The Dress.
It is all anyone is talking about today. And if they are not talking about that they are talking about escaping llamas, and if they are not talking about that, they are spoiling the first couple of episodes of House of Cards, which dropped its full season on Netflix at 3 am this morning (yes, I woke up at 4:22 am and have already watched one episode in bed on my phone and no I don’t have a problem).
Anyway, the dress.
What colors are this dress?
If you said white and gold, you are correct and you are normal. If you said black and blue or anything other than white and gold, you are having an emotional breakdown and/or are insane. About 75% of the population are seeing a white and gold dress.
How convinced you are that the dress is white/gold or blue/black is an object lesson in “Naive Realism” which is “a theory of perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct awareness of the external world.” Maybe your senses do provide you with an accurate depiction of the world, maybe they don’t. Going through life with a high degree of naive realism isn’t terrible when you are talking about objects, but many people bring their naive realism with them when trying to understand the actions of others. That’s when we run into trouble.
Because I perceive “social justice” and “equality” to be real, I can discern the absence of justice or equability, and I’m perplexed then others can seem to grasp basic “facts.”
I came across “the dress” last night. It’s gold and white. But I decided to conduct my own experiment. I showed the picture of the dress (just the dress, no headlines!) to Mr. Pandora and asked him what colors the dress was. Brace yourselves. He said blue and black.
Did he already know about the controversy and was just trolling me? But he seemed sincere and acted like it was a stupid question.
But if he wasn’t messing with me then here’s the bigger point: You’d think, after almost 25 years of marriage, I would have noticed that we see colors differently. Has he been humoring me all these years? “You like the “gold” one, honey? Um, okay. Get the “gold” one.”
Altho, this could explain our difficulties in picking paint colors over the years. When he looks at our historic golden yellow walls does he see black? He gave me a hard time about that color, hmmm…
Pandora… here is a little secret: of course he is humoring you. We men do not care at all about colors of things, especially clothes.
I said Blue/black without hesitation and was sure my family was fucking with me saying it was white/gold.
I always knew you are insane.
What else has he been humoring me about? Geometric shapes?
And men do care about colors. I’ve lost track of the number of men who wax lyrical about the greens of a golf course, or the exact color of their car or the subtle hues of their beer. 😉
My wife showed me this last night. I said white/gold. Then she said that many men are seeing blue/black and women are seeing white/gold. Been thinking about that. Why don’t I see blue/black? I’ve been trying to see blue/black but just don’t get it. Now I’m questioning my masculinity.
I also see white and gold, Dave, and I am all man. I hunted for my breakfast this morning! LOL.
Crazy?? It is blue and black. If you saw anything else, it explains why so many of you wear rose-colored glasses…..or are they yellow?
Serious question for those who see blue and black: Is it a light, pale blue and a light gray/black, or is it a dark blue and true black?
What I’m saying is did you have to think about the colors? I looked at the dress and immediately saw gold and white. Now I’m trying to see blue and black. I can go as far as the white being a very light blue, but the black is right out.
I swear, this is going to keep me up at night – mainly because who is this strange man sleeping next to me? I mean, come on! Surely we would have noticed this sooner. Is it just this dress? (please tell me it’s just this dress!)
I looked at the dress and immediately saw blue and black (actually the black looks more brownish to me and the blue is a light blue). I really thought I was going crazy until I came across this article: http://6abc.com/fashion/what-color-is-this-dress-its-blue-and-black/536738/. The dress is blue and black. It’s the lighting of the photo that is causing people problems.
I see both. Especially in the pic you have where there are three dresses in a row. IDK. I think its the lighting that washes out blue tones. I took color theory for an art elective and you can easily make the exact same color look different by overlaying them with background colors and make two different colors look identical using the same method.
xkcd explains it all for you.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
I see gold and white, but it isn’t. Great psych lesson on perception. Those who only see gold/white…squint. Make your eyes as small as possible. It may just become blue/black.
Oh wow. I saw champagne and ivory. Now it’s confirmed for my kids that ma is cra–cra——–crayola.
But on that white/light color note. Just a few weeks ago, the youngest came home yawing about polar bears aren’t really white, it’s the brightness of of the sun and ice etc……now I guess this is what she was talking about.
And this underscores my preference of “I’m not white, I’m freckled”.
i mean, technically speaking, the dress isn’t any of these colors for gods sake. The colors you see are the colors being reflected back by the material!
Where is Bill Nye god damnit
an apple isn’t red, an oragne isn’t orange.
God our country is full of idiots
Who needs Bill Nye when we have cass! And donviti, I don’t recognize people who are blue, because of a color change either!! But then again, maybe they need more light 🙂 !
It looks black and white. But I don’t have color internet.