Is it possible?

Question

That perhaps I know the color to be red, and maybe you see it as blue, but know that it is called red, so that we can both relate to it? Because the images we see through our eyes are upside down because eyes use a lense and then our brain turns the image round so that we see it the same way, then maybe we all see colors differantly, but understand them to be the same.

Answer 1

WOW!!! I never thought I'd find another person who actually had thought of something like that!!! I've pondered it and pondered it, not daring to mention it to anybody for fear that I'd be called crazy! I finally did try to explain it to...my mother...but she couldn't understand. Oh well. Anyway, I believe that it could be possible, but I can't imagine looking at colors any differently than I see them now. Thanks for sharing, I feel so much better now!!!

Answer 2

Im fairly sure this is possible and this is why: if you close one eye, then the other, I find that one eye see with a slightly pinkish tinge, and the other with a more blueish tinge. Its not a huge difference, but its there. Try it...

I dont think the colours can be entirely different though, because of the way that the eye works.

Try also asking someone with red-green colour blindness how they see - the two colours will look the same to them - weird.

Answer 3

Good point! I think you're right, both you and me could be looking at the colour purple which you see as purple but I see as blue but I just know it as purple. I never thought about it like that, after all how can you know what other people see in their mind? I don't think it would happen with colours such as blue and red though because the are far away from each other on the light spectrum, I think it could happen with yellow and orange, orange and red, blue and purple and so on. Actually it has happened a couple of times to me, like when I told my friend "I like that blue top!" once, she said "What blue top?", so I pointed towards it ad she said that it isn't blue but green. This has happened a few more times with other people. Scientist have put this down to people being colourblind but I think that your idea explains how people can be "colourblind".

Answer 4

I have often thought this- we may all perceive colours differently- for instance what I see as red, you may see as blue- yet still call it red as that is how you perceive it. I'm not sure how true it is, or if we will ever find out- but it's a fascinating concept. If everybodies brain is different, then visual perception may differ from person to person too- each of us seeing a unique world of varying colour, and none of us knowing about it.

Answer 5

I asked that question when I was a kid, I find it really interesting. But as our rods and cones have the same make--up, it is highly unlikely if you are not colour-blind, you see colours differently. The amount of rods and cones can differ from person to person, so maybe some people see various colours as different brightness, and that is caused by genetics.

Answer 6

If you take 5000 people that are NOT color blind and show them the color red and ask them to write down what color it is..they will all write Red

Answer 7

I've always thought that to be true too, yes. Just think of color blind people. It's not as if they don't see ANY version of color.

Answer 8

Generally not!! In exceptional cases the vsision can be blurred. The rods and kones act similarly in vision in all normal humans

Answer 9

Yes, that is one theory I have always believe in. Maybe we all have the same favorite color.

Answer 10

So u mean like blue is red &red is blue or something like that yeah it sims ture???

Answer 11

as long as we agree that the colour we both see is the same it matters not one jot what label you put on it.