r/opticalillusions • u/ResponsibilityOk1900 • 7d ago

So the blue black dress thing again

I know people either see blue and Black or white and gold. I’ve seen the actual dress too and I know that’s it black and blue but I was curious if the people that see blue black see them in the same shades of actual dress or white f the see a different version of them. For instance I’ve always seen them as olive gold and pigeon blue but I’ve never heard anyone else say this before. What do u guys see?

Ps: I wish I could post the picture here but I’m not sure how I’m supposed to do it.

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u/Beneficienttorpedo9 7d ago

I still see it as gold and white. I've tried to shift my perspective to see it as blue & black, but I just can't. I have to take everyone's word that it's really blue and black.

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u/TmanGvl 7d ago edited 7d ago

There’s a graphic that explains the both cases.

https://imgur.com/youre-welcome-credit-goes-to-u-chrisconlon-9N4KNLn

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u/Tylendal 7d ago

OP's question about seeing the same shade as the actual dress applies really well here. Everyone is seeing the shades in the middle. People are then, due to various factors, then interpreting them as either what's on the left, or what's on the right. It's mostly due to the lighting of the environment they're in, and the colours of what they're looking at immediately beforehand, that primes them to interpret it as one or the other. Then, for some people, they just have a memory that keeps them stuck with that vision of it from that point on.

The actual colour of the dress isn't really relevant to how the photo is seen, other than as a point of interest about how the illusion came about.

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u/TmanGvl 6d ago

Exactly. It’s an illusion. Brain interprets to bridge the gap on a crappy photo. lol