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Anyway, We all know that some animals see in colors and some see in black and white. Well, it came to my attention while thinking about this on my boring trip home from some hike that what if we don't see every color? I mean, what if there is another color out there that no one has ever seen? Also, what would one of the colors look like? (That last question is the impossible one to imagine! Just teasing with your heads )

Enjoy thinking about that!

I don't know about you guys, but I've always felt that color is subjective. How do we know that we all see the same colors, anyway? What Yoshi sees as green, I could see as red, but since we've been calling it by the same name all our lives, we can agree on whatever color it is. It all has to do with perception. Who knows what our eyes are unable to perceive? Our eyes just send signals to our brain, and our brain decodes them. What if we had robot eyes that sent different signals to our brain while looking at the same thing? We would "see" the same thing in a completely different way. So, in my opinion, color is just a term we apply to things that reflect (or prject) light in a particular way. We can't define how it reflects light because we have no words to truly describe it.

Going off of that, do you think we may all like the same color! JUST THINK ABOUT IT!! This is soo mind boggling it is awsome!

no, not everyone sees the same colors.
I think I heard somewhere that colors were frequencies, right? Well, not everyone can hear certain frequencies, so not every can see certain frequencies. I think they are interpreted as white. That is, unless we are talking about synthetic color...

There are other forms of lights humans can't see. Just look at the entire electromagnetic spectrum and see how small the "visible light" portion is. Some other creatures can see the other ones, I remember hearing certain insects can see infrared light. Not really sure about that.

They forgot indigo

Whatever. We all see the same color cuz our EYES are all the same! Just like anything else; we walk the same way, we reproduce the same way (hopefully O_O) and we eat the same way.

A cool name for another color would probably be "Bergi"

No? No??

Sounds cool... Eh?

If you're color-blind, you can't see any color. White and black ain't colors.

It's entirely possible to be colorblind to certain colors, I have a friend who can't see certain colors. Never asked him which ones though. :/

But the thing is that we create devices that can see infrared light! It is the fact that our eyes interpret the colors. I think we all can see infrared light, just not that well. It is hard to explain, so go off and think about it.

To help this topic, imagin having a child that saw more colors that he couldn't describe. Well, we would all think he was crazy, and in the end he would just be better off! Well, just try going off of that. I think this whole topic is insane!

Nice picture Mini_Moose, but the problem is that if we cannot see the colors, then we cannot say they really exsist, right? What exsists is what we think, correct?

That frequence crap is, well, crap! It is light, not frequencies! I mean, how does that work? Then we should be able to smell colors off walls and wood and what not, or hear colors! (That would be scary!)

White is the maximum of all colors, black is lack of colors. Black isnt a color, white is every color, so color-blind people see all colors. Crazy...

All very true... I had a friend who was colorblind to certain colors and saw some colors differently, he saw blues as greens and greens as greens... its a little strange.

My drivers ed teacher was colorblind to some colors, he had some funny stories to tell us from when he didn't know he was partially colorblind. Stories about how he was arguing that something was brown when to 10 other people it was red, etc.

It is weird how our brains perceive colors.

The color that I see as a faded red on my webpage (link in sig), others see as pink! It is clearly not pink.

b.d

Faded red = pink

lol

Some people are red-green colorblind [thats the most common one]...

Also, this brings up an interesting thought: If animals can't see in color, [because they rely more on their other senses], could they possibly smell in color? Their sense of smell etc is much more advanced than ours is, perhaps they could describe their smells in colors much the same way we describe our sight.

I have no idea what I'm talking about...

dashrike do you ever have any idea about what your talking about? anyway colors are great for looking at, it would be boring if everything was grey..

So you're saying these color-blind people (only black-white) are boring? Hehe.

no i say it would be boring for people who is used to see normal colors to see only black and white, anyway normal colorblind people aint seeing things black and white...

My 11th grade french teacher was color-blind (and he still is xD); he's seeing only black and white.

He was always teasing everyone with "now take your blue book... Is it blue? Or it's red? Or green, perhaps?"

Fun fun

I had an English teacher who was colorblind. You could always tell when his wife was away, because he would wear the weirdest combination of colors.

I don't think animals can smell colors, I mean, it doesn't exactly seem possible! I mean, can we smell colors outside of those really cool markers that people get high off of? The answer is no. Besides, Our sense of smell goes with out sense of taste, not eyes! That's why when we get colds we have trouble tasting!

That wasn't my point. I was thinking more like we describe colors as an aspect of vision. Would animals have something similar for their sense of smell?

They smell THINGS that have colors, which makes the, necessarely, a color with an odour... It's all up the the brain anyway, unless you can train it to forget everything you've ever learned, it's impossible tp smell a banana out of an apple... Or anything else.

It's only a matter of perception.

This page's background is faded red


That color is pink.

:D:D

b.d

I see what you mean! That's why I didn't get involved, because you would point it out on what the difference is!

Neh...

Dogs cannot smell colors. period.