bearisgray

I have started doing the puzzles on jigidi.com - thank you to the person that originally posted about the site -

Anyway - what I am finding so interesting is that the color I am "thinking" something is - a "white" cat, for example, the colors may actually be pale green, light brown, gray, or some other color - but not white.

The same is true for other colors - '

Now I am wondering if what i think I am seeing - is what I am ACTUALLY seeing?

Anyone else notice this?

nativetexan

I think it is very individual really. we are so different in many ways, why not the colors we see?

Geri B

I find that true too, but for me it's especially dark colors...may look as one color in house light, but take to a window in the sunlight....may be different.... I shall never forget, when I worked in an office and we dressed "business attire", one of my co-workers came in one morning all frazzled...seems she dressed in semi-darkness as to not wake children and inadvertently put on one black pump and one navy pump...same basic style, so didn't realize until arrived at office...

bearisgray

My Mom did that with her shoes, too.

The only person that commented (and probably noticed!) was her sister (my Aunt) who is a very shoes conscious person!

Ginaky

jigsawplanet.com also has good puzzles. If you go to that site and at the top choose "explore", popular tags, you can choose quilts. If that option doesn't show up you can type it in the search and it will come up with quilt puzzles to work. I work at least one or two a day--I'm quite addicted!

Cheshirecatquilter

I noticed one summer day in bright sunshine that I see colors differently in each eye. The green grass was more yellowish in my left eye, and more blueish in the right. I'm sure it has to do with the number and placement of the color sensing cells, rods and cones, in my retinas.

nativetexan

i have two pair of suede flats and one is black and one navy. yep, confusing!
oh my son said something about seeing differently with each eye!! his eyes are so sensitive to light that his pupils are always teeny tiny pin points. I can see tiny red dots in semi dark room with eyes open or shut. they swarm around when i move my eyes. Doctor said i am seeing the fluid inside my eyes. my Sister brought these dots to my attention when i was about six. odd but true.

illinois

Developing cataracts will alter what color you see, too. I had chosen a border for a quilt before my surgery only to discover it was totally wrong when I got back to putting it all together. When I explained my purchase to the gal cutting my new choice, she commented that I was lucky it was only the border. Her grandmother had made an entire quilt thinking red was pink (or maybe vice versa) and had to deconstruct the entire thing after her surgery. I was seeing blues different--the royal blue of the Cowboys was periwinkle! My eye dr says to compare the works of Monet and see how his color palette changed with time, believed to have been because of cataracts.

Jan in VA

It took me a long while to believe people didn't see colors the way I do. I seem to have a sensitive ability to see slight variations in hue, value, tone and tint, and it helps me enormously in quilting. I teach this in a special class I've developed and get responses from participants that it's the best color class they've ever attended, but I still see that they have trouble. After taking many of those online game/tests, sort of wish I'd been a pilot!

MaggieLou

The colors on a computer screen aren't always accurate. Some monitors colors with show up better than others.