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Question: Could everyone see different colors!?
Is it possible that we all see different colors through our eyes than other people!? Like What may seem to be green to you may seem like brown to me!? Everybody learned the shade when they were little and grew up that way but we all call it one thing!. Like Let's say it is red!. We all learned that color WE see to be red but could it actually be different because we CAN'T explain colors to each other!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Oh my gosh, I so had this conversation with my sister before!
Great minds think alike =]
I think it is possible!. But the colours are probably kind of similar to different people, you know!? Like, we all know that black is dark and white is light!. And that purple is like a darker shade of pink!. So if they are different, my purple and your purple will still be a darker colour than 'whatever colour red and white makes'!. If that makes any sense!. And colour equations still have to work for different people, like red and blue have to make purple, and red and yellow = white!.
Etc!.
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No, at least not very different!. I used to take part in an experiment where we had mix colors using different light and while not everybody used exactly the same amounts, most people did a very similar thing!. And while it's too complicated to explain, the color we tried to reproduce wasn't a physical color, just a color we "saw" in our brain!.

also if I give you a series of different colors and ask you to sort them out according to similarity, I can predict how you sort them!. But if I give them to somebody colorblind, they will sort them very different from you!. Depending how they sort them I could tell what kind of color blindness they have!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That's possible but not probably!.
cuz you see everyone has a different sense of basically everything!.
example if you had asked someone the time they would say 10am and if u asked someone else they would probably say 10:30am!.
Some people might say that soup is bitter, YOU might say its salty but I might say that i like it and its neither of these!.If you asked some one how long they have waited they would probably give a different answer than the truth!.Dogs and Cats are colour blind, but humans usually aren't( there are some cases though)!.Because of this its impossible to tell but we all share at least one commonalty which keeps us together!.So I say its impossible to tell!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I thought about this too lol!.!.!.I think that it's impossible to tell we are all seeing the same colour!.

But, to raise another interesting idea, someone else mentioned that, "We all know that black is dark and white is light!. And that purple is like a darker shade of pink"!.!.!.

Well what if what YOU call black is what I see white, so kind of like an inverted picture!.!.!.If I'm describing a cloud, for example, we all agree that the colour is described as "white"!.!.!.I'm actually seeing black, but I call it white!. After all, black and white can, arguably, be considered colours!.

I hope I didn't confuse you lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

Hitler taught children that red was green and green was red!. Visa -Versa on all the colors!. They grew up thinking that it was what it was!. (His own experiments!.) I guess they would be right if they learned that's what it was -The only thing he couldn't change was the actual color!. So in the end he was just a dumb bell goofing around for the sake of a child's literacy!. Just an interesting fact!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

me too!. It's funny so many people have thought about this same thing!.
but i dropped this idea when I studied colour theory in school!.

Yes, we can explain colors!. the relation between colours and their characters are uniqe and defineable!. you could make the same colour using RGB and CMYK systems with numbers!. it would be impossbielt to do!.

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OMG! I've thought about that too! I thought I wast the only one!Www@QuestionHome@Com

it might happen!.!.!. it would be really cool if we can find out!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com