Does everyone see the same shade of a colour as another person would?

Question

For example, the green on this website? Also, how could you know that we are seeing the same, is it impossible or not?

Answer 1

No, I do not believe we see colours the same.

1. I spent many years painting with another artist. We painted the same outdoor scenes with very different results in the colour department - and he always argued that I got the colour all wrong. Pigments in paint refract light a bit differently than colours in nature - his oranges were always too garish for me, and I used too much purple according to him. We would argue over which colour to use for a particular thing, and never agreed - quite obviously we saw yellow differently.

2. A friend of mine restores paintings, and does a good job most of the time, except this once he just could not please the customer. She called me to fix it, not knowing I knew him. She was right - there was a spot in the sky that looked pink and did not belong. He swore he couldn't see it and actually argued with her - but there it was... I fixed it, and told her that I had always suspected that men see colours differently than women, and she was happy with that.

3. I spend most of the week selling artist's materials, and men invariably choose different colours for their palette than women do. Specifically, they choose different reds and yellows - not all, but most men choose more muted, earthy or warm yellows and orange-reds, whereas women tend more toward bright and cool yellows, and cool purple-reds. It's not only a matter of what pleases them, but which colours they choose to mix to achieve their final results.

4. A great number of men (more than women) are red/green colour blind. There are varying degrees of this condition, some so subtle they don't even realize it. In the most extreme cases, they see red and green as the same colour. Colour-blind men were chosen to find camouflaged encampments during WWII because they could see the variance between the natural greens and artificially produced camouflage green.

Not very scientific over all, but based on years of personal observation.

Answer 2

Everyone sees the colours different! Thats why we have different favourite colours. We never find out how another persone sees the same color like I do cuz he learned from the begining that the red object is red (it doesnt matter if U would see with Ur eyes it would be green or brown) he lurns that and maybe he sees other colour but for him thats the red! If U understand!!!

Answer 3

Everyone (with proper vision) sees color in the same _relative_ way. So green is identified as the same color as grass, certain plants, etc.

As for whether two people are seeing the same thing when they see the color green, that's impossible to say (only you know what you are seeing - others rely on your description of what you perceive).

Answer 4

Nope, we don't all see it the same. It's been proven that everyone see's colour differently.