynotecard]

I wrote it when I was a wee baby. I do still think about it sometimes though.