Colours

[Hannah]

I was out for a meal yesterday and we ended up having a conversation about how weird the human mind really is - particularly when it comes to colours.

Like, we're all taught at a young age what each colour is, but colours are only what our minds perceive them as. Like, the grass is green and a banana is yellow when ripe, yeah?

Well, what if you saw 'Green' in the colour of what we see as blue, but you know it as green because you've been taught it that way.

Like, what I see as red, may actually be someone elses perception of the colour orange, but they have been taught that their perception is red or visa versa.


It's so odd. My brain hurts. :(

[Charz777]

The strange part of this is that if two people perceived red differently, they would still agree that something is red because it's their version of red as they know it.

[Hannah]

The strange part of this is that if two people perceived red differently, they would still agree that something is red because it's their version of red as they know it.

I know - you can't even really explain a colour, especially if you see a colour as what you've been taught to.

Is there really any way to prove that we are all seeing the same colour?

[Charz777]

I know - you can't even really explain a colour, especially if you see a colour as what you've been taught to.

Is there really any way to prove that we are all seeing the same colour?

I'm not sure. You can't describe colours without using colours.

[Hannah]

BRAIN Y U SO COMPLEX



I'm not sure. You can't describe colours without using colours.

Maybe in a few decades they'll create something that can see how a person sees something, exactly how they perceive it. Maybe they already have it somewhere :o

[lemons]

what if there are colours we have never seen :o

[Hannah]

what if there are colours we have never seen :o

idk why people are trying to prove the creation of the Earth with Big Bang when there are more important things to figure out, like colours!

[Charz777]

what if there are colours we have never seen :o

If we can only process certain colours there may be ones we can't see. But that seems crazy when we can see in so many shades of every colour. But it's still possible I guess... Spooky, there are colours hiding in my bedroom!

[Hannah]

My brain isn't used to working this much. I think colours may be the death of me when my brain explodes!


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[Red]

Yes it would be so weird being colourblind. @thms (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=116105);
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-a-colourblind-guy-freak-out-when-he-sees-colour-for-the-first-time

lmao I can remember my friend greg on habbo in 06 went months thinking he has brown hair but it was red and he entered a radio comp to win a dino and they asked him on air what colour the dino was to win and he was like I don't know I'm colourblind lmao bless

[Hannah]

Yes it would be so weird being colourblind. @thms (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=116105);
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-a-colourblind-guy-freak-out-when-he-sees-colour-for-the-first-time

lmao I can remember my friend greg on habbo in 06 went months thinking he has brown hair but it was red and he entered a radio comp to win a dino and they asked him on air what colour the dino was to win and he was like I don't know I'm colourblind lmao bless

Oh no! Did he at least get a sympathy dino

[thms]

don't make colours even harder for me please i'm actually terrible with them. does anyone remember Meanies; chocolate factory maze and how much I struggled with the last level with colour tiles??? :'( Zealoux; Absently; FlyingJesus; Baabycakezz; Empired;

i mistake reds and browns and greens and purples and blues and ugh it's a nightmare

[Hannah]

don't make colours even harder for me please i'm actually terrible with them. does anyone remember Meanies; chocolate factory maze and how much I struggled with the last level with colour tiles??? :'( Zealoux; Absently; FlyingJesus; Baabycakezz; Empired;

i mistake reds and browns and greens and purples and blues and ugh it's a nightmare

Maybe you're the one seeing everything right and we're all getting them mistaken :o

[thms]

Maybe you're the one seeing everything right and we're all getting them mistaken :o

STOP.

[dbgtz]

Eh I used to think this too, but the fact you can easily examine peoples eyes and brains (at least, brains in comparison to another), someone might be able to tell if there is any difference in colour perception. Also, with all the information on light waves, I don't think it's a huge mystery and I suspect most people see the same, or very similar, colours as others.

This thread reminded me of a movie I briefly caught where a kid wanted to be a pilot of some sort, but when he was in the car (with his dad?), they found out he was colour blind and he lost the plot. If someone knows of what I'm talking about then please tell me the film :P

[Joe]

One of the weird things, just like this I guess, is the thought that we might be missing things because we simply don't have the ability to sense it. Like, we smell a burger due to our nose, we see it with our eyes, we feel it with our touch, etc. But maybe there's something else about it that we don't have the physical ability to sense it!

i can't deal with this

[Hannah]

One of the weird things, just like this I guess, is the thought that we might be missing things because we simply don't have the ability to sense it. Like, we smell a burger due to our nose, we see it with our eyes, we feel it with our touch, etc. But maybe there's something else about it that we don't have the physical ability to sense it!

i can't deal with this

Wouldn't that kind of class as a sixth sense? Then again that's kind of known about, whereas if we couldn't know about it then it remains unexplained. D:

[Katy]

don't make colours even harder for me please i'm actually terrible with them. does anyone remember Meanies; chocolate factory maze and how much I struggled with the last level with colour tiles??? :'( Zealoux; Absently; FlyingJesus; Baabycakezz; Empired;

i mistake reds and browns and greens and purples and blues and ugh it's a nightmare

aww bless you that was awful lmao

[FlyingJesus]

don't make colours even harder for me please i'm actually terrible with them. does anyone remember @Meanies (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=15035); chocolate factory maze and how much I struggled with the last level with colour tiles??? :'( @Zealoux (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=121240); @Absently (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=50287); @FlyingJesus (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=24753); @Baabycakezz (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=124255); @Empired (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=80588);

i mistake reds and browns and greens and purples and blues and ugh it's a nightmare

lmao totally robbed your victory on that as well :P

But yeah this colour question is quite a common one, it's often argued that people's perceptions of colour being different is key to why certain people see certain colours as meaning something different to someone else like people thinking red is anger but others thinking red is love or w/e

[Hannah]

lmao totally robbed your victory on that as well :P

But yeah this colour question is quite a common one, it's often argued that people's perceptions of colour being different is key to why certain people see certain colours as meaning something different to someone else like people thinking red is anger but others thinking red is love or w/e

Aaaah I never even thought of that - you've also got yellow supposedly meaning happiness and energy and stuff but I also remember hearing something about yellow rooms being linked to suicide. Which if that's true, it sucks - as where I work the whole inside of the building is bloody yellow!

[Lewis]

Yeah, I've always wondered about stuff like this. Here's a good video I watched a couple of years ago:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08

[Hannah]

Yeah, I've always wondered about stuff like this. Here's a good video I watched a couple of years ago:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08

I watched that years ago! I love this guy - have learnt a few random things from his channel haha

[Stephen]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

[Gina]

i hjad really long convosd about this at school lije thwe first 2 posts in this thread
iit interested me so much bc i was like ahhhhhhhh