~ WHAT COLOR DO YOU THINK THIS DRESS IS ? ~

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The whole reason for this joke is that someone requested the seller to change the description of the colors to "white/gold" instead of the blue/black.

I was shown the photo last week without knowing anything about the debate or that the real colour of the dress is blue and black.I perceived it as blue and greyish-black immediately so in those circumstances my mind's eye couldn't have manipulated anything.I think this is a genuine mystery that scientists haven't been able to explain - the person who took the photograph was a young girl from a remote island,not an experienced photographer or joker.

Black. RGB 0 0 0
Gold is the new black. RGB 128 110 70

I can see where its happening. On the corners of the "e" and "B" I see little spots of black. Also on some of the edges. But if I get close enough at an angle and squint they can disappear.

Do people who see the image of the dress as black also see all the text here as black? Or just parts of it?

I SEE ALL 4 COLORS

At first I see a piece that is white and gold, but in a shocking twist that only M Night Shamalan could deliver if I rotate my laptop screen back by 45 degrees it suddenly changes to blue and black. I must have Octagonal vision

I don't. If I squint, the gold text looks black, but I can definitely see that the top part is black and the bottom part is gold.

I see the first line as black but the second as grey.I don't see any gold at all
This could be made into a film - "50 Shades Of (insert your own colour as appropriate)"

Holy smokes, it just changed before my eyes. Or, more accurately, I went to page 2 where the image was quoted by someone, except it looked white & gold. Just as I was thinking they had photoshopped it or that it was a slowly-animated GIF it changed as I was looking at it (and not the way a GIF would change)! That is freaky. I seriously thought people were imagining it or mistaking the background for the foreground or something dumb like that. I've never seen an illusion like that in my life.

It does make you wonder about the depths of our visual processing systems.

Kind of reminds me of when in Star Trek Data creates a 3D object that can't exist in reality and puts it in the visual memory of a Borg.

i see both, sometimes it's one, sometimes the other. the first time i saw it it was white and gold, and it's white and gold now, but a lot of times it's blue and black when i look at it, or i can make it blue and black if i squint.

to be honest though, i think the dress looks better white and gold.

It depends on the picture; in some it looks white/gold, in others deep blue/black.
In the image above it looks a rather light blue and coppery brown.

My mother told me about the dress and wanted to know what colors I saw. I basically "live under a rock" and know nothing about what is going on in the world, so I hadn't seen or heard anything about it. So I didn't even know what other people were saying (blue/black vs. white/gold). I was stunned when I saw that people were calling it those colors.

Like I said in the other thread, I see lavender and taupe. NOT a bright lavender, a muted lavender. I can understand why others would call it blue, but I see too much purple in it to call it blue. Maybe a periwinkle blue?

The other call, I am calling taupe, which on second thought is a word people use to label a whole range of different colors. So to be specific, what I see is a medium gray/brown, with a hint of green in it. It's just too dark for me to call it gold.

I can't understand how anyone could see either black or white in this dress. The darker color is so obviously NOT black. It looks like it could be a washed out black. But, clothing is probably never a true black. I wear a lot of black clothing, and I notice how each piece has a different tone and they never, ever match...most blacks are really either dark grey, or dark brown. And if I see a strong light on a black object, I usually notice a hint of another color pop out, mainly red, blue, or green.

It's easy to see that the dress is overexposed in the photo, with all the light shining around it. In real life, in normal light, it is black and blue. Or it appears to be at full color saturation. But I think the blue has a fair amount of red in it, which makes it a purple, and the black has mainly green and yellow undertones.

I don't understand the explanations that people are seeing white/gold because their brains interpret it as being in shadow. To me the photo is obviously washed out with too much light. But I don't know, maybe that's why some people interpret it as being in shadow? because their brain assumes that a strong light is going to cast a shadow? This makes me really wonder about the metaphysical implications of interpreting light and color differently.

With all of the things going on in the world today, I could bloody care less what color it is ....

This picture scans as black and blue dress to my eyes.

Which proves what I said in the other thread on this topic: there is more than one picture of this dress floating around out there, and the purpose of posing the question at all is to mindf**k all the peoples of the worldwideweb.

The first graphic I saw, it definitely looked gold and whitish, so I say there are multiple graphics with different color saturations.

Somebody is stirring up controversy to make half the population think the other half is crazy, and the other half think half is color blind. Manipulative troublemakers anyway.

On that link, the dress looks blue and black at the top of the screen, but when I scroll down so that the dress is at the bottom of the screen it turns to white and gold. None of the colors are absolute like in a Paint pixel colorblock, though. Proves to me that it is probably a photomanip pic that interacts funnily with computer monitors. I believe seeing the dress in real life, or even in a traditional photo instead of on a RGB screen, it would not shift like that! Also it would probably look different printed out by a CMKY printer than by a RGB one.

I care because I think my sensory perceptions are all broken. Nothing looks, smells or sounds to me the way it used to, or the way it does to the people around me. My brain hurts. My favorite foods, like corned beef hash or mac-n-cheese smell like someone pulled a slimy months-old salami out of the back of the fridge and is slowly heating it up. Music and laughter sound like frightening, threatening packs of ravenous predatory beasts. Objects in motion over a foot away look like they're going to strike me in the face or shoulder.

I somehow started a fight with hubby on Thursday morning by saying that the moisture on top of my
car looked like water to me, so I thought it must have been not-as-cold as the previous morning. He had been out there, run his finger over it and said it was ice. I believed him, and said it looked like water to me. I said "I wonder what's wrong with my eyes."

Somehow he heard "you're wrong, I can clearly see that it's water not ice so even though you went out there and touched it and know it's ice, I know it's water because it looks like water, so I'm right and you're wrong." I don't even get how this became a fight, unless he thought I was doing some neurotypical hidden message thing instead of literal Aspie-style communication. I was literally trying to say "there's something wrong with my eyes and I'm concerned about my messed-up perception," not "shut up it looks like water to me, so it must be water." I don't even understand why he got mad unless he thought I was saying it really was water and he was stupid or lying or mistaken or something.

But I don't remember hubby even seeing the graphic of the dress, just talking to people who do look at computers all day. He says it's blue and black. Most of the time I see white and gold, unless I look at it at an angle or look at a different download with different background.

I am thoroughly confused.

Its important because I want to buy a PS4 and dont know if I should get the blue one or the gold one.

I see white and gold.