Does everyone view the world the same way? eg; if what i see as green do you see as blue?

Question

i been thinking about the idea that everything you do, see or smell relates to your brain receiving info doing a few calculations and then producing what you might see as a colour,smell or action.
So if one persons brain is not as efficient as someone else`s at doing these calculations maybe they interpret the world in a different way??

Answer 1

Generally we are all pretty much alike anatomically and we see things in the same way. It's true that your brain does the conversion for you but for the most part they all respond the same way to the senses. The brain can be fooled - recently a person who was born without sight had a surgical proceedure that permitted him to see with his tongue because the taste receptors were highly sensitive. The illustration of the result of this operation was extremely blurred but it worked.

Answer 2

Not sure that I agree with your reasoning, and wouldn't categorise it as efficiency, it may have more to do with which side of the brain is dominant.
As far as smell goes, for instance, there are some flowers that I think smell like cat's pee, but to others they smell sweet.
With colours, unless it's a true colour, something which is a mixture of blue and green, say, one person may see green as the dominant colour, another will see the blue.

Answer 3

Actually I'm colour blind, so my perception of the world IS slightly different to someone who has perfect eyesight.

For example I can't see the red berries in a holy bush.

Blue/ Purple merge into one another where I can't tell which is which. However this doens't mean I think the sky is purple, nor do I see in black and white. Just means its best not to let me choose the colour scheme for a room..!

I think with smells, people can attach different feelings to them. For example, the seaside always brings back memories of happy summer holidays. But to someone else, it might be a drab place where they grew up, and prefer the smells of the country...

Perception, rather than interpretation maybe?

Answer 4

It s one of the great mysteries of life and can't really be proven either way. It is very interesting and mind-boggling to contemplate but I guess it is one of those things we will never know. Other than colour blindness, I would make a massive assumption that we see things pretty much the same but perhaps in different shades. I have one friend that I always argue with over clours and whether something is green or blue and we usually ask a stranger for intervention!

Answer 5

Lol - i used to spend hours thinking about things like this. When I eat bananas do they taste the same as when you eat bananas? or does my banana taste equate to your strawberry taste! What I see as a cute dog do you see as a nice cat? Maybe my idea of green is a colour that isn't even in your spectrum!! What if my idea of a disgusting smell is your idea of a heavenly smell so when you smell dog poo i smell biscuits - but your biscuit smell is a smell i find revolting!!??

Then I stopped smoking dope and it didn't really matter anymore!!

Answer 6

Hmm..of what i know this is not possible because colour is caused by the phenomenon of absorption of light.
when light falls on the object you are looking at,it absorbs all the colours except what it reflects and your brain interprets it after that light has entered your eye.
i don't think brain efficiency has anything to do with this except in the case of colour blindness.

Answer 7

I often wonder the same thing. I sometimes wonder whether I look like the person I see in the mirror or whether I look totally different to other people . I might be better looking than I think I am.Lol!

Answer 8

Ignore them idiots who mock, it is a very important question, percieving is the very thing that makes us act and re-act through out live and the way we percieve makes us the individuals we are.

Answer 9

Well if you saw green when Isaw blue, then your sunny day sky would be green and my grass would be blue!

Answer 10

You must be 13. Everybody thinks like that when they are 13.