The Dress Megathread

[lustindarkness]

I strongly feel the dress should have its own (possibly pinned) thread

Thanks

[Martinus]

Buzzfeed have polled on the issue. I'm young at heart
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/age-makes-you-black-and-blue

Me too! That or gays are like dogs.

[Malthus]

I strongly feel the dress should have its own (possibly pinned) thread

Thanks

Say yes to the dress. 

[Valmy]

Buzzfeed have polled on the issue. I'm young at heart
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/age-makes-you-black-and-blue

I guess I am as well.  Looks white and gold to me.

[Liep]

Buzzfeed have polled on the issue. I'm young at heart
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/age-makes-you-black-and-blue

I guess I am as well.  Looks white and gold to me.

I was too, but then I started reading about it and it made me old and cynical.

[Sheilbh]

Buzzfeed have polled on the issue. I'm young at heart
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/age-makes-you-black-and-blue

Me too! That or gays are like dogs.

1 human year is 7 gay years? We operate on a different frequency?

[Martinus]

Buzzfeed have polled on the issue. I'm young at heart
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/age-makes-you-black-and-blue

Me too! That or gays are like dogs.

1 human year is 7 gay years? We operate on a different frequency?

Can't see colour properly.

[CountDeMoney]

Me too! That or gays are like dogs.

1 human year is 7 gay years? We operate on a different frequency?

Greeting each other by sniffing asses. LULZ

[Martinus]

Can lick one's balls. Or at least, each other's?

[frunk]

If I'm close to the monitor it is white and gold.  When I view it from further away it becomes blue and black.  When I look at it at an angle it's light blueish/purplish.

[sbr]

[Razgovory]

I have always wonder how differently we experience qualia like colors.  Since everyone can only see through their own eyes (except blind people), there is no way to know if the blue someone else sees is perceived exactly the same as you perceive it.

[CountDeMoney]

I really hope Locke and Descartes are having a good laugh over how this thing became the Most Important Thing In The World Today.

[Syt]

I have always wonder how differently we experience qualia like colors.  Since everyone can only see through their own eyes (except blind people), there is no way to know if the blue someone else sees is perceived exactly the same as you perceive it.

I seem to recall a study that vocabulary plays a role, too, in that if you have more words in a language to distinguish between shades then you will also find it easier to perceive the differences.

And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_in_various_languages

[Sheilbh]

Yeah. I find it really fascinating that so everyone is naturally seeing it in such totally different ways and that, despite all the explanations I've read and real pictures I've seen I can't, no matter how much I try, see that dress as blue and black.

It's like an optical illusion that makes sense but that you still can't see.