You know the world is going to the dogs when we're arguing over the appearance of the dress that we know to be blue and black. The internet will always do that to us, I suppose. I was pretty sure the white and gold angle was just a large-scale practical joke until I found out that almost all my friends see those two colours.
That dress (along with the really bad picture of it) has already received way more attention than it ever deserved. It makes me feel a little guilty to be contributing to such a pointless argument, but I do this for my friends. Okay, not really. So here are some tips for that portion of the population that sees white and/or gold:
Get your eyes checked!
Blurred vision, among several other things, might cause colours to look different.
*Maybe get a better device/software to view your pictures on
The same picture can look different if your device isn't high-resolution-friendly (whatever the technical term for that is)
*Avoid too much light
Too much light can be blinding, as I have to find out every single day. Needless to say, it makes everything look different (if you can even see with all that light, that is).
* Those two points may not necessarily help. Devices and the amount of light around you can affect the way you see things, but my friends who saw white and gold saw it at the same time as I did, in the same light and on the same device.
However, these factors will absolutely help, provided people are open and accepting:
Learn your colours
Remember Rafiki: LOOK BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE
If you've ever taken pictures on a phone, you'll know that the colours in the picture are often a little different from the original colours, but they're just a different shade of the same original colour.
So you may see tinges of Colour X (and even Y and Z) on colour A, but that doesn't change the fact that colour A is still some version of colour A.
I do see a wee bit of golden on the black, but it's perfectly obvious that it's a golden film on what is basically black.
Get your eyes checked!
Blurred vision, among several other things, might cause colours to look different.
*Maybe get a better device/software to view your pictures on
The same picture can look different if your device isn't high-resolution-friendly (whatever the technical term for that is)
*Avoid too much light
Too much light can be blinding, as I have to find out every single day. Needless to say, it makes everything look different (if you can even see with all that light, that is).
* Those two points may not necessarily help. Devices and the amount of light around you can affect the way you see things, but my friends who saw white and gold saw it at the same time as I did, in the same light and on the same device.
However, these factors will absolutely help, provided people are open and accepting:
Learn your colours
Remember Rafiki: LOOK BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE
If you've ever taken pictures on a phone, you'll know that the colours in the picture are often a little different from the original colours, but they're just a different shade of the same original colour.
So you may see tinges of Colour X (and even Y and Z) on colour A, but that doesn't change the fact that colour A is still some version of colour A.
I do see a wee bit of golden on the black, but it's perfectly obvious that it's a golden film on what is basically black.
It doesn't matter how your brain perceives colours; if you agree that the dress below is blue and black but say the one above isn't, you know you're not seeing quite right.
Just goes to show how superficial our world is, doesn't it? Maybe that's what happens when you've messed up people's heads with Fifty Shades of Grey.
Oh, and speaking of colours, happy Holi! May you have stuff thrown at you only if you want it.
Just goes to show how superficial our world is, doesn't it? Maybe that's what happens when you've messed up people's heads with Fifty Shades of Grey.
Oh, and speaking of colours, happy Holi! May you have stuff thrown at you only if you want it.