Does everyone see the same colors?

Question

Have you ever wondered if everyone sees the same colors?

Like, say the grass is green right? But what you see as green, i could see as red. Is this possible?

Answer 1

are you stoned?

Answer 2

Yes it is possible if you are colour blind (you don't see quite the same colour as everyone else).

Answer 3

No one REALLY knows

but scientists say that we all see colors the same

because the amount of light that is absorbed by something

Is what creates the color.

No one can see the absorbed light differently then another person. Even if you are color blind you still see same amount of absorbed light. you just see it in black and white because of lack of cones in your retinas.

Answer 4

I have thought the very same thing lol

Answer 5

maybe they might see a the same shade darker or lighter you may never know that is all why we have different openings on things

Answer 6

yes we all see the same colors..

if my eyes transplant to you..

you will see grass is green..

do you ever heard patient who just had eyes transplant complaint about wrong color.. nope right ;-)

Answer 7

i have always wondered that too.it would be hard to figure that out.

Answer 8

I wonder the same thing. I also wonder if the way I hear myself when I talk is the way everyone else hears me.

Answer 9

This is a question of reception vs perception.

Everybody's eyes RECEIVE the same wavelengths of light (unless you are colour-blind).

But we cannot know whether our brains PERCEIVE this information identically. Brain-scans can show which brain-pathways are stimulated on seeing particular colours or shapes (or any other sort of sensory input), and they SEEM identical (or at least very similar), but it isn't possible to know 100%.

Some clues might be provided by the fact that people often associate the same colours with the same kinds of "feelings" (like blue for sadness, red for anger, etc.), but some of this is cultural (black or white as the "death" colour is different in different cultures, for example), and much of it is probably contextual (like everybody's faces going red when they are angry - so that colour is the "angry" colour).

Answer 10

That is possible. The important thing is that you see colors consistently. The red on a traffic light may be your green to someone else, but as long as both of you know it means to stop, there won't be accidents.