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May 24, 2005 01:11

What if color was all a theory? What if the brown I saw was purple in someone elses eyes? We were all trained by example. When you're a kid your parents point to a color and say blue, so you equate what you see to being blue. What if matching colors to someone else, weren't so matching, but they were just trained by example. Maybe a tan and red to me is a blue and orange ro someone else. Has anyone else ever thought about this? The world would be so different in someone elses eyes, but on the same note it would be the same. They'd still see the same things you saw, just in a different way. Maybe that's why the world is so beautiful to some and so ugly to others. What if the only similarities in color weren't even colors at all... Black and white. The absence and the fullness of light. We all saw those the same, but nothing else. If two snow flakes are never alike, why can't our perception of color be the same?

I often think about things like this. This one is triggered by the fact that when I close one eye I see everything with more of a yellow tinge, but when I close my other eye, I see everything in a blueish one. It's interesting.
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