"I can't fathom a reason that you'd lie. But people also inject cement and superglue in their asses, so sometimes I'm just at a loss about people's decision-making abilities."-rocksforludo
this is the only picture where the dress looks blue and black to me. All others look white and gold. Some of the ss initially looked blue/black but then they change to gold and white
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
Okay, people, calm down. Let's use Occam's razor here. Clearly, the simplest explanation is that I am living in the Truman Show, and you can all go to hell.
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
Alright, I think I have read enough about this to find what I believe to be the answer:
The particular cropping and lighting conditions of this photo is confusing your brain. Your brain is like "okay, is this an image of a black and blue dress in the light, or is this an image of a white and gold dress in the shade?"
The glare behind the dress and the light on the dress from the front make it hard for your brain to tell whether the dress is in light or in shadow. Because it's cropped so close, there isn't enough context for your brain to make the right decision.
The part of your brain that interprets light from your eyes as shape and color knows that when a light color is in the shade, it will look darker to your eye. Like how a white room in the daytime will look white when your lights are on. But turn off your lights and allow only the sun to light the room, and the walls suddenly look a little more gray.
Your brain doesn't want you to confuse a white thing for a black thing just because it's in the shade, so it compensates for this by making the thing actually look lighter than it really is. Your eye is feeding your brain "blue," but your brain is like "mmm, but it's in the shade, so it's probably really white and just looks blue. So, eye, from now on, you will see this as white." So that's what it looks like.
Some people's brains are deciding the opposite. Their eye is feeding their brain the same blue that team white is seeing. But team blue's brain is like "Yep. Blue dress in the light. Good work eye." And the dress continues to be read as blue.
For some, their brain only needs to decide "white or blue" once, and the decision will stand from then on. For others, their brains are going back and forth, and trying to reinterpret the context. Your brain flips and decides "no, wait, maybe that is light. Okay, yeah, blue." And now it's blue.
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
This is blue and black, because your brain is not confused about where the light is coming from.
Here is the same image, tweaked in photoshop to recreate what your brain is doing to the dress in the original photo:
The person who made this image overexposed the original and reduced the shadows. This is exactly what your brain is doing. And lo and behold, white and gold.
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
Oh, that is fantastic. This, this is wine. Look at what these idiots are drinking. Look at these dicks! I mean obviously, it's not really delicious, like hot chocolate or Coke, but for wine...brilliant.
"I can't fathom a reason that you'd lie. But people also inject cement and superglue in their asses, so sometimes I'm just at a loss about people's decision-making abilities."-rocksforludo
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