do we see the same colours as everyone else ,?

Question

when i see the shade of green do u see a different shade , and how can u tell?

Answer 1

No! I dont think we do!
We see a colour because of light that reflects off its surface and we dont all receive the same amount of light because of differences in our eye structure! There are many shades of any colour and I will see more orange in a colour where you might see more red!

Answer 2

This has a name, its called "perception of color" and it has no answer, it has been an unsolved problem in philosophy for a while now
[edit] the wiki article says this=Assume two people ("Fred" and "George" for the sake of convenience) see colors differently. That is, when Fred sees the sky, his mind interprets this light signal as blue. He calls the sky, "blue." However, when George sees the sky, his mind assigns green to that light frequency. If Fred were able to step into George's mind, he would be amazed that George saw green skies. However, George has learned to associate the word, "blue" with what his mind sees as green, and so he calls the sky, "blue," because for him the color green has the name, "blue." The question is whether blue must be blue for all people, or whether the perception of that particular color is assigned by the mind.

Answer 3

Unless you suffer from a form of colour blindness, if an object is what we call red, you are educated by life to understand that the colour you perceive is red.

It is down to a general agreement of the population that a particular wavelength of light is perceived as a particular colour.

Of course, all this breaks down when a husband describes something as one particular shade of colour. His wife will always correct him.

Answer 4

No one ever sees the same colours. Some people are color blind and may not be able to see the same color as you. Other than that, you can never tell because if you see one color you won't know if another person sees that color because you aren't them. Hope that makes sense.

Answer 5

nicely it truly isn't any longer precisely the way i look at it, yet I somewhat have puzzled that before. Like i'd seem on the sky and note one coloration of blue, yet somebody else sees a unique coloration of blue. i imagine it truly is like nutrients, one nutrients tastes an same to all and dissimilar, yet some human beings choose that flavor otherwise.

Answer 6

More times than not the difference is between men and women. Men are the ones who are normally color blind. Or have a problem with identifying a color. During testing women have been found to be more accurate.

Answer 7

Oh wow..this question used to freak me out when I was a kid.
Yes, unless you're color blind, we see everything the same. this can be proved by various tests such as the standard ones for color-blindness that eye-doctors give.

Answer 8

This has been on here a few times, you can't ever know, my red is your red, that's how you're taught in school, my red might be blue but i was told blood is red and that's that until someone proves different!

Answer 9

Thats trippy. We only have one spectrum of light, the rainbow, from the sun, but if your eyes are really good, or messed up, then you might see differently.

Answer 10

Since we're all built pretty much the same way, its likely the experience is similar, save for defects.