Do you think people with different eye colors see colors differently?

[DGravez6]

For instance, what I see as the color green, someone else might see as what I see as yellow. but they call it green because that's the way we were taught. Or two people both seeing what they call blue but could be seeing what the other person knows as red. When you think about it, it's hard to disprove. Anyone agree?

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Ok. Let me rephrase the question. Forget about different eye color. Let's take that out of the equation. Let's say 2 kids are learning their colors for the first time. A teacher points to a picture and says "This is the color yellow". Now couldn't it be possible that one kid sees the same color that another kid may see when she holds up a "red" picture. His yellow may look like what another sees as blue but they CALL it yellow because they were taught it to be yellow?

[HotPinkDominatrxSlut]

I think people with blue eyes tend to have worse eyesight than others. I have the bluest lightest brightest eyes and I've had really bad eyesight and have worn glasses ever since I was 3 years old. I'm literally blind without my glasses. I consider it a blessing though. I love wearing glasses. I love how they look and feel. Men love how I look in glasses too. I wear them all the time even when I'm sleeping showering or swimming. I couldn't stand to be without my glasses for even a second. My glasses are aka ok very bright pink just like everything I wear and own which men also love. Men alway tell me how beautiful and feminine I look all dresses in very bright pink and that in the most beautiful and feminine girl they've ever seen and that my pink glasses combined with all the pink I wear and own make me even more beautiful and feminine. I'm actually glad I have bad eyesight since I get to wear glasses. I'd consider having good eyesight a curse as I wouldn't get to wear glasses. I would never ever get lasik it wear contacts. The fact that blue eyed blondes tend to have worse eyesight and having worse eyesight gives me the blessing of wearing glasses is just another of many reason I'm so proud of being a blonde hair blue eyed white girl.

[zoe2187]

Deep question. I’ve wondered this too. Maybe we all see things in different ways than others. And we associate them all the same.

[zoe2187]

Thank you

[DonkeyDan]

It is highly likely that people perceive colours slightly differently, but know a colour to be what it is because of learning. While there are tests for how good your colour vision is, it doesn't tell the tester if you see the colours the same as other people. At the end of the day colours can only be perceived as protons entering the eye based off of the electron level of the surface from which they are emitted, there is no way to know if every brain interoperates these the same way. The iris doesn't olay any part in colour interpretation.
As an example, I have a vision disorder that affects the light levels that come into my eyes, more so the right one, I have had extensive colour vision testing and it seems because of this I have a wider colour scope than nost people, meaning I can see more variation in colour. So what you see as red, I might see as a slightly orangey red.

[DGravez6]

Exactly.

[TheSpaceGnome]

it's probably impossible to prove how a wavelength of light is interpreted by an individuals brain when compared to others, but eye color shouldn't effect that, whats on the the retina effects that.

[TheSpaceGnome]

in regards to the update, again, it's impossible to prove.

[DGravez6]

Exactly. Could it be disproven in any way?

[TheSpaceGnome]

I mean impossible to prove as either true or false, so yes. Biologically it's not impossible to interpret a wavelength to a different color than someone else does, and for different species, this is likely, but there is no way to compare color interpretations since whatever you point at and label, is going to be subject to the observer's eyes.

However, in color blind people, they often view one color as another, but they are missing x number of colors rather than showcasing evidence of differences per color.

Mantis shrimp can see more colors than we can, so it's possible that a color we have no name for can replace red, or blue, or yellow, or perhaps be added to it. So it's not just known colors replacing other known colors.

[JustinTheGreat]

I was actually just thinking this recently!
I tried to explain to my husband that my blue might not be the same as his blue and he told me to shut up lol

[Jemini_Crocket]

I'd say everyone sees colors a bit differently but not because of their eye colors.

Usually women see more shades than men, men are simpler in this, but for example me and my sister were discussing clothes and she said that burgundy top is so nice but it looked more purple to me, like a plum shade :D

[MysteriousDarkness]

The iris is the colored part of the eye and is unique to each person. This structure is located in the front of the eye, between the cornea on the outside and the lens on the inside.
The iris primarily regulates how much light reaches the retina by controlling the size of the eye's "window," or pupil.

The retina is the sensory membrane that lines the inner surface of the back of the eyeball. It's composed of several layers, including one that contains specialized cells called photoreceptors.
There are two types of photoreceptor cells in the human eye — rods and cones.
Rod photoreceptors detect motion, provide black-and-white vision and function well in low light. Cones are responsible for central vision and color vision and perform best in medium and bright light.

[idkwhatsreal]

Yea maybe for a little bit it’s not really something you’d be able to hide I would imagine you would be getting corrected all of the time. Soon if you know when you see the color red everyone else sees yellow you’d just have to change the name of red to yellow in your mind and do that with all the other colors too.

[purplepoppy]

The colour you see is down to the wave length and it's place on the spectrum and that will always be constant and measurable. All human eyes work the same way so the only variable is how it's interpreted by the brain.
There's an old joke that according to men if it's not in the rainbow song then it's not. a real colour. There's some truth in that because women notice subtle differences more. People who are naturally good at art see these differences more clearly too.

[sensible27]

I doubt so because there is a sense of colour that seems to be evolutionarily imprented in the brain. There is a reason we see colour, and green maybe has another sense in the brain than red, you would sort of have to define what seeing a colour actually means

[Fiend88]

Haha! I've wondered that question my entire life! Anything is possible. This also raises the question about people who are color blind. Maybe they really aren't and that's just what someone told them they were and they believed it.

[MrtoddsWildRide]

All sight is really just the interpretation of your brain to signals it receives via the optic nerves. I would think it would be strange if all of our brains did that the same way.

[menina]

Interesting! When I was little I used to think that blue eyed people saw everything in blue. Then I grew up and I learned that their eye color didn't make them see everything in blue.
So no I think your eye color has nothing to do with it.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

I've been thinking of that. Because everything is supposed to be colorless but our eyes and brain just make those colors. Just like dogs are colorblind, snakes have that thermal scanner vision and there are colors we can't see with our naked eyes.

[lrina]

no, i don't think that the color of your eyes should anyhow affect how you see color.

[TyLeeAndPink]

Quite possibly. I ask myself that question sometimes and short circuit.

[Apulu_3]

Now when I think about it then it seems logical but when I think about it more then no nothing will change.

[Aakash_Hangargi]

I think it's cones and rods in eyes that determine how we see the colours.

Women see more colors because they have more cones in eyes i had read it in school not remeber perfectly 🤣

[sirderpsalot123]

I don't think so. I think some people are just color blind. I never thought about this before, lol.

[Kurdistan1991]

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[nice-girl]

No, if someone sees them differently it’s because we see more with the brain than with the eyes.

[Sour-rose]

Yes. Guy I knew said he saw one color, I saw another. So it's possible.

[Flower7]

No, I don’t think eye color affects color perception. Everyone’s pupils are the same color.

[Bubbles16]

I don't think so because one of my best friends has blue eyes and we see the world pretty much the same way

[DGravez6]

How do you know what he sees? You would have to be inside his body for that

[clampfan101]

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

This guy has amazing videos.