does every one see same colour or just know the colour by name could my red be your green?

Answer 1

i always wondered the same thing.....
same goes for smells and taste and texture, etc.....
we could be expiriencing the same things, but not
it's a mysterious life isn't it

Answer 2

Perhaps your question should be under philosophy. If you are red green colourblind, then maybe there could be a difference...

Colour is basically the reflection and refraction of light on different surfaces and the colour exists as the same wherever it is. Some, however, may have slight genetic differences which can alter your perception of that colour.

Could be interesting at traffic lights.

Answer 3

That's just a question of language and semantics. English, red. German, rot. French, rouge etc. Think you need to consider Ishihara colour blindness test, or think about perception of colour and different methods of colour mixing, possibly additive and subtractive. Also look at the work of colour theorists, Ostwald, Munsell,Albers, Newton, etc. Exciting concepts, enjoy!

Answer 4

People have three kinds of color receptors, each most sensitive to a different wavelength of light--red, blue, and green. So we basically see the same colors, because what we see is just the processing of the signals from these receptors. But everybody's eyes are different, so why wouldn't the receptors be slightly different, too? I suspect that we all see color slightly differently, but more or less the same.

Answer 5

colour blind people. and! i have a friend who has MASSIVE pupils! her eyes are bluey grey but she has massive pupils so you can only see her irises up close. and she's had medicals and eye tests and all sorts and cant find about problem- not even visually. perfect eyesight. oh, sorry, point being, maybe, even though she doesnt have eye problems, maybe she needs more light than us. also, sorry, because that doesnt answer your question. but theres no way to say if we all see the same colours, for one thing we all describe things differently and all had different ideas about colours, even a paint chart he says "eugh, sicky green" where i say "apple green". cant be solved.

Answer 6

No, light has a frequency so the different frequencies can be identified as different colours. I think they use that type of science for TV signals, the equipment has to be able to encode the different frequencies of light transmit them as a TV signal and then identify and decode the exact frequencies to obtain a picture. If the equipment couldn't recognise the different frequencies then your TV picture would be most bizarre. I expect they've tested humans to check if we translate the same light frequencies the same way.

Answer 7

Yea, it could, in just the same way that our red is Mexico's rojo. The point is that we are talking about the same thing. Even if you wanted to call it different names, we all agree that the color itself is still the same, if I put a red and green object in front of us and asked you to point to red and me to point to "green" going by your example, we'd be pointing to the same thing. Since the light is percieved by all human eyes in pretty much the same way, it is very unlikely that I would legitimately see what we know as green while looking at a red object. Unless of course you're red-green colorblind, in which case my red would be your indistinct grey.

Answer 8

Wow!I am so glad that I am not the only one who remembered of the same crazy thing :D lol
I guess we all see colors in a different way.Indeed,our eyes see them in a different way - the same color is not exactly the same watching it with the left eye as when watching it with the right eye.
Or...maybe I have a little problem with my eyes :)))) and some other people too :))))

Answer 9

We can 'trust' it is pretty much the same for all of us (colorblind people excepted).

We all come from the same DNA. We all have 2 eyes, 10 fingers, a brain. It all works the same so we can assume we all see the same.

There is the matter of taste and what you are used to. But there is no acounting for that.

Answer 10

My husband is colourblind and his colours are definitely different to mine and yours. He sees no purple and can see differences in colours I think are the same. He muddles red with brown, green with orange, pink with green... His grass is orange, so he doesn't like going outside.