What colour is this dress?

[pauland]

it only confuses some who's perceptions work in a certain way/ways

..like the whole of the population. We all perceive things in 'certain ways'.

This suggestion that some of the population are confused because they don't fit a given explanation is bordering offensive.

[handrawn]

oh for crying out loud Paul - lighten up - I put 'confused' in inverted commas - the brain gets 'confused' by optical illusions, and this is in that sort of category; it has nothing to do with being confused in the sense of mental capacity

the colours are scientifically assessable - people who are not colour-blind 'should' see them a certain way under given conditions; if they don't and it is not a general thing that happens to them all the time but only for a specific picture, then signals are getting misinterpreted somewhere along the way however you wish to define that

[Boy]

Saw this on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskAQwOBvhc

Whether this explains it all, I'm not sure.

[pauland]

Many years ago I think I posted a picture on TG of a chessboard that illustrated the same phenomena as that shown in the video.

To check our earlier findings, I sat side by side yesterday with my daughter and we both looked at the image of the dress on my laptop, a few feet away and saw the two variants by looking at the same image under the same conditions. It really is an amazing thing.

Thanks for posting the video.

[handrawn]

I used to look at the rotating grid of the old early warning radar station on our coast, when I was but a babe', and could make it rotate either way round simply by the power of my perception alone.. or because I let my brain get confused, which ever way you want to look at it [pun intended]

such things have facinated me ever since

[pauland]

I used to work for a defense company. I went with my boss - whose hearing was poor and had a hearing aid - to an on-site visit to a company near a radar installation on the south coast.

I saw the huge rotating radar and made a comment about it.

He said "Yes, I know, every time it rotates I can hear a blip in my ear!"

[jyoung]

White-gold, blue-black, red-green? Try to realize that there is no dress. Welcome to the matrix.

[pauland]

Some smart cookies at the SA Sally Army..

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...y-south-africa

[Egg Bramhill]

That's sharp!