Do all people see the same thing??

Question

For example, if one person sees red dose another person see a different colour?? Or if one person sees a round ball dose another person see a different shape??......That kind of thing!!

Answer 1

Colourblindness can make a big difference to way people see things. In some cases red and green appear the same although to you and me they could hardly be more distinct.

I puzzled over why my dog couldn't see a bright red ball on the grass at the park. Then I remembered dogs are colourblind.

There are other distortions that effect some people. Portraits painted by the artist 'El Greco' were distinctive because he saw things with an altered perception of height so he made everything look much taller and thinner than they really were. This wasn't just an affected style. It's what he saw.

Another thing that effects perception is emotion. After a while looks become less important to people in close relationships. There have been more than a few awkward moments when the question "How do I look in this dress?" has come up. Oftentimes, she could be wearing a potato sack and the guy would think she couldn't look better.

The mind can play tricks with your perception, too. In fact, it does continually but we don't notice it. It's possible to trick your own mind back, though. Try this experiment.

Look around the room and find something with strong features in a regular pattern. The handles on a chest of drawers, for example. Fix your eyes on one of the features. Don't move your head, just stare at it but be aware of what you can see in your peripheral vision as well as what you're actually looking at. After a while, your brain will decide that some of the stuff in your peripheral field of vision is not important. When that happens, the one you're looking at directly will still be there but one by one the others will disappear "in front of your very eyes". 6 drawer handles will become 5 then 4. As soon as you move your eyes to look directly at the the ones that disappear, your brain will re-evaluate its importance and you will consciously see it again.

The brain does this kind of thing all the time. You can trust your eyes, but not your brain.

Answer 2

Some things that we see will be almost identical to what others see, but some things might be very different. Shapes will be the same (or very nearly so) because of how things fit together. Try tiling a floor with squares and with hexagons, and you know that each will have a characteristic way to fit. If somebody saw them differently, they would try to fit them together incorrectly. This indicates that we must agree on the physical shapes of things.

Color, however, is another matter. We already know that some people are colorblind or have different perceptions of colors, so we can be certain that what we perceive as red is not the same of what other people perceive. We only know that we agree when we point to something that it is red.

What we actually perceive in our heads might be very different from person to person.

Answer 3

Unless we're colour blind we pretty much all see the same thing. We can prove it as well.
We all have the same equipment, the same eyeballs and central nervous system.
We live in the same universe where the same rules of physics apply - colour only exists because of white light, if you look at a car under an orange streetlight you can't see the colour.
If we are asked to sing or identify the note C we can both do it, and we can both understand a person when they talk so we perceive sounds the same. There is no reason to believe that sight is any different.

Answer 4

I don't think there's any way to prove that we all see the same things. The question of shape is a little easier than the question of color because you can touch a shape and show that it fits or doesn't fit in an opening, for example. With color though, it could be that we all see different things and just have the same name for it. There is no way to check. However, according to Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is probably the right one) it is most likely that we do all see the same things. There's no good reason to think that we don't except that it's possible.

Answer 5

Visual perception is a tricky thing. People may see the same object differently due to their relative positions to that object. It also depends on individual intepretation as well which is affected by our education, our upbringing, as well as social environment.

It was once reported in the new that some coastal natives found a sea monster. The word spreaded and news crew from far away places rushed in to report the story. It turned out to be a beached whale.

Answer 6

Some people are 'colour blind' so we do not all see the same colours in the same way. However, we all see shapes the same. How we interpret what we are seeing is a different matter!

Answer 7

we see the same thing yet from a different angle it can look different.
Also the mind catagorises things into that which is familiar and this has quite a lot to do with what you are 'seeing' and what someone else is seeing.
Associating what is seen with knowledge gained could make something seen as that, turn out not to be that.

Can you see that? So you see its not such an easy question to answer.. See you.

Answer 8

well i suppose we all see the same thing but it has different meaning to each of us, for example when i see the colour pink it reminds me of my childhood and girly things and flowers and love, i see the good things about a colour where as my twin sister sees the dark side of things, she See's pink as an enemy as she is a goth and you could say im an angel like good and bad, we may see the same but different meanings always come with different things. hope that helps in some werid twisted way lol. x

Answer 9

no we don't all see the same thing. We don't all perceive that vision in the same way.
We tend to "see" what we know.
This is why whenever the police ask witnesses to make a statement they differ.
The viewpoint also makes a difference, if a man was watering his lawn with a hosepipe and you watched him from the front you would see him using that hose pipe. If you were behind him and and slightly to the side what would it look like he is doing?

Answer 10

I think everyone would see the same shape but I have thought about the colors thing. I may see something as a deep red and your eyesight may have you see it as more of a pink, something like that.