I'm confused about people being colourblind, mainly those who are "colourblind at birth", it's been eating at my brain the past few hours for some reason. I'm quite content about people becoming colourblind after they are born due to something happening, that doesn't confuse me. Surely you wouldn't notice any difference if you were colourblind from birth? I mean if you saw green to be red and red to be brown and brown to be green then that would be your world, you would be taught that a certain colour is called a certain thing and not take any notice of it. I'm not sure if people are following what i'm trying to say here though, it's pretty hard to explain. But if this is true then everyone could be seeing different colours for all I know, just thinking that they are the same as what other people see. Help TS
Lot of animals don't see colors. Worst part is a color-blind human is missing something that his/her same kind is enjoying. Other then that its allright thing, I guess.
What means colorblind ? That means, peoples are seeing something in different way .. There's no difference - chair is blue or green .. it's still a chair ..
I thought about this last week. My red could be completely different from your red... but for some reason I think that they can test this by measuring the light frequency of two people... and then if the numbers were different or way off for what they concluded was that specific color... you'd know there was a problem. Sort of make sense? That was the conclusion I came to .
Yeah, but someone must have set the colours corresponding to what frequency of light is shining back at you (i.e. the colour), so they could be seeing it totally different from what other people are too.
Well seeing it different... you could probably distinguish it by comparing the frequency numbers. Person 1 stares at a frequency of light and says it's red - Recorded frequency = 2 Person 2 stares at the same frequency of light and says it's green - Recorded frequency = 2 So now we know that frequency 2 is P1's red and P2's green... and you can sort of decode the color pattern that they see if it is in fact different. It's a good explanation but I'm just not sure I'm explaining it right... you take what you know and start painting the picture that way instead of trying to look at the picture first.
I know what you mean twistedspikes. Many colour blind people don't see colours that non-colour blind people see. E.g. let's say a T-shirt is purple-blue. A non-colour blind person will see it as purple-blue, while a colour-blind person will see it as blue, period. So I guess a colour-blind person is less able to distinguish one colour from another, if the colours are quite similar.
It's the "true frequency" when you actually measure the wavelength. Forget about what we call it, but that certain number is universal in the universe according to it's frequency. Like the color "red" has a lower frequency than "purple".
When someone's color blind, they don't actually see for example...red as green, do they? That's a big difference wouldn't you say? For example, if I see something that's CLEARLY blue, my color blind friend will see that it's CLEARLY purple. Then that's when you have to call your other friends over. Whoever it out-voted, is clearly the color blind one Then we throw rocks at them and make fun Dogs aren't color blind. They see color, just not as detailed as we see. Human vision is optimized for daylight while a dog can see better in the night. Kind of like a "glow" or blacklight on things.
I've always wondered that myself, lol. But I thought color blind people only saw minor differences, like yellow looks more browny/orangish to color blind people? I don't know, but I'm so glad I'm not! That'd be so weird! :/
man had never pondered upon it ever till now, but now when you have mentioned it, feel its worth thinking over. I agree with you how the colour blind ppl would even able to know what they are missing or cant see.
Of course I would. Colour-blindness doesn't mean that colour-blind people see different colours. It means people cannot distinguish certain colours. e.g. some colour-blind people can't distinguish red and green. Such persons may have problems at traffic signals.
It confuses me too.. I wonder how many people out there are colorblind without even knowing about it.
Oh, Never thought of it So, Human Color Blindness is NOT like the Eagle's Color Blindness Thx, LeVampire
Well a friend of mine is colourblind and he sees pink as brown and green as red I think, thats the only 2 things he gets mixed up with (I remember being in primary school -- he's an old friend -- and him painting a viking ship in pink...). So I guess you must get different types of colourblindness. As above. It is a bit of a weird thought, but really, if you thought that one colour was another from the beginning of your life then it wouldn't really make a difference to your life, you'd just think the colour was called something other than it's real name (if that made sense to anyone else then well done )
I do know that what is the colourblind person afraid of is the traffic lights, which they cannot even differentiate the color of lights at all!